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Summary: Graphic and unrealistic
Review: The first scene with the bloody bath pretends to impress the viewer, but I don't think it has to be so graphic to make you think of the horrors of the war. The whole plot is so unrealistic and primitive, it can't stand any comparision with Deer Hunter or Apocalypse Now. Something from "bread and circuses" series.
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Summary: The Best War Movie Ever Made
Review: I can understand why some people wouldn't like this movie (SOME people...the "profatable propagana" review confused me...). Some have said that, other than the extreme violence, the movie's dialouge and characters are cliche. I'll agree to some extent with that. Others have said that other than the battle scenes the movie is lacking in plot. Well, I don't agree, but I can understand why someone would think that. But this movie tells a truth rarely seen in War films. It's brutally honest, in fact. Although the Privates and Copl. Upham are rather cliche, that meaning that you can see types like them in almost every war movie made, the Cpt. Miller and Sgt. Horovath represent the more human and less "John Wayneish" war hero of the past. They are common men sent to fight in a war. It may seem questionable to some why Spielberg chose WWII as the war for this picture. It was a just war that needed to be fought, yet this movie almost seems to show us that war is bad because of how devestating it is. If anything, Tom Hanks' Cpt. Miller's final line in this movie sums up the whole point of the moive: "Earn This." He isn't simply telling Pvt. Ryan to earn his trip home and his men's sacrifice to save him. I think that line is going out to all of us in the world. These men went through hell and saved the world for our freedome. It's time to earn it, and its time to say thank you. Saving Private Ryan is an excellent War movie.
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Summary: Its an Incredible and Vey well made Movie
Review: Saving Private Ryan is the movie that everyone have to see, its true that the movie has the more realistic violence see in a movie, but is true too that movie is Very well acted adn has the most intense Sound, The sound is incredible and the image is perfect, I loved this movie, and I think this movie dont want to show you that war is good, all the opossite want to show how bad it could be. Buy it You never can buy a treaure Like This.
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Summary: A Perfectly Flawed Movie
Review: This is an incredible movie with an excellent story line complimented with top notch visual and sound effects. However, I'm not writing this review to discuss the movie itself. Rather it's the poor quality DVD version that has troubled me most. As noted from previous reviews, this DVD has its fair share of defects. The abrupt pause during the "Radar Station" chapter 12 and the very poor picture quality during "The Bridge" chapter 19 after the corporal shot the German guy. Plus, the surface of the DVD bleeds with brown nasty dye. Almost like someone spilled coffee on it.Please don't get me wrong, 98% of this movie is just plain awesome. I have the DTS version and I have to say no DVD can even come close to the superior sound quality in this movie. The DTS version makes 5.1 look like child play. Unfortunately, they're only a handful of DVDs encoded in DTS now. I'm sure the number will increase in the future, especially if they sound like this movie. My final word: if you want to own one of the best war movies ever made, with superior sound quality, and don't mind the flaws...than this movie is for you.
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Summary: As Close to Real As Possible
Review: One of the best war movies I have ever seen, simply because it isn't from a glorified Hollywood perspective. Definitely a must-buy!
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Summary: Important Film-Making!
Review: One of the most significant reasons to see this film, is that it is good story telling. All too often, message based movies bring up cynicism in it's viewers and, in an effort to appear as a savvy consumer, the audience misses the point. Like a lot of people, I nearly had to get up and leave during the now infamous 30 minute sequence of uninterrupted violence in the early half of the film. But, I am glad I stayed. Saving Private Ryan delivers interesting characters that you can easily identify with and emotionally invest in. I won't get sidetracked into discussing it's social implications. If Spielberg can resist the urge to preach, than so can I. But, I will say that as our vetrans slip out of our midst, maybe the time has come that this sort of film-making (and viewing) has become essential, rather than optional. Afterall, there is a reason that history repeats itself, and a reason that on Memorial Day we say: Lest We Forget.
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Summary: the best
Review: sets a new standard for war movies. have seen the rest and none can match. speilberg is a fanatic for detail(ala SCHINDLER'S LIST). the best viewing is at the theater. unless you're so blessed with an outstanding $$home theater$$. anyway the only way to go is DVD. buy one just for this movie. when i saw this movie i resolved not to buy anything less than DVD. finally it has been released in this format. BUY IT !
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Summary: fantastic picture!
Review: Ik moet zeggen dat deze film een van de beste films is die ik ooit heb gezien. Het geluid is, net als het beeld, werkelijk fenomenaal! Zeker aanschaffen
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Summary: Flaw at the radar station?
Review: A few comments below mine a gentleman from Rhode Island (I believe) points out a flaw in the SPR DVD during chapter 12. He mentions the screen pauses briefly before the movie continues. This is not so much a flaw but an annoying trait of dual layer DVD's (meaning the whole movie is crammed on one side rather than distributed across both sides) This layer transition also causes problems with certain brands of DVD players. In fact, the first copy of SPR I bought had tons of digital noise and interference at the layer change. I returned it and received a copy that works correctly, meaning it pauses briefly during the layer transition. The main problem I have with dual layer disks is the quality seems to suffer. SPR is NOT brilliantly rendered in DVD. It sounds great, but the look is not as crisp as other non-dual layer movies I have, which you have to flip, like Goodfellas and Stargate. My advice is to skip this title until Dreamworks gets a little more experience in the DVD game and reissues it one day, which I'm sure they will after the limited edition version runs its course. Not, one of my favorite DVD titles. Not even close.
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Summary: Sobering reflection on War
Review: I am a Vietnam vet, a 35-year reservist on active duty in Saudi Arabia, and a college professor who teaches a course on the theory and practice of war. The film blew me away when I saw it on a Saturday afternoon with my wife. We didn't talk for awhile afterwards, just held hands very tightly. I will show the first part of the film to my class on war, after they have read Fussell's excerpts from his WARTIME in the Atlantic Monthly. Then they will reflect on military ethics under such circumstances--Can we expect people act "morally" in such conditions and hold them accountable if they don't? My dad and uncle fought in the Pacific in WWII. Their stories and my own brief encounters with combat conditions confirm the basic realism of the scenes Spielberg shot. Are there inaccuracies in this film? Yes. Is it PC (no blacks, German stereotyping, where were the Brits, etc., etc.) No. But the majority of people I have read here making such comments are twits. The horror of war eats up all its participants. The individual stories of most participants caught up in real wars are tragically mundane and pathetically "undeveloped." (Trying to make an "interesting" story out all the ordinary persons caught up in this sort of thing is a travesty).So Spielberg tells a simple story about ordinary lives smashed at random (or saved at random). What he ultimately accomplishes is to force us into alot of soul searching (at least those of us morally awake) about when and why we should continue to make war, about who we are and what we owe to our parents and grandparents, about whether we are willing to put ourselves or others through this, and if we have anything worth calling up such sacrifice to save. I guarantee that neither Saddam Hussein nor the Iranian ayotollahs want their people watching this and asking these sorts of questions. . . As to why this did not win BEST PICTURE? Because the Hollywood liberals did not want to raise questions about those who ran from sacrifice in recent history or to encourage pandering to patriotism? Who knows. Why not skip serious questions and award the title to a "really interesting story" about Shakespeare in adulterous love.
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