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Summary: Best death scene
Review: I feel that the vin diesel death scene was the pinnacle of death scenes. It would have only been better if the sniper had said, "This is for XXX!" Thanks Stephen Spielberg.
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Summary: another by Sir Steven
Review: Listen, the latest by Spielberg was "TAKEN"... Well,I wasn't.
When the GIs overrun the German bunkers in the first 10 minutes of this "movie", the Czech language is being heard, all of sudden, and, because I speak and understand it, it hit me like ton of bricks. According to Sir Steven, there is a Czech-speaking member of Wehrmacht coming out of the bunker along with his Nazi buddies, saying in perfect Czech: "I did not shoot, I did not kill anybody". Nonetheless, he is gunned down by the GIs along with others who, normally, would become POWs, since they gave up arms at that point.
I read other critical reviews contesting accuracy of this "movie" in military terms and I drink to those. However, the propensity of this man called Steven Spielberg towards childish fantasy and occasional cultural obscenity was not realised by any of the critics. The scene where a column of the Wehrmacht is being marched on, there comes a GI of a rather grotesque appearance running by, shouting "Ich bin ein Jude" (I am a Jew). A double whammy.. why grotesque appearance, why mention it to the German soldiers ?? The sordid implication being, the WWII was a war on Jews, like our children learn in our schools. What will they learn about Al Quaeda tomorrow ?
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Summary: SPIELBERG 4-EVER!!!!
Review: This is one of the best Spielberg movies I've ever seen.It is really unforgetable.It has a magnificent cast.Even though the underlying is abi t questionable the plt is woven intricately and delicately.The way Ryan(Damon) is finally found took me a bit by surprise.However to cut a long story short this is a MASTERPIECE!!!!
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Summary: Saving Private Ryan- One of Spielberg's Best
Review: Saving Private Ryan is the best, if not one of the best war films ever made. It certainly is realistic and intense enough to be. Tom Hanks delivers a fine performance as the captain of an army unit. Director Steven Spielberg creates the film which some say he was born to make.
Ryan, starts out with the D-Day Invasion, which is filmed so realistically and is truly one of the best battle sequences ever filmed. That scenes alone earns the film the "R" rating. Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a captain in search of a private who he must find and bring back home after his 3 brothers are killed in action. The film features an ensemble cast of great actors, from Tom Sizemore to Edwards Burns, to Matt Damon, to Vin Diesel, to Barry Pepper to Giovanni Ribisi and Adam Goldberg. For being a 1998 release and then being re-released in February of 1999, this film does feature excellent battle sequences which are very realistic and well done for being a 1998 release.
It's easy to see why this film won 5 Academy Awards at the Academy Awards in March of 1999. It won the award for Best Director, which it truly deserved. There have been other great war movies including Black Hawk Down, Platoon and We Were Soldiers but none as good as Saving Private Ryan.
Saving Private Ryan is rated R for Intense Prolonged Realistically Graphic Sequences of War Violence, and for Language. The violence as I've stated earlier is extremely graphic, specifically the opening battle sequence of D-Day. The violence includes guns, others explosives and explosions and knives. The language is reasonable and not too strong or pervasive. Spielberg's direction is assured and powerful in crafting this masterful war epic. The acting is superb and the script is sharp. Definetly worth owning on Video or DVD. I hope they re-released in theatres again, because it's that good.
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Summary: Excellent effects, bad story
Review: First off, the special effects in this movie were simply amazing. It really portrays war as it really looks.However, that's all that's good about it. The actors are horrible, and the script is even worse. It's a very corny movie- for instance, when the P-51's destroy the Tiger tank right on time near the end of the movie. The SS men in the end of the movie were far more skilled in combat than the movie portrays them to be (some say the best soldiers in the world at the time). All the Allied killings of prisoners are lauded as heroic and justified, while the German atrocities are given a far more evil tone. It's no coincidence that the show was very anti-German because the director is Jewish. I'm not saying that what the Germans did was right, but Mr. Spielberg, please don't let personal vendettas get in the way of directing a historical movie. Apart from the special effects, the movie is pure garbage.
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Summary: World War What??
Review: Awful Spielberg garbage, plays like a comedy tour across the fields of France. Stand up comedy, with the legs cut off. Yes, it has amazing set pieces, showing violence almost for the sake of violence. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no script. This movie shows how the Spielberg frosting can hide a rotten cake beneath. The characters of this movie behave as if in a fantasy world and have no grounding in reality. Hanks, in particular, was terrible, in essence playing himself. The modern scenes were particularly poorly done, and the scene where the US planes roll in in the nick of time was so bad as to be beyond belief. Spielberg continues his tradition of telling us how to feel---he seems to believe we are not smart enough, nor caring enough, to feel for ourselves.
Wave-the-flag garbage. One of the worst WW2 movies out there, try Midnight Clear, Thin Red Line, The Third Man for more realistic WW2 and after effects thereof.
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Summary: Ok, But Not A Great Ending
Review: I really enjoyed the realness of the action brought to this movie. I was not so impressed with the ending & just blowing away key characters, like Vin Diesel. In real life you obviously don't always have the greatest endings but, please give me a little bit of a happier ending if I'm going to pay 15 bucks for a dvd. Well, Great performance by Tom Hanks. Is Matt Damon a chunky dude in this movie or what! It is definently worthy of a rental but, I wouldn't purchase.
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Summary: We Do Need To Remember
Review: Two things prevent me from giving this otherwise great movie five stars. First is Tom Hanks' unbelievably underplayed, at times bland, performance. Whether this was what Spielberg wanted or how Hanks interpreted the role, his Captain Miller sometimes seemed to just disappear off the screen even while he was giving orders. Second, the framing device of the old man in the cemetery was maudlin and treacly. It was just an obvious attempt at tugging at the old heartstrings. The only thing missing was having Captain Miller's ghost appear and give Senior Citizen Ryan a salute back. And that's that. Otherwise, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN stands out as one of the best movies of its genre. People DO have to be reminded that war is hell, that war is bad, that war is the most awful waste of lives. (The film's extraordinary battle sequences will be talked about for years, and have already influenced several directors.) People DO have to remember that the Nazis--and I don't mean all the Germans, just the Nazis, specifically--were brutal. And we DO have to remember the bravery and heroism of the American soldiers who fought in that most violent of conflicts. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN helps us to recall or, for those too young to remember, to learn about these things.
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Summary: A Great Film
Review: I fist saw this movie about 3 years ago and i was not blown away. Ifelt that certain scenes just draged on and had no point to them. for example whne there in the church that sequence goes on far too long. It actually gets to the point of boring and not interesting. That is were Speilberg failed he lured us in with a powerful D-Day scene then he let us go through out the entire film. Today my opion has not changed one bit however there a little tid bits of information about the horrors of war and hat happends to real people. There important concepts when making a movie about any war but in RYAN they just leave them as a footnote. But the biggest problem with RYAN is the writing. It is not great and is not really good ethier. That is were the film failed in the writing. Due to the faliure in writing its gets boring to fast never really give you the full experience of WWII and leaves you wanting to know more about the characters.
Overall it is a great film to represent WWII and a noteable film in Cinema History. Which does not mean that when the 200 years of cinema comes around that this one will be selected to represent the first 200 years of Cinema. Not at all.
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Summary: Very slow and one dimensional film
Review: This was a distinctly average, badly paced, drawn out film. The only redeeming feature is Kaminski's cinematography, but Speilberg even made that 1.78:1 instead of the 2.35:1 that a film like this needs. Check out 'The Thin Red Line' instead to see the same subject matter handled much better. This is nothing more than a few one dimensional characters wrapped around 2 set pieces at the beginning and end.
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