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Summary: A moving film about the true horrors of war
Review: The first time I watched this film, it blew me away. It is an awesomely powerfull and moving film which keeps up the intensity for the whole 3 hours. I can't fault the acting in any way. It was absolutly flawless. Tom Hanks, as usual was supurb, he did a remarkable job of fitting the character of a hardened war captain. The effects also were stunning. Its this which sets the film in a different league to all the other war films. Especially the beach landing scene, how they managed that still amazes me. Thoughout the film there is good character development as the team start to bond in the face of grave danger. The theme about where the captain came from is a nice touch. Also, I liked the individual quirks of each character, you could use these to identify with them. For example, at the beginning, on the boat. Capt. Miller's hand was shaking and the sniper kissed his cross. These, idiosincrasises are used later on. All the way through the film you are made aware that this isn't just a film about war. It is about deeper things. For example at the bridge, the translater is literally the weak link in the chain which makes them fall apart. It is an epic film which fully deserves all the oscars that it got. My ONLY slight critism is that it is possible a little too Americain.
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Summary: Saving Private Ryan
Review: Before I saw this movie I heard that it was very realistic and hard to watch, but there is nothing anyone could have said to prepare me for the horrific movie that it is! I love this movie and when tell people that they seem to think that all I like it for is the blood and gore. But this movie is about all the pain and suffering that people and families had to endure for our freedom. Another reason that I love this movie is because it really shows how hard war is on people and soldiers especially. Also I'm a kid and so I've spent a fair amount of time playing guns and war but this film really made me think. Bottom line this movie is great.
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Summary: Five stars for the first fifteen minutes
Review: While parts of this film are brilliant, it also contains flaws that are hard to ignore. The first fifteen minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" were simply astonishing in their realism and in their historical flavor. I was not only riveted to my seat when I saw the beach-landing scene, but I was riveted for the rest of the night and the next morning. It was all I could think about. The opening beach landing scene only contained two errors that I could think of. First, none of the officers would have worn metal rank insignia on their helmets or uniforms. That would make them easy targets for snipers. Second, it was a little too optimistic (albeit necessary for the plot) to have all of Tom Hanks' principle troops survive the landing and to have them do so in complete possession of their weapons. After reading Stephen Ambrose's D-Day book, I think a more likely scenario would have been to have at least three of the characters we know and love die immediately, and to have the rest arrive on the beach, wet, shocked, dumb founded and without weapons. Most likely they would have taken shelter by the sea wall and waited all day long until a break through company relieved them. But I understand that this is, after all, a movie and Spielberg could only take realism so far. One thing he did that I absolutely loved was to imitate the film quality of Frank Capra's original D-Day photos. The rest of the film, unfortunately, was your standard, action-packed war story. In fact, much of it was ripped off from other war films. For example: 1. The sniper scene: "Full Metal Jacket". 2. The defense of the bridge: "A Bridge Too Far". 3. The death of Captain Miller: "The Sands of Iwo Jima". I also thought the generation distribution in the beginning and end of the movie was a bit unrealistic. James Ryan is a WWII vet, which would put him in his seventies or eighties, yet his children all appeared to be the children of baby boomers. Maybe he remarried or got a little wild in the sixties. But wouldn't that contradict the dying Captain Miller's syrupy exhortation to be a good man and earn his survival? I still enjoyed the film and commend Spielburg for its ground breaking opening salvo.
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Summary: My favorite movie
Review: its great. the use of 8mm works best. storyline is also great. for the person who said they didnt belive there was no armor/artillary etc.. its because they sent in people and nobody else showed up. never explained why but thats what happend. they showed up later.
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Summary: Best war movie ever produced
Review: I saw this in the theatre and I knew when I walked out that I must get this DVD. It is an incredible movie and shows the true power and strength of war (this isn't rambo). This is the only movie where I have actually shed a tear. After seeing the movie, you feel like you just went through WWII yourself.
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Summary: Just OK
Review: While "SPR" has some great action sequences that's about all there is. There some sort of story about finding Matt Damon on a bridge or something, but for the most part Speilberg just made a bunch of war scenes and decided to use them to tell an only semi anti-war movie but mostly just a sympathy movie for vets of WWII. The acting is great, but as a movie this doesn't come close to Platoon, Apocalypse Now, or Full Metal Jacket. Still, you have to give Speilberg credit for filming some of the best action sequences of all time.
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Summary: Don't miss out on this movie!
Review: being in the military myself I found the story itself to be highly unlikely. So what. My Grandfather fought in WW2 (And there were a lot more than 2 jews fighting with the rangers in WW2) and he said that it was just like the real thing. Being in combat myself, I was amazed at how real Spielberg made it look. It's as real as it can get. The sound (on DVD) is amazing and all I can say is this. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it now!
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Summary: Wait a minute here...
Review: Two problems with this movie: the batttle scenes...and then the rest of the film. Granted, the battle scenes are the most harrowing ever filmed. But it requires a great suspension of disbelief to think there would be no armor, no air cover, and no artillery, just some landing craft that drop their ramps right in front of machine guns. Puleez. As for the rest of the film, oh good Lord. Here's your sterotyped Sergeant York fundamentialist Southerner (I kept expecting him to go "Gobble, gobble" at the Germans), a cowardly pacifist paralyzed by fear, an intellectual Emerson-quoting officer, a big dumb Italian, a compassionate medic, and a loud-mouthed Jew. And then there's the portrayal of the Germans. As bad as _The Thin Red Line_ was, the Japanese were at least portrayed as human. Here the Germans are portrayed as brutal, cowardly, shaven-headed thugs; not a drop of humanity in any of them. I was expecting to see the Kraut officer in the armored vehicle sporting a monocle and cigarette holder. Had this movie been made more along the lines of _The Boat_ or _All Quiet On The Western Front,_ it would have been great. As it is, it's really quite propagandistic.
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Summary: A Great Action Film
Review: The best way to watch this movie is as one hell of an action film. The war scenes are great and there is probably around an hour's worth of action in this film alone. I have to admit, I am a little tired of Spielberg's love of sappy music and scenes where the sole purpose is to make people cry. The graveyard scenes that frame the movie, for example, don't really ring true when you realize how undeveloped the relationship between Captain Miller and Private Ryan is in the film, but the scene is somehow moving, in an artificial way. Also, the characters don't seem to bond during the film as is often noted in reviews, their devotion to one another being manifested mainly in covering each others backs in the battle scenes. Also, there a few gratuitous political points, noted in a previous review, that detract from the overall objectivity of this film. If I want to be taught a lesson by Steven Spielberg, I'll write him a letter and ask him. Watch the movie for its fighting scenes though. They are terrific.
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Summary: A film which I will never forget...!
Review: Saving Private Ryan or Saving the remaining of our exsisting principle for this life. A life which it lost its features, value, the actual meaning of our existence on this beatiful earth. When I saw this film the first time,I thought of only two things. Did gud gave us this earth to destroy it or to live on it, and the Saving of Private Ryan was one decent example for the mankind that taought us that we should love each other and even to sucrify our lives for the love ones. The story of the film did brought back to me the hope which I have lost. The hope of having decent freinds and colleagues which they are there when you need them and they are ready to give you anything for nothing. To appreciate the value of the brotherhood, freindship and partnership. I feel that this film did convyed the massage that life is still full of "good guys", it is only a matter of how good those guys are! and I feel that was the crack of the matter in this film. I've seen the film "Saving Private Ryan" for more than 31 times! and I don't mine to watch it for another 31 times more...and this is a fact which some of my colleagues can not beleive it! One last thing if I may add. As I am one of loyal admirer and fan of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, I think that this film would never succeeded without them. Of course with my great admiration to the other casts, directors and whoever participated in the succseed of this great film.
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