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Summary: Tremendous and moving
Review: Every now and then there is a film that everybody should see. This is one of them. The direction is such that one does not witness the events at Omaha Beach on D-Day, one is a participant.Although the story is conventional (and yes, in fact a squad WAS sent into Normandy to find a soldier whose brothers had been killed in action), there is a deeper message in place. It is difficult to express; I can only say that before I saw this movie, I didn't understand what those soldiers went through. Now I understand the experience. Truly humbling. Anybody who actually wasn't on the beaches should see it at least once.
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Summary: Awsome! Best DVD Ever! Must Own!
Review: Steven Spielberg, who has brought was some great movies, did not let me down with this picture. When I saw this movie in the theater, my heart did not stop ponding, I was so drawn into the movie, that I could not wait until it was released on video and DVD. Extremley true to life. Picuture quality is hard to beat. Sound cannot be beat. Glad to see Spielberg put this great movie on DVD. Hope this opens the door for other Spielberg movies to be released on DVD.
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Summary: Technically marvelous, excellent acting ... But!
Review: Probably, this is among the superior "graphic" war movies of recent times. The HELL part of "war is hell" is certainly in-yer-face. However, once the audience gets used to ducking the bullets, blood and flying body parts where does the film go? After I recovered from my post-traumatic stress as the credits crawled, it dawned on me that few of the characters underwent development (unless you call getting gutted by an exploding German 105mm shell "development"). So I found the guts and gore excellent and visually well done. But there was something missing (and I don't mean Private Ryan). When the dust and cordite settled I had to swim against the popular stream and knock off two stars for most of the characters pretty much being at death the people who they started out being. I read somewhere that character development is pretty important for a good movie to be considered good.
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Summary: Saving director Spielberg
Review: The last Steven Spielberg's movie is a tecnical masterpiece, but the story doesn't follow the tecnical beauty. After a glorious beginning, the movie lose its powerful impact on the spectator, and he doesn't really find its way. Spielberg tries to make sense of the rest of the movie, but the only reason to go to see "Saving private Ryan" it's beginning. The first scene of the movie is one of the best war scenes, that scene justifies buying the movie, but just in DVD. This scene will touch you; wesk of stomach refrain from watching.
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Summary: The best war film ever!
Review: From the scene on the Dog Green sector at Omaha to the huge forty-minute battle in Ramelle at the end this film keeps your eyes glued to the screen. Great!
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Summary: In my opinion, the best film made during my lifetime!
Review: My father was a WWII veteran, as were all of the adult males I remember from my growing-up years, so I was predisposed to liking this film. But liking this film does not even come close to describing what I experienced in viewing this film. A very realistic, and often gruesome, not to mention harrowing, view of the invasion of Omaha Beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944, in my opinion this film stands as one of the best ever made - war movies or otherwise. A moving tribute to the citizen-soldiers who invaded Normandy that June 6th on what was to become probably the single most important date in the 20th century - the date that the Allies began what would be the saving of Western civilization and the end of the Holocaust - this film takes you literally inside the action for a first-hand view of battle that I never want to actually experience. It gave me a whole new appreciation for what my father's generation did for all of us. Amazing camera work, outstanding attention to detail in the costuming and art direction combine with some of the most realistic sound effects I've ever heard and with film direction by Mr. Spielberg that I believe has never been equalled to make this a film that everyone should see. The D-Day battle scene was so realistic that I was in tears less than 5 minutes into the scene and was exhausted by the time the GI's reached the top of the bluff above the beach. The ensemble acting of the 9 main characters was top-notch and Tom Hanks gave what I believe is the best and most believable performance of his career. I came away from my viewing of this film profoundly touched and profoundly grateful that Steven Speilberg made this moving tribute to the men who fought and died on Omaha Beach and on all of the battlefields of WWII. All-in-all, in my opinion, a film of near perfection. A film not about entertainment but about hope and life and remembering those who made possible what we have today. Lest we forget... With this film in the archives of filmdom - we should never be able to forget. Thank you, Steven Spielberg! You had my vote for Best Picture - still do!
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Summary: Undoubtedly the best war movie ever made!
Review: This film is most definately the most realistic and sobering reminders of WWII to date. Coming at a time where the world was beginning to forget what millions of people died for between 1939 and 1945, this movie reopens the eyes of the world so that the victims and veterans of this great war will not be forgotten. A new generation may now understand just a little bit more of the sacrfice that was made, and that war is not as glorious or as pompus as many years of Hollywood has told. I might also suggest "Gettysburg" and of course, my all-time favorite, "Patton"
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Summary: A Great Buy!
Review: This is one of the best DVD's I have purchased in a long time. The video and audio of the movie are great. The 30 minute short "Into The Breach" is definitely worth watching. My hands off to Dreamworks and Mr. Spielberg for putting out a great product.
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Summary: A TRUELY SENSATIONAL, ASTOUNDING, BRILLIANT FILM!
Review: The first 25 minutes will have you trembling with horror, as the reality of the battle sequences will leave you breathless and astounded at the shear violence and horror of war. Well what else can I say, one of Spielberg's finest achievements. A true masterpiece, firmly wedged into cinema history! SEE IT NOW!
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Summary: This movie is GREAT!
Review: This movie is so real, it is so well made and absoloutley amazing to whatch. I still don't know how some of the effects were done they were so good, there are no faults at all this is a film not to be missed!
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