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A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. It's a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War. Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes. If that is so, this movie gives stereotypes a good name: Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant, Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben, Barry Pepper as the religious sniper, Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew, Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo, Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic, and Jeremy Davies, who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance.
The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, but it's more kinetic. Spielberg and his ace technicians (the film won five Oscars: editing (Michael Kahn), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), sound, sound effects, and directing) deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut. The violence is extreme but never gratuitous. The final battle, a dizzying display of gusto, empathy, and chaos, leads to a profound repose. Saving Private Ryan touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today. It's the film Spielberg was destined to make. --Doug Thomas
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Steven Spielberg |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 24 July, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dreamworks Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Language, Cathartic, Color, Combat Films, Disturbing, Drama, English, Ensemble Film, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Gift Set, Graphic Violence, Gritty, Heroic Mission, High Artistic Quality, High Production Values, Movie, Not For Children |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D91700D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 678149170023 |
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Truly a movie that will stick with you I had to watch Saving Private Ryan a second time -years later- to fully understand the importance of World War II, and specifically, what the soldiers had to go through. The first 30 minutes of film were truly something unbelievable. The emotions I felt watching the soldiers landing on shore and being surrounded by enemies who didn't hesitate to attack was overwhelming. I seriously wanted to cry. It really touched me on a personal level that I've never felt in a war movie before. It made me realize what was going on. 40 years before I was born *this* kind of extreme violence was happening on Earth. It was enough to make me sick. Human beings killing each other left and right. I've never seen a war movie really show the extreme nature of war quite like this film. <
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>I'm totally serious- the movie begins on a really intense level, and continues for the next 30 minutes without letting up on all sorts of gun shootings, explosions, bodies falling apart and drifting away, hopeless feelings lingering in the air. I can't imagine what it must be like to serve in war, and honestly, this movie really opened my eyes and showed me how important it is to support our troops and what they must be going through on a daily basis. The film may be only 2 and a half hours long, but the war lingered on for years, and I can only imagine it eventually reached a point when people were beginning to wonder "Is this war ever going to end?" <
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>Saving Private Ryan will surprise and shock you on many occasions. Sometimes the film seems so real it's almost like you're there with the soldiers. I recommend buying the movie.
Saving Private Ryan
A virtuosic, hard-hitting war film by Hollywood icon Spielberg, "Ryan" opens with an intensely violent 24-minute battle sequence that many claim is the most realistic ever committed to celluloid. (It's certainly powerful--reportedly, a number of WWII veterans experienced post-traumatic shock watching it.) But the film's true achievement, apart from its Oscar-winning editing and visual effects, is its charged storyline and debate over the merits of bloodshed. Aided by a first-rate cast including Edward Burns, Vin Diesel, and Giovanni Ribisi, "Ryan" honors the sacrifice of soldiers while acknowledging that war truly is hell-on-earth.
Great movie
Great WWII movie. the best that depicts what the invasion of Normandy was really like for the United States.