Is saving private Ryan a great movie ???

[Quasar44]

you tell me ??

Pros - opening scene , closing scene

Neg - characters very card board and 1 dimensional

Tom Hank’s and Matt Damion are both giant liberal dbags !!

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Yes.

Except for some cheesy bits here and there.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

The first ten minutes is okay. The rest of the movie is sort of cheesy. Also, I felt that a lot of the firefights weren't great. The Germans just looked like storm troopers (pun intended).

 

[shockedcanadian]

you tell me ??

Pros - opening scene , closing scene

Neg - characters very card board and 1 dimensional

Tom Hank’s and Matt Damion are both giant liberal dbags !!

It was ground breaking. I saw it in the theatre and cried at the ending. That's the sign of an effective movie if not "good".

 

[Votto]

you tell me ??

Pros - opening scene , closing scene

Neg - characters very card board and 1 dimensional

Tom Hank’s and Matt Damion are both giant liberal dbags !!

Yep.

It did make me tear up at the end though when they had to put Forrest down, just like with Old Yeller.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Was it perfect? No.
Was it a great movie? Obviously.

 

[rightwinger]

Spectacular opening scenes
Ran out of gas

 

[eagle1462010]

Great Movie

 

[SaxonJackson]

you tell me ??

Pros - opening scene , closing scene

Neg - characters very card board and 1 dimensional

Tom Hank’s and Matt Damion are both giant liberal dbags !!

I admit that I enjoyed the movie and the storyline, but I'm no fan of the lead actor. Hanks is a woke cuck. But minus that ... the movie gets a thumbs up.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Spectacular opening scenes
Ran out of gas

There was no way they were going to keep up that kind of historic scene for the whole movie.
If the movie did not open with that scene, I actually believe more people would like it.
Instead of comparing the rest of the movie to that scene.
The problem with the movie is that it needed some editing, but not a lot.
It is a very good movie, but it was a mistake to put the best scenes of the film in the first 5 minutes.

 

[rightwinger]

There was no way they were going to keep up that kind of historic scene for the whole movie.
If the movie did not open with that scene, I actually believe more people would like it.
Instead of comparing the rest of the movie to that scene.
The problem with the movie is that it needed some editing, but not a lot.
It is a very good movie, but it was a mistake to put the best scenes of the film in the first 5 minutes.

Agree
Opening scene would have made a better ending
Editing would have helped

 

[hjmick]

It's better than Shakespeare in Love, and that movie beat Saving Private Ryan for the Oscar that year...


And because everyone thinks they know what the opening scene in the movie is, here's a refresher of the first four minutes:

 

[Dekster]

It is too long for a movie. Should have ether been tightened up by 45 minutes or extended into a three or 4 part mini-series.

 

[Blaster]

It was very good.

 

[1srelluc]

I can say that it was a great movie....If you viewed at the theater when it came out and saw the reaction of the old vets there.

The only other movie I can remember where the theater reaction was so great was the movie Glory.

 

[Hellokitty]

This was back in the rent movies days. We'd go to blockbuster or wherever and guys would pick one movie gals another. This would have been a guy pick. I've seen the movie and briefly remember the story line, but most like it's one I fell asleep through the middle.

 

[Moonglow]

I thought it was a well-done war movie and I have been watching war movies all my life.

 

[Oddball]

Outside of the opening scene, it was a fucking awful movie.

As the OP noted, the characters were cardboard cutout stereotypes...Tom Hanks' character being a school teacher IRL was so predictable it hurt...The plot was as thin and predictable as any B-grade monster flick....The technical direction was atrocious, especially given how much money was dumped into this train wreck.

I wanted it to be good....It sucks on toast.

 

[1srelluc]

Outside of the opening scene, it was a fucking awful movie.

As the OP noted, the characters were cardboard cutout stereotypes...Tom Hanks' character being a school teacher IRL was so predictable it hurt...The plot was as thin and predictable as any B-grade monster flick....The technical direction was atrocious, especially given how much money was dumped into this train wreck.

I wanted it to be good....It sucks on toast.

To be honest the movie was not made for you....It was made to honor the men still living at the time who served......It was made in 1998, most WW-2 vets were in their 70s or better.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Outside of the opening scene, it was a fucking awful movie.

As the OP noted, the characters were cardboard cutout stereotypes...Tom Hanks' character being a school teacher IRL was so predictable it hurt...The plot was as thin and predictable as any B-grade monster flick....The technical direction was atrocious, especially given how much money was dumped into this train wreck.

I wanted it to be good....It sucks on toast.

I liked the Captain Miller death scene. Especially the music.

The best war movie, IMO, was the German All Quiet on the Western Front (never thought l’d say that). English language version.