Is saving private Ryan a great movie ???

[rightwinger]

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

It is not one of those war movies I watch again and again

 

[Oddball]

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.

I can't think of a better way to dishonor them than make a movie that was so pathetic.

A patrol of guys in the bocage a few days after D-Day, walking out in the open chattering and griping like they're walking down Main Street on their way to the local bar...Then at night, walking silhouetted against distant artillery fire...Yeah, those scenarios are totally plausible.

Just about every scene had something equally stupid and improbable.

"P-51 tankbusters"....Fuck my life!

 

[Oddball]

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

I liked it too, because his character sucked and needed to be killed at Omaha.

 

[1srelluc]

I can't think of a better way to dishonor them than make a movie that was so pathetic.

A patrol of guys in the bocage a few days after D-Day, walking out in the open chattering and griping like they're walking down Main Street on their way to the local bar...Then at night, walking silhouetted against distant artillery fire...Yeah, those scenarios are totally plausible.

Just about every scene had something equally stupid and improbable.

"P-51 tankbusters"....Fuck my life!

The WW-2 vets liked it.....A lot.

 

[Oddball]

The WW-2 vets liked it.....A lot.

The ones that the media tells us about, anyway.

I've talked with people with military backgrounds, a few paratroopers as well, who don't like it for all the reasons I've expressed and more....Thought it was just me, but it isn't.

 

[1srelluc]

The ones that the media tells us about, anyway.

I've talked with people with military backgrounds, a few paratroopers as well, who don't like it for all the reasons I've expressed and more....Thought it was just me, but it isn't.

 

[Oddball]

As I said; the ones the media is telling us about.

 

[1srelluc]

As I said; the ones the media is telling us about.

Did you view the movie in the theater with scores of vets in attendance? Did you see their reactions or just talking out your ass?

You are in above your head....Best quit while you are behind.

 

[Oddball]

Did you view the movie in the theater with scores of vets in attendance? Did you see their reactions or just talking out your ass?

You are in above your head....Best quit while you are behind.

I don't fucking care.....It was meant to be a sentimental sop.

It still sucked, from the standpoints of technical direction, character development, and plot plausibility.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I don't fucking care.....It was meant to be a sentimental sop.

It still sucked, from the standpoints of technical direction, character development, and plot plausibility.

Spielberg tends to lapse into sentimentality.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Greyhound on Apple TV was so much better. Best war movie I ve seen

 

[petro]

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.

A couple old vets near me were reduced to tears.

 

[rightwinger]

Greyhound on Apple TV was so much better. Best war movie I ve seen

Band of Brothers and The Pacific were much better WWII movies than Saving Private Ryan

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Band of Brothers and The Pacific were much better WWII movies than Saving Private Ryan

Very true as was Masters of Air

 

[gipper]

It was a great movie, but not entirely accurate according to my father. He was a WWII veteran who landed in France a couple months after D Day. He walked out of the movie near the end, when they were fighting a Panzer unit. He said no US rifle company would dare take on such a unit, without armored support. That would be suicidal.

 

[Oddball]

It was a great movie, but not entirely accurate according to my father. He was a WWII veteran who landed in France a couple months after D Day. He walked out of the movie near the end, when they were fighting a Panzer unit. He said no US rifle company would dare take on such a unit, without armored support. That would be suicidal.

Nor were there any P-51s outfitted as tank busters....They strafed if they had the ammo and fuel left from escort missions, but weren't set up for that role.

And those are just two of the litany of flagrant technical direction fuck-ups, that make this flick the dog that it is.

Why did Spielberg exspend all the money and effort that he did, to insult the in-the-know audience like that?

 

[Seymour Flops]

I've never heard any critic or anyone else mention that this movie was an analogy allegory of the story of Christ. It seemed so obvious to me, but no one else seems to have gotten it.

Maybe it is unique to the Baptist teachings that I grew up with. I don't even know if the Baptists still teach it that way, so maybe that is it.

 

[gipper]

Nor were there any P-51s outfitted as tank busters....They strafed if they had the ammo and fuel left from escort missions, but weren't set up for that role.

And those are just two of the litany of flagrant technical direction fuck-ups, that make this flick the dog that it is.

Why did Spielberg exspend all the money and effort that he did, to insult the in-the-know audience like that?

In addition, early in the movie after they landed. It shows the rifle company walking across open land. Not trying to conceal their presence in any way. My dad said they all would have been easy pickings for the Germans.

 

[1srelluc]

While Private Ryan's use of the term "tank-buster" is not necessarily a phrase commonly used to describe the P-51, the Mustang was used in the ground-attack role. The P-51s liquid-cooled engine was more vulnerable to damage, thus the P-47 Thunderbolt (with a simpler air-cooled design) was a more likely choice to conduct ground-attack missions. The SPR crew were unable to obtain the use of two P-47s, so they opted for a viable alternative.

 

[Oddball]

In addition, early in the movie after they landed. It shows the rifle company walking across open land. Not trying to conceal their presence in any way. My dad said they all would have been easy pickings for the Germans.

Already mentioned that one...The whole movie was loaded down such ridiculous shit.