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I saw it for the first time last night... and..

:eek: :eek: :eek:
WOW! it was graphic as ever, great movie, fantastic fighting scenes made it look so realistic. The movie was great!!

still pissed off that a whole group died to save one man... thats just wrong!:mad:
 
Originally posted by Bucks
I saw it for the first time last night... and..

:eek: :eek: :eek:
WOW! it was graphic as ever, great movie, fantastic fighting scenes made it look so realistic. The movie was great!!

still pissed off that a whole group died to save one man... thats just wrong!:mad:
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would a watched but too many ****in commercials....

turned a two hour film into a three hour film...jees i hate that.
 
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would a watched but too many ****in commercials....

turned a two hour film into a three hour film...jees i hate that.
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Agree.

I can't stand ad's so I didn't watch it.

Never seen it either! :eek:
 

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great effects, in the end the US troops were out numbered 4:1 and before the final battle i thought the guy on the bell tower said there was only 15 german troops..

well... it seemed like there was 300 troops!!!
 
Saving Private Ryan is an important movie, it does not glorify war, for there is nothing glorious in killing, it is an essential movie because it goes to the very spirit of what makes mankind what it is.

That is the ability to self-sacrifice for a principal

It would be easy to ignore what happens in some far away land, even if that event is so terribly wrong that it shakes the very moral fibres upon which a freedom loving society is built

In WW2 what Hitler did was so very wrong, that millions were willing to self sacrifice to put at an end his terrible regime.

Saving Private Ryan is a microcosm, a whole rifle squad is sent out into the unknown, to save just one man, because that one man represents a societies sacrifices, the rifle squad is the allies, Private Ryan is the oppressed communities.
The allies were willing to make sacrifices to save the oppressed, they were willing to die to save an idea ----- FREEDOM ------, which is an idea that men have fought for, and been willing to die for, ever since man began to walk upright.
 
From the half hour I saw it seemed to have been shot in some sort of grainy, brownish tinge....that's realism i guess.

A Speilberg classic they say...also, he will be shooting ET 2 next year according to the rumours...(and it's not starring Mark McVeigh!!)
 
Originally posted by Asgardian
Saving Private Ryan is an important movie, it does not glorify war, for there is nothing glorious in killing, it is an essential movie because it goes to the very spirit of what makes mankind what it is.

That is the ability to self-sacrifice for a principal

It would be easy to ignore what happens in some far away land, even if that event is so terribly wrong that it shakes the very moral fibres upon which a freedom loving society is built

In WW2 what Hitler did was so very wrong, that millions were willing to self sacrifice to put at an end his terrible regime.

Saving Private Ryan is a microcosm, a whole rifle squad is sent out into the unknown, to save just one man, because that one man represents a societies sacrifices, the rifle squad is the allies, Private Ryan is the oppressed communities.
The allies were willing to make sacrifices to save the oppressed, they were willing to die to save an idea ----- FREEDOM ------, which is an idea that men have fought for, and been willing to die for, ever since man began to walk upright.
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well in the end they weren't willing to go out and die to make mumma ryan happy. They did it cause it was their duty, and orders are orders. In the end the final battle they thought they may aswell fight with their other american soilders and help them out to try and secure the bridge to try and turn the war. In the end Hanks said "earn it" to Ryan meaning, "better not be a bumb or some druggy cause we didn't cross half of france, risking our lives just to bring home a piece of ****!":D

something like that. Spielberg puts war into perspective for us, showing us the ordinary lengths we go to, in order to stop the enermy.
 
The start was pretty graphic. I loved the guy who stopped to pick up his arm after it had been blown off. A little disturbing, but probably a great portrayal of what it would have been like.:eek:
 

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Didn't watch it last night. Went to tape it, got the tape ready with 10 minutes before it started, and then forgot to press record.

Anyway, when I saw it in the cinema, that movie had a huge effect on me. Please please tell me that they didn't cut to ads in the first half hour, that was so intense and graphic and horrible, at the cinema I got to the stage where I didnt' think I could handle any more of it, and I'm normally not one to be affected by what I see on the movie screen...

I always thought that it would have been more effective if Private Ryan had died as well. It would have meant 8 men had died in vain. It would have made war seem even more brutal than it already had. Still, perhaps that would have been too horrific to handle, not blockbuster material or something.
 
I'm so affected by this movie I've only seen it once and I can't bring myself to see it again.

So I quite deliberately missed it on telly last night.

Is it as poweful as All Quiet on the Western Front ? - no, Speilbergs' instinctive sense of the corny and the overly-sentimental keeps this movie from being the powerful anti-war statement it ultimately COULD have been.

But there is no grimmer or more horrible depiction of the realities of combat than that shown in the opening 30 minutes of this film.

cheers
 
Yeah I agree with BSA, the first 30 minutes made this film. The rest of the film treads a very fine line where it almost becomes a elongated episode of the old "Combat" TV series.

The most disturbing part of the film for me was the fight in the upstairs room. A very nasty german character has a bloody knife fight with a GI. It disturbs because another GI cowers on the stairs while his friend gets killed.:mad: :(
 
That movie had a big effect on me. I was in tears when it finished in the cinemas...its just a movie that has a full affect on a lot of people.

The opeining 30-45 minutes was not only a pretty fair depiction of what would of happened back in that time...but it was one of the greatest pieces of cinematography (if thats a word) ever. It really makes you stop and think how lucky we are nothing like that has happened in australia, or that most (possibly all) have never been involved in a war like that.

fantastic film
 

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Love the film, have the VHS, have wacthed it about 20 times.

Its ironical that the German soldier that Hanks let go when he killed Wade was the soldier that shot him dead in the end!
Now that's FUBAR! :D
 
I wasn't quite as impressed with SPR as many of your folks were. It was pretty good, but I later saw Thin Red Line and found that I was more interested with that one.

Then I saw Dirty Dozen last night for the first time, and that was a good bit of fun.
 
the opening at the beach is the very reason why wars are such a great waste of lives for both sides but im afraid we will never learn that lesson.
the best scene from last night was when the yank sniper hit his ooposite number right thru the scope.
cheers!
 
Did they cut it to bits? Surely the D-Day landing would've been cut to smitherines!!

Get the DVD. Much better!! :D
 

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