Saving Private Ryan

Pros: Heroic portrayal of real life heros.
Cons: Too graphic and intense for young viewers.

"Saving Private Ryan" may or may not be the best movie ever made. But one thing you can say for sure is that is is about the single most important event in our nations history, at least in the last 100 years. Were it not for the heros like...

Pros: Cast, the film itself, but especially the filming and camera angles
Cons: none

I cannot begin to imagine or contemplate the horrors of war. Whenever I was growing up, war movies depicted a shot, wounded and dying soldier by grabbing their bloodless chest, and dropping to the ground. Lying still, motionless, and obviously dead. In...

Pros: Great battle scene!
Cons: Lacked emotional attachment to the characters.

Revised: 20 Feb 00.

I saw this movie because it was so insanely popular, I figured that even if it wasn't a good depiction of the military, it might be a sentimental favorite.

Oops. I erred. The first 30 minutes of this move (read...

Pros: Very Good Movie.Love the reality of the movie!
Cons: Not for viewing of the little ones! Too Graphic

I will not bore you with words you have already read regarding the movie "Saving Private Ryan." I will not call it "an amazing triumph of the human spirit," or "phenomenal". I will not say the characters are Oscar-worthy or...

Pros: Someone really does give a @#$%$##@$ if you come back!
Cons: The cost of the trip home...

So, you think self destruction is fun? You think you are so bored that jumping off a bridge, or drinking, doing drugs, or tripping through a school with a loaded gun will bring you the REAL scare you are looking for in life. Well my friend, go see...

Pros: Good camera shots; it's like actually being there
Cons: May be too bloody for some

Only one word can describe this movie... WOW!!! This has been the best movie that I've seen in a looooooooong time. Now from what i know about World War II this movie appears to actually portray the hell that is war. When I talked with my...

Pros: Riveting, educational
Cons: Very violent images

I have to admit, the concept didn't sound exciting. A small group of WWII soldiers pulled from combat in Normandy to go find one private and send him home. You wouldn't imagine it would be thrilling. You wouldn't guess you'd be riveted.

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Pros: reality driven, action
Cons: a little long, disappointing ending for me

I spent the 1st 20 minutes of this movie with my mouth open and eyes glued to the screen. It was horrible to watch, yet impossible to turn away. I have read hundreds of books describing the landings in the various wars and nothing of what I read prepared...

Pros: Realistic, awe inspiring
Cons: Kinda long, Story line kinda weak after you watch it so much

I first decided to see Saving Private Ryan after seeing a preview for it. I have always been really interested in anything that has had to do with wars and the personal struggles that soldiers face because movies are an effective way of showing us many...

Pros: A brilliant war story from a man who understands movies and moviegoers...Steven Spielberg
Cons: At nearly 3 hours, plan bathroom breaks carefully, or keep a remote nearby...

The opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan are not for the squeamish. The landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day is one of the most horrifying stories that any vet could ever tell and Steven Spielberg never misses a beat when he shows it graphically here....

Pros: Great cinematography, real-life portrayal
Cons: very graphic

What can you say about this movie that has not already been said. I first saw an ad for this movie over a year ago and immediately knew I wanted to see it. Not only because it had Tom Hanks in it but because I love war movies. This movie will bring tears...

Pros: great cinemtography, great opening and closing scenes
Cons: characters are not believable

I admit it... I didn't think this movie lived up to all the hype I had heard about it. I found myself very disappointed with this Academy Award winning movie. My son loved this movie, proclaiming it "the best movie ever", but I just don't get...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

My father a Vietnam vet who served 2 terms in the Vietnam War and my Grandfather who was a prisoner of war and survived the Bataan Death March went and saw this movie. My mother went with them and told me they had tears in their eyes when the movie was...

Pros: Emotionally involving, good acting, good cinematography and film technique
Cons: Generally typical Speilberg film

It's been over a year since first seeing Saving Private Ryan -- it's a worthy effort by Speilberg--his best since Shindler's List by far. You've probably heard about the amount of violence, blood, and gore and that's all true--it's got the Viet Nam...

Pros: Highly realistic
Cons: none

At the end of the movie Captain Miller says something to Private Ryan, "If the sacrifices of our noble dead are to have any meaning, we must earn it". Ryan asks Miller at his grave years later if he has earned it. He has and so have many...