The only part of Private Ryan I can stand is the first act, on Omaha Beach, which had to be the most on-the-nose depiction of hell ever put on-sceen. Charles Durning, who was there on the beach at age 18, was invited to a screening of the movie by Spielberg; he ran out of the room 15 minutes in and refused to go back. The staging of the …
The only part of Private Ryan I can stand is the first act, on Omaha Beach, which had to be the most on-the-nose depiction of hell ever put on-sceen. Charles Durning, who was there on the beach at age 18, was invited to a screening of the movie by Spielberg; he ran out of the room 15 minutes in and refused to go back. The staging of the second act, the "search," is pure Hollywood WW2 movie, and I would have shot the coward in the face the first time he wouldn't pick up his gun and use it in the third act - the "urban battle." His cowardice got his own side nearly wiped out. I watched the whole movie once, when it first came out 26 years ago.
The only part of Private Ryan I can stand is the first act, on Omaha Beach, which had to be the most on-the-nose depiction of hell ever put on-sceen. Charles Durning, who was there on the beach at age 18, was invited to a screening of the movie by Spielberg; he ran out of the room 15 minutes in and refused to go back. The staging of the second act, the "search," is pure Hollywood WW2 movie, and I would have shot the coward in the face the first time he wouldn't pick up his gun and use it in the third act - the "urban battle." His cowardice got his own side nearly wiped out. I watched the whole movie once, when it first came out 26 years ago.
Today I started watching Band of Brothers. When it came out, I didn’t have HBO, but it’s now on Netflix.
It's the ten best war movies ever done. The one show I have ever seen where everything was done right, to perfection.