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To this day I’m still a little hurt and frustrated that Saving Private Ryan lost out best picture to Shakespeare in Love (I’ll probably hold that grudge till I die), but I will ALWAYS find the grisly war movie one of Spielberg’s best films ever.

People like Paul Giamatti, Vin Diesel (in his small role), Adam Goldberg, Max Martini, and even Dennis Farina. Tom Hanks excelled as the soft spoken English teacher turned Captain, but there are really so many good performances it’s hard to really name them all. Each man learns something about himself along the way, and even learns more about his brothers in arms. The real themes and messages are what happen to the men DURING their trudging through the mud and muck. While the violence is brutally effective, it only exists to be as accurate as possible. Brutal, depressing, soul crushing violence that sapped so many men and women of their will to live after they came home. Instead the violence is there because that is what war is. There are no slow motion shots of Tom Hanks gunning down Nazi soldiers, nor is there long kill streaks with uplifting music. Brutal to the point that you actually kind of have to squeamishly look away (the knife scene really hits close to home), but it is never meant to be titillating or to evoke excitement. Starting from the hell that is Normandy beach to the mire that is the French countryside, all of it is meant to convey a point, a feeling, or just to evoke a simple thought from the viewer. Every second of the movie is captivating, and every scene has purpose and meaning. Spielberg’s passion for World War II, and the men who served, is widely known, but you can actually FEEL his passion and intensity here. Saving Private Ryan is probably one of the most visceral and potent war movies every created, in my opinion. Their mission becomes an effort to save themselves the horrors of war and find meaning in their suffering and sacrifice. The squad’s mission is not to save Private Ryan. Even though I can not hope to explain all of the intricacies that happen in the 169 minute film, I can say this. The men begin to balk at the notion that this mission is even worthwhile, but still Captain Miller pushes on. Days go by, towns go by and men die, but still no sign of Private Ryan. What starts out as a simple mission becomes just another brutal day in the hell that is war, as Miller, Sgt Horvath (Tom Sizemore), Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies), team medic Wade (Geovanni Ribisi), Private Reiben (Ed Burns), Caparzo (Vin Diesel in one of his first roles), Jackson (Barry Pepper) and the rest learn to discover that there is meaning in this living nightmare. Ryan, who was air dropped into France the night before the invasion, is now lost behind enemy lines and it is up to Captain Miller and his squad of men to track the private down and bring him home safely. Find a private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and return him home, as Ryan’s three brothers have all been killed in action (back then, if you were the last surviving member of your household you were exempt from active duty so that your family line would not be wiped out completely).

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20 years after it was initially released in theaters, Saving Private Ryan comes back to home video for an amazing collector’s edition that maintains the solid extras of the previous editions, as well as a completely new encode for the video and an upgrade to Dolby Atmos for the audio.įollowing the incredibly hard fought battle of Normandy beach, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is given a special assignment. As movies they are amazing, but as messages, they are simply timeless. Spielberg was a living legend for multiple decades, and to this days can still put out some amazing films, but movies like Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List are movies that are EXPERIENCED, rather than just watched. There are few movies as highly regarded as Saving Private Ryan.