Saving Private Ryan

Pros: GREAT ACTION, GREAT PLOT
Cons: LOTS OF GORE

Director Steven Spielberg's full length war movie Saving Private Ryan, is set during and shortly after D-Day. The action begins with the invasion of Normandy but focuses primarily on the eight man mission to rescue a Private Ryan. The war and the mission...

Pros: Great acting, gritty realism, smooth storyline
Cons: too bloody for kids

I sure am a shrimp when it comes to comparing some of my writing to other writers here on epinions. I'm sorry about that, and I'll try not to sound so much like a simpleton. I really admire a lot of people, even those whose opinion that I don't agree...

Pros: real, not sugar coated
Cons: none

When we rented Saving Private Ryan, We were glued to the television. I couldn't believe what an excellent and descriptive movie it was. Speilberg did an incredible job showing what the war was about. We focus on the Vietnam war being so gorey that we...

Pros: Excellent direction, cast
Cons: none

My eyes are red, and it is hard for me to type this. I'm a typical, spoiled American. I'm 23, and often complain when I have to live check to check. I've been given the opportunity graduate from college with the help of our government. But enough...

Pros: Realism, intensity
Cons: cliched characters

During the first 25 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan", director Steven Spielberg puts you right in the eye of the hurricane that was Omaha Beach on the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Spielberg, the most successful moviemaker in film history, has taken...

Pros: The actors, the subject, the script....hey, it's Steven Spielberg
Cons: Extremely graphic violence

The time period is the 1940s. You are a young woman, sitting at a typewriter writing hundreds of letters each day...but these are not pleasant letters: "I regret to inform you that your son died in battle. He was an incredibly brave man and America...

Pros: Tear-jerking and realistic
Cons: may leave you with painful memories

When you see movies, don't you want a sense of realism and relations to what life is about? This movie captures the heart of people of all ages and all types. It gives a true sense of what warfare is really like and of all the struggles the soldiers...

Pros: You get to experience war in your tv screen.
Cons: none

Finally a movie that takes you right into the reality of those soldiers' lives assigned to bring back one single man from the middle of hell. I had never experienced war the way I did with this movie. There's action from scene one all the way to the...

Pros: about war
Cons: boring, fake, shallow, hyped, unreal

I love all war movies, they're intense, deep, interesting, and meaningful. "Saving Private Ryan" is the exception. What a bore. It's renounced as such a "real" prevalence of war. Some parts were real, yes, like the opening scene...

Pros: It's Spielberg
Cons: none- unless you can't handle the site of blood

I am currently waiting for my DVD player to arrive but I know as soon as it gets here this will be my first DVD purchase. I watched this movie at home on my hands and knees shaking in front of my TV. It literally throws you into D-Day and WWII. I have...

Pros: great movie
Cons: a little long but bearable

If you happen to me one of the few people in the world that have not seen this movie do your self a favor and give yourself a real treat.

People that I have talked to or people that have seen this movie say it is so bloody in the beginning,...

Pros: Some great, but horrifying visuals.
Cons: Totally overrated, Hollywood pap.

Yes, it had stunning, have-to-look-away special effects. No, it did not shy away from the graphic horrors of war. In those capacities, this movie broke new ground.
However, take away the first fifteen minutes and the shock of all that gore,...

Pros: Reminder that one person can make a difference.
Cons: Graphic.

I made the choice not to see "Saving Private Ryan" in the theater, because I was afraid I couldn't handle it. It was almost too much for me on a 12 inch screen at home. This doesn't mean it's a horrible movie. I think it is superb.
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Pros: reality-based, touching, great cast
Cons: extreme violence

I cannot say enough about Saving Private Ryan. This is my favorite movie of all time. First of all, it stars my two favorite actors, Tom Hanks and Matt Damon. I think Hanks brings a lot to the role of the captain that he plays. He is one of the best...

Pros: real life drama about war-past & present
Cons: blood and gore, very realistic in injuries

I am from a younger generation and after seeing that movie it makes me think about what all I have to be thankful for...I think the movie was very descriptive and explosive...especially in the opening scene. That depicts some of the things that are...