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Anyone here prefer The Longest Day to Saving Private Ryan
Posted on 7/17/17 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 7/17/17 at 7:43 pm
I do. I like the more comprehensive scope and the glimpses into everything that happened on D-Day. The movie has some of the more epic shots ever put on film (the assault in Ouistreham is an unbelievable shot and due to CGI, nothing like that will ever be filmed again).
I also like how there was a bit of pomp and color to it. The Scottish playing the bagpipes walking down the road as they're being mortared and the Irish grumbling that only the Irish can play bagpipes lol)
I also like how there was a bit of pomp and color to it. The Scottish playing the bagpipes walking down the road as they're being mortared and the Irish grumbling that only the Irish can play bagpipes lol)
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Posted on 7/17/17 at 7:45 pm to athenslife101
You mean the longest movie? You're comparing apples to oranges if you ask me, 2 different types of movies each good in their own ways
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:10 pm to athenslife101
You're comparing two completely different films that were trying to accomplish two completely different things. A comparison of the two is not valid.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:24 pm to RollTide1987
Covering the same subject. And what were they trying to accomplish that was so different. I seriously am interested in an answer?
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:31 pm to athenslife101
I do. Covering the scope of the battle, but at an individual level.
Saving Private Ryan, while outstanding on the beach, is not a film about victory or the battle. Seems misguided to sacrifice a bunch of elite troops to save a single private.
Saving Private Ryan, while outstanding on the beach, is not a film about victory or the battle. Seems misguided to sacrifice a bunch of elite troops to save a single private.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:36 pm to athenslife101
They were hardly covering the same subject. Saving Private Ryan used the Normandy landings as a back drop for the story of eight men venturing off behind enemy lines to find and save one man.
The Longest Day tells the story of D-Day, from the generals on both sides explaining the big picture, on down to the squad and individual level.
The plot of The Longest Day is the invasion itself, while Saving Private Ryan uses the invasion in the film's first twenty minutes as an attention grabber to reel you into the story.
The Longest Day tells the story of D-Day, from the generals on both sides explaining the big picture, on down to the squad and individual level.
The plot of The Longest Day is the invasion itself, while Saving Private Ryan uses the invasion in the film's first twenty minutes as an attention grabber to reel you into the story.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:40 pm to athenslife101
SPR is pretty meh aside from the technical aspects of the opening
I actually prefer the Combat TV show to either (or Band of Brothers, for that matter)
I actually prefer the Combat TV show to either (or Band of Brothers, for that matter)
Posted on 7/17/17 at 8:43 pm to athenslife101
The Longest Day is a clearly superior movie.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:10 pm to Kafka
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SPR is pretty meh aside from the technical aspects of the opening
Not true at all.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:24 pm to athenslife101
I prefer the thin red line to saving private Ryan.
Posted on 7/17/17 at 9:27 pm to athenslife101
Love both movies and they are so different in scope and content I do not see a reason to compare them.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 7:27 am to Brazos
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I prefer the thin red line to saving private Ryan.
Said no one....ever.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 7:29 am to Ace Midnight
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Seems misguided to sacrifice a bunch of elite troops to save a single private.
Never leave a man behind.
Good to know if you ever get kidnapped we should just let you die though.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 9:03 am to Breesus
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Good to know if you ever get kidnapped we should just let you die though.
Ryan wasn't kidnapped. He wasn't a POW. frick, he wasn't even wounded. He was a paratrooper doing his job - you know, fighting the war.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 9:36 am to athenslife101
TLD is all about D-Day told from the perspective of both sides and many ranks and branches. It's a historical drama based on more than a few diary entries and debriefings.
SPR is a very embellished story that takes place after D-Day, parts of it are actually in Band of Brothers. There was a paratrooper in the Normandy campaign that lost all his siblings prior and during the invasion. A staff officer just drove up to retrieve him. This also wasn't an isolated event that was protocol. SPR is an adventure movie dressed up with a little history taking place during the week of D-Day+.
It's apples and oranges.
One is about the day, the other is using the day as part of Act 1.
SPR is a very embellished story that takes place after D-Day, parts of it are actually in Band of Brothers. There was a paratrooper in the Normandy campaign that lost all his siblings prior and during the invasion. A staff officer just drove up to retrieve him. This also wasn't an isolated event that was protocol. SPR is an adventure movie dressed up with a little history taking place during the week of D-Day+.
It's apples and oranges.
One is about the day, the other is using the day as part of Act 1.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 10:37 am to athenslife101
Which one has John Wayne ?
That one wins.
That one wins.
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