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The first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan
Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:24 am
Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:24 am
This is still the most intense battle reenactment I have ever seen. This is a great film, too!
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Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:29 am to lsufan9193969700
Completely agree. The most intense 30 minutes of cinema I have ever seen. 
Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:30 am to lsufan9193969700
Everytime I watch that scene, I thank God I didn't have to face that.
I was only in high school at the time, but I still can't believe that Shakespeare in Love beat out SPR for an Oscar. It almost seems criminal.
I was only in high school at the time, but I still can't believe that Shakespeare in Love beat out SPR for an Oscar. It almost seems criminal.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:30 am to lsufan9193969700
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intense battle reenactment
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great film
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Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:34 am to Geauxld Finger
quote:its just magnificent. So are the opening minutes on inglorious basterds
Completely agree. The most intense 30 minutes of cinema
I have ever seen.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 11:36 am to FairhopeTider
SPR did win the editing, sound and cinematography awards. But Shakespeare in Love was definitely not worthy of the big dawg.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:09 pm to lsufan9193969700
Band of Brothers has some equally harrowing combat scenes as well, imo.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:17 pm to FairhopeTider
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I was only in high school at the time, but I still can't believe that Shakespeare in Love beat out SPR for an Oscar. It almost seems criminal.
Agree. One of the most blatant Oscar travesties.
This post was edited on 6/6/12 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:24 pm to FairhopeTider
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I still can't believe that Shakespeare in Love beat out SPR for an Oscar. It almost seems criminal.
I agree. The Academy Awards should start issuing Best Picture 20 Years Later Awards. I can guarantee a lot of the films that won the original award would lose.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:36 pm to mark65mc
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I agree. The Academy Awards should start issuing Best Picture 20 Years Later Awards. I can guarantee a lot of the films that won the original award would lose.
I've always thought they should have a category that does honor movies that weren't recognized the year they were released. It would reward movies that withstood the test of time and due to one reason or another, couldn't win the year it was released. They wouldn't have to do this every year either. I know this is sort of like awarding a Heisman to another player 20 years later, but it'd be cool nonetheless.
This post was edited on 6/6/12 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:42 pm to lsufan9193969700
That seen where the guy is holding his guts still sticks with me.
Really makes you appreciate soldiers and vets...
Really makes you appreciate soldiers and vets...
Posted on 6/6/12 at 12:52 pm to happyhappyjoyjoy
Now You Know: Reactions After Seeing Saving Private Ryan
Great book with excerpts from DDay vets about the opening sequence of "SPR". You can get it from Amazon, I bought mine from the WW II museum in N.O.
Great book with excerpts from DDay vets about the opening sequence of "SPR". You can get it from Amazon, I bought mine from the WW II museum in N.O.
This post was edited on 6/6/12 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:02 pm to happyhappyjoyjoy
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That seen where the guy is holding his guts still sticks with me.
And he was screaming for his mom. That part really got to me.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:02 pm to lsufan9193969700
The opening scene was definitely awesome. And the acting was top rate.
I will say, though, that Band of Brothers kind of ruined Saving Private Ryan for me in some ways. BoB was so much better done from a narrative standpoint. In contrast, the main plot device in Saving Private Ryan was kind of clunky in retrospect (notwithstanding that it was based to some degree on an actual situation).
I will say that I still hate that reporter character after the German bastard that he made them let go ends up knifing the Jewish GI in such a horrible manner.
I will say, though, that Band of Brothers kind of ruined Saving Private Ryan for me in some ways. BoB was so much better done from a narrative standpoint. In contrast, the main plot device in Saving Private Ryan was kind of clunky in retrospect (notwithstanding that it was based to some degree on an actual situation).
I will say that I still hate that reporter character after the German bastard that he made them let go ends up knifing the Jewish GI in such a horrible manner.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:23 pm to Tyghas
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And he was screaming for his mom. That part really got to me.
Yep, that scene is etched into my brain.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:33 pm to lsufan9193969700
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This is still the most intense battle reenactment I have ever seen. This is a great film, too!
What about The Pacific? It had a few intense battle scenes also.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:36 pm to Rickety Cricket
Without this movie, I don't think I would hold Giovanni Ribisi in such high regard as an actor.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:39 pm to Tyghas
I had a history teacher that started the war section of things with that landing. The teacher next to him was social studies and began every year with it. Asked the students what makes America so great. And then promoted them with why the need to keep it great and understand what it took to get here. Would make my class watch shite like that if I was an educator
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:52 pm to Methuselah
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I will say that I still hate that reporter character after the German bastard that he made them let go ends up knifing the Jewish GI in such a horrible manner.
Actually, the German guy they let do earlier IS the same guy who, at the end, shoots Tom Hanks, and is then shot by the Upham character you call the reporter. The German recognizes him.
The German who kills Mellish with the knife looks like the same one they let go, crewcut and all, but is not the same character.
I only know this because I thought the same as you and learned this sometime later--went back and looked at the DVD.
Posted on 6/6/12 at 1:56 pm to Shiftyplus1
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Giovanni Ribisi
I will always think of him as Phoebe's little brother on Friends.
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