| | Saving Private Ryan DVD (5 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, War Movies, Essential Cinema Videos, World War II, Military, Battles, Soldiers, France, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 | | Starring | Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Harve Presnell, Ted Danson, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Jeremy Davies, Edward Burns, Bryan Cranston | | Director | Steven Spielberg | | Composer | John Williams | | Director of Photography | Janusz Kaminski | | Editor | Michael Kahn | | Producer | Steven Spielberg, Mark Gordon, Ian Bryce, Gary Levinsohn | | Production Designer | Thomas Sanders | | Screenwriter | Robert Rodat |
Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Academy Awards; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Behind The Scenes; Sensor Matic Steven Spielberg's award-winning film is a brutal look at the devastation that war leaves behind, both physically and emotionally. Standouts in the film include Tom Hanks as the seemingly hardened leader, Ed Burns as the cocky New Yorker, and Jeremy Davies as the wanna-be writer who'd rather be carrying a typewriter than a gun. A closing battle nearly matches the opening scene's in impact, and Spielberg concludes matters with a present-tense bookend, as in SCHINDLER'S LIST, that drills the point home. Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in America, where she is grieving the unimaginable loss of her three other sons to the war. The first unforgettable 20 minutes of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN realistically and horrifically depicts the Normandy invasion as Miller. his second-in-command, Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), and the others in the unit land at Omaha Beach. Before the film began shooting, Hanks and the actors in his squad went through a one-week boot camp in the woods. All the actors, except Hanks, wanted to quit, but Hanks rallied their spirits by reminding them of the incredible tribulations endured by the real veterans of World War II. Production designer Tom Sanders found a beach in Ireland that perfectly matched the landscape of Normandy's. Spielberg gave great credit to the Irish army who helped re-create the Omaha Beach scenes. Theatrical release: July 24, 1998.
The film was shot in England, Ireland, and France.
Estimated budget: $70 million.
The film grossed more than $215 million at the domestic box office and nearly $375 million worldwide.
Steven Spielberg won an Academy Award for Best Director for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.
In preparation for their roles, the actors went through a week of boot camp with retired Marine Dale Dye-- except Matt Damon (Private Ryan), who was excused from the training so that a real-life resentment of him by the others would be formed.
D day, June 6, 1944, was the largest invasion in military history--175,000 soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force invaded Normandy.
Spielberg was honored with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, presented to him by Prince Andrew for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in Los Angeles in November 2000. Saving Private Ryan Reviews: "...Unprecedented immediacy [in] the battle scenes....Uniformly superb performances..."
-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" -- "...[A] masterpiece....One soul-shattering experience..."
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...Sheer gut-wrenching immediacy....[Spielberg] has come of age as an artist..."
-- Philip Kemp, Sight and Sound "...Soberly magnificent....It is the ultimate devastating letter home..."
-- Janet Maslin, New York Times "...Effective the film is, communicating the gruesome nature of combat as few anti-war films ever have..."
-- Wade Major, Box Office "...A powerful and impressive milestone in the realistic depiction of combat, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is as much an experience we live through as a film we watch on screen..."-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "[I]t remains a spectacular, unequalled piece of action film-making."
-- Kevin Maher, Uncut Saving Private Ryan Video Saving Private Ryan Movie Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   the movie was great.
The movie was powerful and good and the best war movie ever.
Submitted by d p (Lutz, Florida)
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 Gory, But Good
This was a great movie. The actors are great, the war scenes were amazing, but this movie is not for gore sensitive viewers. I will list the gore in this film.
1. One part at the beginning, a soldier gets shot down and he lies down on the beach with his guts coming out and he was literally screaming for his mother. He was only about 18 or so. This scene stuck in my mind for a while. It was very disturbing.
2. There is on scene where a soldier gets his arm shot of. He picks it up off the ground and keeps fighting.
3. One guy's face caves in! How weird is that? All of this happens within the first 20 minutes of the movie!
4.One guy holds on to a grenade too long and he blows up. It was actually rather funny.
5.This was only the really disturbing scenes. There is other violence, but not as bad as all of this.
It was a pretty good movie. Go and watch it!
Submitted by Nate (Hollywood, CA)
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Awsome Movie
This has to be the best movie on WWII yet. The movie makes you feel like you are in it and the special effects are cool. I like how when people get shot how real it looks. watch out it is grewsome.
Submitted by a reviewer (Pittsburgh, Pa, USA)
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the cinematography was awesome, it put you inside the movie. you felt every bullet, and every explosion. Steven Speilberg made history come alive. so if you haven't seen it, SEE IT.
Submitted by a reviewer (indianapolis, in, usa)
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hola,
¿Por que no tienen mayor cantidad de peliculas dobladas en español?
graciasssssss.
Submitted by bennydelvalle (san juan, puerto rico)
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