Saving Private Ryan (DTS Edition)

Why Buy A Saving Private Ryan (DTS Edition)?
When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic–and maybe the best–war film ever. With 1998 production standards, Spielberg has been able to create a stunning, unparalleled view of war as hell. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds.

A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldiers soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. Its a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War. Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes. If that is so, this movie gives stereotypes a good name: Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant, Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben, Barry Pepper as the religious sniper, Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew, Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo, Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic, and Jeremy Davies, who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance.

The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielbergs Oscar-winning Schindlers List, but its more kinetic. Spielberg and his ace technicians (the film won five Oscars: editing (Michael Kahn), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), sound, sound effects, and directing) deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut. The violence is extreme but never gratuitous. The final battle, a dizzying display of gusto, empathy, and chaos, leads to a profound repose. Saving Private Ryan touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today. Its the film Spielberg was destined to make. –Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews & Opinions

amazing movie… one of my all time favorites.
amazing movie… one of my all time favorites, can watch it 1000 times… tom hanks in awesome…so is every cast.

RAW AND POWERFUL
I did not believe that anyone would ever make a film about World War II that could top SCHINDLER’S LIST. I was wrong. Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN edges his earlier classic by at least a nose, and though the graphic carnage is abundant, and so authentic looking that you can just about taste it, it is not excessive. This was D-Day after all, and every description I’ve ever heard, or read about Omaha Beach painted it, and the surrounding sea red. This is a glorious, inspiring, and well deserved tribute to those heroes ( our fathers, and grandfathers ) that literally saved the world.

Is The Best War Movie Ever Made?
My headline offers a subjective question, but I think most people would at least agree this is one of the best war movies they’ve seen, especially if they have a pretty decent 5.1 surround sound system. You can’t fully appreciate this DVD and movie, in generally, without the great surround this disc offers.

Sitting in a room surrounded by five speakers with bullets flying from all directions around you - as in that spectacular 22- minute opening scene or in the final 45 minutes of action against the Germans in tanks - is an astounding movie experience. The visuals are outstanding, too, and we’ll see a Blu-Ray version of this film soon, making it even better.

Since the film has been out for over 10 years, there is no sense going into the story. It’s hard to picture the brutality of war being any worse than you see here, but it probably was. This is about as graphic as it gets. The violence and gore was shocking when this film came out in 1997 and still is today.

It makes you appreciate what some of the WWII soldiers went through, but that can be said for any war. I believe the purpose of this film was to pay tribute to the sacrifices these men made, and it succeeds wonderfully. Hats off to Steven Spielberg and to Tom Hanks, the leading actor in here, both of whom have worked hard for WWII vets to get the recognition they deserve, not just on film but in a national memorial.

Anyway, bad language and/or blood and guts aside, this is still an incredible portrait of WWII. The almost-three hour film is riveting start-to-finish, especially with that memorable beginning action scene, maybe the most dramatic in the history of film.

By the way, is this the best war movie ever made: yeah, I think so.

Hands down the most harrowing movie ever made to epitomize the struggles faced by the veterans of WWII.
Saving Private Ryan was one of the most neccesary films that has ever been made. It is the harrowing story of a squad of men led by John H. Miller {Hanks} and captures the very gritty realities of war. Set during the D-Day invasion into fortress Europe, it captures in the best possible sense the toll that war exacts upon those who are called upon to defend freedom. Spielberg also made Band of Brothers which is also an amazing story of heroism and sacrifice renowned the world over. No doubt in my mind that these works that Steven Spielberg has masterfully created will live on through the generations as some of the greatest war epics ever depicted on film. It will tell and retell to those who might forget the stories that should never be lost of the people who should never be forgotten. I give it A+,5 Stars and Two-Thums Up.

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