Saving Private Ryan

Watching now. Fantastic movie. Can’t believe it did not win the Oscar

You are a jingoistic piece of trash. I was *the* war movie of the year.

Who won Best Actress that year? I forget.

I preferred the porn version, “Shaving Ryan’s Privates.”

You were too slow, self-important and starred the most annoying actor on the planet, R1.

I missed the Omaha beach sequence. Was it good?

I take it that's meant to be a joke, R6?

Again,the production is unparalleled. SS deserved the Oscar

Shakespeare In Love won the Oscar for Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan in 1999.

ROBERTO BENIGNI, Life Is Beautiful for Best Actor

GWYNETH PALTROW, Shakespeare in Love for Best Actress

In case you missed it, it's at the end of Shakespeare in Love, where Gwyneth steals up the beach and assassinated Osama bin Laden.

R7,yes. That scene was iconic.

Amazingly, there were no women in SPR,that I recall. Still an amazing movie.

There weren't too many women in the 1st Rangers or the 101st Airborne, so no, R12. However, there's the scene in the office where the secretary realizes she's typed 3 letters to the same woman, and the sequence at the Ryan family farm where the mother gets the chaplains visit, so those actresses made big impressions in their individual scenes.

What were those large crosses on Omaha beach?

The women playing the secretary and Mrs. Ryan have recently become aware that they acted in a film directed by Steven Spielberg who is the SAME religion as that monster Woody Allen, (he even laughed during "Bullets Over Broadway"), so they are expressing their newfound grief and remorse and donating their salaries (1998 SAG scale) and all residuals to Nathalie Portman who demands there be more women directors, or she will side-eye and gender shame men again at next year's Golden Globes!

And this how we sqy goodbye in Germany "hoof!"

The only images I remember are the D Day scenes (which made me realize what a horrific price these young men paid) and the mother collapsing on the porch when she saw the reverend coming out of the military vehicle. beginning at 2:58.

It reminded me of my aunt telling me about how they all stood on a stoop in Brooklyn watching their brother walk up the street never expecting to see him again. He survived. He never spoke of his experiences but came back changed. My aunt said he was never the same.

Later in his life he told me some things about the Battle of the Bulge. Rats everywhere. Cold everywhere and dead young men everywhere.

Steven's Spielberg has a major problem with cheesy endings. Case in point: ET's spaceship farting out a rainbow as it departed. Are you fucking kidding me?

True to form, Spielberg ends SPR with an American flag waving in the wind. Good grief. I'm surprised he didn't have a rainbow in the sky in the backdrop.

I loved Shakespeare in Love and I’m still glad it won.

No women in the film, though they were [italic] kindly [/italic] allowed to do set decoration. And costume design. Because, you know, women can be trusted with the decorative arts.

Pass.

R [19] . Completely agree. Movie was good until that completely corny ass ending.

AND WHY WEREN"T THERE ANY CISGENDERS IN THE FILM???

Is it just me, or is the Jeremy Davies (Cpl Upham) character gay?

You forgot the two big titted granddaughters dressed so appropriately for a visit to a graveyard.

Ah, OP, that was Harvey Weinstein at his most powerful, when he was on top and had mighty influence.

He made sure Shakespeare in Love, Gwyneth and Roberto Begnini (!!! the poor guy didn't ask that much, best foreign movie was enough for him, after that he was burned to the ground in the media) instead of Saving Private Ryan, Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters (or even Nick Nolte in Affliction ).

I agree with those who say that Spielberg, while a great director, deserving of his wins in SPR and SL, has a tendency to make mawkish endings. Besides, the real story was all the sons in a family died, therefore, the law was changed into never having brothers in the same company. The inspiring Let's go through the countryside and through war to fetch the last brother and bring him to his mom, never happened , but it makes for a compelling story.

I always felt the film was overrated. I barely remember it, but I recall the prolonged scene at the bridge just really looked like a cheap set. The buildings did seem real, the church, which is almost always the centerpiece of a town like this wasn't placed right, and the "river" under the bridge looked more like a stagnant pond.

Those obstacles were "hedgehogs" R14, placed there to deter the Higgins boats (landing craft which Capt. Miller is first seen) from landing directly on the beach, which was so pivotal to the Allied landings in North Africa and Italy. Also in anticipation of assault by amphibious tanks though the Sherman, the most effective and transportable DD tank, didn't really come into its own as an amphib vehicle till after Normandy--they were unreliable and the design was tinkered with throughout the war. However, the Germans would have been aware of the Allied progress and took no chances: the beach was also heavily mined.

Sorry, I can't quite hear you there at R15, Mr. Caviezel.

While I did like Shakespeare In Love, it falls into the category of "Worst Best Picture" winners. It was not all that good.