CowboyWay;3071180 said:
I'm going to step out there and open myself up to getting flamed.......but I think Speilberg is a over rated.
I took a Steven Speilberg class in college, and I learned alot about him, his movies are all basically the same, anti hero type.
I never thought Private Ryan was all that good anyway. I know I'm in the minority on this, but its just how I see it.
Other than Schindlers List, which I thought was one of the finest movies ever made in the history of film, I can't say I enjoy most of Speilbergs work at all.
Flame away.
I would never flame you, because I have too much respect for you.
What I think many struggle with is the notion that movies about this subject need to be more factual. Make no mistake, this movie was a fictional story in an historic setting. My father (who was a veteran) told me that he felt that he didn't think what happened in the movie would likely happen in real life. When I asked him about the combat scenes, he was more forgiving, stating that combat can be far more horrible than anything we can depict on film. He felt that Spielberg and Hanks (who co-produced) wanted to provide the kind of perspective that had not been depicted before. I think he succeeded in that goal.
When you compare SPR to Band of Brothers, you are talking about the same creative individuals who were dealing with a book based on real people with real experiences. What made it very real were the sequences with the real veterans describing in gut-wrenching detail the horror of the aftrmath of battle. The episode that stuck with me from that series was the one from the perspective of Easy Company's medic. That episode will always rank as one of the most moving of that series. We should aslo keep in mind that B of B was a series, telling a lot of stories. SPR was trying to tell one story, and in my mind, did a compelling job. Was it great history? I don't know. I do know that it was a compelling movie.