It’s less of an action scene than a horror one.
Surviving that is more about good fortune than anything else.
We all have things that we are scared of or make us nervous.
Imagine the courage it takes to run up a beach TOWARDS gunfire.
You might see friends getting shot and killed right next to you but you have to keep going.
The scene is so powerful that in a small way, the movie can’t recover.
It never comes close to reaching those heights again.
Don’t get me wrong.
This is a fantastic movie and should have beaten Shakespeare In Love for Best Picture that year.
Even the Oscar voters seemed to know this when they still gave Spielberg the Oscar for Best Director.
Saving Private Ryan is about heroism and sacrifice but it’s about being a man.
He is a coward but who are we are to truly judge?
I want to get angry at Upham at the end of the movie but who the fuck am I?
I have no idea how I’d react in a situation like that.
The older I get, the more I understand that we should have pity for Upham.
He’s not a bad man, just a scared one.
Imagine the regret that man would have to live with the rest of his life?
War is more than just heroism and sacrifice.
Casting Matt Damon was also a brilliant movie.
How could anyone not feel resentment for this guy who is going to be going home?
Some other casting like Ted Danson is a bit distracting but I’m nitpicking.
Other than 1917, I don’t know if there is another military movie I like more than this.
Saving Private Ryan is a wonderful tribute to the men who saved the country and the world.
It does so by showing us them saving just one man.
Saving Private Ryan
25.
Dumb & Dumber
27.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
31.
Out Of Sight
36.
Carlito’s Way
37.
Wayne’s World
45.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
