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 enlarge | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1683 reviews
Sales Rank: 574
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 169
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 667068443325
ISBN: 0783233531
UPC: 667068443325
EAN: 9780783233536
ASIN: B00001ZWUS
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: November 2, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: few light surface scratches, plays like new
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 Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) January 19, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Saving Private Ryan (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Great War story turned cinema depiction. A welcomed addition to my History films. I also recommend: Schedulers' List and Enemy at the Gate. The movie is a 8 of 10.
Los Angeles, Ca.
An historical mark for the ages. January 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Saving Private Ryan" is historical because it depicts the average WWII soldiers' sense of loss and regret. There are really two themes to this film. First, a small band of American soldiers led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) from his combat position as part of a public relations and humanitarian cause of the high command due to the fact that Ryan has lost all three of his brothers to combat death within a week of one another. Second, the real theme of this film is the depiction of WWII type combat action. Both themes run together quite well and what we end up with is the best war movie ever made.
The combat in this film is grisly and terrible. A few of the scenes are so anti-Nazi, though, that there is little consideration for the average German soldier, who may or may not have been die hard Nazis. They are depicted as die hards so that Spielberg can set up his own storyline, which he pulls off very well.
This film also broke new ground in the depiction of combat and there are so many films that have copied it since that it is clear that "Saving Private Ryan" set a special effects standard for Hollywood on a level that "Star Wars" did back in the 70s and early 80s.
Even if you hate war films I recommend that you watch this movie at least once. It is a kind of a historical document and it will allow you to better appreciate the burden of the WWII soldier who gave so much to win freedom for the world in a time of dark tyranny.
In my opinion, this movie is easily one of the top ten to fifteen movies ever made.
Saving Private Ryan - Great Historical Movie January 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best movie I have ever seen regarding World War II and D-Day in Europe. The fighting scenes did well in illustrating the horrors of war and how gruesome things can get. This movie is a must for everyone's library.
Experience November 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember working in the DotCom field in the Silicon Valley, going to see this movie on opening day. Like most hot-headed nerds in the valley, I ran my mouth off about accuracy in movie-making, nitpicking it, and generally being a loser after the movie was over while friends smoked cigarettes in the parking lot. An old Vietnam vet walked up to me, obviously shaken by what he had just watched and calmly, succintly, and tersely put me rightfully in my place. Now, nine years later, and two combat tours along the most hotly contested areas with the Taliban in Afghanistan later, I can say he was right. This movie touches so many nerves, makes things so real, I am at a loss for words. Languages - all of them - fail to express our emotions at their peaks and valleys alike, and as such, the feelings this movie bring forth of memories of loss, courage and brotherhood are all too real.
I'm not a WWII historian, so obviously, not an expert on the accuracy there. But the portrayal of the men, while limited in depth compared to the intimacy of knowledge men have of each other in real combat, is accurate, and I am an "expert" on such a thing. It's like modern war video games in that the actual simulation of combat itself is NOT accurate, but the emotional experience that it offers you is. If you want to watch a movie and have a reaction that really is indicitive of what it's like to witness front-line combat, I don't think any movie ever made has really come close to SPR.
What really got to me was the German captive. There's nothing quite as telling as the human face of the enemy, and the disastrous effects of sometimes doing the right thing - but it's still the right thing.
I love this movie. Spielberg is a wonderful human being for making this movie. I can have my parents watch it; their fathers, who were there in WWII, and their son, now at war himself - this film puts it all in context. I don't even need to say a word.
Thank you, Mr. Spielberg.
Once Told Bits and Pieces November 18, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Once told. Never forgotten. It will live in our memories forever. If you should remember one film about those who must fight, kill and die in war then remember this one. Parts of the dialog are fleeting and ponderous like bits and pieces of broken memories but they seem ever so important just the same. Bits and pieces. Is that all that remains? I hope not. A film can never represent what it was really like but pits and pieces are as close as we will ever likely come to that moment back then. Bits and pieces are true.
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