Lol, at least I'm consistent!
Also of note, I have now seen Saving Private Ryan and it did not enter my list of favourite war films. It was good, but I did not find it great.
KT
I think a lot of people like the beach scene and forget the rest of the movie was not great
i was way down on SPR for many years, mainly b/c Thin Red Line was out the same summer, and that was one of the films that really sold film for me--SPR was fun and awesome, ...but extreme meh in comparison. I initially found the premise to be lame, selfish, obnoxious.
Then I watched it, more and more. Indeed, the technical aspects about the invasion scene are simply brilliant. Just, absolutely, superb. But the story after that is just so well paced, so subtle in many ways.
Seriously, you can show me what passes for horror these days--the lamest shit that people think is terror, that idiots eat up getting their jollies off--but the scene with the knife in the chest, holy hell. The way that you are drawn in to this one soldier that you've carried through this story, and can even see this random, anonymous, German soldier just doing his job--the FUCK--but you
get it. The coward, whose face you want to annihilate, whimpering outside-even as the German sleazes by him and does nothing, recognizing his cowardice and total lack of threat--you still
get it, and kind of want to forgive the bastard. The way everything happens, much like in FMJ, suddenly, without intent, but you react, deal with situation, survive.
I always shake my fist at Spielberg, b/c he always finds some dastardly way to pull those strings (GOD DAMN THAT OLD MAN), but that's it.
I still don't list it in
my top 10 war flicks. But I feel that it certainly belongs.