Originally posted by: lordtyranus
Seems to me its the Democrats trying to hide all the murders that their guy FDR ordered.
You are nothing more than a partisan idiot, blind to all realities of history except to the love of a party that will never love you. NEVER has our country faced a greater and more real threat than we faced in WWII, and never was the actions that our country took more justified. It was literally kill or be killed. Nothing like today.
Originally posted by: Wag
I doubt this has to do with the language and violence, just the message of the movie itself.
The movie, while fictionalized and dramatized, is in fact based on a true story.
The real Private Ryan was Sgt. Fritz Niland of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. His 3 brothers had all been killed on (and one during the week of) D-Day. One in the 82nd Airborne who received the Silver Star posthumously, one in the 4th infantry while storming Omaha Beach, and one who was an Army Air Corps pilot in SE Asia whose plane was shot down. Fritz was the sole surviving son, so he was quickly evac'ed home (without the drama of having to find him that is in the movie).
The full story (only a couple of paragraphs) can be found in the "Band of Brothers" book by Stephen Ambrose (but not in the HBO series), which is obviously where Spielberg and Hanks got the idea from.
I'm curious what "message of the movie" you are referring to? That war is bloody hell? Well duh. I am convinced that the next all-out global war, like WWII, will be humanity's last. As Einstein said, "I do not know what weapons will be used to fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones."