Film for dummies?

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 1999)

The bottom line is, this is not a work of art, in any capacity. I enjoy Spielberg's work most of the time, especially in genres that people generally treat with disrespect, such as sci-fi (Jurassic, ET) and action (Indiana Jones movies), so I'm not some guy trying to put down a successful director. And I'm not anti-patriotic by any means, either. I just don't think it takes a movie with some blood to make me realize that war is bad.
Good art has an implicit meaning, from which you can learn something. This film has an explicit meaning, "war is bad," and all those who go out to see the big famous movie take for granted that it must be good, because it's about America and how war is bad, which is of course a very powerful message that younger people might not understand. It's a sad fact that Americans don't understand art anymore, and the popularity of this trash is proof.