I am astounded by the American bashing from some of you...

Rating: Null/10 (18 February 1999)

The movie as a whole, was excellent. It deserves several academy awards - best picture and best director should be 2 of them. I'm sure if you looked hard enough though, you can find something wrong with just about anything.
I believe it's good to hear all perspectives, positivie and negative. Whatever your position is, there are some undeniable facts; (1) America was the biggest difference in WW2, (2) America is the only true super-power left, (3) Hollywood is in CA, which is a state in the U.S.A. I only bring this up because I think it is the underlying source of a lot of resentment people feel about the display of American patriotism in the film.
Whatever your feelings are about the movie, you know that most of Europe would be a part of Germany by now, if it weren't for so many U.S. soldiers fighting and dying for your freedom.
Respect the fact that this was a brilliant story told of the horrors of a war and the ultimate sacrifices ordinary people had to make, many of them Americans, in a land from home.
Sure there were some gratuitous patriotic moments, nit-pick at them if you must. But don't you think the young American soldiers, some of them literly still kids, dying in defense of your freedom, paid for it?
PS - I believe the U.S provided billions of dollars in aid for post-war economic and social reconstruction, to the countries that needed it. I don't think these were ever paid back.