An Outrage

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 1999)

Some of you people should be ashamed of yourselves. How dare you take a film that is so much based on true events like "Saving Private Ryan" and dismiss it like it is just another "cinematic experience?!?"
Some of you seemed disappointed about the amount of gore portrayed in this film, saying that it was nothing more than a bunch of arms and legs getting blown off. Have people REALLY gotten this narrow-minded? Are your convictions with Steven Spielberg so fierce that you have to ignore the fact that ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU ARE SEEING IN THE DOOMSDAY SCENE IS BASED ON FACTUAL ACCOUNTS?!? Were you the same people who said "Schindler's List" should not have been made by Spielberg simply because he was not a Holocaust survivor?!? Well, grow up!
You don't have to call "Saving Private Ryan" the best film ever made. You don't even have to LIKE it. But at the very least you should take a mature action and RESPECT it. This is not a game, people. It has to do with your very right to walk free today, over fifty years after so many thousands of people sacrificed their lives so that we may live free. This is NOT "Indiana Jones and World War II," so stop pretending like it is.
My grandfather fought in WW II and he would be to say the least, insulted by some of the harsh comments mentioned here. For the many thousands of veterans and Americans like him, keep your wasteful opinions to yourself.