It always surprises me...

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2003)

How some people can be ignorant. I have no problem(Well, I admit I have some problem) with people who dislike great films because the films did nothing for them. I have an incredible lack of patience with people who dislike something and believe their lousy opinion actually means something. I love film. And I watch great films. And I have, at least, as much love for real movies as anyone here or anywhere else. And when I watch something that affects me like this, then it's a real movie. I saw this film twice in theaters and each time I missed the first 5-10 minutes. I missed the man in the beginning and I missed the beginning of the best war footage ever shot(By far. the scenes in Platoon and the helicopter scene in Apocalypse Now cannot even live up to this and those are among the greatest of all films). This film is an absolute Masterpiece. I rented the film when it came out and I've owned for a few years...Very few films have ever had the effect on me that this. It is one of the very best films ever made. It devastates me every time. And I have to say, I have an incredible incredible dislike for people who think they know about films. These arthouse freaks get to me(And I can be an arthouse guy, myself) when they not only dislike a film but when they TRY (But without knowing it fail) to take away from the meaning of the film for the people who were impacted by it. This isn't some dumb sell-out movie. This is not the Linkin Park of movies. Sorry to burst your bubbles wannabe film buffs, but Spielberg is, along with Scorsese, as good as it gets-BOTTOM LINE...If you don't feel the same way about his work, then I apologize because you are really missing out. Spielberg may be the most popular and most amount grossing (Interesting use of words) of all-time but he is a genius and the other geniuses(Scorsese, Kubrick, Coppola, Fellini, Leone, Eastwood, Stone, Lee, etc etc) feel the same way about him. So all you fools who not only dislike Steven's work, but label it as popular nonsense, go tell the directors you admire that one of their great heroes of the cinema is nothing but a joke. I always wonder how people will respond to that (Someone is gonna tell me they don't care what anyone else thinks, it's their opinion-Opinions are stupid).