The Good, The Sad, and the Gore

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 1998)

Saving Private Ryan was probably the most graphic War Epic I've seen. Speilburg's camera-work made you feel like you were actually in the battle, looking around at everything that's going on. When I walked into the theater, I remember my dad telling me "Remember, you don't have to look at the gore if you dont' want." But I sucked it up, I've lived through watching 5,000,000 blood shed hollywood epics, I can watch this i thought to myself, but in the first scene at D-day, I was basicly in tears, the thing that bothered me wasn't the blood, but it was how these men had to die, you see how they died, one man's stomach and intistine was all over and out of his stomach crying "MOM!!" I felt sorry for these people, in school when we talked about World War II, we thought of it as, "Ya, it was bad." But I think Private Ryan actually grips you, it even scares you. Tom Hanks gave a wonderful performence, I think Tom Hanks will get the Oscar, I also have strong feelings that it will get at least Director and Picture also. I think everyone should see the movie, so everyone knows that World War II wasn't something that was just there. I mean, my Grandfather fought in this war, he saw all this that was happening, your grandfathers faught, and your fathers, and brothers, etc., If you don't leave the theater with tears in your eyes, at least deep down in your heart, you can at least feel sad for these people who had to risk their lives to win the war.

My Rate- **** out of ****