I'm still weepy like a lunatic because it didn't win best picture

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2007)

Just leave it up to the genius of a master like Steven Spielberg to depict WW II in all it's gruesomeness, chaos and inhumanity. This is about the only war-movie that I have ever seen where you just simply become stunned, overwhelmed and shocked by a pandemonium of apocalyptic pictures, sounds and dialogs who ring nothing but true. This film doesn't shy away from stating a simple message, the message that war dehumanizes the human mind and bares open a bestiality that ponders on the verge of uneducated seaweed in terms of emotions. I congratulate you, Steven Spielberg, for being brave and courageous in your way of showing us that war is hell, that it is tedious, brutal, sometimes even boring but most important of all: definitely no laughing matter. This honest and depressing examination of the human condition should definitely have won the Best-Picture-Oscar in 1980. Oh wait, I just realized that this isn't the comment-board for "1941"... sorry, my mistake!