what else is new about war?

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 1998)

Yes, I am a veteran also, of a less glorifies war. I also found Saving Private Ryan not very interesting. The movie moved at Wagnerian pace. Many times I thought of walking out, mostly out of sheer boredom. I kept dreaming of scissors! Oh! how I wished they cut the balcony scene between the French parents-girl-and soldiers; it wasn't even in good taste. ("Let's walk out now!" I told my family---"but wait you'll be dragging a loss of nearly $20.00, let's stay, we'll cut it to pieces during supper!") And the dialogue: how many war movies did they cut-and-paste to come up with such witticisms as "I don;t give a blankety blank about this blankety war...I want to go . home..."And my most favorite quotation: " all these men dead for one man!" In summary I've seen dozens of more interesting and truly more representative war movies.
My summary of the movie, is "what else is new.!" You don't have to go digging into the annals of history for carnage. Reserve your seat at your local hospital emergency room on any Saturday night!
I didn't learn much from this movie, perhaps nothing at all. And goodness, how long it was!