One film that deserves to win over 10 Academy Awards

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 1999)

This film was released back in July and it's lost a lot of it's hype recently, but that dosen't mean it should be overlooked. Some of the comments are very pathetic given about this film, "horrible plot" makes no sense whatsoever since it was based on a true story, "relies on special effects" is total B.S. because what other way are you gonna make war more realistic, and the "bad acting" ones had to go. It may have been a little too long and some scenes may have made the movie much better if they were shortened (ie, church scene) but that doesn't stay away from the importance of the film.
The first 25 minutes of the film are going to remembered as probably the best war scene ever created. It was brutal, grotesque, disturbing, breathtaking, gruesome, horrifying, so many words can't describe the visuals you see during the D-Day experience Spielburg gives us. And if that didn't give you the anti-war feeling then the next 10 minutes to see the mother's reaction when she finds out 3 of her 4 boys died is sure to be enough. The first 1/3 of this film stab you with any type of emotion that can ever be put into a war film.
The next 45 minutes of the film have a few scenes that drag on to give strong characterization to understand the 8 men army out looking for Private Ryan. Some may feel bored during a few parts even though I found them necessiry. But during this 45 minutes of the film to see French people trying to live in their torn apart homes during the war and to see the hundreds of dog-tags the soldiers looked through are still dramatic. And when the medic dies toward the end of this section of the film is another scene capable of bringing tears to the eyes.
The last 1/3 of the movie never lets up. They soon find Private Ryan and when they decide to stay and help him and his platoon fight off the German forces leads to a dramatic climax which goes on just as long as the opening D-Day experiance. This scene has a much larger battlefield and the soldiers aren't running in to battle like the opening and are rather spread apart to let us know each characters reaction to the war they are fighting in. The conclusion is just almost as sad as the scenes during the opening and definitely get across the message that war is hell.
It has recently been announced that SPR will return to theaters shortly along with another WWII film The Thin Red Line. The Thin Red Line looks very promising to be another war film to receive amazing excellence but it is said that the two films differ drastically in just about every way. I imagine both films will do well at the Academy Awards but Saving Private Ryan definitely deserves over 10 Academy Awards and be another Titanic to go down in history.