Where did they get this script?

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2005)

If you have read any of my posts then you might have detected a slight pro-military bent. Then you probably think that I liked "Saving Private Ryan". Think again! It stank. I muted the first 20 minutes of the movie where they depict with gruesome relish the effects of concentrated machine gun fire and artillery explosions on the human body. I preferred spending my time reading a book to watching that. Once that carnage was over I was treated to typical foul language, but nothing I haven't heard in my tour of duty. That I could have forgiven. But what they did with the story-line was absolutely dreadful.
Clearly the people who wrote this script have no sense when it comes to military behavior or military tactics. For instance, the troops were going to mutiny to the command decision by their captain to attack a machine gun nest. Well I would too with an IDI*T like Tom Hanks' character leading a charge in broad daylight directly into the line of fire of said machine gun. Even an English teacher turned captain would have more sense than that. Then they captured a German soldier. So what do they do with him? They blindfold him and tell him to walk 1000 paces before taking off the blindfold... Well what a surprise when he turns up later to fight against this squad and tortuously slowly impale one of squad soldiers with a bayonet. All while one of the squad cowers in fear while his fellow soldiers are getting massacred around him. What a nice way to depict the soldiers. Oh and then the same cowardly soldier somehow finds his courage in time to capture some German soldiers (including the previous released prisoner) This time however he "cold-bloodedly" shoots him (revenge?)... I won't even bore you with the stupid decision for a light infantry squad to hold a bridge (instead of blowing it) against several tanks & armor with infantry support. It was a stupid movie and I am only feeling better now that I am able to give vent to my frustration at having watched it. I'm only glad that I didn't pay any money to watch this crud. I hate movies that blank me off when I watch them. THERE! 3 out of 10