This should not win the Oscars.

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 1998)

This film should not sweep the Oscars, even though it will. The only awards this movie should get are best sound, best sound efects editing, and best make-up. People are so crazy about how this film is a groundbreaking achivemnet for humankind. This film does not have a new message. It's message is, basically : War is not good. Gee, really...You think? Lots have people have done war movies, and a large amount of them were better than Spielberg's. And people are saying that Saving Private Ryan is the most gritty and scary war films ever made. It is not even close to attaining that title (Das Boot is my choice) The Truman Show is the film that should win them all. It had original ideas and it dealt with them in an original way. It had a message that nobody had fully confronted yet. Saving Private Ryan is only my second favorite film of the year, and is not even close to being as good as The Truman Show.