It's a FILM...

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 1999)

It seems that those that are critical of SPR, they are all hypercritical for their own personal reasons. Let's back up and look at this movie as a film- because that's all that it is, a film. For those of you that see a representation of the Americans as the good ol' boys and the Germans as the bad guys, let's remember the scenes where the Germans were brutally shot at point blank range with their hands in the air to surrender. Anyone who misses the point that the Germans were just as human as the Americans were, misses the point all together as I see it.
I don't see where Spielberg makes them look any better or worse than we or any other soldier was in the war.
As far as steering from the truth, anyone that has followed ANY historical movie knows that there are certain artistic licenses taken to embellish the depiction. If historic films were depicted one hundred percent as they actually happened they would ALL fall under the documentary category. This is NOT a documentary and shouldn't be judged as such.
I purposely don't/haven't watched war films because I abhor violence and the use of violence as an ends to ANY means. However I saw this film because I had heard that it is one of the best representations of what happened on Omaha Beach and the tragedies of war. Never had I been so moved and truly felt how horrible it must have been to be there or in any war.
It is a film, and just that, a film. An interpretation by Spielberg of what happened. Be critical of what the film meant to you and how you feel, not of what was in the film.