The best snub film that isn't a snub film.

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2017)

It is hard to show the past especially if someone wasn't there to see it. No matter how many books are made and stories are told you will never get the accurate story. Now a days kids will go to see their Grandpa who has stories to tell them about World War 2. These stories are properly exaggerated and never tell the true story. Saving Private Ryan accomplishes in 30 minutes what Grandpa couldn't tell in his entire life. It is a film that shows what the war was actually like and shows film viewers the true D-Day. That's not the only thing good about the film it manages to keep its plot as interesting as anything else I watch and with its extremely well developed characters make this one of the best films I have ever seen.
Saving Private takes place during World War 2 around the D-Day invasion (obviously). We start off meeting Captain Miller as he commands his squad as they are about the storm the front lines during the D-Day invasion in the most realistic depiction of this event ever to be written or filmed. The first 30 minutes is pretty much exactly what happened during the invasion and is the best part about the film. As you could see the film is called "Saving Private Ryan" so you are wondering who is Private Ryan. After the invasion Captain Miller and his squad are ordered to go off and find a Private Ryan and bring him home. After that the squad is left to each other. Each actor flushes out their character to the point that you can understand everything they are feeling. Although the film is lead by the big names like Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Tom Sizemore less known actors like Adam Goldberg and Barry Pepper find their moments in a film full of greats. The dialogue is also a huge part of the really helps with flushing out all of the characters emotions. I was afraid that the dialogue would just be cheesy and have stuff like people just screaming "Grenade" and "Get down" but there is so much more that makes everyone in the squad feels like a family. Matt Damon who plays Private Ryan is not in the film for that long, but is so well developed especially in his conversations with Tom Hanks that I thought he was in the film for the whole time. The score by the way is as Superb as I thought it would be. It really drives home how depressing everything was.
Although the dialogue, acting, plot and score are all very well suited for a World War 2 film, the sound and editing are different beasts entirely. Every time there is a gunshot or a tank fire off you feel it like you were standing next to it during the time that it happened. I have never heard a more realistic War World 2 film ever. The sound is a huge part of this film and does a lot to make this movie feel like a World War 2 movie.
Another thing that Saving Private Ryan succeeded in was cinematography. If there was a movie that I would think was the blueprint of great cinematography, this is it. It has everything that makes a movie great, amazing shots, great editing and fantastic screenplay. I could talk more about the film, but the 11 Oscar nominations including for Set decoration and makeup make this film what some call, a masterpiece.
All in all Saving Private Ryan is the type of film that inspires young filmmakers like me to dream big and believe that anything possible. I have never been so driven to make and study films and although it seems like I am just praising an overrated World War 2 movie, I am actually praising one of the great masterpieces of film and giving it justice since it didn't win best motion picture (Fuck Shakespeare in Love). Overall if want to witness master cinematography, direction, acting, editing and especially sound, then this should be the first movie you watch.