Better than Apocalypse Now? Yep.

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2007)

Yes, this may sound like blasphemy, but yes, Saving Private Ryan (SPR) is better than Apocalypse Now. How exactly? Well, for one thing, while sharing some themes, SPR is just so much more moving than Apocalypse Now. and, at least SPR doesn't go on, and on, and on, and on. Don't get me wrong, I liked Apocalypse Now, but SPR just didn't leave you with the feeling that there's no hope for the world, it left you with the feeling that there's hope for the world, that there's hope for humanity. And that it may be easy to descend into the heart of darkness, it's just as easy to ascend into the heart of light.
And as I was saying from the beginning, about how SPR is more moving than AN, in the first 24 minutes I felt like crying. Watching all those people dying, imploding, exploding, being amputated, and etc. I realized, that had I been 18 in 1945, I could have been one of those people. And I further realized, that one person in that film represented 10 others, and that was just a softened version of the great D-Day Invasion.
Saving Private Ryan also brilliantly showed how the suits in Washington thought of their soldiers. As Risk (copyright by Parker Brothers and Hasbro Co.) pieces. preferring to send 19 or so soldiers to their death to satisfy an unhappy mother, than send them home.
Saving Private Ryan is by far my most favorite war movie. (1. Saving Private Ryan. 2. Glory. 3. Apocalypse Now.) It has won 5 Oscars, deserved every single one, and more, and is one of the best movies out there.