people that like this film must not be too discerning !!!!

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2002)

After Saving Private Ryan didn't win for best picture, I couldn't bring myself to even watch this movie until a couple of days ago. Giving it the benefit of the doubt, I could't understand why such a fuss was made over this movie. The characters weren't well drawn, convincing, and they had a poorly written script. This wasn't satire or funny, or moving or much of anything else I would care to mention. Saving Private Ryan on the other hand was film makiing of the highest order, telling a tale that was moving and caused most of the people who watched it to shed a tear at the end. There were numerous firsts for cinemetography, the grainy techniques used in the battle scenes with the herky, jerky movement of the battle scenes, the sound track was tremendous and I am now convinced that Steven Speilberg is the greatest story teller of them all and the fact that he didn't win for best picture in 1999 was because of sheer jealousy on the part of the memebers of the academy. This may obviously be my first review but it was not meant to be a review as such but a comparison between these two disimilar films.