Why? It's a great movie!

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2002)

My friends say so much bad things about this film: boring, lengthy, meaningless... After I've watched the film myself, I find myself too far away from them. The film is just incredibly great from the first minute to the last.
The film is so philosophical a piece of work that I dare say it is the most insightful movie that I have ever seen. Though having no protagonists, all 'main' characters are vividly delineated however short the time they were on the screen:
Private Witt went AWOL and discovered an unpolluted world with people living peacefully together. After months of war, he returned to the village only to find himself totally foreign to that place, and eventually discover the dark side of his 'Utopia'. Captain Staros had a volition of protecting his men and refused to push them on to battlefields for certain death. Colonel Tall cared nothing about his men, and simply used them as a tool for his success so that he could forget all about his loss of his family. Private Bell had his wife as his only aim of his life; he wanted to stay changeless so that he could go back to his wife 'as the man he was before'...

The film is so brightly illuminated by these stories, and just leaves you sobbing when the end titles roll. In fact, the film is not just about entertainment but it actually means something; it gives you philosophical simulation that you cannot just get from any films.
So watch the film yourself, pals. Don't see Saving Private Ryan as everything. After all, the Oscar nominations it receives DO mean something.