For all that didn't get it

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 1998)

After I posted my message I suddenly became a victim of Mallick-fanatics and others that didn't quite get my message.
I never said that we don't need war-films in the future. What I think is that TRL should be made a year before or a year after SPR. That way it would get the admiration and the attention it deserves.
SPR was made by a modern filmmaker, and shows all aspects of war just exacly right. Even the veterans themselves say that it is the greatest war-film ever made. The new growing generation will know what war is like.
What I am trying to say is that we won't be shocked anymore by war-films, like we were shocked seeing SPR for the first time. And therefore TRL will not serve it's original porpouse - showing us that war is hell.
It's great that TRL is made, and the film itself is very good. It has some flawes, but it's one of the best war-films I've seen.
Another war-film that made an enormous impression on me was Andrej Tarkovskij's "Ivan's childhood" - genious film, made by a genious filmmaker.
But still I must say that I've never seen a better war-movie that "Saving Private Ryan"