What did you think of saving private ryan overall? ?

Question

as a directors point of view what did you think of saving private ryan overall?

Answer 1

I'm not a director but I thought the whole film was absolutely excellent. From a viewers point, it gave me a huge insight to the absolute tradgedy of war. Some people that I know who have seen it, thought it was too long. I was stuck to the screen from the first minute, to the last..I almost felt that I was, in some way, connected to the characters in the film, brilliant directing....

Answer 2

The movie, in my opinion, shows the brutality of war and the camaraderie of soldiers in the most dangerous positions they were ever likely to find themselves in.  The link below expresses the movie far more eloquently than I ever could.

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…The plot was inspired in part by the true story of Fritz Niland, one of four brothers from New York state who saw action during the war.  Two Niland brothers were killed on D-Day, while another was missing in action in Burma and was presumed dead, although he actually survived.  Fritz was located in Normandy by an Army chaplain, Reverend Francis Sampson, and taken out of the combat zone. More…

http://www.historyinfilm.com/ryan/index....

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Answer 3

I never saw it.

But I bet it was pretty darn good.

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Answer 4

I enjoyed the film. whether or not something like that would actually happen I do not know. It was a romantic notion I think.