"Saving Private Ryan" won five Oscars, including best director for Steven Spielberg, but a military historian isn't impressed.From CNN:
(CNN) -- Some reviewers have called "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg's World War II film about D-Day and the search for a soldier, one of the greatest war movies.
Military historian Antony Beevor begs to differ.
Not only is it not the greatest war movie, it's not even the best cinematic depiction of D-Day, says Beevor, author of the newly published "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" (Viking).
He admires the famed Omaha Beach opening -- "Probably the most realistic battle sequence ever filmed," he said -- but described the rest of "Saving Private Ryan" as "ghastly."
"It's sort of a 'Dirty Dozen' cliche of the worst form," he said.
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My Comment: There are a number of Russian and European films that are "significantly" better than "Saving Private Ryan". "Come and See" is a Russian film that takes place in Nazi occupied Russia ..... there are parts of this film that easily surpasses the horror that the first 25 minutes of Private Ryan brought to the screen.
My personal favorite American series/movie is "Band of Brothers".
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Minor correction:
Come and See is set in Belarus.
Highly recommended, not for the faint of heart...
Thank you Rontal.to for the correction. It is set in Belarus.
I sometimes forget that Belarus is an independent country. I guess it is the Russian in me that thinks like that.
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