Very good movie, I saw it last Friday. Certainly the best War movie I have ever seen. Possibly the best movie I have seen.

Gee, a big bad mean ol' German soldier cruely kills a Jewish soldier. Really original stuff. Why didn't Spielberg also show a big bad ol' Nazi stealing candy from a baby? Someday an American film will show German troops realistically instead of as cartoon figures. Other than showing limbs flying there was nothing realistic about this film in terms of how the war was fought. My dad (a vet of WWII France) said the comment "Long periods of sheer boredom punctuated by brief moments of sheer terror." summed up the experience best.

Well Some Guy, if you think you can do a better job of brining the "real thing" to the big screen, do it.

to be fair, someone would need to front him about a zillion point three dollars first. the movie looked good. and I liked seeing that jewish guy again; I was afraid "dazed and confused" would be the end of his film career.

If it's the actor I'm thinking of, I saw him on an episode of ABCs brilliant tv show "Cupid," before they foolishly cancelled it. I didn't think saving Private Ryan was that great. I thought it was good...uh...but filmically speaking, it was a damned good movie bracketed before and after by explanation, which I thought detracted.

"Cupid" was good and entertaining, but the cancellation that network executives will burn in hell for (and there's no doubt that they will) was that one about the ex-cop released from Hell to track down escapees, the name of which escapes me presently. I never watch teevee, but that one had me planning my schedule around it. Ah, "Brimstone", that was it.