Re: saving private ryan is toooooooo violent, why should this be at the top of the oscar list

Posted by Tony from 24.64.3.195 on January 16, 1999 at 21:17:22:

In Reply to: Re: saving private ryan is toooooooo violent, why should this be at the top of the oscar list posted by Mark on July 27, 1998 at 10:34:29:

: : I AM NOT GOING TO SEE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN BECAUSE IT IS TOOOOOOOO VIOLENT AND I THINK THAT MATT DAMON AND HIS FRIEND BEN AFFLECK ARE TRYING TO GET ALL THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM LEONARDO DICAPRIO. BILLIONS OF GIRLS LOVE LEO. HE STOLE MILLIONS OF FANS HEARTS AWAY FROM HIS INCREDIBLE PERFOMANCE IN TITANIC (THE #1 MOVIE IN THIS PLANET) SAVING PRIVATE RYAN SUCKS AND MY GRANDPA WAS IN WWII AND I BELIEVE WHAT MY MOM SAYS. HE WAS PROTECTING HIS COUNTRY. BUT THE MOVIE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAL THING! I DONT THINK IT SHOULD GET AND NOMINATIONS FOR ANY KIND OF AWARD. THE MOVIE TITANIC CAPTURED PEOPLES HEARTS. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN IS GOING TO CAPTURE NIGHTMARES. DONT SEE IT IF YOU DONT WANT TO WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. FOR ONE THING MY ENTIRE FAMILY FROM DIFFERENT STATES AGREED NOT TO SEE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!!

It is difficult to accept an opinion from one who has not seen the film. I too thought that James Cameron's film "Titanic" was overly-dependent upon special effects and lacking in character development. Not a happy film experience for me. "Saving Private Ryan" is the third venture out for Spielberg-as-America's-social-conscience-guy. That isn't necessarily important or bad, I think artists have a responsibility to monitor the forces in a culture, and in this case forces which run a blade through a generation's most noble sacrifice. But my two problems with this film is that it has taken on a life beyond being a just a "film", and is now regarded or at least promoted by the media as being a "holy tract", that the media has made Spielberg a saint for stating something obvious and decent, and isn't it a sad day when acts of decency are not commonplace in the culture as they once were, but exceptional and rare. Not to begrudge him a buck, but isn't it interesting that the environment now is such that a person can make a fortune by capitalizing on values that have become so rare. Spielberg is Norman Rockwell whenever he takes up the challenge of presenting us his "true" accounts of history. Films like Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, and Schindler's List, are simply a movies stating the same theme, moral equation which has become Spielberg's success formula. I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan because, despite my cynicism, Spielberg may change a few destructive points of view - certainly he did so with Schindler's List. I just wish the component of megawealth was absent from these ventures. James Cameron, the self-proclaimed "King of the World" has yet to make a film I can take seriously.

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: : : I AM NOT GOING TO SEE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN BECAUSE IT IS TOOOOOOOO VIOLENT AND I THINK THAT MATT DAMON AND HIS FRIEND BEN AFFLECK ARE TRYING TO GET ALL THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM LEONARDO DICAPRIO.  BILLIONS OF GIRLS LOVE LEO.  HE STOLE MILLIONS OF FANS HEARTS AWAY FROM HIS INCREDIBLE PERFOMANCE IN TITANIC (THE #1 MOVIE IN THIS PLANET)  SAVING PRIVATE RYAN SUCKS AND MY GRANDPA WAS IN WWII AND I BELIEVE WHAT MY MOM SAYS.  HE WAS PROTECTING HIS COUNTRY.  BUT THE MOVIE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REAL THING!  I DONT THINK IT SHOULD GET AND NOMINATIONS FOR ANY KIND OF AWARD.  THE MOVIE TITANIC CAPTURED PEOPLES HEARTS.  SAVING PRIVATE RYAN IS GOING TO CAPTURE NIGHTMARES.  DONT SEE IT IF YOU DONT WANT TO WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.  FOR ONE THING MY ENTIRE FAMILY FROM DIFFERENT STATES AGREED NOT TO SEE SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!!

: It is difficult to accept an opinion from one who has not seen the film.  I too thought that James Cameron's film "Titanic" was overly-dependent upon special effects and lacking in character development.  Not a happy film experience for me.  "Saving Private Ryan" is the third venture out for Spielberg-as-America's-social-conscience-guy.  That isn't necessarily important or bad, I think artists have a responsibility to monitor the forces in a culture, and in this case forces which run a blade through a generation's most noble sacrifice.  But my two problems with this film is that it has taken on a life beyond being a just a "film", and is now regarded or at least promoted by the media as being a "holy tract", that the media has made Spielberg a saint for stating something obvious and decent, and isn't it a sad day when acts of decency are not commonplace in the culture as they once were, but exceptional and rare. Not to begrudge him a buck, but isn't it interesting that the environment now is such that a person can make a fortune by capitalizing on values that have become so rare.  Spielberg is Norman Rockwell whenever he takes up the challenge of presenting us his "true" accounts of history. Films like Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, and Schindler's List, are simply a movies stating the same theme, moral equation which has become Spielberg's success formula.  I enjoyed Saving Private Ryan because, despite my cynicism, Spielberg may change a few destructive points of view - certainly he did so with Schindler's List.  I just wish the component of megawealth was absent from these ventures.  James Cameron, the self-proclaimed "King of the World" has yet to make a film I can take seriously.

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