[Yorlik803]

The More I watched Saving Private Ryan, the more it sucks. The first part was awesome....the rest of the movie is awful.

[Slump Tester]

It was great up until they let the nazi go instead of wasting him.

[knarf]

SPR had one bit in one scene so unbelievably awesome ... and believable ...

Opening scene on the beach and a guy in silhouette returns to pick up his arm, turn around and continue towards the fight.

THAT bit has more humanity in it than I can explain.

[skeeter]

It lost me when I saw Ted Danson the paratrooper.

[Kartographer]

When I first saw 'Saving Private Ryan' there was a large group of maybe twenty WW II Vets sitting in an area reserve for then.

I will always remeber the silence when the movie was over the Theather and people started leaving.

I had planned to stop and shake hands with some of the vets on my way out, but when I got to them many had tears running down their faces. Sudenly I had the feeling that to do so would be like barging in on a family's private grief so I didn't.

That was one of a handful of days that I felt the sting of Shakepeare's words:

And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.