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Saving Private Ryan [VHS]
by (Producer: Allison Lyon Segan) (Producer: Bonnie Curtis) (Producer: Gary Levinsohn) (Producer: Ian Bryce) (Producer: Kevin De La Noy) (Producer: Mark Gordon) (Writer: Robert Rodat)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Product Group: Video
Studio: Dreamworks Video
ISBN: B00000K3AM
EAN: 9780783238012
UPC: 667068499131
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 169 minutes
Original Release Date: 1998-07-24
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Release Date: 1999-11-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
SKU: 03018
Condition: New
Comments: Brand new in shrink wrap.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. With 1998 production standards, Spielberg has been able to create a stunning, unparalleled view of war as hell. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds. A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. It's a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War. Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes. If that is so, this movie gives stereotypes a good name: Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant, Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben, Barry Pepper as the religious sniper, Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew, Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo, Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic, and Jeremy Davies, who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance. The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, but it's more kinetic. Spielberg and his ace technicians (the film won five Oscars: editing (Michael Kahn), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), sound, sound effects, and directing) deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut. The violence is extreme but never gratuitous. The final battle, a dizzying display of gusto, empathy, and chaos, leads to a profound repose. Saving Private Ryan touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today. It's the film Spielberg was destined to make. --Doug Thomas
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Customer Reviews
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Saving private Ryan
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-07-27
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's a wonderful saphire series of the classic film with good actors, great story, great script, a film to be seen more than one time.
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A must see movie.
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-22
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A films vivid depiction of WAR & all the human elements involved therein, every American should see this movie, it should be part of school curriculum in my opinion. The horror of combat should aid to remind us of the futility of war and the fragility of the human body, the supreme sacrifice made by our forefathers and current men and women of the military. It is a brutal film that I shed a tear to every time I watch it, we can learn so much, especially about not repeating the same mistakes.
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Saving Private Ryan blu ray
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Purchased my blu ray copy of Saving Private Ryan from Amazon.com and as usual, it arrived super fast. Watching Saving Private Ryan was awesome. What more can I say???!!!
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Fantastic Movie, incredible sound! Issue on some scenes?
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-20
This is a must-buy for your blu-ray and home theatre systems, enough said. I have a question to anyone on here who may be able to answer. There are some scenes where the video doesn't look right.
1. The Omaha beach scene, when they capture the beach, the fires that are burning seem to stretch or glow beyond where they actually are.
2. Near the end when Upham finally captures those Germans and shoots the one they let go. That scene to where he is just standing there, there is this white haze that glows and streches all over.
Anyone know what these could be from? Is this how it supposed to be?
I'm using the PS3 for watching, every other part of the movie is flawless.
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War is Hell
Rating (5)
Date: 2010-07-19
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Omaha landing area scene shows what war is all about. It made a pro-lifer out of me.
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