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I do Three bullets.
I prefer The Kings Speech to Saving Private Ryan. I actually liked Shakespeare in Love better than Saving Private Ryan as well though.
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I prefer The Kings Speech to Saving Private Ryan. I actually liked Shakespeare in Love better than Saving Private Ryan as well though.
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Saving Private Ryan has a spectacular opening when they storm the beach. The rest of the film is pretty cliched and color by numbers World War II melodrama.
I don't see what's so outrageous about preferring other films, but to each their own.
Because I'm right and you're wrong.
It's not really a melodrama though.
We can certainly agree to disagree, but I find the notion of the brothers dying and the mission being to go find this guy so the mother doesn't get another notice of the death of one of her sons a very melodramatic set up and the whole thing gets cranked up to ten on the melodrama metre when Ryan says he won't go and to tell his mother he is going to "stay and fight with the brothers I have left."
I found it very melodramatic and it cheapened things for me.
I love Spielberg, and I think he's an exceptionally talented filmmaker, as the opening of this film surely illustrates, but his weakness as a story teller is a tendency to be sappy and overly sentimental and, frankly, melodramatic.