A must click for the backroom

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest war films ever? Since when?

Since it came out pretty much.

I've always considered "We Were Soldiers" to be a better movie.

Good though like most of Gibsons movies in that genre. But not better than Saving Private Ryan.

[Csargo]

Looks like it will be pretty good

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What about Gallipoli? Or the Thin Red Line? Or Glory?

I don't know, Saving private ryan just seemed like a shoot em up to me.

Good morning vietnam, mash, the great escape, the bridge over the river kwai, the longest day, the african queen, lawrence of arabia...

[Lemur]

Don't forget Breaker Morant and Laurence of Arabia.

[Ice]

That looks pretty impressive. I will see it one way or the other.

[Prince of the Poodles]

SPR was a cultural phenomenon. It led to a huge surge in interest in WW2 that spawned crap like Thin Red Line.

[ajaxfetish]

I'll second Sasaki's vote for The Thin Red Line. Never seen a war film that made me feel more like I was there, or gave me more sympathy for the fear and horror the soldiers experience in the line of duty.

Ajax

edit: The action in Saving Private Ryan was very nice, especially the opening scene, but I felt the movie superimposed some modern ideas about the reasons for fighting over the story, the anachronism triggering my context pet peeve that survives so few history flicks intact.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Or the Thin Red Line

Pfft, whatever. No where near SPR.

OT, this looks interesting.

CR

[InsaneApache]

For your information 'A Bridge too Far' is the best war movie of all time. After all it's got Hannibal Lectur in it as well.

Ohh and it's got my best mates brother in it as he was in 2 Para at the time. (They used the Parachute Regiment as extras)

[Major Robert Dump]

SPR was a cultural phenomenon. It led to a huge surge in interest in WW2 that spawned crap like Thin Red Line.

Thin Red Line was in production before SPR.