I saw this letter coming. For those of you who weren't drawn in yet to see the pairing of Hanks and Spielberg (the film equivalent of God and Jesus saying "Hey, let's start a religion!"), you MUST SEE:
SAVING Private Ryan
This movie is bigger than all of us. I'll will not give anything away. This movie has images that will haunt me forever involving stabbings, bombs and general carnage. This, without question, is the most "YOU ARE THERE" movie I've ever seen (surpassing Full Metal Jacket). I really thought I was shot 5 or 6 times.
Know this:
-I will not fight in a war.
-All veterans have my utmost respect.
-I didn't finish my popcorn (rare, but it was tough to eat and gape at the most masterful technical handiwork in a film since Schindler's List and Goodfellas)
Prepare yourself, this is the most BRUTAL film I've ever seen. Far more shocking in it's violence and RELENTLESSNESS than anything else. Yet, as Rivera (of MRivera263 fame in the above addresses) said, "Spielberg is amazing in his ability to evoke the kind of emotions that you don't get in the majority of the films that make it to the screen today". And he does it in the context of the most scattershot, hellfire, death-infested land there ever was.
The ending of the film is sheer brilliance and says more than a trillion English Patients.
You must go.
I'm not kidding around here.
It's completely unwatchable in it's graphic detail, yet totally mesmerizing and you CAN'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF IT!
Stop reading this and go buy a ticket, dam ya!