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Saving Private Ryan
Directed by Steven Spielberg
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home. From TMDB
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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 war drama history film, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns.
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Saving Private Ryan received critical acclaim, and audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. Critics generally agreed that Saving Private Ryan presented the grim and brutal reality of the "Good War" in a way previously unseen on film. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan described the film as darker and more pessimistic than any of Spielberg's previous works, dispelling the mythos of WWII as staunchly good heroes fighting against evil forces, to depict the reality of combat where, "American soldiers mock virtue and shoot surrendering Germans, where decent and altruistic actions tend to be fatal, where death is random, stupid and…
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60 of 335 · most liked firstSaving Private Ryan was the film that got my grandfather to share his experience in WWII. It was the first time he talked about the war to anyone, and we were very close. To this day, that film takes me right back to his living room.
positive · AI labelView post →I respect Steven Spielberg for never explaining why Matt Damon turns into an old man at the end of Saving Private Ryan. An odd note of magical realism in an otherwise straightforward film!
neutral · AI labelView post →Re: Tom Stoppard - I know that most everyone feels that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was robbed of an Oscar by SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. You can think what you like; I’m not a fan of this debate in general, and I’m a Spielberg guy. But dismissing SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is wrong. It’s a great movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies in which many lives and/or great fortunes are risked/lost to BRING MATT DAMON HOME: • Saving Private Ryan (1998) • The Martian (2015) • The Odyssey (2006) Movie in which both lives and fortunes are (secretly) threatened *by* Matt Damon to bring Matt Damon home: • Interstellar (2014)
neutral · AI labelView post →At this point, I just skip to the end of most articles to get the name of the show, the place, the fuckin restaurant, since new model is to bury any usefulness in the last couple paragraphs. "tHis hiDden SaLAciIOUs MovIE nO oNe SaW iz StREaMiNg nOW"... and it's Saving Private Ryan or some such shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey everyone, This week’s ANTIFA movie night will start tomorrow at 8 pm. It’s a double feature: Saving Private Ryan & Inglorious Bastards. It’s at the Rotunda. See ya then!
neutral · AI labelView post →Shakespeare in Love is a considerably better film than Saving Private Ryan.
negative · AI labelView post →My hottest movie take remains that Shakespeare in Love is a much better film than Saving Private Ryan
negative · AI labelView post →1. Got anti-Elon stickers for my wife’s Model 3 2. Sparked conversation with MAGA hat guy at kid’s game by asking which side he rooted for in the movie “Saving Private Ryan.” 3. Ordered Canada shirts 4. Cheered Canada’s hockey team 4. Wiped my butt clean after every Elon I took all week 5. FDJT
neutral · AI labelView post →>start a whole franchise based on making a game out of Saving Private Ryan >the guy who made it wants to make a movie for that franchise >panic and give the rights to someone else someone help me, make it all make sense
neutral · AI labelView post →18yo: What's that film, the Private Life of Brian? Me: Life of Brian? 18yo: where he's running on the beach me: ...Saving Private Ryan?
neutral · AI labelView post →reading the François Truffaut quote about how there's no such thing as an anti-war movie, and this has led me back to a vague notion I now think I can stand behind: I don't think Saving Private Ryan is an intentionally fascist movie but it's absolutely a fascist movie nonetheless
negative · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan took home most of the accolades in 1998, but Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line is the superior film about war. Malick made a haunting meditation on humanity itself.
negative · AI labelView post →Very sorry to hear about Tom Stoppard. He was easily the most brilliant conservative artist alive yesterday; I can’t imagine his equal. He complicated my ideas about politics. Arcadia and Travesties are perfect and Shakespeare in Love is still a better movie than Saving Private Ryan.
negative · AI labelView post →“Plot armor” is one of the dumbest critical buzz phrases. “Why doesn’t the central character of the movie die 50% of the way into it? Plot armor!” It’s like asking why SAVING PRIVATE RYAN wasn’t about one of the guys killed on the beach. If they’re dead, there’s no story to follow
neutral · AI labelView post →in the gyllenhall/spader movie Secretary gyllenhall goes out for a date with the guy who played Upham in Saving Private Ryan at a combo italian restaurant and laundromat, which is such a bizarre detail that I assume it's a real place and I want to know more about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Saving Private Ryan" is my favorite World Excursion II movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Had to mention I was a film historian on Threads because a post went viral & dudes thought they were introducing me to an obscure film I'd never heard of called Saving Private Ryan. It's like saying High & Low is my favorite Kurosawa & then being told by 25 guys to watch Seven Samurai.
neutral · AI labelView post →The "Wicked" movie and "Saving Private Ryan" are basically the same exact movie
neutral · AI labelView post →*pinches bridge of nose* Just saw someone make the ‘lock Matt Damon in his house* joke with an AI montage of posters for Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, The Martian and The Odyssey. An AI montage Rather than movie posters THAT EXIST. AND ARE REAL.
neutral · AI labelView post →Most people believe the actors improvised the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan but movie buffs like me know that's not fully accurate. Yes, the dialogue was improvised (as it is in most films) but much of the action was likely pre-planned with some actors even being told beforehand what to do.
neutral · AI labelView post →I suspect theres a cultural milieu within DHS/CBP/ICE that’s informed by this movie the same way Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and Generation kill influenced my generation during the GWOT.
neutral · AI labelView post →In much the same way that the Riddler saying "What's up guys" in The Batman made the movie 20% better all by itself, the guy's wife answering his question about whether or not he's had a good life at the end of Saving Private Ryan makes the movie 20% worse.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Saving Private Ryan and as always struck by the thought that after Grandad George and fellow Royal Marines got back from Normandy he and his brothers made the papers for the reverse story told in the film: all five of them made it home alive from different Theatres of War. Inconceivable.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Brits saw “Saving Private Ryan” and said “we need a WW2 movie to show off our Guys.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Everybody talks about The Odyssey being another "bring Matt Damon home" movie in the tradition of Saving Private Ryan and The Martian. But they forget about when he was lost in China fighting aliens on the Great Wall.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan is a critically acclaimed award winning movie. Saving Ryan’s Privates…not so much.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Saving Private Ryan again tonight. After all these years, it's still the most realistic war movie ever made. The beach landing is unmatched. All CGI has done is made movies worse and unrealistic.
positive · AI labelView post →SAVING PRIVATE RYAN isn't a great film but the first half hour is the best war movie anyone will ever make. I saw it when it came out, I knew a lot about D-Day. I was almost physically sick.
neutral · AI labelView post →Speaking of movies… What’s the most hyped movie to you that everyone said was great but once you watched it was trash? For me: Titanic and Saving Private Ryan
negative · AI labelView post →I wouldn't count Casablanca or Bridge, tbh, both films set during war but not war films, if you get me? Off the top of my head, Come and See, Dunkirk, Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, Zulu. Maaaaybe Battle of Algiers (great film, not sure if it counts)
neutral · AI labelView post →The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you. …Saving Private Ryan. Sigh.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished watching Saving Private Ryan. Pretty good film imo. Only problem when tom hanks talks all i I could hear is woody.
positive · AI labelView post →My piece on the Ukrainian action movie Killhouse, described as Saving Private Ryan for the age of drones. It’s a wartime blockbuster featuring the latest in battlefield tech and with cameos from well-known figures such as Budanov, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Seven directors for the seven days of the week, American Edition. Name the film and director. Provide an image. Film: Saving Private Ryan Director: Steven Spielberg #SevenDirectorsChallenge #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge #ThursdaysAreForStevenSpielberg
neutral · AI labelView post →Abandoned beach shoes - Curracloe beach, Co.Wexford, Ireland 2023 … one of my favourite places and also the film location for the dramatic opening scenes of Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’ #documentaryphotography
neutral · AI labelView post →Genuine question: would American conservatives think the movie Saving Private Ryan is now woke propaganda
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know that any movie has gotten me to that point - thanks, repression! - but I cried at the end of Saving Private Ryan when the guy asks his wife if he's led a good life
positive · AI labelView post →If you want to hear French people cheer and clap during a film, go to a showing of "La Bataille de Gaulle" in Paris. To put it into US terms, it is basically a French "Saving Private Ryan": a rousing, patriotic WWII summer blockbuster (of dubious historical accuracy). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRf...
neutral · AI labelView post →reminds me that one day i've gotta mount my big defence of Saving Private Ryan, a widely misunderstood film about the inhumanity of violence
positive · AI labelView post →Fantastic film, starring literally EVERYBODY at the time (every dude, anyway). Makes for an excellent double feature with Saving Private Ryan, assuming you can handle the run times…
neutral · AI labelView post →Decided to watch Saving Private Ryan for the Nth time. I can be contrarian sometimes but there is nothing to be said about this movie. It is a story perfectly told in film.
positive · AI labelView post →In the film "Saving Private Ryan", around 1h30 of the film, the soldiers are in a field where we can see tansies, flowers which bloom around August, and also dry thistles, proof that we are end of August. However, the Normandy landings took place at the beginning of June. Credit to Louis Schmit
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s how the Rangers in the book described the people they were fighting. They called them “skinnies.” I don’t know if that was a stylistic choice. The movie and book weren’t a 1 to 1. It came right after “Saving Private Ryan,” so I feel like the director was trying to do that, but in a proto-GWOT
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten minutes of me kicking off about the deeply dubious morality in the movie Saving Private Ryan? A crack at explaining how the spite and resentment industry works? Let’s go
negative · AI labelView post →Let’s start a thread where you post a normal movie if it was a gay porn. Saving Private Ryan.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was young I thought the best WW2 movie was Saving Private Ryan. As I have aged I realized it was the The Thin Red Line all the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #296 "Saving Private Ryan" (Steven Spielberg/1998) Spielberg's incredible action/adventure war film. There's not much I can say about this amazing film, an awesome cast, incredible direction and a heartbreaking story.
positive · AI labelView post →I’d watch that movie It’s like if “Saving Private Ryan” was remade as a farce
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan was the first R-rated film that I ever saw in a theater. Its first 15 minutes are among the most intense moments in cinema history — loud, violent, chaotic. And I’ll never forget the person with a screaming baby who left midway through it all.
positive · AI labelView post →There have been other great movies about WW2, including since Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare in love was and remains the only truly great movie about Shakespeare and arguably Elizabethan England.
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like one of the appeals of Oppenheimer is it harks back to Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan etc. It's a Big Serious Movie full of Movie Stars and those have mostly stopped happening
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought about this around the time of Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line. The latter is the first “anti war” film where I didn’t get a visceral rush from the action scenes. They just made me sad.
positive · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan, a widely misunderstood film, deserved Best Picture over Shakespeare in Love, and maybe even The Thin Red Line
positive · AI labelView post →For “the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how 2026 will go,” Titanic might have been the highest grossing film of 1998 but it was released in 1997 so therefore it doesn’t count. The actual answer is- *checks IMDB* Saving Private Ryan. Ope. Welp. Fuck.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today Paul Thomas Chamberlin drops in to talk about both D-Day and the ways in which one film both reflected how the United States saw itself after the war and at the same time changed how war films are made and marketed. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN drops NOW on Reckoning with Jason Herbert
neutral · AI labelView post →Saving Private Ryan was released in theaters on this day 28 years ago. One of the best war movies ever made and the best movie of the year. Thank you for making this wonderful film, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg! #Filmsky #Moviesky #July
positive · AI labelView post →Is Hamburger Hill the Great War film we ever forgot? @waitmanwbeorn.com & John McManus jump in to talk about how this film walked so Saving Private Ryan could run, plus the history behind the battle for Hill 937. Reckoning with Jason Herbert drops right now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? The Longest Day & Saving Private Ryan The Normandy Invasion 36 years apart.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not only was Saving Private Ryan a better and more historically significant film, the main reason Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture was because Harvey Weinstein went on a behind-the-scenes awards campaign for the film. Yes. *That* Harvey Weinstein
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