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Saving Private Ryan [DVD] [1998]
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Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 5014437804037
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishSubtitles For The Hearing ImpairedDolby Digital 5.1EnglishUnknownDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
MPN: 5014437804037
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: November 06, 2000
Running Time: 169 minutes
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers, has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire.
After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the Tom Hanks-led platoon consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty Sergeant; the thick-necked Private; the Southern man religious sniper; the cowardly Corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean-cut as the titular Private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures.
On the DVD: Saving Private Ryan on disc comes in a good-quality anamorphic 1.85:1 transfer with a suitably dynamic Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix in which bullets fly all around your living room. Extra features are pretty minimal, with a standard 30-minute "making of" piece called "Into the Breach" and two trailers. There are text notes on the cast and crew as well as the production, and a brief message from Mr Spielberg himself about why he decided to make the movie. --Mark Walker
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