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Shakespeare In Love vs. Saving Private Ryan
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Shakespeare In Love vs. Saving Private Ryan
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Saving Private Ryan was a good movie.Two largely overrated films. SPR has an incredibly opening 15 minutes. The rest of the movie was pretty meh. SiL was a novel concept with some decent performances but nothing really remarkable.
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SPR has an incredibly opening 15 minutes. The rest of the movie was pretty meh.
Shakespeare In Love vs. Saving Private Ryan
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Two largely overrated films. SPR has an incredibly opening 15 minutes. The rest of the movie was pretty meh. SiL was a novel concept with some decent performances but nothing really remarkable.
Even if it's only 15 minutes, those 15 minutes make it much better than SIL. That sequence is haunting.
BTW, the final battle defending the bridge is pretty good too. Nowhere near the Omaha beach sequence, but still pretty good. The bad part about SPR is that the story itself makes little sense and it drags for 1 hour after the opening sequence.
Honestly I only watched SiL once. It was a mostly harmless film that was sometimes charming and I like Gwen Paltrow as an actress, if not a person. SPR I have watched a few times but honestly SPR is way more in my personal wheel house. I watch lots of war movies over and over again. So while I prefer SPR that's more about personal preference than objective evaluation.
IMO, Spielberg used SPR to hone his war movie skill and enabled him to make maybe the best film ever made, Band of Brothers. Yes I know it is a mini series but it is still a film.