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Comments on the film "Saving Private Ryan:" The video shows an unfolding picture of fear, faith, bravery, death and carnage. You see men kissing their rosaries and crosses as the landing craft approaches the beach--you see guys shot to pieces, limbs being torn asunder, a man with entrails hanging out shouting "Mamaaaaa."
This set of scenes is a realistic fiction involving the use of contemporary film pyrotechnics to capture the horrors of war. Those young bucks who head for war zones--and chauvinists and patriots who push for insurgency--do need to absorb the horror conveyed by these links. But, a WARNING...the film's realism is horrible.
David Hart, an authority on war movies: "For many viewers, it is the first time that the nature of amphibious assault under fire by modern weapons has been depicted in such detail on the screen."
D-Day veterans say the opening scenes depicting the landing are realistic, in terms of what it felt like to be a soldier on the beach during the invasion. It's basically “100% accurate,” says Dominic Geraci, who was a 20-year-old Army medic tending to the wounded on June 7.
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