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Posted: 5/7/2018 2:07:45 PM EDT
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Campy? Only the pillow fights seemed campy to me. The rest was filled with over the top cliches. That tends to be a problem Spielberg has. The acting was generally average to awful. The movie doesn't hold up over time, for me. 
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Posted: 5/7/2018 2:15:37 PM EDT
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I like the way the sniper scoped changed from a Lyman M81 to a Unertl.  
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Posted: 5/7/2018 2:20:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How the hell have you gone 20 years without watching Saving Private Ryan? |
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Posted: 5/7/2018 2:27:31 PM EDT
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Fuck corporal Upham.. Fuck his character, Fuck the person who played him.. Now I’m pissed off.. every time I hear of this movie I watch that scene in my head and get totally pissed off. Thank you OP for pissing me off.  NIAGRA FALLS.... |
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Posted: 5/7/2018 3:05:50 PM EDT
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The WWII veteran relative I related stories from said the beach scene in SPR was the closest to getting it right out of any movie. My dad and I got to the movie later than intended and we had to sit in the front row. When the shooting started I almost hit the floor. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That movie made me say "holy fuck" more times than any previous war movie. His only critique was: "The wounds were too clean, but the rest looked real. Especially that part where he zoned out and could not hear." Got dust in my eyes after he said that. It's the first movie I can recall, depicting the effects of shock like that. Going from the extremelybnb loud, constant barrage of sound, screams, and explosions, to that muffled "Eeeee", underwater muffled sound... Wow... I've watched SPR at friends' houses, vs watching it in my HT with a THX Reference calibrated sound system. I just don't get the same impact, without the difference from 90-100+db, to the suddenly quiet muffled droning. My dad and I got to the movie later than intended and we had to sit in the front row. When the shooting started I almost hit the floor. The sound effects guys for the movie used real guns to shoot real things and used the sounds in the movie. I can't remember if they shot pig carcasses or sides of beef for the people getting shot. On the OPs topic, as has already been stated, most of the "campy" scenes are recounted in the various WW2 books I've read over the years. There are many more that they didn't include. Like: - The guy requesting his arm be found so he can get his watch back. - The guy fighting up the beach, getting to the top of the hill, and then stopping to dig a hole and take a crap. (Ambrose's D-Day (?)) - The guy getting to the seawall and then field stripping and cleaning his rifle. (Ambrose's D-Day (?)) |
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Posted: 5/7/2018 3:11:32 PM EDT
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The whole “Earn this” thing ruined it for me. It instantly turned a great movie into a Hollywood cheeseball. |
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Posted: 5/7/2018 3:38:07 PM EDT
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You want campy? How about "The Big Red One" where a German battalion all lied down and pretended to be dead so they could...what, stage an ambush? If an armored column showed up were they all supposed to suddenly jump up and yell "Booga Booga!"?
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Posted: 5/7/2018 3:59:06 PM EDT
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About the only thing that bugged me about SPR was the guys constantly charging their weapons over and over, as if using the sound/motion as a punctuation mark. Most of the time they kick a cartridge out too... |
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