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Post by JangoB on May 24, 2024 23:19:04 GMT
Sam Mendes finishes with a mid score of 62. And now for 1998's winner, Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
How would you rate this achievement from 0 to 10?
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Post by finniussnrub on May 24, 2024 23:24:41 GMT
9 - Some of his very best, but also MAN can he lay it on thick like in this scene:
I mean both the way every soldier has such a over the top sad look, but also how many looks he decides to show.
Still when he's on point here, which is the majority, it is greatness.
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Post by Archie on May 24, 2024 23:25:17 GMT
6/10. Unforgettable moments, but honestly some of the Spielbergisms in the second half make me want to rip my hair out.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 24, 2024 23:30:38 GMT
6.5 - the Omaha landing is some of Spielberg's best work but the rest of the movie is buried under so many layers of schmaltz that it's hard to get invested, especially because it's a fictional story. Everything in the second half especially feels artificial and emotionally choreographed.
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2024 23:32:22 GMT
8. The virtuoso Omaha Beach sequence is as good as filmmaking gets, and it really does a lot of the heavy lifting for the rest of the movie up till Ramelle's battle scene. Spielberg makes a few small directorial choices I really don't agree with that I think do hurt the movie overall, but I will give it its flowers for what it does very well.
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Post by stephen on May 24, 2024 23:32:59 GMT
9 - Some of his very best, but also MAN can he lay it on thick like in this scene: I mean both the way every soldier has such a over the top sad look, but also how many looks he decides to show. Still when he's on point here, which is the majority, it is greatness. Especially when we see the same sad-eyed extra passing the group four different times.
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Post by JangoB on May 24, 2024 23:36:29 GMT
Me this whole round: ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZzVwengyNHdvc3VuOHFqdDB6YXZtZWdueTUwbGxkMDQwYm9lbWNudCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/PhnTIn49rhbeEm3yYE/giphy.gif)
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on May 24, 2024 23:40:19 GMT
9.
Omaha beach sequence is some unbelievably great, all-time level filmmaking. The rest is still strong (pretty much impossible for Spielberg to do a bad job directorially) if not quite as much and I think the culmination of the framing device doesn't stick the landing, but the cast is aces, the visual language is top notch, and it always plays better than I remember it.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on May 25, 2024 0:31:38 GMT
8.5
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Post by paulgallo on May 25, 2024 1:24:08 GMT
Three for the Omaha Beach sequence and zero for the rest makes 3/10
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Post by countjohn on May 25, 2024 2:25:12 GMT
10/10. Certainly have my issues with the movie but it's not the direction which is beyond reproach.
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Post by tylosaur on May 25, 2024 3:16:38 GMT
10
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Post by mhynson27 on May 25, 2024 5:45:34 GMT
9
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on May 25, 2024 5:55:50 GMT
8
I rate the film a bit lower than an 8 overall, but that’s mostly due to the screenplay, especially in the final act. On a directorial level, a lot of it is great, but unfortunately I think Spielberg succumbs to the screenplay’s obviousness by the end.
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Post by Pavan on May 25, 2024 6:21:44 GMT
9
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Post by ibbi on May 25, 2024 9:08:55 GMT
8
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Post by DanQuixote on May 25, 2024 9:31:26 GMT
8.5
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on May 25, 2024 14:07:21 GMT
8.5
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Post by JangoB on May 25, 2024 18:19:23 GMT
10/10
One of the GOAT achievements for me.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 25, 2024 22:17:28 GMT
10 / 10
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