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Beautiful Tribute to WWII Heroes...Nice VHS Package
This review refers to the Widescreen - Special Limited Edition -VHS(Double Videocassette) of "Saving Private Ryan"
The year 1998 was a great year for films. We saw Some wonderful English period pieces, including Academy Award Winner "Shakespeare in Love", deep and though provoking films like the moving "Affliction", and two WWII films, although very different, both beautiful examples of fine filmmaking honoring the heroes of WWII. "The Thin Red Line" was one of those beautiful pieces of filmmaking, the other "Saving Private Ryan".Both recieved several nods from "Oscar" with SPR garnering 5 statues including a Best Director for Steven Spielberg(and well deserved).

"Saving Private Ryan" is a very moving story. A mother is about to receive notification from the government that 3 of her 4 sons have been killed in action in Europe(I get a lump in my throat just thinking about that part). A rescue squad risks their own lives to go behind enemy lines in search of the fourth and youngest son to relieve him of his duty and spare his mother another tragedy.

Director Steven Spileberg, along with a cast that couldn't be any better, including the likes of Tom Hanks,Tom Sizemore and Matt Damon, put us right there in midst this dangerous mission. The horrors of the WWII are depicted, quite graphically, as never before, and we really come to a true appreciation of what heroes are fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and husbands were. Not only that but we can't help but to become close to these guys, and feel all the emotions that they are going through.
It is a film that will take it's toll on you emotionally, and one that will stay with you for quite sometime after the view.
The music(John Williams)is hauntingly perfect and the photography(Janusz Kaminski)exquisite.

This Widescreen Special Limited Edition is the way to go for VHS viewers. There are 2 casettes included. Tape 1 is the full length feature running about 2hrs and 49 minutes. There is a second tape included that that has 25 minutes of bonus material, a must have for fans of this film.It is a nice picture in widescreen, clear for the most part and the Dolby sound is very good.I see there are a few editions of this VHS, and I am not sure they are all 2 casette editions.If this is the one you want, make sure that the running time shows about 195 minutes total(Film is 169 minutes).The ASIN is B00000K3AN for this edition(see buying or tech info) If you purchase from an Amazon seller(and I see some pretty good deals here from them), you may want to check with them first and make sure this is the two tape set).

This is a film that has a deep effect on me no matter how many times I view it. It is a cinematic treasure, a beautiful tribute to our heroes of WWII, and one that should be viewed by every generation to come.....Laurie





Undoubtedly the best war movie i have seen
Superb Direction. Detailed, vividly graphic leaving nothing to the imagination. Lifelike or should i say warlike.

A great movie on a simple mission to save Ryan!

not for the faint of heart...
As I watched this movie, I was shocked, disturbed, but it at least reported the facts. The opening scene is very disturbing and bloody, but the point of it was to show us that this is what happened in that horrid war. The performances were great notably by the great Tom Hanks, and Spielberg's film will always remain a classic.
After watching this movie, it always stayed with me, and I realized how lucky I am that I wasn't in that war, and how lucky I am that my grandfather didn't die in that war. I visited Normandy months after watching it, and the tour guide informed us that we were at the location where D-Day occured. We saw the many graves, and it was then that I saw what happened in this movie occur before my eyes once again. This movie is a masterpiece, and it shall always be remembered. It shall be remembered because it reported a historic fact vividly and wonderfully, and sometimes the only way for us to understand what atrocities happened in the past is reproduce these images in a movie. This is what happened with this movie and the atrocities portrayed in this movie are even more awful, because they really happened.

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