Saving Private Ryan [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Tom Hanks
  • Actor : Matt Damon
  • Actor : Tom Sizemore
  • Actor : Edward Burns
  • Actor : Barry Pepper
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Brand : Dreamworks Video
  • Creator : Tom Hanks
  • Creator : Matt Damon
  • Creator : Allison Lyon Segan
  • Creator : Bonnie Curtis
  • Creator : Gary Levinsohn
  • Creator : Ian Bryce
  • Creator : Kevin De La Noy
  • Creator : Mark Gordon
  • Creator : Robert Rodat
  • Director : Steven Spielberg
  • EAN : 9780783233536
  • Format : AC-3
  • Format : Anamorphic
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Limited Edition
  • Format : Special Edition
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • ISBN : 0783233531
  • Label : Dreamworks Video
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Dreamworks Video
  • MPN : Region
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.40 inches (Length) x 0.10 pounds (Weight) x 5.30 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : Region
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Dreamworks Video
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 1999-11-02
  • Running Time : 169
  • SKU : mon0000004118
  • Studio : Dreamworks Video
  • UPC : 667068443325

Dreamworks, Region, 1 1998 170 mins

- Product Description

Since its release in 1998, Steven Spielberg's D-Day drama Saving Private Ryan has become hugely influential: everything, from the opening sequence of Gladiator ("Saving Marcus Aurelius") to the marvellous 10-hour TV series Band of Brothers, has been made in its shadow. There have been many previous attempts to recreate the D-Day landings on screen (notably, the epic The Longest Day), but thanks to Spielberg's freewheeling hand-held camerawork, Ryan was the first time an audience really felt like they were there, storming up Omaha Beach in the face of withering enemy fire. After the indelible opening sequence, however, the film is not without problems. The story, though based on an American Civil War incident, feels like it was concocted simply to fuel Spielberg's sentimental streak. In standard Hollywood fashion the Germans remain a faceless foe (with the exception of one charmless character who turns out to be both a coward and a turncoat); and the Tom Hanks-led platoon consists of far too many stereotypes: the doughty Sergeant; the thick-necked Private; the Southern man religious sniper; the cowardly Corporal. Matt Damon seems improbably clean-cut as the titular Private in need of rescue (though that may well be the point); and why do they all run straight up that hill towards an enemy machine gun post anyway? Some non-US critics have complained that Ryan portrays only the American D-Day experience, but it is an American film made and financed by Americans after all. Accepting both its relatively narrow remit and its lachrymose inclinations, Saving Private Ryan deserves its place in the pantheon of great war pictures. On the DVD: Saving Private Ryan on disc comes in a good-quality anamorphic 1.85:1 transfer with a suitably dynamic Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix in which bullets fly all around your living room. Extra features are pretty minimal, with a standard 30-minute "making of" piece called "Into the Breach" and two trailers. There are text notes on the cast and crew as well as the production, and a brief message from Mr Spielberg himself about why he decided to make the movie. --Mark Walker

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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