On 27 Apr 2006 14:16:59 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

oncept of "saving" someone may have been contrived, but the combat
sequences were disturbingly real.

I didn't mind the Dirty Dozen them; there are lots of movies like
that, and I enjoy them.

It was the *unreality* of the combat scenes that bothered me. It was
the fantasy of a boy who'd never been in the army, never mind in a
war.

He took some very sensitive 1990s types and put them at Omaha Beach,
which was in fact populated by graduates of the Great Depression. He
had officers wearing their rank on the FRONT of their helmets (very
handy for German snipers). He had them sleeping in a church, in
France, in the rain, and waking up next morning without shivering.
(Evidently Spielberg has never slept rough, either.) He had a sergeant
armed with an M-1 carbine leave a Garand sticking in the ground to
mark a gravesite, instead of swapping that toy gun for the real one.
He had a soldier asking for "bandoliers" of ammunition (the U.S. Army
carried preloaded clips in canvas pouches). Etc. Etc.

I much prefer the unreality of a James Bond flick to the boneheaded,
constant inaccuracies that Steven Spielberg put into SPR.



- all the best, Dan Ford

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