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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 1:25pm I saw it once. No need to see it again. I don't know how much they paid to make this film, but I think the budget for promoting it must have been 10 times more. I was mildly entertained. No surprises. Quickly forgettable.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20696 ACT Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #1 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 1:53pm Just Found it 9:30pm Ch "one" What Channel/Time?
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #2 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 2:47pm NOT AGAIN.. its like Willie Wonka....its on somewhere in the world every 10 seconds.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20696 ACT Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #3 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 2:57pm I think I must be the only person in Oz that hasnt seen it. Not all that into war movies so still undecided!
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39506 Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #4 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:12pm I like my war movies. Prefer cowboy movies. redneck - if you don't like war movies, I suggest you probably don't see it. It's sort of just about war ........... so of not much interest to you.
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Reply #5 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:24pm

I had a part time job once as a projectionist at a defence run cinema. There were two projectors and you had to watch carefully for the sign to start each one and change shutters to ensure seamless transfer between each 20 minute reel. I remember being up in the projection room watching the 1st reel of this movie - and i was just overwhelmed by the brutalness and absolute in your face war scenes that I missed the timing marks all together! I t certainly was an eye opener!

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Bubba Zanetti Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 508 Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #6 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:28pm From the opening scene of all the stars of David on the tombstones to all the Hebrew names you hear throughog thd movie, you'd think the Jews defeated the Axis single-handedly. More Zionist propaganda from Steven Jewberg.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20696 ACT Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #7 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:30pm I think I will give it a miss, not really into blood and guts.
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Reply #8 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:33pm

Vic wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:24pm:

I had a part time job once as a projectionist at a defence run cinema. There were two projectors and you had to watch carefully for the sign to start each one and change shutters to ensure seamless transfer between each 20 minute reel. I remember being up in the projection room watching the 1st reel of this movie - and i was just overwhelmed by the brutalness and absolute in your face war scenes that I missed the timing marks all together! I t certainly was an eye opener!

I could imagine that.

But if war movies were not my thing, I'ld not bother to see it.

I distinctly remember looking around to try to get out of the cinema when the rattling clanking heavy roaring noises of the tanks arriving started getting louder.

I wanted outta there.

Who wouldn't ?

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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39506 Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #9 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:34pm Redmond Neck wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:30pm: I think I will give it a miss, not really into blood and guts. very very good idea. I don't like horror/murder movies, so just don't see them.
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Reply #10 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:43pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 1:25pm:

I saw it once.

No need to see it again.

I was mildly entertained. No surprises. Quickly forgettable.

Er... why start thread on it then?

This is like the Monty Python language warning at the beginning of one of their records, "Warning! This record contains a f**k, two c**ts and a bollocks - and you have now safely passed them."

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131477 Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #11 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 3:58pm
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 72209 Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #12 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 4:01pm
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Reply #13 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 5:06pm

Redmond Neck wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 2:57pm:

I think I must be the only person in Oz that hasnt seen it.

Not all that into war movies so still undecided!

Definitely see it.

It's just that I get a bit pissed off when the publicity machine promises me the cinematic experience of a life-time, but then it's all downhill when you actually see it.

But these things are very subjective, so don't be influenced by me.

And as someone from the 50's when there were actors of real merit and depth to their character and screen persona, it pisses me off greatly to watch very 'B'-Grade actors like Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and a whole host of others being touted as 'Stars' instead of the very shallow tradesmen that they are.

I won't be watching 'Ryan' for a second time, unlike movies such as link which I never tire of watching again and again.

"It is believed that over 130 people were killed by the two lions in just a few months".

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20696 ACT Gender:	Re: Saving Private Ryan's on tonight. Reply #14 - Oct 22^nd, 2014 at 5:17pm Great scary movie Herb is "No Country For Old Men" Talk about evil bastard, makes you shiver in your seat. But you will watch it again and again!
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