There goes spielberg again - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

Apart from things that I have read that a lot of parts in this movie were historically inaccurate; the peculiar thing about Steven Spielberg is he has a knack for selecting sub-significant events and turning them into major epics with lavish budgets, in this case a nearly 3 hour epic. The precedent for the plot, the Fighting Sullivans(1944), was a more modest film a little under 2 hours in length. After the incident where 5 brothers all lost their lives fighting on the same ship, the US policy was the brothers would have to be separated to avoid families being hit with such a large loss. Saving Private Ryan may have been an interesting footnote during the war, but that's about it. And it's kind of debatable the justification to put so much resources simply to retrieve a soldier out of his post (if that is what actually happened.) This movie seemed to celebrate that event as a historic and important mission, which is arguable. In addition, Spielberg didn't fail to show his hatred of Germans, e.g. by having one of the Jewish-American GI's shout to German captured soldier "Jude Jude, I'm a Jew" - as though each and every German was a Jew hater. Kind of added a propaganda element into this supposedly true story.