Also, those red wheels that the car wears in most of the pictures stay with the seller.

The opening set piece, nearly half an hour of unrelenting gore and pointless death

Thanks for weighing in, John Madden.

Deep Impact is definitely the more scientifically accurate of the two asteroid/comet films of 1998, but it’s nowhere near as watchable as Armageddon.

Wasn’t that part of the plot? They were trying to train the astronauts, and Bruce Willis’ character was all, “they can’t do this! Only real wildcatters can do this!” or some bullshit?

All y’all calling the ending scene schmaltz can GFY because that’s one of the few movie moments to ever get me to choke up.

There are a lot of layers to his arc, and you can look at it from different angles as well. as far as the war crime angle, he was right to argue that they couldn’t kill the guy initially and there is no doubt, legally speaking, that it was a war crime for him to kill him at the end. But that’s also not an act that…

Which pretty well set the template for the Weinstein Way.  SiL is a clever, entertaining movie and that’s great.  But it was NOT the best film of the year.

I’m surprised this write-up didn’t mention that scene. Ribisi asking what color the blood is and knowing immediately that he’s already dead is horrifying. And the aftermath is just wrenching; Hanks was right, those Germans had already killed some other soldiers and it would have been a cop-out for them to ignore the…

He wasn’t pompous (his treatment was more an indictment of the rest of the squad), and probably not really a coward. The others had all been through the fire repeatedly; this was Upham’s first face-to-face experience with combat. He wants to let the German go after his first firefight because that’s what the rules…

The suspicions behind Shakespeare In Love winning over Private Ryan have been confirmed since its come out that shitweasel Weinstein reportedly bullied and strong-armed the academy into voting for Shakespeare.

The beach assault is rightfully considered a masterpiece of war realism. But the scene that I have never been able to forget and that still gives me nightmares is the hand-to-hand combat between Adam Goldberg’s character and the German. When Goldberg suddenly realizes that his antagonist has enough of the upper hand…

I have weird feelings about the whole plotline of Upham insisting on letting the one German soldier go, only to execute him later

I was visiting a friend who lived in LA at the time and we saw it at Mann’s Chinese theater and I swear you could hear bullets whizzing past your ear and between you and the person in the next seat. I flinched involuntarily every time a bullet went past or slapped into the ground.

I would also contend that Saving Private Ryan is not an anti-war movie. Its stance is more like: this is war. This is the ugly mess that it is. But to be against this means letting the Nazis take over.

I have weird feelings about the whole plotline of Upham insisting on letting the one German soldier go, only to execute him later; it feels uncomfortably close to an endorsement of war crimes.

I’m one of the NP’ers. The price is market accurate and that’s how I vote. If you want an NSX, it’s gonna cost you roughly $120k. There were a few that are a few grand cheaper, but all NSX’s are within 5% of $120k or higher.

I watched Thin Red Line a bit after Private Ryan and didn’t care for it at all. I hadn’t seen anything by Malick up to that point. Years later, after I’d seen Tree of Life and his 70s films, I decided to revisit it. It just confirmed my opinion that his complete disinterest in making a war movie (rather than a nature…

The C8 pops the NP bubble for this Acura.

Truly one of the greatest films of the 90s and of all time. The Normandy sequence alone is one of the most gripping things I’ve ever watched.