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Old 06-17-2014, 06:15 AM
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Well we don't have to pick just one to represent a genre or filmmaker. Saving Private Ryan showed us the emotional toil that war took on the soldiers. Not a lot of war movies do that as well as it did.
See, I didn't get that at all from Saving Private Ryan. It felt like the bubble gum version compared to something like The Deer Hunter.

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I would say Platoon did that at a much more raw, edgy, disturbing and hard-hitting level than Saving Private Ryan.
Platoon I could see being in a Top 100.
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