"Ryan" -Special FX for a reason, not to dazzle us (Score 1)

I sat through "Private Ryan" just fine, but as soon as I got outside, I felt felt a wave of sickness ... I broke down in tears 1 block away from the theatre. I thanked the higher powers above that I never had to go to war. I hugged my wife and told how much I loved her. Never has a movie had such a mental impact on me.

Yes, the special effects had their place...how else can the sheer magnitude of human brutality be portrayed. The FX weren't for show. They were to recreate human experience. I don't believe that they were there to "fill in gaps in the plot", like most techno-fluff" that we've been subjected to (need I name them ??) Otherwise, "Ryan" would have end up just another "yee-haw Wayne" movie.

Our generation is so desensitized to violence, that most theatre goes didn't even get the point. We see body parts flying, blood-spurting and people hacked-hacked in movies all the time and think nothing of it.....

When was the last time you were actually MORTIFIED AND DISCUSTED at the sight of someone getting their head blown off ?? This time I WAS.

There was no avoiding it in "Ryan". You have to realize that millions of men died like that. They didn't just fall over w/ a sigh ... they were killed in some of the most horrific circumstances possible.

For the first time (in a long while it seem) the technology of special effects were used RIGHT.

My hats off to the makers of "Ryan" as well as all those unfortunate enough to have had to serve on the front lines in any war.

Peace.