Check Out The New Trailer To The Saving Private Ryan Of Russian War Films
Saving Private Ryan is, by my estimation, the greatest American war film ever made, which puts it high in the running for greatest war film ever made. Yes, it has its faults, mostly Spielberg-ian in nature, but the film also couldn’t have achieved such greatness without the director either. I could spend two thousand words talking about that film (it’s one of my two favorites of all time), and I might one day. My point is, Saving Private Ryan was a landmark achievement in terms of war films, so when I compare another film to it, that’s high praise, in the words of fake Nicholas Cage. Also, that stabbing scene? Gets me every time, and by “gets me,” I mean “makes me run out of the room weeping in fear and extreme discomfort.”
One film that looks like it might be akin to SPR’s greatness is this latest effort from Russia, simply titled Stalingrad. That’s a pretty good battle to set a movie in, unless that movie is Enemy at the Gates, which sort of sucked. Regardless, Stalingrad, which was filmed in 3D IMAX and appears to be an insanely epic production, looks amazing. Check it out.
Holy shit. The movie is directed by a guy you’ve never heard of, and stars people you’ve also never heard of, which is unfortunate, because this seems like exactly the type of movie in which Vladimir Putin would pull an Eddie Murphy and play all the roles, but whatever. It has already been released in Russia, and I’ll be the only person in line the day it comes out in the U.S., but unfortunately, no release date has been set. I really need to see this.
h/t to Filmdrunk
“9th Company” is another great Russian war film. It’s about the Ruskie’s in Afghanistan during the ’80s
12 years ago at 5:00 pmI think I’ll go watch “Saving Private Ryan” now.
12 years ago at 5:04 pmComparing Russian war movie to USA’s SPR. NF
12 years ago at 5:04 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwhP5b4tD6g
Someone had to
12 years ago at 5:08 pmFun fact of the day: 75% of German WW2 casualties were on the Eastern front.
12 years ago at 5:11 pmFun fact: 75% of the fighting in the European theater was on the Eastern front
12 years ago at 10:06 pmBeating the Germans on the Western front, with only 1/3 the effort as on the Eastern front.TAmericaM
12 years ago at 7:00 amSo apparently Band of Brothers isn’t a war “film”.
12 years ago at 5:44 pmIt’s not, it’s a mini-series, albeit one with high cinematic quality. Still, it had 10 hours to tell a story, so it’s sort of unfair to compare it to actual theatrical films. BoB might be my favorite, uh, I guess you could say “media.”
12 years ago at 6:17 pmRichard Winters was also promoted to Major by the end of his service, not to mention a Fratter before the war. Someone didn’t make it past the first half of BoB. Laps?
12 years ago at 9:39 pm^Maj. Winters is a Delta Sig alum, so I’m guessing Bacon knew that stuff. Laps.
12 years ago at 10:40 pmAlso Bacon if you want a top-notch SPR like movie check out Taegukgi (Brotherhood of War). Top 3 war movie for me.
Look at that I even posted a link to the full movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTg5W1Lgyzo
12 years ago at 12:13 amI’m sorry, but there’s no war movie that’s going to be better than Saving Private Ryan. That’s just how I see it at least.
12 years ago at 5:46 pmNever said it would be better. In fact I said Saving Private Ryan was the best of all time (in my opinion).
12 years ago at 6:15 pmSaving Private Ryan was an amazing movie overall, but I personally felt that Apocalypse Now and its retelling within the Vietnam setting made it a slightly better “war” movie.
12 years ago at 8:39 pmIt’s been out in Russia for a while asshole. And it doesn’t even play in the U.S. so thanks for faking out everyone who wanted to see this after watching the trailer you malnourished, pale mick.
12 years ago at 5:58 pmRelease date in Russia was a little over a month ago. It has recently been nominated as Russia’s representative for best foreign language film at the next academy awards. You dumb malnourish, pale mick.
12 years ago at 6:50 pmReading comprehension isn’t one of you strong points, huh?
12 years ago at 6:51 pm^
12 years ago at 9:40 pmYou don’t fuck with the russians unless your America.
12 years ago at 6:54 pmWell they did lose a war to the Japanese..
12 years ago at 1:14 pmBacon is the Dane Cook is movie reviews. I’ll agree that Saving Private Ryan will go down as one of the greatest war films of all time, and this movie looks like a visual masterpiece, but, the trailer gave me the vibe that the script, and chemistry of actors will be lukewarm at best. Remember the beginning of Behind Enemy line, when they romanticized that genocide and made it all Fx’d up visually but the rest of the move for the most part sucked? It’s gonna be that….It’s a war movie. I hate when they try and incorportate love, and family and the people. It should be focused on the men, and their struggle together to fight. Nothing else.
12 years ago at 7:33 pm