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I much prefer the more low-key and brilliant They Were Expendable and The Big Red One to the shameless heart-string-pulling ending of, for example, Saving Private Ryan.

No disrespect to veterans of any war is intended,



i'll never forget the old white haired gentleman that stood up and saluted the screen there in the theater when Private Ryan ended, in some transparent attempt to make it about him.

some asshole in the back yells "sit down stupid they can't see you". a few giggles then an "oh my gawwwd" uttered by some older sounding woman. guy had some nerve. not me, the old man. he didn't budge though- tough as nails.