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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Could have made for an anti-war movie
The film starts with a smash in the face. Thousands running into machine-gun fire, slaughtered, terror, dying, chaos.
Then the film calms down and a group of soldiers are sent on a mission to save a single man, an absurdity among so many in every war. They fight their way to private Ryans location, through the scenery of death and destruction.
The best moment in the film is when they at last reach private Ryan, the only sane person in this whole charade, who insists not to leave his comrades but to defend the bridge he is here for.
Then Tom Hanks dies a hero's death, speaks silly last words and from that point on all goes downhill. The last scene is the old James Ryan, weeping at Captain Millers grave. God save America. What could have been a great film against war, its atrocities and madness, is now an anthem for our heroes. Makes me sick.
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Dead Man Talking (2004)
biased, discriminatory, rude
As a trans-woman I cannot overlook how trans-people are depicted here. We learn that Lt. Cmd Voss lives as a woman for three years, takes hormones (we see her in a bra and taking pills) and plans a sex reassignment surgery. No motive is presented for her faked death but the desire to start a new life. No one would undergo such efforts nor pass the necessary psychological tests without really being a woman. Despite that, the whole team speaks of her as "he" and makes a mock of her and of DiNozzo being attracted by her. To me and I believe every trans-person this is deeply offensive. I cannot understand an author who in 2005 writes such insensitive and discriminatory bullshit.