Cub Driver wrote:
On 29 Apr 2006 05:39:04 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

To razz "Saving Private Ryan" because of a couple of minor nits, while
missing the depth and breadth of the effort, seems silly to me. I
found it moving and, in many ways, deeply disturbing to watch -- and it
truly made me appreciate my father's generation.

Would it be safe to guess that you never went through basic training?

Of course, I love "Top Gun", too -- so there's just no hope for me...

Not at all! Top Gun is a fantasy; it can be enjoyed on its own terms.
SPR pretended to be the real thing, and it wasn't; it was an imitation
of old war movies by someone unqualified to do the job.

There's nothing wrong with imitation! What else is Indiana Jones but a
glorious rip-off of the serials we (I) used to watch on Saturday
afternoon at the movies? But SPR wanted to be something elevated,
truth-telling, and it was just so far off that it couldn't be borne,
at least not by me.

(Not just a *few* nits, either. Suffused with 'em! It was all nit!)

So now you have me curious. What were some of these nits?