Saving Private Ryan

Forrest Gump has to go and do a war to save Jason Bourne. Thirty minutes of harrowing war stuff where everyone gets blown up. Several hours of walking through some really quite lovely French countryside. Thirty minutes of really quite exciting war stuff. Not as good as Shakespeare in Love.

Trivia

To achieve the realism of the opening scene of the D-day landings, Steven Spielberg declared war on Germany, meticulously planned and led an assault on Northern France and filmed the action

The role of Captain Miller was actually written for Chevy Chase, but he couldn’t be arsed to do it

For the final battle, the Essex town of Chelmsford takes on the role of Ramelle and if you look closely you can see the High Chelmer shopping precinct in the background of some scenes and even spot some cheeky Essex children making the wanker sign at Tom Hanks

Stars Vin Diesel and Barry Pepper released a cover of Don’t You Want Me Baby to promote the film that got to number 32 in the UK charts

Bloopers

German soldiers in the film are actually speaking Norwegian

When Miller requisitions Cpl. Upham, Upham picks up is Apple MacBook from the table and stows it in his pack. MacBooks wouldn’t be invented until 2006, nine years after the film was made.