Episode 41: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

The Essential Films Podcast

Join Adolfo and Mark on today’s adventure: Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
On this week’s show:
Orange Fanta
Criterion Collection discussions
Organizing physical media
TCM Wine Club
Colorized newsreels
The true story that inspired Saving Private Ryan
The actors boot camp
Late 90s young Hollywood
The epic Omaha Beach sequence
Helmets are useless
Nazis are bad!
Bryan Cranston!
FUBAR
The Statue of Liberty is kaput
Are there “good” war movies?
The biggest movie of 1998
The Academy Awards snub
Spielberg’s populist movies
How it should have ended?
FILMS REFERENCED:
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943)
THE GUNFIGHTER (1950)
DJANGO (1966)
THE GREEN BERETS (1968)
JAWS (1975)
SHIVERS (1975)
FRIDAY THE 13th (1980)
THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
PLATOON (1986)
OPERA (1987)
FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
BRAVEHEART (1995)
CRASH (1996)
GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997)
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)
ARMAGEDDON (1998)
DEEP IMPACT (1998)
GODZILLA (1998)
SMALL SOLDIERS (1998)
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)
A BUG’S LIFE (1998)
DOCTOR DOLITTLE (1998)
THE WATERBOY (1998)
RUSH HOUR (1998)
PATCH ADAMS (1998)
MULAN (1998)
LETHAL WEAPON 4 (1998)
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999)
BAND OF BROTHERS (Mini-Series, 2001)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002)
CRASH (2005)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)
GREEN BOOK (2018)
PARASITE (2019)
MULAN (2020)
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