Re: Private Ryan, The Thin Line and back to Ignatius J. Reilly

AntiUtopia@aol.com
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:21:40 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 12/15/99 3:44:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
pariah1980@yahoo.com writes:

<< ribisi talks about how he
 used to pretend like he was asleep when his mom would
 come check in on him at nights. to me, that was one of
 the best scenes. just my two cents. >>

Good lord.  This post and the one about the knife scene are bringing the 
movie back to memory more and more...and yes, both were powerful scenes.  The 
movie veered a bit toward sentimentality at the end,  but was powerful enough 
throughout to make it forgiveable.  The sense of debt toward those who had 
sacrificed pretty well sums up our national consciousness toward WW 2 vets...

a good movie,  but I still need to see Thin Red Line :) 

Jim