To me it was worth seeing at least once, for the D-Day landing alone. No other movie I’ve seen comes close to that quality.
After that, it reminded me a bit of Bat 21, of which I felt the plot was about as equally stupid as Ryan’s, more so perhaps, because Bat 21 was true.
Just my opinion.
Somewhere I read that vets had to walk out of the D-Day landing scenes for awhile. Same thing for the AF bombing support for “We Were Soldiers.”