Oh, don’t get me wrong. I liked it, it was pleasant to watch-I just didn’t think it carried the weight of Saving Private Ryan, which I thought was very impactful and meaningful.
Shakespeare In Love was like watching something on television, for me at least.
SPR felt like a compendium of all the war movies Spielberg had ever seen. There was nothing new. I felt the same way about 1917 a few years ago. A run through the standard tropes about WW1.