There is no comparing "Band of Brothers" and "Saving Private Ryan." SPR was fiction, with D-Day as the backdrop.
"Band of Brothers" was based on real events, and the real men behind those events. The scenes at Bastogne were just as gut-wrenching as the opening in SPR.
" The scenes at Bastogne were just as gut-wrenching as the opening in SPR. "
no doubt. The scenes were they were being shelled by Nazi artillery in the forest were intense.