Replies

" Saving Private Ryan Not a Kid's movie" is right. All the more reason to edit it so it can be properly watched by kids.

Pssst - Get a clue,
buy a vowel,
BUT PLEASE forfiet your parental rights IMMEDIATELY - if you think Pvt Ryan is a movie for kids.

Sheeesh!!

Pssst - Get a clue,
buy a vowel,
BUT PLEASE forfiet your parental rights IMMEDIATELY - if you think Pvt Ryan is a movie for kids.

Sheeesh!!

What? Don't you think it would be a lot better if Barney was waiting on the beach with kool-aid and cookies for the troops when they arrived?

FWIW, I have 2 kids and there is practically nothing they can watch at all on TV. We don't have cable - it's full of garbage - and I am not interested in teaching my pre-teen children about what words mean when they are obscenities just yet. today my daughter asked what "weakest link" means. :-) So it would be nice to have some portion of the Universe of Entertainment that is non-hostile to true family entertainment. But even today most of PrimeTime is just, uggggh, ... If the cable-style adults-only-rated entertainment goes on the networks, it's GAME OVER.

If y'all are Gung Ho to watch this particular movie, I can assure you, it has been rentable For Some Time Now.

Now since you are an expert on raising kids, please help me find a movie, if any, about WWII that is suitable for a 7 year old to watch in your view. Maybe I'll rent cause i certainly dont see it on TV. Or maybe I should not tell a 7 year old that war exists???

General note on this lame theory that "Saving Pvt Ryan" is some kind of WWII Memorial, a nice Hollywood Fiction: It's good movie, I saw it some time ago, but please, it is FICTION and not a substitute for REAL history. It is a Hollywood production - someone mentioned "Das Boot", i'd recommend that as better movie, btw. I also liked "A Bridge To Far", which unlike "Saving Private Ryan" was based on ACTUAL EVENTS. And dont imagine that seeing someones guts get spilled is essential to understanding anything other gut reaction, you can get the same at a traffic accident scene; nor that obscenity in a fictional account is anymore more "real" than a lack of same in a fictional account set in an historical context. um, it's still fiction.

And if you want to know more truth about War, there is always "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Wonder how many F*** words are in there? I urge you to count 'em all!