Saving Private Ryan [Blu-ray] [4K UHD]

Absolutely breathtaking visuals and audio. Very emotional story. Highly recommend.

I picked up the Sapphire BR SPR a month ago and finally got around to watching & hearing it. First I still have the DVD DTS version so I was currious as to the upgrade in the video but also how the two audio tracks compared; DTS vs DTS-HD. The video transfer is an excellent upgrade over the DVD though it still retains some of that so-called documentry grainess in some areas as it was intended. The colors are as they should be in the pallete of War....greens, browns, greys, blacks and yes red. It's going to make you say...Wow in the sense like seeing Monsters,Inc or Avatar. But the details throughout in uniforms, buildings, people, weapons brings the realism of war closer than ever. Probably too close especially in the famous "Beach Scene" where the reality of what rel war probably was with body parts flying and exposed. The audio portion didn't disappoint and frankly will rock your house and senses. There are many forums and topics that are always asking,"What Blu-ray to show off your HT" and about every poll and answer will have Saving Private Ryan on that list.Even when it came out on DVD with the DTS format it was considered one of if not the best sounding movie to make use of you HT sound. The new DTS-HD track does deliver a more fuller and open sound than the normal DTS track which is no slouch itself. To me it was like comparing D.D 5.1 to DTS 7.1. I felt I could detect just more sounds in the lower and higher fequencies with just better details. The first 20-25 minutes of the movie is a must for audio fans. The movie itself is flat out good but it's no typical war movie like Patton, Battle of the Buldge, Tora-Tora-Tora or Midway. While those were of historical happenings they didn't deal with the real brutality and emotions of what War can bring. In Saving Private Ryan you see and feel it and it hits you squarely between the eyes. If no-one comes away with some gut check, heart wrentching, or a slight tear in the first 25 minutes of this movie they're either dead or comatose. Tom Hanks as Capt. John Miller, is given orders to go deep and locate one Private Ryan and bring him back when it's learned three of his brothers were all killed in one week. During their mission they encounter others caught up with war itself, the uncertainity and just trying to survive. They lose a few of their own while seeing the effects on both soldiers and cilvans. While the Beach Scene is as emotional as you can see the one with Wade the medic getting shot is just gut wrentching. Laying bleeding from several bullets the entire groupsitting around Wade, is scrabbling to plug the holes and stop the blood flow while asking Wade for directions on what to do. You can sense their hope fading and helplessness as their friend crys out for his Moma and doesn't want to die for several minutes which seems longer. They finally find someone who knows Ryan and about where he is. After locating Ryan and giving him the news they expect he'll follow but Ryan refuses saying he has orders to protect one of two bridges left and his current platton buddies are now "his only brothers". Facing lack of ammo, soldiers and against all odds, Miller (Hanks) takes control and decides on protecting the bridge. The ensuing Last Stand of the Alamo type battle in the town is close and brutal with several losing their lives in the process. Miller, always keeping Ryan out of harms way is shot while trying to retrive the detonator for the bridge. At the last minute everyone is saved by a pair of P-51's along with reinforcements. Hanks wound is fatal but not before telling Ryan,"earn this...Earn It". As the film returns as it did in the beginning the older Ryan asks his wife has he led a good life and been a good man while standing in front of Capt. Millers tombstone. It's hard to imagine those saying anything bad about this movie are calling it "over-rated". They probably have a negative outlook on anything military and war itself as it's a waste of money first and lives second. While it was a movie veterans praised the film as the most realastic depiction of war especially the Normandy landing. Truely they were America's Best Generation but so sad todays doesn't appreciate them or their sacrifice.

Stellar cast. Many great actors. Enjoy this movie; you will not be disappointed

Been wanting this movie on Blu-ray and got it at a great price.

This is a review of the product itself, not the film which is a must-see and a classic. I purchased the sapphire series blu-ray edition of the film and while it works just fine my only complaint is that the blu-ray version displays a lot of film grain, nearly as much as the DVD version which I've owned for many years prior to this blu-ray. I don't know if this was an intentional decision by the creators for this blu-ray version or not, but the film grain in the picture is quite prominent. I don't mind it in the DVD which is lower resolution but for the blu-ray I'm not sure I find it all that agreeable. It can be a bit distracting especially if you're expecting sharper resolution. That's my only complaint of the product, it's otherwise a good-looking case and feels sturdy and well made. Runs just fine in my 4K player.

Saving Pvt. Ryan was the best picture of the year hands down. Anytime someone takes a much traveled genre like the war movie, and reinvents and reinvigorates it while raising the bar for future films it is exceptional. Spielberg did that here. No one has ever depicted combat quite so effectively, and Pvt. Ryan is now the standard. Even the negative reviewers concede the Omaha Beach opening is stunning and excellent. But, I think the assault on the machine gun and the closing! battle just as intense and vivid. Pro War? Please. I don't think Spielberg's purpose was to be pro OR anti-war. I think his purpose was to honor the sacrifice of the men who fought the war. Period. But within that context, I think the death of Wayne (the Medic) is as horrifying in its unexceptionalness as anything I've seen on screen. This is war, overdosing with morphine a friend who is bleeding to death with a shredded liver. Just like that. And Mellish's hand to hand fight and vain attempt at stopping his own killing after being overpowered...this is pro-War stuff? Not to mention, that at the end of the movie nearly everyone in the squad has been killed. The idea that Spielberg was glorifying Americans at the expense of everyone else is nonsense. This movie wasn't about Stalingrad & the Eastern Front. It wasn't about the entire operation of Overlord. It wasn't about the entire scope of the Allied effort. It was about one squad of Rangers landing on Omaha and !then getting a strange assignment. Period. That such a mission never happened? So what? That there was no plot? That IS the plot. The mission. Works for me. One quick comment about the idea of cliched characters etc. Who do these people think fought the war? It was wise guys from NY, hillbillies from W. Virginia, hispanics from S.California, southerners, hobos, college men etc. How in hell else are you supposed to show them? AND, the military of WWII was not integrated, in case you didn't know. As to the reality of the ending battle. First, when the Sgt. says "something good coming from this mess" I don't think he meant all of WWII. I think he meant the mess of this mission and the men they had lost now & everywhere. Second, the Germans are attacking the town, Miller & the Airborne defending. Door-to-door street fighting is the most casualty-intensive fighting possible, and the advantage is usually always with the defenders. That's why soldiers hate it. S!o they had a chance and they had a plan....ultimately to retreat & blow the bridge. If you think this is too far fetched, you should read Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers etc. and find out just how incredible small unit actions have been. Many are unbelievable. And what were Miller & his squad to do when Ryan refused to leave? Say "tough luck 101st, we're outta here". Maybe. But I think they would have stayed & fought. Just read about the Rangers who scaled the cliffs on D-Day. Courage was a common currency in those days. As to the acting, characters etc. I thought they were fine. There were no false heroics to my mind. I believe they wanted to honor these men and they played it straight. Hanks was believable to me portraying a school teacher who is now a leader of men and his scene where he does the awful math of the men he's lost and the rationale he uses to live with the fact says it all. He seemed to me an average man having to do impossible, horrible things and wo!ndering what it is doing to him. The movie is about suiting-up, showing-up and getting-on-with-it. It is about the everyday heroism of doing the dirty job and trying to survive. Was the movie flawless? No. I would have had Ryan tell a better story to Miller than the somewhat stupid and cruel one he told. And, for that fact I didn't get the point of Wayne's story about his mother. The German shooting Miller and Upham shooting the German was somewhat problematic (emotionally satisfying, but empty. If the lesson is mercy will get you killed, by that logic, he should have shot them all)....but these are minor quibbles in a great effort. What about Spielberg? Spielberg is a brilliant and clever director. Too clever? Sometimes. But I liked most of his touches and flourishes. I liked the sniper seeing the other sniper shooting at him. I like the wall coming down & the standoff. I liked the tank rolling up on Miller blowing up by a seeming gunshot. I didn't mind !the bit of deception at the opening & closing of the film because by the time it ended I was moved by the sentiment. I thought the opening & closing battles were magnificent. I like his compositions. I thought all the combat throughout had a genuine feel never depicted as accurately before. His camerawork & direction was continuously inventive. I thought death was shown without glamor. The courage as that mustered up and brought to bear by ordinary men. Enough. I could go on, but what's the point? If you are nitpicking this movie you have missed the experience. And it WAS an experience (especially on the big screen) that was exceptional for eye, ear and emotions. If you were not moved, so be it. I found it a beautiful tribute to the fathers and grandfathers who did what they had to do. And it came as close as anyone has been able to convey to an audience the horrors they had to endure. It isn't a documentary, and it isn't a history. It's a movie. But a first rate! movie in all departments.

This is one of the greatest movies ever made. I’ve seen it many times in DVD, Blu-ray, and television networks. I decided to buy this 4K UHD Blu-ray because I built my system with the latest components to play this content. Here is the issue... It has the branding on back label showing both Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. It did not display the Dolby Vision on my Onkyo 6100 receiver. It did display the Dolby Atmos 7.1 on receiver and performed true to that. Now I will say that the picture in 4K UHD is still incredible. It’s still very high-quality output and stood out remarkably over any other format I've seen. I was able to see so much more detail and clarity than ever before. Also, the Atmos performance was exceptional and ROCKED my system and the whole house. Excellent mix and true surround channel separation. It was well worth the $18 bucks. But I was a bit disappointed that I wasn't sure if I was seeing Dolby Vision as advertised on packaging. I have a very good setup at mid pricing. I played the disk through Xbox One X. I have tested all the content from the Dolby app and even streamed Dolby Vision over Prime and MAX. Everything played and performed as it should as far as all the formats. This movie advertising Dolby Vision did not indicate to me that the feature was actually, technically working correctly. I am not an absolute AV expert nor am I a super nerd at this stuff, but this might make a difference to those who are purists. I don't have but a few 4K disks for referencing, but now am skeptical at spending a premium price on something that isn't going to work as advertised. Still this movie being a reasonable price, I would hate dropping $35 on something that fails to fully perform as expected. If it is something in my equipment then I will research that and correct the problem. But I won’t go out and drop a few more $ thousand dollars on components so it will play a few glitchy movies. As a kid growing up and only seeing 3 or 4 fuzzy channels using aluminum foil taped to an antenna, I don't think I'm too picky. So please let me know your experience regarding your results. Did the Dolby Vision work on your system? What other disks have you bought that have not played the way you expected? Thanks for reading. Larry

As far as I'm concerned, war films are divided into to periods: Pre-Ryan and Post-Ryan. That is pretty much it. This film is that important. Before private Ryan war films (specifically WWII films)were very different. I'm not saying they weren't good. Some were awsome and a few downright classics but looking at it from Saving Private Ryan's perspective, it almost seems like they were movies about wars that never happened.In those movies, your survival depended on whether you were a good soldier. If you were good, no one could touch you. In those films the good guys were good and that was that. Nothing that could shine even the slightest sliver of moral ambiguity would show up. In those films, the bad guys were robots with no souls who were intent on destroying anything resembling goodness. For millions of people, this is the way WWII was fought. Then came Saving Private Ryan. This film showed war as it had never been depicted: The reality of it all.(As many veterans have confirmed through their reaction to the film)The films first set piece, in which the 2nd Rangers storm Omaha Beach in Normandie is an unflinching and brutal wake up call. Good soldiers, extraordinary ones actually, die. Some didn't even had a chance to get off the boat. It wasn't about who was good or skilled. It was the luck of the draw. Maybe you die today, maybe you don't. That initial wave, in which the germans are practically using the American soldiers as target practice, shows not only the brutality of war but the frailty of man, as evidenced in the many individual reactions of soldiers Spielberg captures. We see them getting blown up,losing limbs and even guts. Suddenly, "crying for your mama" is not as childish or cowardly as we thought. We also see the enemy in a whole new light. After the Rangers finally make it up the beach, some of them shoot a group of surrendering germans in a scene we would have never seen in a film before this one. At that moment the germans stop being robots and become human. "Our guys wouldn't do that!" would cry some but deep inside we know better. If you just saw most of your friends slaughtered, what would you do if you faced their executioners? This is the type of question this film makes you think again and again about war and what it means. But obviously gore and horror for gut and horror's sake is not what makes this film so important and relevant. In the end, it's the soldiers and the choices they make in all that chaos. Many filmakers in the past might have opted to downright ignore the chaos of war maybe out of respect. To avoid having thee soldiers looking a little less because of the things they did or witnessed but Spielberg chose to show it and the result is quite the contrary. By witnessing the true hell they went through we actually appreciate the choices they made even more. Under all of that, they chose to fight for their country and protect each other. Incredible. I could go on but many, many people have made better reviews than this one. To think I wanted to focus more on the films transfer to BD. Now I'm running long. To put it simply, the transfer is flawless. Spielberg has become notorious for the look of his later films which are defing by a rough, grainy, almost desaturated look. A.I. Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Munich and of course Private Ryan all have similar looks to them. (Not coincidentaly, all of them the handy work of Janus Kaminsky)I was worried that in this manic world of HD and "grain-haters", that the director's true intent might have been lost in a sea of noise reduction and edge enhancement. Not so. All those releases and this masterpiece in particular, retain their intended look. What HD has brought to the table is a sea of colors that I was not able to pick neither in theaters (where I saw it three times) or in all subsequent releases on home video. Now I'm, not talking about Pixar-Cars-The Incredibles kind of colors mind you. Its more subtle but very noticable. Now flesh tones look real and defined. The greens and olives (which dominate the film) look amazing and the bright colors that show up so sparingly now pop even more. Textures come alive. A scene where Mellish shares his gum with another soldier, check out the detail in their surrounding s and the barrel of the machine gun. Amazing. And all that, while retaining the original grain structure of the film. Now that is what HD is all about. I cannot recomment this film enough and this Blu-Ray is one of the best transfers of a catalog title of 2010 if not the best so far. While I'm sure many would be dissapointed that the film doesn't look like, say, Avatar on Blu-Ray. I say they are missing the point. This is the way this film was meant to be seen.

This a commemorative 20th-anniversary edition. (3 discs, 4k + Blu-ray + Special Features If considering upgrading from your Blu-ray version of the film I can tell you that in my opinion buying on 4k is a sound investment The picture quality greatly enhanced on the 4k format especially evident during the 24-minute Omaha beach sequence and indeed the action toward the latter part of the film. - One of Steven Spielberg's many classics, perhaps the best. During the war years, many families would have at some point received more than one letter informing them of the loss of a loved one killed in action, this film was inspired by the Miland Brothers story part of an Irish/American family, all four brothers served in the military during the war, two in fact died during the first few days of the Normandy landings during the operation. The film opens and closes with James Ryan at the Normandy Cemetery at which over 50 years on he visits to pay his respect at the grave of the man who'd led the squad that saved him John H Miller (played in the film by Tom Hanks) where he reflects on those days. The film after the opening sequence portrays the brutal and bloody intensity of the Omaha assault, filmed so well you almost feel a part of it. After the beach is secured Captain Miller will be given a seemingly impossible task during the early and often chaotic days of D-Day. - In part, my original review with modification - We begin on the beaches of Normandy on the 6th June 1945 where 'Capt Miller' (Tom Hanks) and his battalion have been ordered to secure a beach-head. During the bloody landing two brothers are killed on the beaches whilst at a similar point in time in 'New Guinea' a third brother is killed, their mother will receive notification of her loss on the same day. When the U.S War-Department realize the situation and become aware of a fourth brother serving in the invasion force instructions that a squad is assembled to try and find him are issued. 'Capt Miller' and his squad are assigned to attempt the task which will take them through much of war-torn Europe on what from the outset looks to be an impossible mission with little chance of success. The squad on the mission chosen from his trusted squad include - 'Sgt Horvath' (Tom Sizemore) - 'Private Reiben' (Edward Burns) - 'Private Jackson' (Barry Pepper) - 'Private Mellish' (Adam Goldberg) - 'Private Caparzo' (Vin Diesel) - 'T-4 Medic Wade' (Giovanni Ribisi) and 'Corp Upham' (Jeremy Davies) the latter outside his squad but included because he speaks fluent French and German. They will encounter many dangers along the way and have several encounters with the enemy as the mission looks increasingly hopeless, however, eventually, they will find 'Private James Ryan' (Matt Damon) however the town in which they find him is under enemy attack......will the mission be all in vain? ''James, earn it'' - ''earn it'' The film graphically portrays the horror of battle from the outset with the well-staged Normandy landings and the carnage of the operation. The squad becomes involved in many skirmishes with the enemy which are again well-staged and convincingly portrayed. A brilliantly portrayed war-drama. Well worthy of a re-visit or indeed first viewing

This shall be a review of Steven Spielberg's 1998 film, 'Saving Private Ryan', on Blu Ray. The plot basically revolves around a group of 8 American soldiers led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), who, following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, are sent behind German lines to find and rescue one man, Private James Ryan (Matt Damon). Along the way, each man questions the sense of the mission and uses this with the hope of finding his answer. That's basically the plot of the film. However, that is not all. The film is known for its intense opening 26 minute battle scene on Omaha Beach and for its all-out, realistic depiction of combat. The film also boasts an incredible cast. As mentioned already, you have Tom Hanks and Matt Damon playing the lead characters and both actors are simply outstanding here, in my opinion. However, you should also recognise some other familiar faces, such as Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribishi, Barry Pepper, Jeremy Davies and even Vin Diesel. The list really does seem endless, but it is the acting talent on hand with this film that makes it so memorable. Finally, the Blu Ray quality. Picture: 9/10. I am going to give the picture quality a solid 9. I bought this to replace my DVD copy (which was fairly battered) and, may I say, this release did the job very nicely for me. There is a massive improvement in picture over my DVD counterpart. Basically, the colours, textures and general sharpness are all on top form. While some grain does remain throughout the film, that is only to be expected, given that this is a war film. Apart from that, the picture is very sharp and has been wonderfully cleaned up, ensuring that a solid transfer is guaranteed here. Sound: 9/10. The sound also gets a 9 from me. In fact, I would say that, if you want to hear 'Saving Private Ryan' in the best possible way in your own home at the present, get this. The sound is absolutely fantastic, even on a standard Plasma setup! With the battle scenes, you can hear every bullet fly, every explosion and feel the intensity. The dialogue then is crystal clear and John Williams' score is wonderful to hear in such clarity now on Blu Ray. Lastly, I would recommend a purchase of the 2-Disc Special Edition Blu Ray. The first disc is the film, while the second disc contains the Special Features and many of these are in HD, too, which is excellent. Staying with this, the special features themselves primarily focus on the making of the film and they are very interesting, all things considered. So, to conclude, 'Saving Private Ryan' (the two disc edition) is an absolute bargain on Blu Ray. I bought it off here fairly recently to replace my DVD copy and I was more than satisfied with the purchase. If you haven't seen this film, I strongly recommend that you do. It is Spielberg at his absolute best! If you happen to have the DVD and are wondering if you should upgrade, my suggestion is to go for it. Money well spent. Thanks for reading my review. I hope it helps.

Esta película se encuentra dentro de mis favoritas por lo que ya tenía tiempo esperando para poder comprarla en formato 4K. La calidad de audio y vídeo es buenísima son de esas ocasiones en que parece que estás viendo algo por primera vez aunque ya te sea más que familiar. Recomendable.

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Compra internacional que chegou antes do previsto (2 dias antes) e o disco é maravilhoso! a qualidade da embalagem é superior as que já estamos acostumados (embalagem azul) e o disco não apresentou erros durante a reprodução. O filme apresenta dublagem e legendas em português do Brasil. O som em dolby atmos é insano e o 4k das imagens é fenomenal. O combo perfeito!