That's probably why I preferred _The Thin Red Line_... =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."--K, Barry Sonnenfeld's _Men in Black_. "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is because they were written by THE PEOPLE."--Tom Lehrer On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, David Ezell wrote: > After seeing PRIVATE RYAN, it seemed to be no > different than any of the more "simplistic" earlier > film you cited in your post. > > The Americans were good guys, the Germans all > bad--the same black hat/white hat mentality of any > stock western or war film. > > === > David Ezell > Department of History, Technology and Society > Georgia Institute of Technology > Atlanta, Georgia > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu