Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan?

[lime]

Spielberg won Best Director Oscar for both. Which one do you prefer?

 

[Consona]

Schindler's List.

 

[Samuron]

Spielberg won Best Director Oscar for both. Which one do you prefer?

Prefer? Neither.

Both are excellent treatments of different aspects of the horrors of WWII.

 

[Boom]

The Auschwitz sequence in Schindler's List is one of the most genuinely horrifying scenes I have ever watched in a film. So hard to get through it. You literally want to burst into tears [blackout]of sheer relief when Schindler gets them out last minute.[/blackout]

 

[weezerspider]

Not sure how to answer this. Schindler's List is the better film, but I revisit Ryan more often.

 

[MatthewRap]

Technically, I would say Schindler's List is overall the better movie by a small point. The funny thing is Saving Private Ryan is actually my favorite movie. I think Schindler's List has the better story and has a more true feel to its history. Even though Saving Private Ryan feels a little more realistic to me, I'd have Schindler's List by 0.1%.

 

[Schlosser85]

They’re both probably the best onscreen depictions of the very different aspects of WWII they’re focused on, but I think Schindler’s List is the slightly better movie. Saving Private Ryan has some Hollywoodized stuff that holds it back a small amount, and the rest of the movie doesn’t quite live up to the raw power of the opening beach landing sequence.

 

[Schlosser85]

The Auschwitz sequence in Schindler's List is one of the most genuinely horrifying scenes I have ever watched in a film. So hard to get through it. You literally want to burst into tears [blackout]of sheer relief when Schindler gets them out last minute.[/blackout]

100% agree. The entire way that sequence is filmed is chillingly nightmarish, and nobody even dies onscreen in it. Right from the train entrance in the snow/ash and the searchlight and everything, and the belching smokestack, it feels like they’re in Hell.

 

[JimThompson]

Saving Private Ryan

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Saving Private Ryan

 

[Herofan]

Schindler's List was and is excellent.

I'm afraid I don't think Saving Private Ryan is exceptional and don't get love or gushing for it. Part of that may be that I watched Flags of Our Fathers a year before it and thought and still think it's much better.