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You miss the whole point by a cannon shot

I can draw my building very close to what it is... anyone who had seen it will agree on that... and yet nobody will call that art. Or I could simply take a very rotten photograph.

It is a completely poor judgement on part of ANYONE to ask the vets on the artistic merits of the film. People who lived through serious profound experiences develop particular sensitivity to subject, and they usually latch on, concentrate on details that may have little to do with the art of movie making.

All told, I consider that scene extremely piss-poor in terms of battle scene cinematography. Perhaps because I am familiar with far better examples.

Just recently I revisited the Bondarchuk's Waterloo again, and still today I consider it easily the finest battle film ever made. I could not even watch it in its completeness, I only jumped through some scenes, so immediate and immense was the effect - and while I am sure the Old Guard soldiers would find aplenty to like AND dislike about that representation, no one would had walked away thinking they had been just fed shit on a platter - the sensation one gets upon watching much of Spielberg's work.

It is too bad Spielberg apparently never learned from the old guard.

So... quoting one great critic here... "apparently you did not even get that feeling. That is a shame."



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