Private Ryan opening scene finally surpassed?

[wolfracesonic]

I've always thought the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan was the best celluloid portrayal of combat I've seen and would likely remain so, until last night that is when I watched Lone Survivor and the shootout in the mountains. Intense, visceral, gritty, stark, we're gonna need a bigger thesaurus. Now I know the emotions it generated are nothing like actual combat, as I sat there with my beer, crisps and 6.1 surround sound/7ft projector screen but holy cow! The bar has been re-set I feel, unless you can think of anything better.

[wolfracesonic]

'But what do I know?' we're keyboard warriors, we know everything! I'll grant you Lone Survivor lacked SPR's epic scale and grandeur but I'll stick by my initial post(for now!)