This film was pitted against The Thin Red Line (1998) at the Oscars and amongst war movie buffs. This was more a function of marketing than anything else as The Thin Red Line was significantly slower paced and more philosophical as compared to Saving Private Ryan's traditional war movie feel. (Not to mention one is about the Pacific War, the other the European theater).
Saving Private Ryan ending explained (spoilers)
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When Miller and his men find Ryan, he is dug in with his unit awaiting the German counter attack. Ryan refuses to leave his buddies and Miller and his men agree to fight with them. The Germans attack in overwhelming numbers and everyone fights valiantly except Upham who runs and hides. Of the men in the original platoon, Jackson gets blown up in the Bell Tower. Mellish has a fight with a German Soldier who after much struggling stabs Mellish to death. And Horvath gets shot numerous times and eventually dies. Miller gets shot trying to reach the remote to denonate the bridge. Reinforcements arrive just before he dies. Upham, Reiben and Ryan survive the battle. The old man we saw at the beginning in the war cemtery is Ryan, and he is there with his family to visit Miller's gravesite, the man who saved his life.
Saving Private Ryan ending explained (spoilers)
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