Yes, SPR was not necessarily the best movie ever made, but it was a good one. I also am in favor of any movie that gets the nation's interest built up about the things I I love. This and Band of Brothers (and to a lesser extent The Pacific) made people have WWII in the forefront of their thoughts again if only for a while. And let's face it - our population has no imagination any more. If they don't SEE something now a days, then by gosh it must not be real! Take the football player punching his wife. It wasn't enough that we had video of her walking in on her own power and then had video carrying her out. We had to see video of her being PUNCHED to really get mad.
READ A BOOK NOW AND THEN PEOPLE!!!
Also, I added pictures to the post above since I can't do that at work for some reason.