But only for one reason.

The ending to Saving Private Ryan was corny as hell.

Really corny.

As in, so corny it almost ruined the first near-flawless 2 1/2+ hours prior.

That's definitely ignoring the sometimes glaring issues with the portrayal of the Germans. You know, how it's trying to show the ugly brutality of war, and how it's war that's bad but the people fighting it are usually just scared pawns...and yet you almost never even see the Germans, and the one you see the most of turns out to be a worm.

I mean I guess Spielberg had to walk gracefully to keep from sympathizing with the Germans, but still, it would have been cooler to show that the German soldiers were just as much victims of an awful war as the American ones. Just my opinion.

Oh yeah, I wish they had at least one black guy in there. And Vin does NOT count.

Whereas Shakespeare in Love was just a playful tale, creating characters and a tone right from the plays. Outside of the fact that Joseph Fiennes overdid it in a few scenes, there wasn't a head-shaking moment there.