It was worth seeing in the movie theater. It ended up being one of those war movies that was part story, part documentary. It took me back to my sophomore year of college and my U.S. Naval History course for ROTC. The story was large in scope and attempted to be an accurate depiction. That was fine with me. I didn't need to see a war movie drama about a cast of damned characters.
Of course I saw the 1976 version several times in the 80s and 90s. That movie had an all-star cast of 60s & 70s actors and it even had actual WWII footage cut into the movie. I didn't watch it as often as I would have liked. While both movies were about 2:15 hours long, watching a 1976 movie on broadcast TV took over three hours due to commercials. That's just too long.
