THE BEST WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME HAD US SHOOK 🫡 😢 Saving Private Ryan - First Time Reaction & Review
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"Happy Memorial Day?" Really? It's NOT a celebration.
Just a comment on when the widow receives the flag. We have a ceremonial burial detail that I was on burying war vets. One group does the 21 gun salute while the other carrys the casket where the American flag is hung. Before the casket is buried, the flag is folded meticulously and handed to the widow, children or next of kin. One of my best friends was the giant 6'6" mexican guys 240 lbs and during the ceremony we would read there achievements and medals. Some of them were bonafide monsters of men who saved hundreds of lives. It was difficult standing there in front of the family and not get teary but your job. This giant mexican guy just couldn't help but tear up. Eventually we had to move him to the rifle salute squad. Big baby, but one of the best guys ever.
i recommend we were soldiers by Mel Gibson, and hamburger hill for future movie reactions
Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches underwater, and flamethrowers not really exploding that way in 1944. One thing to know, pay no mind at all to that man who took off his helmet on the beach and then got shot in the head...that next shot would have killed him even if he had kept his helmet on. The helmets of WW2 would almost never stop a bullet, except under very very rare circumstances.
The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured.
There really was a Company C of the 2nd Rangers that landed on Omaha Beach, but they were commanded by Captain Ralph Goranson, and they did not land quite where it was shown in the film. Probably the most important historical thing that Spielberg got wrong is that he had the boats that carried the Rangers to the beach being driven by Americans...they were not. On D-Day, the boats that carried the US Rangers to the beach were driven by UK sailors of the Royal Navy. There are many other things in the film that are not accurate to the real history of D-Day, but that one really fails to honor some of the men that fought and died at Omaha Beach, so it is definitely the one most worth noting.
@@iKvetch558 The scene where they went after the machine gun position was really Hollywood. A ranger unit would not have assaulted that way when they had a sniper and a much easier avenue of approach. They certainly would not have risked a medic the way they did in the movie. Overall however, even with its flaws it is a great film and does a service to the men who fought and died for our country in all of its conflicts.
Apparently, the beach sequence was so accurate that veterans watching the film in cinema had to leave the room. They said the only thing missing about it was the smell.
Some said they could smell the diesel in the air
I was an usher in a movie theater when that came out and I can confirm that absolutely happened.
Way to be that guy
Indeed there were at most l think couple of extremely tiny inaccuracies of that scene but all things considered it was mostly accurate to the reality of it easily 1 of Spielbergs finest works.
The only 2 issues that i hqve about this scene is that bullets dont travel through the water like that. The other issue is they have the obstacles pointed the wrong way.
Band of Brothers? 1 season, 10 episodes, tells the story of the parachutists instead of the people storming the beaches.
THIS!
Kind of a 'must' after having seen this movie. 'Tradition'...
I second that !
Band of Brothers being a serialized "spin off" to SPR made by roughly the same production team and one of the best mini-series of all time, it is an absolute must watch after this movie !
Great series, I've watched it several times on Memorial Day, July 4, or Veterans' Day weekend.
Yes, the series is amazing, and I’d love to see you react to it
My high school art teacher, Ted Akimoto, went to war with his two brothers, while the rest of the family waited throughout the war in internment camps. They each begged their commanders to send the other two home, and continued to serve. They all made it. I just found out the story a few years back from his daughter. He never talked about it when he taught. R.I.P Mr. Akimoto.
Japanese Americans serving America while families were rid of their freedoms by America. Honorable Americans! Americans!!!
The dole survivor policy. No family should loose all thier sons. The end of a family line. The Sulivan brothers served on the same ship. The ship was lost in battle, with all the brothers. It was early in the war. That is why the Sole survivor policy was created. Also brothers were not allowed to serve in the same ship. They spread them out.
At 17:00 when he mentions that there were 35 dead on D-Day he was just talking about the deaths in his own squad. Around 4,500 allied soldiers died on D-Day, so when you said it looked like more it was.
Ladies, my dad is a D-day Veteran. I took him to watch this movie when it came out. The opening scene was rough on dad, it was one of the few times I ever saw my dad cry. He said it brought the whole bloody thing back to him. He said it's a story that needs to be told least we forget. Dad passed a year later. I miss him everyday.
Sending you all the love to you and your family 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 we appreciate you sharing this story 🙏🏼
1:07:32 Meesh: “I just don’t cry during movies. I’m not a crier.”
New Objective: Find a movie that’ll make Meesh cry! 😢 😂
The green Mile?
Hahaha this is my objective in life too 😂🫡
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Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby
Life Itself. I don't cry either and this..... this movie got me.
Sophie's Choice --- that one scene where even Meryl Streep's silent cry is the most heartbreaking and devastating film scene I've seen. Schindler's List -- the first 20 minutes of Up
At 20:51 "Peaches or apples ?" The answer is apples. Normandy is full of apples orchards and that`s why Normans drink a lot of cider, more than wine actually. There`s also a very strong alcoholic beverage made from apples called Calvados. Normandy also has a lot of cows...well, in the countryside of course.
My grandfather was in the Army in WWII, and got shot by a German sniper in France, but he lived to come home. He was the kindest, most honorable, and funniest man I've ever known, but he never spoke about the war. I'm an Army combat vet, too, and so is my son. My son and I both say the same thing - what we each saw will never compare to what these WWII soldiers saw.
Starting to cry when the old Ryan falls to his knees in the begining is a good sign. You're human.
4:11 - No, that guy was drowning.. A LOT of soldiers who stormed the beach simply drowned because they had to jump off the boats into deep water, and many of them had their gear too high on their body. That improper weight distribution caused many of them to be flipped upside-down under water, which caused them to eventually drown.
I forget the exact numbers of those who drowned, but it's sadly and surprisingly high.
As a vetern myself this makes me cry everytime. remember Memorial day is for the ones who sacrifice their lives for us. Veterans day is for veterans the ones who survived.
The Sullivan brothers were 5 brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who were stationed at the light warship USS Juneau in the Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 during the Guadalcanal raid in 1942 against Imperial Japan. A torpedo from a Japanese Naval Destroyer caused the crew and the Sullivan brothers to perish.
The worst part, the Sullivan brother's mother never got closure because their bodies were NEVER recovered.
Although the German they let go does return towards the end, he’s NOT the guy who stabs Mellish. Instead the released German actually ends up making the kill shot on Capt Miller a few minutes later. Upham then shoots and kills him.
The letters being typed are not from a template. The company commanders would write letters to the families of their fallen soldiers. They often hand wrote them and the war department would type them and deliver them.
I’m a feminist and pro women’s rights but when she said “to all the people who say we don’t need men, watch this.” Not a veteran, so I’ve never been to war, but that comment felt good to hear
tbf it was men who started the wars and ALL wars.
Hey girls, OOH RAH from an old Marine. We Were Soldiers was fantastic as well. Let us not forget our warriors. Revolutionary war up to the present. A lot of people died so we can be doing this right now.
A common mistake in the film reaction is the belief that the German soldier whom Captain Miller's squad let go is the same person who stabbed Pvt. Mellish, the Jewish American soldier. I made that mistake too when I saw this film in theater. Both German soldiers had similar facial complexion and hair style After watching the film the 3rd or 4th time, I realized it was a different trooper who killed Mellish. Make no mistake, Upham did shoot the correct German soldier whom he helped let go at the end of combat scene.
The soldier, who surrendered and was released, was part of German Heer, the actual national military, not the Nazis's own armed force like the Schutzstaffel aka the SS. On his Heer uniform, he had two parallel lines on his collar. The soldier who killed Mellish had a pair of two lightning bolts on his collar. It also appeared the uniform had a "pea dot" camouflage on the uniform, another distinct feature of the SS uniform. This type of camouflage uniform was only issued to SS.
The 2 German soldiers that were trying to surrender that the 2 American soldiers shot and then were mocking "look, I washed for supper". They were speaking Czech and saying they were forced into the German Army and didn't want to fight.
10 thousand allied troops died on the first wave of the Normandy landing. I believe the allies expected to lose 40 thousand. There were a lot of Europeans forced to fight in the German army. Dutch, Polish, French and a lot of others. To many young lads lost their lives. Were they actually saving one solder or fighting a war? There's no way these guys were going to sit back at base. We in europe owe our freedom to this lost generation.
Those are the Nazis. They speak German. They murdered millions in gas chambers. They were on a path of total conquest and were generally winning until their ally, Japan, attacked America in what is now known as Pearl Harbor Day, which pulled America into WW2. That whole initial battle was about establishing a foothold in Europe so that the American lead allies could finally begin the counterattack against the Nazis. This battle quite literally marked the pivotal shift of momentum for the whole war. Could maybe even argue that this battle is the reason why democracy exists.. without it, men like Putin and Trump would have been in charge long ago
Captain Miller is telling Ryan to make his life worthy of the blood sacrifice that Miller and his men paid to give Ryan his chance at life.
23:20 i know it’s a joke, but just to be clear, he’s the medic so he wants to get to him to help him
You should do a reaction to Band of Brothers. It's made by the same people who made Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg and Hanks too) and it has the same high production quality as this movie, which is a feat of its own (produced by HBO)... It's 10 episodes covering one specific company from the 101st airborne division (the one Ryan was part of) from basic training all the way to the end of the war. And here's the kicker - it's all based on real people and real events. You even get to see the real vets talking for a minute at the start of each episode. It's simply a masterpeice and some of the best dramatic storytelling in the history of moving pictures.
All women who always say "we don't need men" should really watch this film!
War recommendations:
Band of brothers (TV series produced by Tom hanks & Steven Spielberg)
The pacific (TV series produced by Tom hanks & Steven Spielberg)
Operation chromite (Korean war)
Black hawk down (Somalia/U.S)
Downfall (Hitler pov - fall of Berlin)
The conference (Nazi politics)
Flyboys (WWI French pov)
Red baron (WWI German pov)
Letters from Iwo Jima (pacific campaign)
American sniper (war on terror)
Stalingrad (1993 version)
Generation war (eastern front)
Come and see (psychological, will mess with your head)
The ascent (produced by the wife who produced ‘come and see’ equally will mess with your head)
& saving the best for last:
Tropic thunder (Vietnam war/very serious)
Oh what a world of great, great classic movies that awaits you; "Casablanca", "12 Angry Men", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Network", "Wizard of Oz", "Frankenstein", "The Big Lebowski", "Day the Earth Stood Still", "Taxi Driver", "Night of the Hunter", and only a thousand million more...
Tom Hanks shooting at the tank has a name... Its called "last act of defiance"
This is accurate but it is only a portion of what happened. They didn’t get off of Omaha Beach until around noon. It was about 5 hours of hell.
Women "I am so oppressed".
Men coming back from war "Is that a fact".................
the dude drowned due to the weight of the equipment looks something got stuck and couldn't take it off and as we know having your lungs filled with water isn't compatible with life
2 other WW2 pictures you guys might wanna check out are Fury and Hacksaw Ridge.
Ladies, thank you for airing this. It was interesting watching your expression at the carnage.
You are a reflection and an honest one that virtually no one in your generation has a clue, nor care, about WW2 in general and D-day in particular.
My dad was there, and he told me about it three days before I left for Vietnam.
The movie did a wonderful job, but dad's recounting was much worse.
You made the point about Don't need no men. " I truly hate the ignorant, selfish, and cowardly women's movement that generates men. Today, Id be hard pressed to risk my life for liberals in general and women in particular.
Perhaps this will wake someone up.
BLESS YOU for putting this on.
I'll give the girl on the right the benefit of the doubt of not seeing this movie in its entirety from start to finish but all the Matt Damon comments kinda took me outta the reaction experience. Especially after she said in the intro that her whole family has seen it.
I have long felt it should be a requirement of high school graduation to view the first 30 minutes or so of this movie (right up to the scene where Mom collapses on the porch).
i donT get why they all think that steamboat willie and the guy with the knife are the same guy. they don`t even have the same uniform.
You two are awesome! Really intelligent conversation at the end.
I mentioned Last of the Mohicans before, excelllent film, but if you want the one other WWII movie that rivals Saving Private Ryan, watch Hacksaw Ridge. It’s in the Pacific Theater. True story.
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Me encantó esa reacción final riendo y llorando al mismo tiempo jajaja
The steel thing they wanted go around was a radar antenna the Germans built and tried to defend.
The guy at 4:10 drowned because of the heavy weight of the equipment, like quiet some of the arriving soliders
Beni was played by Kevin O'Connor. :)
There are two other War Movies that is as good as "Saving Private Ryan". Honestly, I enjoy them better. "Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War" and Front Line"
I hella enjoyed watching these girls 👍🏽. Their commentary was actually good and they were really into the greatest war movie of all time. I'mma fan of you guys now! 🫡🍻
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4:14 he drowned. His gear was too heavy and he couldn't get it off in time
Ladies, U might want 2 watch the 1944 movie "The Fighting Sullivans."
Not a single woman fought
I am a combat vet and don't comment very much. You can not possibly know the good you have just done . Maybe the next time we walk past an old guy we should say hello or talk with them for a bit. None of us know what they may have been through . Thank you for this and God bless you both.
Thank you for leaving this sweet comment! We sincerely thank you for your service and everything you’ve done for our country 🤍❤️🙏🏼
@@MeeshDeeReacts How very nice of you both. I LOVE the fact that you think so much of veterans and it's nice to see someone who cares. God bless you both
i think normal soldiers are the gun of a nation.they are very cheap and must follow the rules.ww1 and ww2 show it us.putin today do that again.the western allies produce 1/4 artis in a year than russia do.and we say we help the ukrains????...and our western weapons are only allowed in ukraine???in every war the enemy must attack behind the lines so support can never arrived.
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@@charlesh796they don't give a shit what are you on about
That little sentence you said “for those that say we don’t need men, watch this movie” you’re getting a subscriber. That warmed my heart! My great grandfather fought in this war! Love from 🇬🇧
Lol my dad fought in that war. One uncle died at the battle of the bulge, another uncle died as a pilot. Still another uncle was captured at Bataan by the japanese. They broke his neck. At wars end they rebroke it trying to fix it. He never recovered mentally. My dad was a marine on Saipan and tinian. Other aunts and uncles also served in WWII. To me it's not history. It's current events.
@@woodspirit98 my great grandfather also fought against the Japanese along side the Gurkha’s.
@@woodspirit98 Iam sorry for all the losses in your family but why just disrespect them wit this ridicoulus "Lol" at the beginning. Stop using this shit acronyms of the new era
I was going to post almost the same comment. Because of that I subscribed.
Allso subbed for this. Comment
I am an 80+-year-old man and I cried like a baby. one of my sons and one of my daughters are with me, and they thought that they would need the "crash-Cart," I was alive in 1946, and my Dad, my uncles, and my oldest cousins were there fighting..we lost them all except for my Dad and my mother's brother.
“Earn this.”
It means earn the sacrifices made to protect you and keep you free. He’s speaking to all of us.
I thought my first couple of viewings, he was saying ‘earnest’ lol
That is perhaps the most Concerning line in whole of "Saving Private Ryan". We laid down our lives, for YOU to live on...I still LOOOVE this movie. The cast is "to die for"...
These two words should be the salute to memorial day.
No it doesn’t. He was speaking directly to Ryan saying “earn this” as in the sacrifice we all made to save you and bring you home to your family. That was the literal meaning. He was not speaking metaphorically there.
I don't think he says "earn this", I heard him say "earned this", meaning he earned his right to go home. Tom Hanks character wasn't the type to tell ppl on his death bed that they should earn something, he said he earned it.
Near the beginning when Capt Miller says they had 35 dead, he isn't talking about on D-Day, he was talking about another action where he was tasked with destroying a German artillery position. Reactors seem to always get confused by this. Also, for the D-Day invasion, Capt Miller wasn't in charge of the whole thing, he was in command of one company, the overall operation was massive and we see just a tiny fraction of it from his perspective. On Omaha beach alone, the US Army lost of 2,000 men.
Egirls can't comprehend the reality of Omaha and Utah beach
It goes into this in the book. I think I remember them trying to cross the mind field and some dog showed up, they followed the dog to get through that shit
He lost 35 men in his company under his order. 2400 KIA total on Omaha
when you all watch Band of Brothers, just imagine Pvt Ryan is in that crowd somewhere parachuting down with them.
THIS!
@@adrianmorales5770, what’s wrong with you.
@@flogg8635 What's wrong with *you* ? Guy's literally just backing the sentiment of another comment, smh
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I'm curious now.
What exactly did you think saying "this" after a comment meant?
(Cause I'm sure you've looked it up by now. 🤣🤣🤣 )
They actually parachuted in the night before
The soldier who died underwater didn't kill himself, he drowned. A lot of men had to jump into the heavy surf, either to escape enemy fire, or to escape a disabled landing craft, or because they were let out too far from shore. They were weighed down with heavy equipment and a number of them drowned. Capt Miller tells the Navy demolitions man clearing a way for the tanks that "all the armor is floundering in the channel." The army had dual-drive tanks with "water wings" that could tread water and were supposed to drive up onto the beach to give the troops tank support, but the heavier than expected surf caused most of them to sink, and many tank crewman drowned.
Yes. Also, those bullets would not penetrate several feet of water. This has been myth busted. But it all goes to make a good action scene.
Also keep in mind how many of them couldn’t swim. My great grandfather was a gunner on a destroyer in the US navy in ww2 and he as well as many other people never knew how to swim 😂 RIP Frank Ainslie Sr
The two soldiers surrendering in the beginning scene were Czech, They were saying they didn't shoot anyone. It was a very common thing for men in captured towns to be forced to fight after being taken
According to Historian Steven Ambrose (Author of Band of Brothers & D-Day the Climactic Battle of WWII) they even captured two Koreans, dressed in German uniforms who’d been captured by the Japanese and put into the lines against the Russians, who then captured them and threw them into the line against the Germans, who then captured them and put them into the line against the Americans in Normandy.
And many Czechs were "ethnic Germans" from the Sudetenland and volunteered too. There were lots of Nazis among them. It's equally likely that these were two of them and spoke Czech to get a "better deal" through surrendering. Because they were considered Germans, they would have been allowed into the regular German army (like these two)
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@@usmcrn4418 There’s a movie abt it but it’s not entirely accurate. Some few changes but overall it is pretty good & enjoyable. I think it’s called “My Way (2011)” film but they speak in their native/foreign tongues. The only English verbal you’ll get is when the Americans show up.
Although some viewers complained abt the beach being inaccurate for not being Omaha beach. I mean seriously, it’s point du hoc beach. Omaha wasn’t the only beach being stormed during the invasion. People need to look at the battle plan maps whether on books, tv shows, etc. so much info that anyone can just google in seconds instead of whining with complete disregard or ignorance. However, the MG42 sounds are way off, not sure how they got that wrong compared to this movie that got it right
being shot when surrendering is quite common , as long as bullets whistle people have a very short view of things
those guys were machine-gunning you and your mates .....and now they don't want to play anymore
This June 6 will mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. 160,000 Allied troops landed that day, 5,000 naval ships and 2,200 aircraft. The opening beach scene lasted for over 6 hours and they barely had 10 feet of beach. Gen Eisenhower took out a pen and a piece paper and wrote a letter to Pres Roosevelt taking full responsibility for the failure of the D-Day invasion and that he was going to recall all troops. As he was finishing the letter his assistant burst into the room with those famous words, "Sir, Sir, the Americans have broken through sir, the Americans have broken through". Gen Eisenhower put the letter back in his pocket. Check out Band of Brothers next.
I'm from Bedford, Virginia, home to the National D-Day Memorial. In 1944, it was a town of 3,200 people. 20 of them were killed on that one day in Normandy. That grim achievement made them the town with the highest per capita losses on D-Day; overall at least 4,400 Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen died that day. Among the natives of Bedford, just about everyone has aa tie to someone who died in Normandy.
We should all say a big thank you and say a prayer for all the veterans who served 80 years ago on June the 6th 1944.🙏
this movie is mostly propaganda not reality
"The Americans have broken through" ?? By the time the Americans got off Omaha beach the British, Canadians and French had already advanced up to 8 miles inland. At the end of the day British units were on the outskirts of Caen but the Americans were barely holding on to the sand dunes behind Omaha beach.
D-Day was not in danger of imminent failure, only the American part in it.
"The Americans have broken through" is disgraceful. Americans do like to steal ALL the credit for the Allied victory.
@@mimikurtz2162 . Agree with you. Can't find this information nowhere. Looks like another one legend about D-Day.
The German solider who stabs Mellish (Jewish soldier) with the knife isn't Steamboat Willie who they let go free. But it IS Willie that Upham shoots and who shoots Captain Miller at the end. When Upham spots him on the bridge, it's the first time we've seen him since he was set free
Never understood why they used an actor that looked so much like the German they let go.
@@newsguy5241The shaved heads of both soldiers adds to the confusion, which is actually a historical inaccuracy. German infantry men didn't adopt shaved heads during that time period.
Correct, it isn't the same guy. The soldier who kills Mellish is an SS recruit, you can see the insignia on his lapel. Steamboat Willie is more than likely a conscript. They do look similar but they are two totally different actors
It's really to parallel the point home. One guy looks friendly, the other does and is enemy.
I have watched a lot of reactions of this movie and almost everyone gets them mixed up but I think they look nothing alike.
FYI: the German soldier who knifes Mellish to death in hand-to-hand combat is *not* the German prisoner they released earlier.
That's right he was a Waffen SS guy.
But the one who shoots Miller is.
I'm so glad to see this 😲
the sniper shot through the scope is based on a real shot by a real Marine sniper in Vietnam named Carlos Hathcock, he actually did that. which of course means the other sniper was looking right at him when he fired, he survived by half a second.
Came here to point this out.
That is so crazy!!!
@@MeeshDeeReactsthere’s significant differences though. The shot in Saving Private Ryan couldn’t happen in real life due to the range and angle of elevation. At 450 yards, even a .30-06 would have enough drop to it that even if it does hit the scope, the round will end up going out the side. The only reason the Hathcock shot was possible was because both snipers were within 100 yards of one another. So imagine two people endzone to endzone on an NFL field.
@@chrisg8767 i dont know if you can make a (decent) movie about snipers but if you can the story of Hathcock and the female Vietnamese sniper hunting each other would be a place to start
@@dmsfrom "Enemy at the Gate" set in Stalingrad.
Ladies, I watched this on Memorial Day. Thanks to all those who made the ultimate sacrifice. And thanks to you for showing respect and reverence.
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The medic knew he was gonna die, so he asked for morphine to overdose himself. Thats why everyone looked worried when he asked for morphine
That scene makes me tear up every time. The way he calls for his mama, just heartbreaking 💔
It is an absolutely heartbreaking scene but I never understood why if they could have skipped it and decided not to why couldn't they combine the 2?? You flank around them out of their sight and come back from behind them where they're not looking at and their guns aren't set up to point at and judging from the geography you would be on the higher ground.... Sorry I absolutely love this movie but this is the only scene that ever confused me from the very beginning if they had the option to go around but they chose instead to fight why couldn't you instead flank them and behind them instead of risking so much more by running straight in from where they expected you to with only 8 men?
One for the pain two for eternity
The opening scene is a depiction of D-Day, the largest amphibious assault by Allied forces in WW2. Between the different landing sites, 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded.
Love and respect to all who served, historically and currently. Lest We Forget...
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But of course men had all the privilege back then according to feminists
Sicily was larger and in 1943 - Operation Husky. In 1945 in the pacific, there is a larger invasion.
@@PaulMichaelJohnsonwas it? What operation?
@@mrtiesthatbind Op Iceberg on 4-1-1945, the invasion of Okinawa
People who aren't familiar with these events are always confused about that line when Hanks reports "35 dead." He meant his company had 35 dead in another later action to take out German guns. The opening scene depicts the D-Day invasion of German occupied France. The U.S., British and Canadians landed 130,000 mean on the shores of Normandy. The beach that Hanks landed was Omaha Beach--the worst of the five invasion beaches. The U.S. had 4,000 casulaties ( 1,800 dead) just on that one beach. It also took them nearly seven hours to secure a foothold.
Utah, Omaha, Juno, sword, Gold
it’s not even being familiar with the events, it’s just using a common sense, like you watch soldier get mowed down for like 15 minutes and what you make of it is only 35 if them died? like come on
Tom Hanks unit are not normal soldiers. They are Rangers. The blue diamond patch on the sholder. The translator is just a normal soldier..
Upham is there to remind us of how terrified and frozen with fear each of us might be in the same position. Many soldiers carried memories of such tragic and nightmarish war experiences that haunted them for the rest of their lives. The last thing Steven Spielberg intended was for us to hate on Upham. Especially on Memorial Day.
Exactly, sadly, today's generation doesn't seem to get it.
He also should have never been brought along. He states plainly that he hadn't fired a weapon since basic training. He isn't trained for the type of action they were going to see and so one could argue that the captain made a bad call by recruiting him which of course led to the deaths of Mellish and the captain himself. It also should be noted that his ability to speak German contributed very little to the overall success of the mission. It always blows my mind when people dog pile on Upom when he was basically set up to fail from the very beginning.
@@TheHuntsman-qe9iz you say that as if the captain had a choice. He was still on normandy beach when he recruited upham, did you honestly think they had any translators that weren't fresh off the boat during that time? And even if there were, its better to get a translator fast so that you can get on with the mission instead searching for ages for one that fits your standards. As for his contribution to the mission: yeah, he didn't do much, but here's a thought, how on earth was the captain or anyone else supposed to know what was going to happen during their mission or whether not his skills as a translator would be used? The captain recruited upham because its common sense to bring along a translator when you're traveling across a foreign country during a war, thats all.
@bostonianful he did have a choice, though. That's why I said it could be argued that he made a bad call. I personally think he did, but having a translator would be useful as well. It's up to the viewer to decide which I think is why Upham was included in the film. He serves as a big jumping off point for discussions on morals as well as strategy.
Personally, if I were in that situation, I would have left Upham behind. Sure, speaking German would be useful, but his lack of combat experience outweighs that. He's just gonna be liability because he's gonna have to sit out during combat, or be looked after by someone, or is gonna break because he's never been shot at before.
@@TheHuntsman-qe9iz I never understood why they even had to have an ammo runner at all and then decided it had to be Upham. They had 2 machine guns, one of them positioned in a totally exposed location along with another important long range asset (sniper) which would have been tankshelled out of principle before the germans even entered the town. And when you have 2 machine guns you can just give both teams most of the ammo and have only a little inreserve at a fallback position, like the alamo here. Giving the ammo to the dude who is basically a non-combatant throughout the whole movie and having him run around over exposed streets and in front of tanks seems....not smart at all. Many plot decisions made by Spielberg seem to be overly focused to add drama and scenes in the last fight, losing too much accuracy for even only casual military/history enthusiasts. Not to mention the bullrushing Tiger tank in the beginning of the scene or where they get almost run over by the second Tiger, when the infantry could have attacked them first and killed all 3 in seconds....
Captain Miller's Last Wishes to Private Ryan of: "Earn This." It was a Message to all young Americans and People around the World: "EARN this Sacrifice. Earn this blood that has been shed. We were injured and died for YOU. You are Free to speak, own, guns, grow gardens, have your choice of partners, learn whatever you want in school....because of US. We died for you. We crippled ourselves for YOU. Please, do GREAT things with your beautiful, short little Lives. Earn this. We love you. I'll see you again one day."
That's what that line meant to me.
Thank you for articulating the message and meaning so wonderfully because you are 100% correct and to say that this is an important message is the most understated thing possible. I am definitely concerned about our future generations in The United States of America. Way too many of our fellow County men and women have paid the ultimate price for our way of life. We better get tough and get our s*‐t together.
I highly doubt any of the men back then would agree with everything you said, I wouldn't throw my personal beliefs onto their sacrifice lest it serves a soapbox of skulls
Use your freedom but don't put words into their mouths please
@@PodreyJenkin138 not sure if you are replying to Ultra_Fine_Point or me but either way, it is not opinion, it is simply basic common staples that we shouldn't even have to explain or discuss. It is understood. It's a kin to starting a conversation with a fellow countrymen on our own soil.
@@dansullivan8648 I don't understand what the hell you even typed, you need to write out what you're saying a lot better buddy
I'm replying to OP especially the "marry who you want" I can guarantee that the men who stormed Normandy near universally would have rejected that notion, they were Christian, masculine men and should not serve an agenda they would have hated
You keep saying, "It's really good... for 1998". As though 1998 was back in the Bronze Age. Thanks for making me feel like a living fossil. 😅
Yeah for real, movie makers were absolutely kicking ass all the way from the start of the 80s. There are movies from the 80's onward that hold up today impeccably. Practical effects baby, they're rarely beat :P
Mrs. Ryan getting the news: top 5 saddest scenes in cinema. Hands down.
The Sullivan brothers was a true story and after that family was separated in different divisions
"LOOK I WASHED FOR SUPPER" what they really said was that they were Czech forced to fight in the german army.
This landing was based on the bloodiest sector in the whole invasion. The book "Eyewitness on Omaha Beach" by Dr. Harold Baumgarten was a primary source as he was one of the few survivors. He himself was wounded rather soon after landing and was stuck on the beach for some time before being evacuated.
One of the unfortunate things was that the Army and all didn't listen to much of the advise given to them by the forces fighting in the Pacific. This surely added to casualties and threatened the mission. This would be sending the first waves in lightly equipped so they could move fast, sending in destroyers as close in as they could get to blast bunkers with their 5 inch guns, etc. A few destroyers did get in close on their own accord and they smashed a number of bunkers.
i dont think its been mentioned yet but i believe the two soldiers that were surrendering and trying to talk before they were shot and killed were speaking Czech. They were saying that theyre not German and they didnt kill anyone. From what i know, its to reflect Germany conscripting soldiers from countries that they conquered and forcing them to fight on their behalf.
I hope im not wrong since I remember reading about this small but impactful detail a while back. If I am, someone can correct me.
It's also plausible they were Czechs who were "ethnic Germans" from the Nazi-friendly Sudetenland and speaking Czech trying to get a better deal.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 that also makes sense. I actually didnt think of that
Hi, you have absolutely right. It's exactly as you write. I'm Czech and when I first saw the film in the original English language, I couldn't believe that I was hearing Czech :)
By the way, one interesting fact related to the Second World War (and the film) is that when landing on the beach, the soldiers hide behind anti-tank obstacles called "rozsocháče" - an invention of the Czechoslovak army, used to fortify fortresses on the borders of the state - which were gradually stolen by the German army for her need.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog
@@tomtalon1180 ohhh thats interesting. i didnt know about that. thanks for that tidbit. :)
Alternately, they could have been ethnic Germans repatriated after the Nazis conquered the Sudetenland. Many of them willingly fought for the Fatherland in WW II.
Hello ladies. I'm a Vietnam War veteran and I appreciate your sensitivity and honesty in this reaction. One thing I must say...sometimes it's harder coming home than being in the shit. Thanks for listening. Be good to yourselves!
Hi there, we appreciate you watching along with us and supporting us ❤️ we truly are so thankful to all of our veterans who have and are still serving 🙏🏼🫡
Did you have fun throwing napalm to inocent people??
My grandfather served during DDay. He stormed gold beach (alongside Omaha) with the British forces.
Thanks to our American and Canadian brothers for the allied invasion and the large sea invasion in history.
Where you said "Translate" when Upham is talking to the German soldier, Upham says "Lay down your weapons", the German says "I know this soldier, I know this man" and Upham says "Halt your snout"(disrespectful form of "Shut up"), German says "Upham!?" and Upham fires, then yells "Disappear" to the other German troops.
Also, in the beginning, when they are on the bunker hill in normandy and they shoot the two soldiers who try to surrender - they actually speak not German but Czech. It's little known, that people in occupied countries were drafted in the german army (in groups of their own countrymen), or even volunteered.
For example ~25.000 soldiers from the anti-communist western Ukraine even joined the Waffen-SS in the notorious “Galicia” Division and fought on the eastern front.
The german troops in Normandy were in fact rather 2nd rate reserve troops (old, sick, unexperienced - this post was rather considered R&R among the german army), just there to stand guard and man the defense structures ("Atlantic wall"). Only about two days after the landing the surprised germans brought in elite troops from the south and east.
@@40hup Some of the Czech's were ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland and willingly served in the German army when repatriated. For all we know, this may be the case and they spoke Czech to the American soldiers trying to distance themselves from the Nazis.
thank you. I did not know of this before.
The one that walked past Uppham on the staircase wasn't the one they let go.
@17:10 When he mentions 35 killed and 70 wounded, Hanks' character is only talking about the casualties of his one company. Over 3,000 American's died during the D-Day landings.
And that would account for probably 2/3rds of his company.
As a Combat Medic or Navy Corpsman it is your JOB to expose yourself to fire and try to care for and save the wounded of both sides. Thats why so many of them died.
Semper fi brother, Corpsman's have always have a place into our heart.
❤️❤️❤️
When Caparzo (Vin Diesel) was shot, you guys asked if the medic (Wade) wanted to go out there because "He was his boyfriend?" Really? Wade wanted to go to Caparzo because he was the medic---it was his job.
@@newsguy5241 between that and saying tom hanks character was a pussy for letting steamboat willie go shows how stupid these two chicks are lmao
It's kinda funny that Matt Damon actually looks like he's gradually turning into that old actor in real life.
I'm glad they used an old actor who looked like him when in today's filmmaking, they will just use AI on someone.
If to want to take a break from war films, but loved the acting, consider going down the rabbit hole of Tom Hanks phenominal acting career. Everything from romance w/ Meg Ryan to comedy, to survival. Hanks really is a phenominal actor, and later producer and director.
I recommend Joe Vs The Volcano.
Or Apollo 13.
Up to this point, war movies were largely "heroic" in tone for lack of a better term. A few before this showed the true horrors of combat but Saving Private Ryan popularized not shying away from the ugly and bloody reality of warfare. The Spielberg that shocks and the Spielberg that hits our emotions collide in this film and Schindler's List.
Our emotions were everywhere from the film. Spielberg did an amazing job depicting the horrors of combat as you said and drew all the emotions throughout the entire movie 🙏🏼
Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),
all came before SPR and all are viceral anti war non heroic films.
SPR is an amazing piece yet Spielberg didn't invent anything, he followed with much talent in the steps of other talented filmmakers.
@vincentdesjardins1354 I said popularized, not invented. Ever since this movie, war movies adopted this saturated colors look and lingered on the violence. There was bloodshed in those earlier movies, sure but that was Vietnam. When I mean how war movies glorified combat, I mean WWII films that were a cut and dry good vs evil thing.
The "35 dead" was NOT from the beach invasion. Remember they showed "D-Day Plus Three". There were three days between the beach invasion and when we next see Tom Hanks. the 35 dead is from a mission they did in between that was not shown.
“they don’t wanna move???” next scene is the germans mowing down exposed soldiers moving in the open LMAO. nah fam, they don’t wanna move
Vin diesel, Eddie from friends, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Farina, Giovanni ribisi, Paul giamatti, Ed burn, barry pepper, Matt Damon, Ted danson, the pilot who crashed the plane, the guy who knew Ryan
when captain says "EARN THIS" he means your life. people sacrificed their own to go and save ryan, so captain is telling him to make the most out of his life, make it worth the sacrifices that were made. it circles back to the beginning of the movie when we see how big of a family he has made
There were many 'D-days' and 'H-hours'. Normandy is the famous one.
My dad was in North Africa, Sicily and Italy with Patton.
Now 77, I have watched war movies go from pure propaganda in the 50s to this horrible masterpiece.
check out hacksaw ridge too!!!
It’s on our list for the future! ☺️
@@MeeshDeeReacts Also check out 12 Strong, Lone Survivor, American Sniper, Midway (2019 version), and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
Don’t bother, it’s a terrible movie completely overacted and directed by a complete ass. Read the book (The Conscientious Objector) instead to learn the story of Mr Doss.
At 33:00, deaf guy, he played Jerry in REMEMBER THE TITANS and was BETA in TWD.
Only just now finding out that those two characters are played by the same guy when I’ve seen them both on multiple watches 🤯
The first scene was a battle called "D-Day." It was the largest seaborne & airborne invasion in human history. The whole point was to get behind enemy lines into Nazi Germany. Hitler had built what they called the "Alantic Wall." It was German fortifications on the coast that stretched from the border of Spain & France all the way to the entire coast of Norway... more than 3,200 miles long! To put that in perspective, New York to California is 2,883 miles. Completely insane
The men of WW2 went home and returned to ordinary jobs. Never talking about what they had seen and done during the war. We had heroes amongst us, and most of us never knew it. They were truly the Greatest Generation.
But new age just reduced them down to boomers
Steven Spielberg said it correctly at the Academy Awards (he is the son of WW ll vet). "These men were 18,19 and 20 and they saved the whole damn world!"
No haha. It was the Russian Army. USA entered to the war very late
I believe you are wrong, the US entered the war on December 8th after sneak attack of the Japanese Empire on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Germany declared war on the US because they were allied with Japan. So America entered another war in Europe that she didn't start. Russia declare war on Japan until the US bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima with the first atomic bombs.
@@alexstark7620 Russia wasn't brought in until a few months before Pearl Harbor.
@@raymonddevera2796 It was just USA vs Japan. Russia fought against the nazi army since day 1
Semantics, so America should enter with Germany before any hostiles are done to her? We sending aid to England and the USSR before entering the war. This was Stalin's fault for believing Hitler wouldn't break that treaty. If it wasn't for the Russia winter the Germans would have taken Moscow. Then Germany had to fight a war on two fronts once America joined the fight.
Imagine learning about ww2 for the first time, as an adult, through a movie..
Atleast,atleast they know a bit of history now.
Some people dont even know world war exist,or existed even in the present day.
you can thank the american education for that
Imagine being aware of the history yet still be salty about someone trying to learn😮
Ggenerally speaking,people who are not likely to be drafted and not likely to have had parents or grandparents in World War II aren't military history Buffs.
No matter how they learn it's a win,
I mean, we had to learn it in school
@5:22 "They were just invading the beach?" Are you kidding me? Have you never heard of Omaha Beach and the Invasion of Normandy?
@12:38 "What language were they (Nazi's) even speaking?" Your ignorance is astounding.
You were emotional when *Tom Hanks/Captain Miller* died but if you noticed they focused on his hand which was shaking throughout the movie, is no longer shaking
The obstacles on the beach are there to prevent landing ships. So they had to land at low tide which means they had to cross a large portion of beach leaving them open to attack by mortars & gunfire
"You just have to kill him!" Do you really think any soldier would deliberately kill a wounded companion? Why do you think there are medics in every platoon?
Over 2,400 men died on Omaha beach at least. Their still trying to figure out the correct figures to this day. Some say around 5,000 killed. The one thing for sure, the ocean around that beach was red with blood for 2 weeks straight
The guy who killed Mellish isn’t the guy they let go. The guy who killed miller is
Beat me to it. They look pretty similar so I reckon a number of people would mistake them for one another but they are different people.
The letters they were typing were not all the same. When a soldier died, his CO would write a specific letter for the family. Often it was the Sgt or LT, in charge of the soldier. They would give details of what happened in each case. And this was on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
A lot of reactors say "it looked like more" when Hanks Captain Miller is giving a report about 35 dead X 2 wounded. But he wasn't talking about the beach landing. It is three days later and he's talking about another mission we didn't see that they just got back from 😊
Whenever foreign soldiers work with US Special Forces they say it's like watching a movie in real life because of how stupidly easy they make everything look.