THE BEST WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME HAD US SHOOK 🫡 😢 Saving Private Ryan - First Time Reaction & Review
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
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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.
“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.
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.
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@@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
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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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.
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.
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.
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!
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Did you have fun throwing napalm to inocent people??
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
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
Mrs. Ryan getting the news: top 5 saddest scenes in cinema. Hands down.
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.
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 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.
Soldiers of world war fought and died for freedom, honor, and better life. Thank you for making this reaction video, it mean a lot to my grandpa 😊. Live in peace you two and be healthy and together always.
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.
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
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.
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.
I want you to imagine you're on a warship at sea, and you hear "Battle stations! All hands man your battle stations! This is not a drill!" And you actually see the enemy weapons drawn upon you less than 300 feet way. I have. Gladly for my country. Fifty years ago this year.
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.
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
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
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 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
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.
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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
The average age of a rifleman on D-Day was about 19 - look around at the 19 year-olds you know - can you imagine them doing this? That is why they are called the greatest generation.
Yes, I can imagine 19 yr olds fighting in war nowadays, as those are the young men currently filling the ranks of our military, voluntarily.
@@grsnowball There was this thing call conscription- a draft - that means back in the 40's it was all young men - not just volunteers,
Hence the question stands unanswered.
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No sir, the question was clearly answered- Yes, I can imagine it.
You seemed to have completely misunderstood the point I was making, and the secondary point I was implying.
1- there are CURRENTLY 19 yr olds in the military; and there has been 19 yr olds fighting and dying in wars since ww2. So yes I can imagine today's 19 yr olds in the military following orders that lead to their deaths.
2- You belittle the young men of today, even though THEY are the ones volunteering to serve in the military, while many of the "greatest generation" were drafted.
You seem to have developed, or likely absorbed, the unintelligent viewpoint common in RUclips comment sections and internet memes about the d day invasion, comparing a soldier at Normandy to a drastically different, very feminine modern man. That comparison is apples to oranges. It's better to compare a 1940s rifleman to a modern rifleman, otherwise you do a disservice to every normal man currently in military.
@@grsnowball lol.. you ignore the obvious by obfuscation-only 1% of American will serve - it is self-selecting - you are suggesting the 99% who don't serve are just like the 1% who do serve.
In WW II it was almost half of young men.
Basic statistics is your friend - my friend - as is basic logic.
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.
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....
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.
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
The one that walked past Uppham on the staircase wasn't the one they let go.
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 😊
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.
You don't realise! Upham isn't a combat soldier. Miller's team are battle hardened Rangers. Don't be so quick to judge him, war is a nightmare.
Also Fish's killer is a different soldier.
The most emotional scene to me had no gunfire in it at all. Recall if you will, the scene of the mother washing her dishes in her farmhouse, maybe somewhere in Iowa or Nebraska looking out and doing a double take at the army vehicle snaking up the road. You didn’t have to see her face after that. Spielberg masterfully had her opening her door(silhouetted with her back to the camera) as the car arrived out front, them slumping to her knees as she saw the chaplain get out of the car. If you aren’t choking back, the tears or flat out crying buckets, well it may be time to get your soul checked.
"The Pacific" is a good mini series about the pacific theater of ww2.
Oof great show as well. But even as someone who's watched and sorta become "desensitized" by war films, The Pacific was a tough watch.
"LOOK I WASHED FOR SUPPER" what they really said was that they were Czech forced to fight in the german army.
I ALWAYS get misty eyed when he asks his wife if he's a good man. Every single time.
@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.
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.
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.
Fun fact, Pvt Jackson the sniper is actually a lefthanded sniper. You can see this when he has to reach over the bolt to reload his rifle on the tower. The rifles back then where only made for right handed people, so kinda shows you his talents.
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.
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.
When Tom Hanks tells his superior there was 35 dead times 2 wounded, he wasn't talking about the initial invasion. He was giving the statistics of another encounter after D-Day. It had been 3 days since the beach landing.
Imagine learning about ww2 for the first time, as an adult, through a movie..
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.
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
Thank you for watching and reacting to this. Army vet here and movie gets me every time. Band of Brothers is an amazing series i think you all would like. (Seen lots of people ask for it too 😅)
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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.
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.
Tom Hanks character is apart of the Rangers.
They actually get their motto from D-Day. As they were pinned, another commanding officer present told the Rangers "Rangers! Lead the way!"
Here is an excerpt:
On June 6, 1944, the Rangers took part in one of their most famous missions: D-Day. During the attack on Omaha Beach in Normandy, General Norman Cota of the 29th Infantry Division unintentionally created the ranger motto.
While asking Max Schnider, Lieutenant of the 5th Battalion of the 75th Infantry Ranger Regiment, what unit he was a part of, General Cota then stated, “Well godd*mmit, if you’re Rangers, lead the way!”
As a veteran myself I really appreciate your reaction. Speaking for myself when people ask if I’m a vet I don’t expect red carpet rolled out, donations and such. The fact that you appreciate the military and you honor our country so many great men and women have died to protect and keep us free to live the life we enjoy ! 🙏
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.
I try to post some basic information on first time reactions to this movie...hope you don't mind if I copy/paste it here.
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.
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.
80 years ago to this
day June 6th at midnight allied forces headed to Normandy numbering 200,000 souls. It was and still the largest invasion the world would ever see.
4415 soldiers would never return. We must always remember but never forget how we are free and how we got there.
Former Army medic here. One of the best movies ever about THE best generation in our short American history. Our WWII veterans are dwindling in numbers real fast so make sure to thank them when you see one.
The D-Day invasion sequence took $12 Million Dollars and four weeks to film.
The guy that died underwater who wasn't shot drowned because he was weighted down by his gear. Many soldiers drowned without having made it to the beach.
For the “35 dead times two wounded” that was a mission separate from the beach invasion, to take some German artillery points further inland.
On Omaha Beach, 2,500 Americans were killed, including most of Tom Hanks company, that’s why he was chosen as his company was so dwindled.
I have buddies who have served and every single one of them said this was as close as they’d ever seen to the real thing….that wasn’t the real thing. My buddy Craig said the only thing missing was the towel snap.
That’s the sound you hear when a bullet is less than 18” from your head. It means, you need to move now because you’re nearly beaded in and you’re gonna get dropped any second.
Terrifying. It’s why I became a medic instead and trained those fellas for the field. Respect to our brothers serving.
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
@14:30, there were no templates. Everything you hear in the letters scene is hand written from the fallen soldier's commanding officer. It was one of the worst duties every officer in charge dreaded. It came from the heart, there were no templates.
Starting to cry when the old Ryan falls to his knees in the begining is a good sign. You're human.
It amazes me seeing how little people get in this movie.
Like when the Airborne is walking by as they go through the dog tags.
Imagine you see a pile of dog tags representing everyone that died before you. Now you are marching into that same area. How can you not think that your dog tag is gonna be in some pile next.
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
Still without a single doubt the greatest war film ever made. To think a movie like this would never be made today b/c of touchy audiences and almighty algorithm.
This movie could still be made today. Stop tilting at windmills.
@@WorldwideWyatt yea, probably bloated full of CGI, a ham fisted love romance, shittier dialogue and a far more bloated budget than need be.
Absolutely not, this movie would not be made today. Maybe a watered down shitty money grab version brought to you buy Disney.
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@@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear okay Don Quixote, 1917 doesn’t exist… swear y’all invent battles to fight and complain about everything… seems like you’re the touchy emotional one.
@@WorldwideWyatt people like you are insufferable. You offer no justification nor thoughts on why you think the way you think. Have a good Friday troll.
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 🙏🏼
Everyone ALWAYS thinks the guy who stabbed Melish in the chest is the man who they let go. The man they let go was the one who shot Tom Hanks character. It gets everyone every time. 😂 great reaction!
Tom Hanks unit are not normal soldiers. They are Rangers. The blue diamond patch on the sholder. The translator is just a normal soldier..
*Vin Diesel slowly chokes to death on his own blood as his lungs fill up while he desperately begs someone to get his letter to his dad*
"Oh just a lung shot, you got lucky Vin Diesel!"
Fuckin wat
I saw SPR in theater with my parents, and people were openly weeping and old timers were leaving the theater. it was a rough watch for a lot of people
The 2 German soldiers surrendering in the beginning were speaking Czech their saying the Germans forced us to fight please don't shoot! War is truly hell
"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?
If you go back and watch the journey that the squad takes, each of the members who died represent an element of the American sentiment for entering the war. Family, security of others, required to, etc. The squad takes the viewer along as if we are the American society trying tonunderstand why we should enter the war. So, that, by the end of the film, we all come to understand the real reason to reach the end was to 'earn' our right in the global design.
And, each of the soldiers who yake the letter to Vin Deisel's father tend to get added to the list, up until the Cpt. takes the letter.
But, even Damon's response, "staying with the only brothers he has left", just brings that full emotion that the service members i k ow personally reiterate. But, especially from the older generation.
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.
This suicide mission is the landing on the beaches at Normandy, commonly known as D-Day. But there was a D-Day for many amphibious landings in WW II, and they were almost all brutal. The scale of D-Day was unprecedented, though. Anyone who can send young people off to fight and die should have to watch this. Sometimes I cry 4 times watching this. The moments in between the combat are just as touching, a lot of insight into how men behave and handle themselves in what should be considered insane conditions. In a culture that traces along the male lineage, when all of the sons in a family die, that family, which has existed for hundreds or maybe thousands of years, essentially dies out. Every dog tag represents the life of a soldier who died.
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 🤯
Damn, I did not recognized him. I mainly remember him as opie from SoA
While there are a few inaccuracies with the film, Saving Private Ryan accurately depicts what it was like to be on Omaha Beach. Keep in mind, the real Omaha Beach was much worse than what was depicted. Imagine everything you saw, but it going on for six hours instead of 20 minutes. 2,400 men were killed on that beach (that scene where Miller was talking about 35 KIA was a different mission after the landing).
There were preparations to try to prevent this, however. They didn’t just send the men into die senselessly. The Eighth Air Force was sent in to bomb the French coastal defenses and there was a naval bombardment beforehand.
However, the American B-17 bombadiers were afraid of the bombs drifting due to the crosswind (and their inherent inaccuracy, but that’s a different story) and having them land on the infantry coming ashore. So they released their bombs further inland. This prevented friendly casualties, but it also left the coastal defenses at Omaha Beach virtually intact.
The naval bombardment didn’t help the guys coming ashore either. Because of the fog obscuring targets, the navy was blindly shelling the coast and it wasn’t until later in the day (and one of the destroyers almost beaching itself) that the navy could see the targets and hit them with effective fire.
Just to add to this, there were supposed to be tanks, mine clearers, and other gear rigged to inflatable rafts (which they’d quick disconnect after coming to shore) to help storm the beach and provide cover. However, at Omaha beach they were ordered to launch too early and all sunk in the choppy open sea. Other beach locations this gear made it to shore and they had significantly less losses.
Thank you both VERY much for watching Saving Private Ryan. As a Canadian, a grandson to a World War Two veteran, a husband to a Filipina (Philippines 🇵🇭) wife & a father of two daughter's this is soo important & vital.
You both did such a great job & thank you for your patriotism to your AMAZING country 🌎 🇺🇸 🪖 🇵🇭 🙏 🇨🇦
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The sniper shot through the scope and the eye is actually based on something that really happened to a real group of US rangers in WWII. It's not so much signifying how good the US sniper is, but rather how dangerously close he came to getting shot. What happeend to the real US rangers was they were pinned down by a German sniper and their own snipper crawled around, found a good position, and then took out the German sniper. When the rangers then went to check out the German sniper's nest, they discovered the bullet went through his scope and hit him in the eye, meaning the german sniper was looking directly at the US sniper when he died, so he just about to shoot and the US sniper beat him to it by just mere seconds.
Tom Hanks and all of the main actors went through basic boot camp to learn the lingo and all the necessary things for this movie!
Such a cool fun fact!
Except for Matt Damon; Spielberg wanted their resultant resentment to show on film.
The German soldier who fought with Mellish and stabbed him was SS, not the regular German Army.(and not the guy who they earlier let go) The SS man was saying, "be calm, it will be less painful, just be calm it will be over soon". So not a particularly bloodthirsty soldier, who realizes that Upham is no threat and just leaves him standing there
When Tom Hank's character says "earn this", he's not just talking to Ryan, but indirectly speaking to the audience
"earn this" was the meanest thing, he could say.
this was haunting him for the rest of his life...
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.
This movie really is brutally raw.
8:08 Spielberg went bulls..t in this film! The level of detail is nuts. Like here a medic's canteen on his belt gets shot, at 1st just water pours out, and then seconds later bloody water comes out. Showing the bullet went through. Spielberg knew most wouldn't notice that, but still put it in there! Amazing 👍
My great grandfather was in the 91st Pinetree Division, infantry. I have his dog tags still. We have a signed photograph from the 1939 Social Security Signing act by one of the Roosevelt’s. Immensely proud of my family history. So proud of my great grandpa for serving, even as hard as it was.
The writing in this movie is amazing “Earn this” is a message straight to all of us. Earn the sacrifice people made.
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.
I'm retired man, I saw this movie a long time ago, and still I cried every time I watched it ! My respect and salute to all the men and women who served and died for our freedom!
My Dad fought in WWII in the Philippines against the Japanese, and my brother was a Medic in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery and the purple heart. Its nice to see You ladies really get it...if it wasn't for my Dad and all the Combat veterans of WWII we would of either been saluting the Nazi or Japanese flag today. They did nothing short of Saving the world, and all American ever asks for after liberating the World in WWI & WWII, in return....is enough of their land to bury our dead. God Bless them and America. The best quote Ive heard about America is.."Never before in history, has one Nation amassed so much power, and used it for so much good".
Saving Private Ryan is definitely up there with best war movies of all time, no argument there. Great acting and outstanding cinematography make the war incredibly vivid. Other commenters have already suggested it, but Band of Brothers is the way to go for high quality WW2 TV following SPR.
"Best" is always down to personal preference of course and I'll never blame anyone for choosing SPR as their favourite war movie. For me personally there is at least one (maybe two if you count Schindler's List as a war movie) that I prefer even over SPR: Downfall (2004).
Downfall is almost never even mentioned in conversations about great war movies, though. Why?
First of all, it's a German movie and the English dub is atrocious, so it should only be watched with subtitles. That alone is off-putting (it's quite a long movie). Secondly, it's told entirely from the German persepective and puts some of the top Nazis (e.g. Hitler and Goebbels) into the spotlight. The movie gives "a face to evil", so to speak, and actually shows the Nazis as humans, not faceless monsters. It's both fascinating and extremely eerie to watch how those responsible for the darkest chapter in human history were ultimately just people.
Stellar acting and great cinematography round it up nicely. Definitely worth a watch if you can cope with reading subtitles. One trivia about Downfall: almost everyone knows the meme of Hitler's rant, but almost no one knows the movie it's from...
Anyway, thanks for an entertaining reaction!
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Was not expecting y’all to react to Saving Private Ryan. In my opinion if you guys want something more fleshed out I would really recommend watching Band of Brothers which is a ten part hbo miniseries produced by Tom hanks that follows the 101st airborne during ww2 and is viewed by many to be the best miniseries of all time. If you’re looking for another movie I would recommend Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone and includes Willem defoe and Charlie sheen it’s set during the Vietnam War and with Oliver stone being a Vietnam vet is seen as one of the most realistic modern war movies. Thanks for the amazing content!
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Tom Sizemore was my favorite character in this movie, he’s just as brave as captain Miller, really fought to the end
I served 6 years in the US Marine Corps. I never saw combat, but came close after the US Embassy was car-bombed in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982. I was on a Marine Expeditionary Unit on 24 hour notice to go secure the airfield and evac Americans. However, my discharge date came up before that unit was activated. When the unit made it to Beirut, their barracks was car-bombed and killed several Marines and Navy Corpsmen. I could have been one of them. I was all of 5ft 1 1/2in tall and 117lbs. I was so proud when I graduated from bootcamp on 13 February, 1978. I am still a member of 4 veterans organizations and perform military funerals in two states, for our fallen veterans. The least I can do for my comrades in arms. Semper Fi!