@@niallrussell7184 hahahaha I love the story behind that voice, too. They tried making the puppet a few times, but it kept coming out all warped. They spontaneously joked about how the warped Matt Damon puppet's warped voice would sound and, thinking it was too funny not to, they decided to go with it for the film. When it came out, Matt Damon said Matt Stone & Trey Parker hadn't asked him to do the "MaTt DaMoN!" line, but he wished they had & was mildly disappointed he didn't get to do the voice because he thought it was so hilarious.
@@brianwinn9491 God bless Your Dad and His heroic Ancestry. Picture the youth of today given the same EXACT call to action. These kids know a gun better than those young men, but the principles, convictions and moral fortitude.... So many of my elder relatives, well so many as percent (not numbers) who survived never spoke of it. And that was not some bullshit "snitch" punk rule. It was because they knew/lived real HELL, and did nothing wrong to deserve it, or carry the burden; and btw no drink ever washed it away, or made them spill. I hope and pray you and your Pop left no words needed unsaid just between you both! Truly.
Coby, before I begin, allow me to tell just a bit about myself. I am 65 years old, and I am a retired SGTMAJ USMC. I have seen almost the worst that mankind can dish out in war and the evil of war. However, my 30 years of military service in no way stack up to the hell and horror that the soldiers and marines saw during WW1 and WW2. To watch a young woman view and share her feelings with tears and emotions of human struggle inspires me with hope for your generation. I want to thank you for your love for the young men who fought so hard. For the men killed and injured in that conquest. Thank you, Coby. Thank you for preserving the struggle and sacrifice that was paid for us. I feel that you get it. Please keep this alive. Educate that everyday freedom was paid for by those men. Thank you. Love you for what you're doing. Again. Thank you, Coby.❤
Thank you for your service. Stay safe I wish you and those close to you nothing but the best. Edit: To anyone who may read this later on... *The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.* -Bruce Lee
Thank you for your service!! Re: the horror of WWI… consider that modern plastic/reconstructive surgery was developed for this exact need. The surgeon who developed his technique performed over 11,000 surgeries on 5000 men. And also life in trenches was just a few steps above hell.
I'm 54 and cry every time I see this movie. When captain Miller says " earn this". Its not for Private Ryan. Its for every generation that follows. Also notice how Ryans wife didn't know who Miller was, because WWII vets didn't talk about their experiences
I was born in 65, somehow our generation knew from our parents what it was like, and we are not that old to forget, so we have the duty to let the younger know what was it and why, so it doesn't happen ever again
My grandpa is a d day veteran. Before he passed we went and saw this. I watched the sweetest man change. His eyes went stoic. His posture went rigid, like a lion hunting. I literally watched him transport to that exact moment. He was on that beach again. I wasn't even watching the movie anymore, I was watching him. A few years later I was in Afghanistan in a hellhole near Pakistan. We'd just been in a bad ambush. After we got back to the FOB, I remembered my grandfather...I know knew him truly and feel the weight of his burden. God bless the greatest generation indeed
The morphine wasn't a waste. He had already been given the maximum dose of 2 syrettes, a third would cause an overdose. Rather than prolonging his suffering, he asked his brothers to kill him in as painless a way as possible. That's why they were hesitant to do it.
This is always one of the most meaningful parts of the movie to me. Everyone there knew what he was asking for, most of all Wade himself. I’m both sad and glad they didn’t use exposition to explain it, but so many people miss that point because of the lack of exposition.
The sad part is that it never made it into a vein. And even if it had, the amount of blood he was losing and pressure loss meant it wouldn't have had much of an effect. Anyone with advanced first aid and/or EMT training knows this which makes it even more sad for them when watching.
I’m guessing I’m not the only one who no matter how many reaction videos I watch of this film, I’m always crying. May I never get numb to the hell of war. Coby, thank you for your heartfelt, thoughtful reaction.
@@tenlow2 It is explained in exposition before this scene when Wade castigates others for giving too much morphine because it would kill him. But yes, that scene was so they wouldn’t have to break the meaningfulness of his death with unnecessary exposition.
As Wade was the medic, when he yelled “oh my god, my liver”, he knew he was gonna die, so he asked for one more shot. A liver shot is almost always fatal if you don’t seek emergency medical attention within 10-20 minutes. The blood appears very dark from liver injuries
Well Coby. Three of my older brothers were in Vietnam. Two in the rice paddies and one on a ship outside of Vietnam. My mother would NEVER look at the mail. She would take it and put it on the table until my dad got home from work. He would open the mail. It was very stressful. All three of my brothers came home ALIVE with all there body parts. THANK GOD.
My great grandfather was a military supply driver during WW2, he driving truck full of food on the ice lake under german fire, not a single scratch while many other drivers drown in the ice lake
@jon87583 Not really. One of my brother's was a medic. He came home with AGENT ORANGE. Screwed up his skin for a long time. But, yeah, he's better now. Thanks for asking.
@@maxromisch3361 Yep, that is true. Like so many of them, including my WWI Grandfather. Lost the use of a lung to the gas at Ypres, but never complained about it. Different times.
I am 73..My Dad was there on that day... he luckily survived..he also saw action in North Africa...3 of my uncles were killed there in France..these guys had balls...
I'm 71 and my father was a Naval Officer in the Pacific. At 18, I was Army Infantry, Airborne, Pathfinder. When will we learn that the real enemies are politicians?
7 minutes in, and your compassion shows. This. Is what you're Grandfather and Great Grandfather's went through, between the ages of 16 to 26 on average. The Greatest Generation of our age. They grew up during the Great Depression, lived through WW1, fought in the biggest war known to mankind in WW2, stopped Hitler from Genocide, and Changed the World.
Agreed. I can't imagine. My grandmother moved states because she worked for Western Union delivering those dreaded telegrams and didn't want people who knew her to hate seeing her coming.
The scene in the church where he's talking about pretending to be asleep when his mother comes home early to see him is probably my favorite of the movie. Great acting. But this movie is just full of great scenes and acting
When he asked for some more morphine he knew he was dead. They'd already given him one. I've heard saying: "One lets you see Jesus. Two lets meet Jesus." I think they give him 3. That's why they were so reluctant. Then they realized he wanted to sleep peacefully. I hope his mother was with him in his morphine hallucination.
Coby, your talk of getting the dogtags from the bodies of the men on the beach reminded me of this. In 2004, Andrew Rooney, an American journalist, who had been a 26-year-old soldier at Normandy in June 1944, spoke on television, on the sixtieth anniversary of the invasion. This is my transcript of what he said; perhaps you will find these words worthy of your time: "Because it was part of my life, I'd like to say something about D-Day. I don't know how to say it any differently than I did in a book I wrote, called _My War._ "If you are young and not really clear what D-Day was, let me tell you. "It was a day unlike any other. There have only been a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed for the better in one twenty-four-hour period by an act of man. June sixth, nineteen forty-four, was one of them. *"What the Americans, the British, and the Canadians were trying to do was get back a whole continent that had been taken from its rightful owners by Adolf Hitler's German army. It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people ever did for another.* "We all have days of our lives that stand out from the blur of days that have gone by; and the day I came ashore on Utah Beach, four days after the initial invasion, is one of mine. "As we approached the French coast, there were small clouds of smoke, and sudden eruptions, as German artillery blindly lobbed shells over the hills behind the beach. They were hoping to hit U.S. troops or some of the massive amount of equipment piled up on the shore there. "Row on row of dead American soldiers were laid out on the beach, just above the high-tide mark, where it turned into weedy clumps of grass. They were covered with olive-drab blankets, just their feet sticking out at the bottom, their G.I. boots sticking out. I remember their boots: all the same, on boys all so different. "No-one can tell the whole story of D-Day, because no-one knows it. "Each of the sixty thousand men who waded ashore that day knew a little part of the story too well. To them, the landing looked like a catastrophe. Each knew a friend shot through the throat, shot through a knee. Each knew names of five hanging dead on the barbed wire in the water, twenty yards off shore-three who lay unattended on the stony beach as the blood drained from holes in their bodies. They saw whole tank-crews drown when the tanks rumbled off the ramps of their landing-craft and dropped into twenty feet of water. "There were heroes here no-one will ever know, because they're dead. The heroism of others is known only to themselves. "Across the Channel, in Allied headquarters, in England, the war-directors, remote from the details of death, were exultant: they saw no blood, no dead, no dying. From the statisticians' point of view, the invasion was a success: statisticians were right: they always are-that's the damned thing about it. "On each visit to the beaches over the years, I've wept. It's impossible to keep back the tears as you look across the rows of markers and think of the boys under them, who died that day. Even if you didn't know anyone who died, your heart knows something that your brain does not: you weep. *"If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach: see what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June sixth, nineteen forty-four."*
My Grandfather served in WW2, he was awarded a silver star and a purple heart. He said the thing that bothered him the most in this movie was the squeaking noise the German tank tracks made. He said that noise had haunted him ever since the war.
My great grandfather was in the 101st. I had the honor of getting to know him. He was wounded twice. Took shrapnel in the knee crossing the Rhine river from a German potato masher grenade, and a 8mm round in the back at The Battle Of The Bulge. That's the injury that sent him home. Dr's didn't want to remove the bullet because it laid to close to his lungs and heart. It's still in him to this day, God rest his soul. His stories left me speechless when we would visit him and Nana. He had some photos and other things he showed to me. My dad has his Purple Heart medal, my Uncle has a few as well. He had quite a few medals. I can't remember all that he had.
Both my Grandfathers served in WW2. One (Thomas) was a corporal (I think) in the British army, the other (Harry) an RAF bomber co-pilot. Harry's brother, Jack, was a chief mechanic for the RAF. In Germany, Thomas accidentally killed a young boy with the Jeep he was driving. This traumatized him so much that after the war, he never drove a car, ever again. Until 1965, at might, he often would wake up screaming and crying. Harry turned out to be a miserable miser unfortunately, but what his brother did is more honorable. As Harry & Jack Freedman were Jewish, Jack decided, in secret, to defect in february of 1948 to the new state of Israel to help build it up. He was branded a traitor by the UK. In Israel he supervised the reconstruction of planes built from the parts and wrecks that the Brits left in 1947. He made the Israeli Air force a reality. In 1985, he was pardoned by the Queen and returned to the UK to visit old friends and family. By then Harry had passed but Harry always had been so disgusted by what his brother had done (abandoned everyone) that he hated him, and even denounced Judaism. Jack has half a page dedicated to him in a history book about the early days of Israel and the overseas volunteers that helped build Israel. I have more respect for Jack than for my own Grandfather, who really was a miserable pig that mistreated my grandmother and had 2 sons that hated his guts. I can remember my dad telling stories about him. Disgusting man.
Actually, that noise came from the turrets, due to the lack of sufficient numbers of ball bearings. And why was that? The Allies specifically targeted German ball bearing factories. The Germans had enough bearings to turn the turrets, but they turned much more slowly, which made it more likely that the Allied forces could take out the tanks more quickly.
@@bango31 Churchill was also a fascist imperialist instigating wars to expand what he (accurately) saw as failing monarchy/Empire. He along with Patton wanted war with the Soviets instead of Germany and peddled the same racist propaganda about slavs being less than the "Germanic people" (ironically most European Russians are a mix of Eastern Slav and Swede).
I am not a U.S. citizen. I am Chilean, but grew up for the better part of my childhood and adolescent years abroad, including the States. I have two brothers that are U.S. citizens. Having said that: there is a universal story here. Sacrifice. And living up to - deserving - the sacrifices made for us. I watched this movie in a Provo Utah theater. I was sobbing along with all of the veterans and U.S. citizens at the movies there with me.
It was a hard time, wasn't it? watching it in the cinema. I did that with my relatives, one August evening, in the summer when I was 18. It was just after my return to the United States after my second time living overseas: I had lived in two European countries, one of which was an Axis power in World War II (where my sibling was born), the other of which was one of the Allied powers, both of them now at peace, on friendly terms, as they have remained for almost eighty years, the most peaceful time that there has ever been in Western Europe in thousands of years. It's nice to meet you, through the Internet. In my opinion, you are a Chilean partly _because_ of the Allied nations, including Chile: they-especially the Americans, the British, and the Canadians-did what was necessary to keep Nazi Germany from taking over the world. Thanks to them, the Chilean people remain an independent nation, their country unoccupied, their people not exterminated for being of 'an inferior race'.
As a soldier who's been in combat, that's the worst PTSD you can ever suffer: living with the guilt that you got your friends....your brethren/sisters killed when it could've been avoided. Don't get me wrong, there are many types of PTSD. But I've lost more vets here at home who lived with the guilt of the "shoulda', woulda', coulda'." Mind you, I also don't have regrets of serving as well. I would proudly do it again without a second thought. I will retire next year, after being in the Army as an infantryman for 22 years. And yes, I chose my job. I joined a year after 9/11. I knew that someone had to do it; that if I didn't do this, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. And yes, I'm sure I do have some sort of PTSD. I held back the tears when we came back from a mission without a fellow soldier. It happened 3 years later when I was alone in the barracks, having a beer watching Flags of Our Fathers. For some reason, at the end of the movie, when the Marines were at the beach in the water, I thought of my squad leader, about his fiancé, about his plans of making his life with her when he got out, about a family. And here I was, having a beer, alone, no plans about tomorrow. I finally let it out. I bawled my eyes out. I missed him. I missed them all. In closing, when we got home from Iraq, I got to meet the family of a close brethren of mine who didn't make it; before, I was teaching him Navajo because when he got out he wanted to work at his father's dealership, near the rez. He said almost half of the customers were Navajo, and this would be a great way to build some trust. I met his family when we got off the plane. I told them I'm so sorry for their loss. But I'm so proud and honored to have known their son and so grateful they allowed him to serve. Because I now know what an amazing person he was and why he is loved. They lost their son, and I lost a brother. I'll see you someday SSG V, and SGT Geer. Right now, I'm living for you.🙏🏼
Well, Coby. I’ve never seen your channel before. But watching you cry made me cry too. I spent 15 months in combat during the first wave of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I’ll never forget the look of my mother’s face turning white as she said goodbye to me, not knowing if she would ever see me again. Honestly, I can’t watch war movies by myself. So, watching it with you was kind of different. I have so many emotions going through me right now, but I stuck through it. Please remember that war is not cheap. And I’m not talking about monetary value.
"Honestly, I can’t watch war movies by myself. So, watching it with you was kind of different." Same here. She did a good job and made it easier to watch, even tho we didn't see it all. The bits we saw were tough enough, even with Coby.
I recall when I saw it in Westwood when it came out, the whole audience was very solemn at the end of the film. No cheering, some scattered clapping. It was more a powerful sense of like being at a memorial service of someone who was highly honored.
One of the most emotional reactions I've ever seen for this movie. No need to apologize. Your knowledge of most actors names was impressive. Thank you for a heartfelt reaction.
@@wsw32606 That's why I enjoy her reactions so much. Coby is great and knows a lot about movies, therefore her predictions are very often on point. I love how she gets emotionally invested in the stories, although his time it was a bit hard for me to watch her suffer so much. 🙃But it was such a really good and honest reaction. Coby seems to be a really lovely and smart person. Looking forward to the next reaction! 🙂
Yeah I didn't think she'd know half those actors, she pretty much knew them all, the guy that played Wade was in Friends too, he played Phoebe's half brother or something I think. And the guy that played Upham was in the final couple of seasons of Lost.
World War II veterans had to leave theaters when this movie was premiered to them back 1998 because of how realistic it was in its depiction of the events that took place, especially Omaha beach
Not all of them. I sat next to four D-Day veterans watching the movie in the theater with their wives. Strong, brave men who could grieve the loss without being broken.
I am much younger than that, but had my own combat experiences in the '80's. I had to walk out in the first 10 minutes! I have only been able to watch it in the last 7 years. PTSD is a bitch. I couldn't even do fireworks until about 10 years ago. I would go into panic attacks.
@@506thparatrooper I had the same experience of seeing the film with WWII veterans. They sat still and never moved or spoke during the entire film. Truly an amazing generation.
@@Educated2Extinction A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool speaks because they have to say something. You just had to say something.
Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this, but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show. I’m glad too, Hanks already won 2 Oscars prior so it was time to recognize other talent for a change
This was one of the BEST and heartfelt movie reviews I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you for your honest emotions. I hope Spielberg himself sees this video. Bravo.
There are those movies where men who don't cry as a default, get those watery eyes and have to wipe it away. This is number one. Most men, I would say feel this depiction of WW2 most deeply. Best war movie ever. Clearest evil and good. It's a shame that 80 years later the same country is falling for the same tactics the Nazis used to control their population. The USA is the new third Reich, and many are too delusional and weak to see it. Sometimes I feel that these men died for nothing, because their grandchildren learned nothing.
Don’t want repeat but worth it to mention. A lot of Veterans had to leave the theatre. Someone said something that was heartbreaking to me which was he starting smelling diesel fumes. It just all came back to him.
The best war film ever made. The men that fought in WWII were a different breed. They sacrificed their lives for the world. We're losing them every day now. There's not many left now.
From Omaha Beach and the blood red ocean it's a non-stop barrage of emotion. Thanks to Coby for sharing and her kind heart for caring about a story filled with love and devotion.
I served as an AF cardiac nurse and paramedic, and this was a very realistic portrayal of the injuries/ trauma . I was stationed in a Regional Hospital, which served as a resource for taking in active duty injuries during Desert Storm. Thank you for having the courage to watch. It isnt easy for anyone 🙏🙏
Thank you for your service. Stay safe I wish you and those close to you nothing but the best. To those who may read this later on... *The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.* -Bruce Lee
In 1943 My dad, a Sailor, was severely injured in a training exercise preparing for his part in the liberation of Europe. His injury was cardiac, and he was medically discharged in early 1944 and told that he would never see age 30. He was 20 years old. When he returned home he met my mother, they fell in love and married a few months later. My mother knew my dad's prognosis and understood that they had very little time to share, but my mother bore my dad two sons knowing she would be a very young widow. They chose to move to Florida from Massachusetts because the Florida climate would help my dad, and Florida gave my dad 24 additional years of life with his family. He finally succumbed to his injury at age 54. They embodied the spirit of the Greatest Generation.
I've seen nearly all of the Saving Private Ryan reactions .... and your reaction is one of the very best. Emotional, sensitive, articulate, insightful ... really great reaction Coby ... thanks for doing it.
I was in the army when I saw this in Houston at the Theater. There were a lot of older men getting up and leaving, my young dumb self didn't even realize the reason they were leaving. After the movie, there were so many older men just sitting around with their wives consoling them, You could visibly see the turmoil and anguish and pain in their eyes. It hit me like a rock when I realized what was really going on. I've never exited a movie in my life where the people were all moving so slow, and just looking at each other and all just emotionally beat up. It was a lot to witness.
I asked my grandfather, who had 3 purple hearts, and NEVER talked about his WWII service in Europe, if he wanted to see the movie when it was in theaters. All he said was a very emphatic "No." After he died his brother told me why. His squad was ambushed by a 14 yearold boy in a Hitler Youth uniform who was running at them with a grenade. My grandfather yelled at him in German to drop it, when he didn't, he shot him in the leg before he could pull the pin. He hit an artery and the boy bled out in my grandfathers arms while he gave him water from his canteen.
Some of the Hitler Youth were vicious. Some of them manned the machine guns in Omaha Beach. Some killed all the men on some landing crafts. One of my uncles served with Patton. He killed at least one member of the Hitler Youth. He received a Bronze Star for taking out a machine gun nest with a BAR.
Respect to your grandpa. My dad was on the other side of the planet at the time. He didn't talk about it either. Can't remember which movie now, but one in the Pacific theater came out and I asked if he wanted to see it. He raised his eyebrows and said no, I was there. I never asked if he would watch a war movie again.
In the beach aftermath scene, Vin Disel's character hands the Jewish guy a Hitler youth knife. A lot of people didn't understand what they really meant or the guy's reaction when he was given it. That group they shot was all a bunch of teenagers or had some teenagers in it. Kids, just kids.
I was a Navy Corpsman, (counterpart to Wade's Doc) I served 10 years, 8 with Marines. I saw this on a Tuesday afternoon. There were 12 of us. Myself, and 11 others, all veterans. At the end of the movies, the house lights went up. All of us had teary eyes. One old man stated the following- "As far as war movies go, that was the most accurate depiction I've ever seen . As for the ACTUAL D-Day, it didn't come close" His hat said it all- D-Day Survivor, Purple Heart. I have always deferred to his expert opinion. As bad as you think it was as shown in the movie, it was much, much worse. As for me I have watched this and others from time to time. It is hard, but it helps to remember. To know sacrifices were worth it. This was a fictional story told with the utmost respect. As for others I watch & recommend We were soldiers based on the book written about the battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam the names of genuine Hero's. Flags of our Fathers & it's companion movie Letters from Iwo Jima, Memphis Belle, and Hacksaw Ridge
@@curtismartin2866 exactly. There simply is no way to accurately represent a battle of that magnitude. That said, they did an outstanding job and set the bar high on this movie
Love this movie. Tears me up every time. Can you imagine kids these days lying about their age to go and fight in a war? It was and always will be the greatest generation. Coby, may I also say, wow!! You are beautiful!
This is the most realistic war movie ever made. Seeing this on the big screen with Dolby audio, especially at the beginning of the movie, was beyond words. My dad fought on the beach at Normandy, France, and this brought me to many tears in appreciation of what these guys went through. My oldest brother Larry went to Vietnam from '66-'68, and when he forced himself to go see Platoon when it came out, was double-traumatized with his already existing PTSD.
@@avengemybreath3084 Are you talking about the maggots who were allied with Nazi Germany when they both invaded Poland in 1939 in an act of unprovoked brutality?
@@avengemybreath3084 no, the Russians were on an ENTIRELY different front and mainly defended their homeland until the Germans ran short on supplies. They didn't assault beach heads, or send in massive airborne divisions, and they weren't even involved in the Pacific theater. Yes, they played a huge role and killed a lot of Germans but they had absolutely nothing to do with other theaters of operation. This was a WORLD war not an eastern Europe war.
Like her other reactions, Coby proves to be the most sincere, insightful, and intuitive watch buddy one can have. She embodies why we watch reactions: to share poignant moments that we wish we didn't have to have experienced alone, like a beautiful sunset.
This is why war is known as a "meat grinder", as it is literally a numbers game, they only took control of the beach because they had enough bodies to finally attack from all side and positions. War is never pretty, and this movie really hammers that home from the very start.
In part. It also helped that the Germans had done most of their fortification building miles away up the coast where the distance between England and France was shortest. As tough as the fortifications on the invasion beaches were, they were not complete nor in most places fully manned. Hitler's obsession with Norway kept hundreds of thousands of troops there where they were effectively useless. Likewise his demand to have control over the tanks and other units, and then sleeping in, cost them valuable time.
In the US any school that receives government funding, which is just about all of them including many private schools, is required by law to allow military recruiters access to the students. Personally, I believe recruiting offices should only be permitted in VA hospitals and nursing homes. After a kid has seen the worst that can happen to the ones that were still lucky enough to make it home, then allow them to sign the enlistment form, if they think it's a good idea.
It didn't help that the US military didn't trust "Hobart's Funnies". Major General Percy Hobart was a British officer who pioneered tank warfare. The Germans didn't invent the Blitzkrieg tactic, he did and General Guderian had every paper he published translated into German. He designed a number of modifications specifically for tanks involved in D-Day. The American beaches were a bloodbath but the British and Canadian beaches were much easier going thanks to those tanks.
@@brianeleighton I've also heard that the US command heavily weighted the first wave with troops fresh out of basic training. Not only was it a situation where skill and experience didn't count for much. troops that had a realistic idea what was ahead might well have mutinied.
US intel underestimated the fortifications. The US Navy threw everything at it from Battleship bombardments, rockets, aircraft dropped bombs, etc. Most of the fortifications survived. The armor, which would have made a huge difference, ended up scattered and/or foundered by the time they reached the shore. Only 1 tank made it ashore to its proper location.
The Thin Red Line is the movie that’s very similar to this one. It wasn’t as graphic as this movie and wasn’t recognized like this movie was… it flew under the radar
Hello from germany. My grandfather, who was a paratrooper on the german side, could never really talk about what he experianced during WW2, even if I asked him about it. But I could see in his face that he didn't want to talk about it. All I know is that he got taken prisoner in france by english soldiers.
I've said it before I'll say it again. Coby is a rare breed, beautiful and empathic, the epitomie of a real woman. This film is one of my favourites, the most realistic visceral films you will ever see. The acting as mentioned is pretty much flawless. Great reaction thank you.
I really enjoy her reactions, she is very natural, spontaneous and has a nice personality. I didn't know her before, is she an actress too, a model, or what does she do besides reactions?
I'm impressed that you recognized that the soldier that killed Mellish (while Upham froze in fear) was not the same person as "Steamboat Willie" (the German soldier that was released) the first time. It seems 75% of viewers think they are the same character. Your reaction to this epic film was great.
@@ZoneBaracking they look similar, but Steamboat Willie appears to be older than the other soldier. Additionally, the uniform gives it away-Steamboat Willie was in the German army, while the other soldier was a member of the Waffen-SS, which is a completely different branch of the German armed forces, though they often worked in tandem.
cuz most arent fromiliar to history or the uniforms/insignia on their colar.if you never learned the indept history of ww2 than its normal that people arent able to spot the difference i think.most simpley dont pay attention on details such as that while watching a movie,dispite its still very good visable on who is SS,wheremacht and american. they did they fuck one thing up though: first rayan was from B-company,and half way hes suddenly from C company
I saw this when it first came out, in a brand new theater with a state-of-the-art sound system. It sounded like bullets were whizzing past my head during the battle scenes. It was terrifying.
*My father was 28 years Navy. He was a SeaBee in Vietnam and retired CWO4 off the Aircraft Carrier, USS Ranger (CV-61) in 1987. The first time I saw this movie, the opening scene made sick to my stomach. And, of course, the heavy scenes got me in my feels. After it was over, I was chatting online with Dad, and mentioned I'd just watched it, and all he said was, "Oh yea. Good action.". I was GONNA reply, "That ALL you have to say???". Then I remembered hearing about the WWII Vets who were getting triggered by the opening scene, and figured it was best to leave it alone. lol*
This Army veteran tried to walk in the shoes of the amazing men like your father who served even when so many Americans dishonred them upon returning home.
It’s a crime that this didn’t win best picture the year it released. The Oscars began losing their significance back then, when the truly superior movies were passed over for movies that better promoted “the message”, and other agendas.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. The rumbling of the tanks was scarier that almost any horror movie I had ever seen, just the slow building suspense.
I watched this in the cinema as a young Officer, and found it difficult to watch but it portrayed the feelings of a tight band of soldiers and their interaction well. Now after leaving the Army and becoming a school teacher the film is somewhat more relevant to me. Conflict is difficult to deal with, it is your comrades around you that take through it. The peace can be harder when they aren't there when you need them. So thank you for watching this and helping others understand what some have to go through. I now find this movie really hard to watch as it brings back smells and sounds that keep me awake at night, but the horror was completely surpassed by your beauty. So thank you.
I know it was hard for you to watch it... just imagine how hard it was to live through and experience it. That is why it is so important that we make and watch movies like this, to appreciate and respect what those before and now have done and are doing for us. My Grampa hardly ever talked about the war (WWII), except for the funny stories, but the one thing he did say (after having a little too much whiskey one night) was that the visuals were not as hard as the smell. So, thankfully we do not have Smellovision. Never apologize for crying Coby, people appreciate genuine and honest reactions. Besides, I guarantee that you were and are not the only one to do so. That is why the Oscars are a useless, political award.
She now understands war a little better. At the beginning of the movie she is aghast that they shoot men with their hands up surrendering, by the end of the film she is calling for the man surrendering to be shot.
The Oscars lost all credibility by not awarding this the best film and giving it to Shakespeare in Love, not because it was a bad film, but because this is one of the greatest pieces of film ever created.
It’s been over 20 years and most people still get it wrong. The only similarity those two characters have is they’re both white and have a shaved head. one is a regular German soldier and the other is SS.
I feel like I post this on every Saving Private Ryan reaction... Spielberg held a screening of this movie for the crew and the many technical advisors, many of them D-Day Omaha Beach Veterans. In the middle of the landing scenes, some of the Veterans (men in their 70's and 80's at the time) started walking out. Spieldberg, concerned they hated it, followed them out... To find these old men, crying, shaking, and holding each other, in the lobby. One of them said "I could smell the diesel (from the flamethrower)"... "I can still smell the diesel". More than half a century - and it was just a little too close, too real a memory. I have lived long enough to remember meeting World War One veterans... and now they are all gone. I will probably live long enough to outlive the last World War Two veterans as well. We need to remember them.
The sniper wouldn't shoot him again. That's not how snipers work. For one thing, a wounded man occupies two or three others to help him. A dead man occupies no one. And a wounded man may draw out others who won't come out for a dead man.
This June 6th marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It's hard to imagine the enormity of it all. There were 160,000 allied troops, 5,000 ships and 2,200 aircraft involved in the invasion. We should all take a couple of seconds out of our busy lives and say a little thanks for what they did for us that day. When you walk thru the American cemetery in Normandy you feel how big the sacrifice was.
I remember watching this movie when it first came out in the theaters with my brother and my cousin who just enlisted in the Army Reserves. It was the first movie where we walked out and absolutely had nothing to say. We couldn't speak of the reality of these soldiers who truly sacrificed and died for this beautiful country. To the previous and current generations of soldiers and their families: THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU
The Sullivan Brothers, all four died aboard the same ship during the war. Thereafter, no siblings or spouses could serve in the same unit or theater of operations to this day. I’m glad that of the reaction that you had, that war is awful and cruel. This was a very realistic film. I would suggest seeing the series Band of Brothers to see guys go from D-Day through the end of the war. When our nation sends its sons to war, and it is mostly sons even though there are women serving now, that when they come home they aren’t the same because they did and saw terrible things. Films about our other wars from WW2 through Afghanistan & Iraq should educate in addition to telling a story. Thank you for showing your heart whilst reacting to this film. It is one of Spielberg’s best. I would also suggest viewing Schindler’s List, The Color Purple (original), and AI: Artificial Intelligence.
I watched this movie when it came out. I was stationed in Germany at the time and watched it in a German theater with Germans. The movie was in English. The manager spoke to the audience before the movie and said that this movie is extremely realistic with the violence, especially the first 30 minutes. This movie is important because it is our shared history, however if after the first 30 minutes if you feel that you cannot watch the violence then come to the front desk and we will give you a refund.
@HouTexHemi the Germans I watched it with were emotional as the rest of us. At the time, this movie was the most realistic war movie in showing what war and bullets and tank rounds do to someone who is hit by them. None got up and left that I remember. Everyone was in awe at the realism that the film showed. Everyone was very quiet when it was over. Dead silence. Watching it in the theater felt like you were on the beach with them.
@HouTexHemi also, as someone who lived in Europe for over 10 years off and on, the European society is way more mature than the society it the US. Most Europeans who are alive today, great grandparents and grandparents, and parents saw their cities destroyed in two separate world wars. They watched war right in front of them for a century. Only the war veterans in the US have seen war, except for refugees that have come here. The Europeans are extremely mature as a society because of their history.
I saw this opening weekend to a packed theater. When it was over there wasn't a sound when everyone was leaving except for a few people weeping. Never experienced anything like that again. 🇺🇸
My wife and I saw it when it came out, and the theater was full of WW2 vets. It was a surreal experience, nothing like this had ever been made before. The theater was silent, parts of the theater had the sounds of weeping. I was numb when I left that night.
I'm a guy in his mid 30s, no kids yet. To this day, I stand by my belief that their mother getting that news is by far the most heart-wrenching part of the movie.
Jeremy Davies (Upham) was of course cast partly because his character had to know French and German. In any case, he did the role well. his first big break was in Spanking the Monkey, which deals in incest. Then there was Ravenous, which deals in cannibalism. Plus a few "fun" roles like Twister.
This movie was made (in 1998) when most of these actors (not Tom Hanks) were in the early stages of their careers. THIS movie got them into other films, making them the actors that you know today. The male cast went through a Basic Training, held by Dale Dye, to teach them how to be military actors. Matt Damon was NOT included in this, which made him a stranger to the other actors, and he was generally disliked by them. You asked about watching this movie if you were a veteran; vets who were at Normandy had great difficulty watching this, because it was so close to what they actually went through. I enjoyed your reaction. Thanks.
After watching this movie when it came out… I got a newfound ultimate respect and appreciation for what veterans do and have done. I watch this film every Memorial Day in remembrance for those that have served, gave their lives for our freedom, and those that still serve our country. ❤❤❤❤
32:00 it's not for the waste that hovarth was hesitating to give more morphine, it's that two morphine doses are fatal. Wade knew he was gonna die, so he asked for the second dose so that he could die off without more pain.
This film should destroy you. "Earn this!" is not just Captain Miller's message to Private Ryan, it’s a message to all of us to never forget the sacrifices of so many to give us the freedoms we enjoy. My grandfather was part of the second wave to hit this beach and saw the carnage in real life. My father was a highly decorated LRRP team leader in Vietnam. I served during Desert Storm. This film is the best depiction of 20th Century warfare. Another film I highly recommend is "Glory"(1988). It’s based on the letters and history of Colonel Robert Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts during the United States Civil War. The 54th was one of the first regiments of 100% colored soldiers and the film is very accurate.
Lets give credit to *Coby* for sharing her emotions that's brave within itself, the internet can be a harsh place. Let's also shout out she's wearing camo pants...
My military friends and I went and watched this 3 times the weekend it opened. Every showing, there were several old WW2 vets crying, being walked out by their wives after the 1st 30 minutes.
After a few more happy movies Coby needs to see Hacksaw Ridge. A brutal but incredibly inspirational movie that was downplayed because his heroics wouldn't have been believed.
"Earn this" - two words every American should remember when thinking about those souls who gave their lives to defend and protect freedom and democracy.
@@itzbp9949 To be honest with you, you folks more so than us colonists - you were staring annihilation in the teeth for about two years until the Japanese were kind enough to invite us to the party . . . much to their chagrin.
@@Filboid2000 that's very true. This country got battered by the nazis for 3 years. Bombs after bombs and we were losing. Had the us not joined we probably would've lost
I'm glad you could empathise with Upham, so many reactors give him shit and declare how much he sucks but he was absolutely paralysed with fear. Nice to see some sympathy and understanding.
Well come on..he talked Capt Miller into letting that enemy soldier go, How did that work out? He also did nothing as his fellow brother in arms is fighting for his life, so tell me what reasons do we have to like this naive and cowardly character, please tell me?
@harvey4512 Well the basic training was suppose to be enough but clearly it didn't take for him and look what happened. I don't need training to know it's a freaking war, you aren't winning it by being nice..it's not wise to let a enemy who you just fought and just tried his best to kill you walk away to rejoin his military..that's just beyond stupid in a war.
@@shootingreal5945 Basic Training is in the name BASIC, can you follow orders and maybe point a gun in the right direction? Yes? Good. THEN you go to infantry school, typing school, etc etc. Upham was a map reader and translator, an army equivalent of an office worker. That's like asking the cooks to deploy with special forces and expecting them to all earn themselves a medal of honor.
My wife and I were at the theater waiting to go in when the audience for this film came out. I was astounded by the number of older men coming out who were visibly shook/crying. Told my wife we need to see this....and a week later tears!
My grandfather was a tailgunner over in Asia the last couple years of the war. He was underage when he enlisted. His mother had to sign a waiver for him to enlist. He was the 4th son to go off to ww2. Fortunately, they all came home. My grandfathers flight crew wasn't as lucky. He and another gunner were left at base. The war had just ended. No need for them. The plane was shot down over China on that flight. My grandfather rarely spoke of the war. Only once did my dad even hear about it. This movie always makes me so proud of my grandpa and his brothers. RIP boys.
What hits so hard about the 2 “German” soldiers who were surrendering is they actually weren’t German. They were speaking Polish and begging for their lives, saying they weren’t Nazis. They were representative of what happened to many in the Polish army in that they were forced to serve the Nazi war machine or face certain death. The reason we don’t get subtitles for this scene is the movie was to draw in the audience into this scene as much as possible, giving them an inkling of what it would’ve been like to be these soldiers. I actually didn’t know this fact until recently when I watched a very good video about this very scene (my deepest apologies to the person who made the video as it’s been a few years and I don’t remember who did it). But yes, war is hell and without an interpreter near by there’s no way anyone would know what they were saying.
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.
its not realistic. numbers don't add up. its exaggerated for propagandist agenda of hyping importance of d-day ( in reality a relatively small operation compared to others in war) ,
The tree on the tank is meant to break up the outline of the tank at a distance, to make it harder to aim a cannon at it. One type of allied tank (the Sherman) had a special variant (called the Firefly) with a much longer gun, that had much greater range and armor piercing power. The Germans learned to spot the Fireflies and hit them first, so they began painting stripes on the end of the barrels, just over the part that exceeded the length of normal Sherman guns. The human eye and tendency to pattern-recognition meant that it was hard to notice at a distance that the barrel was actually longer. It's surprising how little things like this can disrupt your ability to spot something.
It's ok Coby. These men shed their blood for us and our country. So it's certainly ok for you to shed your tears for them. May God continue to protect our men and women in uniform.
My dad and grandpa took me to see this in theaters when I was a kid. Dad was a forward observer in Vietnam grandpop was there with the 16th infantry during the invasion. During this scene, I was like 12 or 13. Close to the end of the scene I turned and my grandpa and dad had both walked out of the theater. It was too much for both of them. I just kept watching. Years later as an adult I watched it with my dad hanging out one day. He told me that grandpa and him both lost it during this scene seeing it for the first time. My dad said it was the only time in his entire life he saw his dad cry. Even my dad who's stone cold hard guy tough as granit said watching this made him dizzy and short of breath when he first saw it.
No one even remembers who won Pest Picture in 1999... It was Shakespeare in Love BTW. A movie no one has watched more than once and no one remembers. Saving Private Ryan should have won all the awards that year honestly.
Thanks for not hating on Upham as many reactors do, which is totally missing the point of the character. The last thing Spielberg intended was for us to hate Upham.
@genghisgalahad8465 is Millers fault for bring Upham along all I say is get him more Trained Trained or Don't Bring Him if he is going to act like that
@@genghisgalahad8465 Upham heightens the film's realism. Not everyone is able to turn into Sgt. Rock on command.Many soldiers froze with fear at a crucial moment and were haunted by it for the rest of their lives.
Spielberg said Upham was there to represent him, and all of us; everyday, ordinary men thrust into a situation they were neither trained nor prepared for. What would any of us have done in Upham’s situation? If we’re being honest we’ll say “I don’t know” because you can’t possibly know until you are actually in that situation.
Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar & The Martian. the US government has spent a whole lot of money rescuing Matt Damon
Or chasing him. The Bourne series and the Ocean series and Elysium
and World Police.. MaTt DaMoN!!
@@niallrussell7184 I ALWAYS say his name like this hahaha Maattt Deyyymonn
@@niallrussell7184 hahahaha I love the story behind that voice, too. They tried making the puppet a few times, but it kept coming out all warped. They spontaneously joked about how the warped Matt Damon puppet's warped voice would sound and, thinking it was too funny not to, they decided to go with it for the film.
When it came out, Matt Damon said Matt Stone & Trey Parker hadn't asked him to do the "MaTt DaMoN!" line, but he wished they had & was mildly disappointed he didn't get to do the voice because he thought it was so hilarious.
No. HOLLYWOOD has spent a whole lot of money rescuing Damon.
It's remarkable what these men accomplished at the ages of like 16-21. Insane. And the reason why "The Greatest Generation" is an accurate label.
Never Broker's biggest fan, but his books about this generation are A#1.
@@nickrizzi4927 🙄
My Dad joined the Navy at age 17 with his parents signing for him. He served in the Pacific Theatre.
Brokaw.......I dislike auto correct
@@brianwinn9491 God bless Your Dad and His heroic Ancestry. Picture the youth of today given the same EXACT call to action. These kids know a gun better than those young men, but the principles, convictions and moral fortitude.... So many of my elder relatives, well so many as percent (not numbers) who survived never spoke of it. And that was not some bullshit "snitch" punk rule. It was because they knew/lived real HELL, and did nothing wrong to deserve it, or carry the burden; and btw no drink ever washed it away, or made them spill. I hope and pray you and your Pop left no words needed unsaid just between you both! Truly.
Coby, before I begin, allow me to tell just a bit about myself. I am 65 years old, and I am a retired SGTMAJ USMC. I have seen almost the worst that mankind can dish out in war and the evil of war. However, my 30 years of military service in no way stack up to the hell and horror that the soldiers and marines saw during WW1 and WW2. To watch a young woman view and share her feelings with tears and emotions of human struggle inspires me with hope for your generation. I want to thank you for your love for the young men who fought so hard. For the men killed and injured in that conquest.
Thank you, Coby. Thank you for preserving the struggle and sacrifice that was paid for us. I feel that you get it. Please keep this alive. Educate that everyday freedom was paid for by those men. Thank you. Love you for what you're doing. Again. Thank you, Coby.❤
Thank you for your service. Stay safe I wish you and those close to you nothing but the best.
Edit: To anyone who may read this later on... *The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.*
-Bruce Lee
Thank you for your service!! Re: the horror of WWI… consider that modern plastic/reconstructive surgery was developed for this exact need.
The surgeon who developed his technique performed over 11,000 surgeries on 5000 men.
And also life in trenches was just a few steps above hell.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🇺🇸🦅
I'm 54 and cry every time I see this movie. When captain Miller says " earn this". Its not for Private Ryan. Its for every generation that follows.
Also notice how Ryans wife didn't know who Miller was, because WWII vets didn't talk about their experiences
"Its not for Private Ryan. Its for every generation that follows."
I COMPLETELY agree!!
Not only WW2 vets.
they don't talk about it because it's too painful...
@@shvabzee Not only for the victors.
I was born in 65, somehow our generation knew from our parents what it was like, and we are not that old to forget, so we have the duty to let the younger know what was it and why, so it doesn't happen ever again
My grandpa is a d day veteran. Before he passed we went and saw this.
I watched the sweetest man change. His eyes went stoic. His posture went rigid, like a lion hunting. I literally watched him transport to that exact moment. He was on that beach again. I wasn't even watching the movie anymore, I was watching him.
A few years later I was in Afghanistan in a hellhole near Pakistan. We'd just been in a bad ambush. After we got back to the FOB, I remembered my grandfather...I know knew him truly and feel the weight of his burden.
God bless the greatest generation indeed
Nobody cares about your granddad
The Germans and the Afghans are the good guys.
thank you and your grandfather for your service
The morphine wasn't a waste. He had already been given the maximum dose of 2 syrettes, a third would cause an overdose. Rather than prolonging his suffering, he asked his brothers to kill him in as painless a way as possible. That's why they were hesitant to do it.
This is always one of the most meaningful parts of the movie to me.
Everyone there knew what he was asking for, most of all Wade himself. I’m both sad and glad they didn’t use exposition to explain it, but so many people miss that point because of the lack of exposition.
The sad part is that it never made it into a vein. And even if it had, the amount of blood he was losing and pressure loss meant it wouldn't have had much of an effect. Anyone with advanced first aid and/or EMT training knows this which makes it even more sad for them when watching.
I’m guessing I’m not the only one who no matter how many reaction videos I watch of this film, I’m always crying. May I never get numb to the hell of war. Coby, thank you for your heartfelt, thoughtful reaction.
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It is explained in exposition before this scene when Wade castigates others for giving too much morphine because it would kill him. But yes, that scene was so they wouldn’t have to break the meaningfulness of his death with unnecessary exposition.
As Wade was the medic, when he yelled “oh my god, my liver”, he knew he was gonna die, so he asked for one more shot. A liver shot is almost always fatal if you don’t seek emergency medical attention within 10-20 minutes. The blood appears very dark from liver injuries
Well Coby. Three of my older brothers were in Vietnam. Two in the rice paddies and one on a ship outside of Vietnam. My mother would NEVER look at the mail. She would take it and put it on the table until my dad got home from work. He would open the mail. It was very stressful. All three of my brothers came home ALIVE with all there body parts. THANK GOD.
Everything to entice young people to die for companies that only see them as merchandise ........................
My great grandfather was a military supply driver during WW2, he driving truck full of food on the ice lake under german fire, not a single scratch while many other drivers drown in the ice lake
Thank you both for your families and your service, God bless.
I'm grateful that was the outcome. I hope your brothers were able to have decent lives after coming home.
@jon87583 Not really. One of my brother's was a medic. He came home with AGENT ORANGE. Screwed up his skin for a long time. But, yeah, he's better now. Thanks for asking.
"Tell me I'm a good man." I actually cried in the theatre. All men should aspire to being "good", and deserving of respect.
Her reaction gets to me. "What?"
You know right there that he never told her. And she doesn't get it, and she never will.
@@maxromisch3361 Yep, that is true. Like so many of them, including my WWI Grandfather. Lost the use of a lung to the gas at Ypres, but never complained about it.
Different times.
It was the last good generation of men. Been downhill ever since.
@@thorbeorn4295 Hard times produce hard men. Soft times produce, well...look around. Sigh.
That line gets me every time. Saw this in the theater and that one line just WRECKED me!
I am 73..My Dad was there on that day... he luckily survived..he also saw action in North Africa...3 of my uncles were killed there in France..these guys had balls...
@@timmaloney6739 my father was also in WW2, they really were the greatest generation…
thank you... to your dad and uncles for their ultimate sacrifice for all the freedoms we have - a Canadian
@timmaloney6739 BALLS, COURAGE, AND GRIT.
I'm 71 and my father was a Naval Officer in the Pacific. At 18, I was Army Infantry, Airborne, Pathfinder. When will we learn that the real enemies are politicians?
Baby boomer 👍
7 minutes in, and your compassion shows.
This. Is what you're Grandfather and Great Grandfather's went through, between the ages of 16 to 26 on average.
The Greatest Generation of our age. They grew up during the Great Depression, lived through WW1, fought in the biggest war known to mankind in WW2, stopped Hitler from Genocide, and Changed the World.
When Mrs. Ryan collapses on the front porch gets me every time. Heartbreaking.
Agreed. I can't imagine. My grandmother moved states because she worked for Western Union delivering those dreaded telegrams and didn't want people who knew her to hate seeing her coming.
@@j.benjamin3782 Yes sir. Every single time.
I am a combat veteran ( Vietnam ) You can not possibly know the good you have just done. Thank you for this and God bless you
Thank you.
Thank you for your service. Thanks to all who gave the ultimate sacrafice > Memorial Day.
Everything to entice young people to die for companies that only see them as merchandise ........... just saying
To me Wade's death was the hardest. Listening to him first trying to triage himself and then listening to him crying for his mother
The scene in the church where he's talking about pretending to be asleep when his mother comes home early to see him is probably my favorite of the movie. Great acting. But this movie is just full of great scenes and acting
When he asked for some more morphine he knew he was dead. They'd already given him one. I've heard saying: "One lets you see Jesus. Two lets meet Jesus." I think they give him 3. That's why they were so reluctant. Then they realized he wanted to sleep peacefully. I hope his mother was with him in his morphine hallucination.
@@michaelharris6044they euthanized him with morphine. They knew what they were doing.
Yeah, such a hard scene.
Oh my God. Especially after ignoring her all those nights. And then calling out for her.
Coby, your talk of getting the dogtags from the bodies of the men on the beach reminded me of this. In 2004, Andrew Rooney, an American journalist, who had been a 26-year-old soldier at Normandy in June 1944, spoke on television, on the sixtieth anniversary of the invasion. This is my transcript of what he said; perhaps you will find these words worthy of your time:
"Because it was part of my life, I'd like to say something about D-Day. I don't know how to say it any differently than I did in a book I wrote, called _My War._
"If you are young and not really clear what D-Day was, let me tell you.
"It was a day unlike any other. There have only been a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed for the better in one twenty-four-hour period by an act of man. June sixth, nineteen forty-four, was one of them.
*"What the Americans, the British, and the Canadians were trying to do was get back a whole continent that had been taken from its rightful owners by Adolf Hitler's German army. It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people ever did for another.*
"We all have days of our lives that stand out from the blur of days that have gone by; and the day I came ashore on Utah Beach, four days after the initial invasion, is one of mine.
"As we approached the French coast, there were small clouds of smoke, and sudden eruptions, as German artillery blindly lobbed shells over the hills behind the beach. They were hoping to hit U.S. troops or some of the massive amount of equipment piled up on the shore there.
"Row on row of dead American soldiers were laid out on the beach, just above the high-tide mark, where it turned into weedy clumps of grass. They were covered with olive-drab blankets, just their feet sticking out at the bottom, their G.I. boots sticking out. I remember their boots: all the same, on boys all so different.
"No-one can tell the whole story of D-Day, because no-one knows it.
"Each of the sixty thousand men who waded ashore that day knew a little part of the story too well. To them, the landing looked like a catastrophe. Each knew a friend shot through the throat, shot through a knee. Each knew names of five hanging dead on the barbed wire in the water, twenty yards off shore-three who lay unattended on the stony beach as the blood drained from holes in their bodies. They saw whole tank-crews drown when the tanks rumbled off the ramps of their landing-craft and dropped into twenty feet of water.
"There were heroes here no-one will ever know, because they're dead. The heroism of others is known only to themselves.
"Across the Channel, in Allied headquarters, in England, the war-directors, remote from the details of death, were exultant: they saw no blood, no dead, no dying. From the statisticians' point of view, the invasion was a success: statisticians were right: they always are-that's the damned thing about it.
"On each visit to the beaches over the years, I've wept. It's impossible to keep back the tears as you look across the rows of markers and think of the boys under them, who died that day. Even if you didn't know anyone who died, your heart knows something that your brain does not: you weep.
*"If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach: see what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June sixth, nineteen forty-four."*
My Grandfather served in WW2, he was awarded a silver star and a purple heart. He said the thing that bothered him the most in this movie was the squeaking noise the German tank tracks made. He said that noise had haunted him ever since the war.
my grandfather was airborne. he died of lung cancer before i could meet him but i have his journals. and man some pages break your heart
My great grandfather was in the 101st. I had the honor of getting to know him. He was wounded twice. Took shrapnel in the knee crossing the Rhine river from a German potato masher grenade, and a 8mm round in the back at The Battle Of The Bulge. That's the injury that sent him home. Dr's didn't want to remove the bullet because it laid to close to his lungs and heart. It's still in him to this day, God rest his soul. His stories left me speechless when we would visit him and Nana. He had some photos and other things he showed to me. My dad has his Purple Heart medal, my Uncle has a few as well. He had quite a few medals. I can't remember all that he had.
Both my Grandfathers served in WW2. One (Thomas) was a corporal (I think) in the British army, the other (Harry) an RAF bomber co-pilot. Harry's brother, Jack, was a chief mechanic for the RAF. In Germany, Thomas accidentally killed a young boy with the Jeep he was driving. This traumatized him so much that after the war, he never drove a car, ever again. Until 1965, at might, he often would wake up screaming and crying. Harry turned out to be a miserable miser unfortunately, but what his brother did is more honorable. As Harry & Jack Freedman were Jewish, Jack decided, in secret, to defect in february of 1948 to the new state of Israel to help build it up. He was branded a traitor by the UK. In Israel he supervised the reconstruction of planes built from the parts and wrecks that the Brits left in 1947. He made the Israeli Air force a reality. In 1985, he was pardoned by the Queen and returned to the UK to visit old friends and family. By then Harry had passed but Harry always had been so disgusted by what his brother had done (abandoned everyone) that he hated him, and even denounced Judaism. Jack has half a page dedicated to him in a history book about the early days of Israel and the overseas volunteers that helped build Israel.
I have more respect for Jack than for my own Grandfather, who really was a miserable pig that mistreated my grandmother and had 2 sons that hated his guts. I can remember my dad telling stories about him. Disgusting man.
Actually, that noise came from the turrets, due to the lack of sufficient numbers of ball bearings. And why was that? The Allies specifically targeted German ball bearing factories. The Germans had enough bearings to turn the turrets, but they turned much more slowly, which made it more likely that the Allied forces could take out the tanks more quickly.
@@davedalton1273 , Nope, that is indeed the tracks.
My grandfather stormed gold beach ( next to Ohama ) with the British forces. Proud to have been alongside our American brothers! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
As a former yank sailor who sailed along side the HMS Queen Elizabeth. I’m glad the Brits are on our side. Cheers from across the pond
Everything to entice young people to die for companies that only see them as merchandise
Churchill called us cousins. That we are.
@@NavyGuy125
Not all Americans are" yanks", anglo.
@@bango31
Churchill was also a fascist imperialist instigating wars to expand what he (accurately) saw as failing monarchy/Empire. He along with Patton wanted war with the Soviets instead of Germany and peddled the same racist propaganda about slavs being less than the "Germanic people" (ironically most European Russians are a mix of Eastern Slav and Swede).
I am not a U.S. citizen. I am Chilean, but grew up for the better part of my childhood and adolescent years abroad, including the States. I have two brothers that are U.S. citizens. Having said that: there is a universal story here. Sacrifice. And living up to - deserving - the sacrifices made for us. I watched this movie in a Provo Utah theater. I was sobbing along with all of the veterans and U.S. citizens at the movies there with me.
It was a hard time, wasn't it? watching it in the cinema. I did that with my relatives, one August evening, in the summer when I was 18. It was just after my return to the United States after my second time living overseas: I had lived in two European countries, one of which was an Axis power in World War II (where my sibling was born), the other of which was one of the Allied powers, both of them now at peace, on friendly terms, as they have remained for almost eighty years, the most peaceful time that there has ever been in Western Europe in thousands of years.
It's nice to meet you, through the Internet. In my opinion, you are a Chilean partly _because_ of the Allied nations, including Chile: they-especially the Americans, the British, and the Canadians-did what was necessary to keep Nazi Germany from taking over the world. Thanks to them, the Chilean people remain an independent nation, their country unoccupied, their people not exterminated for being of 'an inferior race'.
As a soldier who's been in combat, that's the worst PTSD you can ever suffer: living with the guilt that you got your friends....your brethren/sisters killed when it could've been avoided.
Don't get me wrong, there are many types of PTSD. But I've lost more vets here at home who lived with the guilt of the "shoulda', woulda', coulda'."
Mind you, I also don't have regrets of serving as well. I would proudly do it again without a second thought. I will retire next year, after being in the Army as an infantryman for 22 years. And yes, I chose my job. I joined a year after 9/11. I knew that someone had to do it; that if I didn't do this, I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
And yes, I'm sure I do have some sort of PTSD. I held back the tears when we came back from a mission without a fellow soldier. It happened 3 years later when I was alone in the barracks, having a beer watching Flags of Our Fathers. For some reason, at the end of the movie, when the Marines were at the beach in the water, I thought of my squad leader, about his fiancé, about his plans of making his life with her when he got out, about a family. And here I was, having a beer, alone, no plans about tomorrow. I finally let it out. I bawled my eyes out. I missed him. I missed them all.
In closing, when we got home from Iraq, I got to meet the family of a close brethren of mine who didn't make it; before, I was teaching him Navajo because when he got out he wanted to work at his father's dealership, near the rez. He said almost half of the customers were Navajo, and this would be a great way to build some trust.
I met his family when we got off the plane. I told them I'm so sorry for their loss. But I'm so proud and honored to have known their son and so grateful they allowed him to serve. Because I now know what an amazing person he was and why he is loved. They lost their son, and I lost a brother.
I'll see you someday SSG V, and SGT Geer. Right now, I'm living for you.🙏🏼
Thank you for your service!
Thanks for sharing, bud. Sincerely hope you're well.
God Bless you.
Thank you for your service. Best to you and yours in the future.
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Well, Coby. I’ve never seen your channel before. But watching you cry made me cry too. I spent 15 months in combat during the first wave of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I’ll never forget the look of my mother’s face turning white as she said goodbye to me, not knowing if she would ever see me again. Honestly, I can’t watch war movies by myself. So, watching it with you was kind of different. I have so many emotions going through me right now, but I stuck through it. Please remember that war is not cheap. And I’m not talking about monetary value.
"Honestly, I can’t watch war movies by myself. So, watching it with you was kind of different." Same here. She did a good job and made it easier to watch, even tho we didn't see it all. The bits we saw were tough enough, even with Coby.
I recall when I saw it in Westwood when it came out, the whole audience was very solemn at the end of the film. No cheering, some scattered clapping. It was more a powerful sense of like being at a memorial service of someone who was highly honored.
One of the most emotional reactions I've ever seen for this movie. No need to apologize. Your knowledge of most actors names was impressive. Thank you for a heartfelt reaction.
Coby is wicked smart, she picked up on things right away on her first watch.
Yes she has. Almost as bad as another girl, whats her channel? Pop Culturally Challenged.. Thats another girl shouldnt watch too strong of movies
@@wsw32606 That's why I enjoy her reactions so much. Coby is great and knows a lot about movies, therefore her predictions are very often on point. I love how she gets emotionally invested in the stories, although his time it was a bit hard for me to watch her suffer so much. 🙃But it was such a really good and honest reaction. Coby seems to be a really lovely and smart person. Looking forward to the next reaction! 🙂
Cassie on Popcorn in Bed did an amazing reaction as well.
Yeah I didn't think she'd know half those actors, she pretty much knew them all, the guy that played Wade was in Friends too, he played Phoebe's half brother or something I think. And the guy that played Upham was in the final couple of seasons of Lost.
World War II veterans had to leave theaters when this movie was premiered to them back 1998 because of how realistic it was in its depiction of the events that took place, especially Omaha beach
Not all of them. I sat next to four D-Day veterans watching the movie in the theater with their wives. Strong, brave men who could grieve the loss without being broken.
I am much younger than that, but had my own combat experiences in the '80's. I had to walk out in the first 10 minutes! I have only been able to watch it in the last 7 years. PTSD is a bitch. I couldn't even do fireworks until about 10 years ago. I would go into panic attacks.
@@506thparatrooper I had the same experience of seeing the film with WWII veterans. They sat still and never moved or spoke during the entire film. Truly an amazing generation.
@@506thparatrooper Are you actually talking trash about D-Day vets?
@@Educated2Extinction A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool speaks because they have to say something. You just had to say something.
Aw, Coby. Don't apologize for crying. I cried with you. I cry every time I see this film.
Same
Me too
When Hanks says,”Earn this,” he is speaking to you.
Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this, but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show.
I’m glad too, Hanks already won 2 Oscars prior so it was time to recognize other talent for a change
Yep, he’s speaking to all of us.
You think the left woke freaks think that?
@@nsasupporter7557 What a steaming pile of nonsense.
@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer um… I’m sorry that you don’t like facts 🤷♂️
This was one of the BEST and heartfelt movie reviews I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you for your honest emotions. I hope Spielberg himself sees this video. Bravo.
There are those movies where men who don't cry as a default, get those watery eyes and have to wipe it away. This is number one. Most men, I would say feel this depiction of WW2 most deeply. Best war movie ever. Clearest evil and good. It's a shame that 80 years later the same country is falling for the same tactics the Nazis used to control their population. The USA is the new third Reich, and many are too delusional and weak to see it. Sometimes I feel that these men died for nothing, because their grandchildren learned nothing.
Spielberg said he made this movie for his father and Schindler's List for his mother. Both stretch you in uncomfortable ways but are masterpieces.
He should have send postcards. Much easier.
My feeling is that Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List are two very difficult movies to see. But, both very important movies to see.
I bet he made the Medal of Honor game for himself though haha
@@mikakorhonen5715 Lame
They are both not movies you can just sit and watch. You have to mentally prepare yourself. No matter how many times you’ve seen them.
Band Of Brothers.
All time best BoB, watch The Longest Day. Tora Tora Tora, Patton, Cross of Iron,
The Pacific as well
'We were soldiers'. A great true story of a pivotal Vietnam battle starring Mel Gibson and Barry Pepper.
Don’t want repeat but worth it to mention. A lot of Veterans had to leave the theatre. Someone said something that was heartbreaking to me which was he starting smelling diesel fumes. It just all came back to him.
The best war film ever made. The men that fought in WWII were a different breed. They sacrificed their lives for the world. We're losing them every day now. There's not many left now.
Saving Private Ryan is the biggest snub in Oscar history!
Nah. The first and biggest snub was Spielberg's The Color Purple from 1986.
My vote is still that Val Kilmer should have got best supporting actor for Dr. Holiday in tombstone.
@@aztecgold8997 It's Doc Holiday, not Dr. Holiday.
@@jkhoover DDS would probably be his real moniker...lol
@@jkhoover It's Holliday.
From Omaha Beach and the blood red ocean
it's a non-stop barrage of emotion.
Thanks to Coby for sharing
and her kind heart for caring
about a story filled with love and devotion.
I served as an AF cardiac nurse and paramedic, and this was a very realistic portrayal of the injuries/ trauma . I was stationed in a Regional Hospital, which served as a resource for taking in active duty injuries during Desert Storm.
Thank you for having the courage to watch. It isnt easy for anyone 🙏🙏
Thank you for your service. Stay safe I wish you and those close to you nothing but the best. To those who may read this later on...
*The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.*
-Bruce Lee
In 1943 My dad, a Sailor, was severely injured in a training exercise preparing for his part in the liberation of Europe. His injury was cardiac, and he was medically discharged in early 1944 and told that he would never see age 30. He was 20 years old. When he returned home he met my mother, they fell in love and married a few months later. My mother knew my dad's prognosis and understood that they had very little time to share, but my mother bore my dad two sons knowing she would be a very young widow. They chose to move to Florida from Massachusetts because the Florida climate would help my dad, and Florida gave my dad 24 additional years of life with his family. He finally succumbed to his injury at age 54. They embodied the spirit of the Greatest Generation.
Thanks to your father for his service and ultimate sacrifice.
I've seen nearly all of the Saving Private Ryan reactions .... and your reaction is one of the very best. Emotional, sensitive, articulate, insightful ... really great reaction Coby ... thanks for doing it.
I was in the army when I saw this in Houston at the Theater. There were a lot of older men getting up and leaving, my young dumb self didn't even realize the reason they were leaving. After the movie, there were so many older men just sitting around with their wives consoling them, You could visibly see the turmoil and anguish and pain in their eyes. It hit me like a rock when I realized what was really going on. I've never exited a movie in my life where the people were all moving so slow, and just looking at each other and all just emotionally beat up. It was a lot to witness.
I asked my grandfather, who had 3 purple hearts, and NEVER talked about his WWII service in Europe, if he wanted to see the movie when it was in theaters. All he said was a very emphatic "No." After he died his brother told me why. His squad was ambushed by a 14 yearold boy in a Hitler Youth uniform who was running at them with a grenade. My grandfather yelled at him in German to drop it, when he didn't, he shot him in the leg before he could pull the pin. He hit an artery and the boy bled out in my grandfathers arms while he gave him water from his canteen.
Wow there are no words..respect to your Grandfather for his service and what he endured.
Some of the Hitler Youth were vicious. Some of them manned the machine guns in Omaha Beach. Some killed all the men on some landing crafts. One of my uncles served with Patton. He killed at least one member of the Hitler Youth. He received a Bronze Star for taking out a machine gun nest with a BAR.
Respect to your grandpa. My dad was on the other side of the planet at the time. He didn't talk about it either. Can't remember which movie now, but one in the Pacific theater came out and I asked if he wanted to see it. He raised his eyebrows and said no, I was there. I never asked if he would watch a war movie again.
I have no words after reading that😮💨
In the beach aftermath scene, Vin Disel's character hands the Jewish guy a Hitler youth knife. A lot of people didn't understand what they really meant or the guy's reaction when he was given it. That group they shot was all a bunch of teenagers or had some teenagers in it. Kids, just kids.
I was a Navy Corpsman, (counterpart to Wade's Doc) I served 10 years, 8 with Marines. I saw this on a Tuesday afternoon. There were 12 of us. Myself, and 11 others, all veterans. At the end of the movies, the house lights went up. All of us had teary eyes. One old man stated the following- "As far as war movies go, that was the most accurate depiction I've ever seen . As for the ACTUAL D-Day, it didn't come close"
His hat said it all- D-Day Survivor, Purple Heart. I have always deferred to his expert opinion. As bad as you think it was as shown in the movie, it was much, much worse.
As for me I have watched this and others from time to time. It is hard, but it helps to remember. To know sacrifices were worth it.
This was a fictional story told with the utmost respect.
As for others I watch & recommend We were soldiers based on the book written about the battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam the names of genuine Hero's. Flags of our Fathers & it's companion movie Letters from Iwo Jima, Memphis Belle, and Hacksaw Ridge
My understanding is that many said this did capture the sights and sounds but not the smell nor the time. D-day went on for hours.
@@curtismartin2866 exactly. There simply is no way to accurately represent a battle of that magnitude. That said, they did an outstanding job and set the bar high on this movie
Love this movie. Tears me up every time. Can you imagine kids these days lying about their age to go and fight in a war? It was and always will be the greatest generation. Coby, may I also say, wow!! You are beautiful!
This is the most realistic war movie ever made.
Seeing this on the big screen with Dolby audio, especially at the beginning of the movie, was beyond words.
My dad fought on the beach at Normandy, France, and this brought me to many tears in appreciation of what these guys went through.
My oldest brother Larry went to Vietnam from '66-'68, and when he forced himself to go see Platoon when it came out, was double-traumatized with his already existing PTSD.
THIS is why you should always thank a veteran for their service. I think everyone should watch this every Memorial Day.
i do. then i watch forrest gump
I watch it June 6th every year.
Steven Spielberg said it best at the academy awards, "These were a bunch 18, 19 and 20 year olds and they saved the whole damned world".
Well, the Russians did but these guys helped
@@avengemybreath3084 Are you talking about the maggots who were allied with Nazi Germany when they both invaded Poland in 1939 in an act of unprovoked brutality?
@@avengemybreath3084 no, the Russians were on an ENTIRELY different front and mainly defended their homeland until the Germans ran short on supplies. They didn't assault beach heads, or send in massive airborne divisions, and they weren't even involved in the Pacific theater. Yes, they played a huge role and killed a lot of Germans but they had absolutely nothing to do with other theaters of operation. This was a WORLD war not an eastern Europe war.
@@joeberger3441 fair enough - the Russians primarily beat the Nazis.
@@avengemybreath3084 Russia caught a lot of German bullets, but they never would have succeeded without Lend Lease.
The Bixby Letter scene is always the most powerful to me.
Like her other reactions, Coby proves to be the most sincere, insightful, and intuitive watch buddy one can have. She embodies why we watch reactions: to share poignant moments that we wish we didn't have to have experienced alone, like a beautiful sunset.
At the 58:35 mark, you are so right. Saving Private Ryan was robbed of the Best Picture Oscar by the good but lesser movie Shakespeare In Love.
Yes, Saving Private Ryan should have won Best Picture.
This is Vin Diesel’s first major motion picture role! Steven Spielberg himself saw a student film he did and was so impressed he asked him to audition
This is why war is known as a "meat grinder", as it is literally a numbers game, they only took control of the beach because they had enough bodies to finally attack from all side and positions. War is never pretty, and this movie really hammers that home from the very start.
In part. It also helped that the Germans had done most of their fortification building miles away up the coast where the distance between England and France was shortest. As tough as the fortifications on the invasion beaches were, they were not complete nor in most places fully manned.
Hitler's obsession with Norway kept hundreds of thousands of troops there where they were effectively useless. Likewise his demand to have control over the tanks and other units, and then sleeping in, cost them valuable time.
In the US any school that receives government funding, which is just about all of them including many private schools, is required by law to allow military recruiters access to the students. Personally, I believe recruiting offices should only be permitted in VA hospitals and nursing homes. After a kid has seen the worst that can happen to the ones that were still lucky enough to make it home, then allow them to sign the enlistment form, if they think it's a good idea.
It didn't help that the US military didn't trust "Hobart's Funnies". Major General Percy Hobart was a British officer who pioneered tank warfare. The Germans didn't invent the Blitzkrieg tactic, he did and General Guderian had every paper he published translated into German. He designed a number of modifications specifically for tanks involved in D-Day. The American beaches were a bloodbath but the British and Canadian beaches were much easier going thanks to those tanks.
@@brianeleighton I've also heard that the US command heavily weighted the first wave with troops fresh out of basic training. Not only was it a situation where skill and experience didn't count for much. troops that had a realistic idea what was ahead might well have mutinied.
US intel underestimated the fortifications. The US Navy threw everything at it from Battleship bombardments, rockets, aircraft dropped bombs, etc. Most of the fortifications survived. The armor, which would have made a huge difference, ended up scattered and/or foundered by the time they reached the shore. Only 1 tank made it ashore to its proper location.
The Thin Red Line is the movie that’s very similar to this one. It wasn’t as graphic as this movie and wasn’t recognized like this movie was… it flew under the radar
Hello from germany.
My grandfather, who was a paratrooper on the german side, could never really talk about what he experianced during WW2, even if I asked him about it. But I could see in his face that he didn't want to talk about it.
All I know is that he got taken prisoner in france by english soldiers.
The way Ryan's mom backs up shakily and sort of collapses on the porch is a small but good bit of physical acting.
I've said it before I'll say it again. Coby is a rare breed, beautiful and empathic, the epitomie of a real woman. This film is one of my favourites, the most realistic visceral films you will ever see. The acting as mentioned is pretty much flawless. Great reaction thank you.
It's nice when someone from her generation just gets it when seeing an account like this...even a fictional one.
@@RealRonSwansonshe’s 40.
I really enjoy her reactions, she is very natural, spontaneous and has a nice personality.
I didn't know her before, is she an actress too, a model, or what does she do besides reactions?
@@javix2013 idk but I’m in love with her. Especially after finding out her age and not seeing a wedding ring on her finger.
@@andrewreiber7691 she’s 40? No way. I’m 38 this week and recently single, I’d happily watch films and cry on the couch with her haha
I'm impressed that you recognized that the soldier that killed Mellish (while Upham froze in fear) was not the same person as "Steamboat Willie" (the German soldier that was released) the first time. It seems 75% of viewers think they are the same character. Your reaction to this epic film was great.
its a great test of which reactor is worthy
I'm dumbfounded that there was a whole plot element that I missed. Thought Upham simply got revenge for Mellish.
@@ZoneBaracking they look similar, but Steamboat Willie appears to be older than the other soldier. Additionally, the uniform gives it away-Steamboat Willie was in the German army, while the other soldier was a member of the Waffen-SS, which is a completely different branch of the German armed forces, though they often worked in tandem.
75? I'd put it more at 89%!! Even I was fooled at first.
cuz most arent fromiliar to history or the uniforms/insignia on their colar.if you never learned the indept history of ww2 than its normal that people arent able to spot the difference i think.most simpley dont pay attention on details such as that while watching a movie,dispite its still very good visable on who is SS,wheremacht and american. they did they fuck one thing up though: first rayan was from B-company,and half way hes suddenly from C company
I saw this when it first came out, in a brand new theater with a state-of-the-art sound system. It sounded like bullets were whizzing past my head during the battle scenes. It was terrifying.
*My father was 28 years Navy. He was a SeaBee in Vietnam and retired CWO4 off the Aircraft Carrier, USS Ranger (CV-61) in 1987. The first time I saw this movie, the opening scene made sick to my stomach. And, of course, the heavy scenes got me in my feels. After it was over, I was chatting online with Dad, and mentioned I'd just watched it, and all he said was, "Oh yea. Good action.". I was GONNA reply, "That ALL you have to say???". Then I remembered hearing about the WWII Vets who were getting triggered by the opening scene, and figured it was best to leave it alone. lol*
Sorry wrong person
This Army veteran tried to walk in the shoes of the amazing men like your father who served even when so many Americans dishonred them upon returning home.
Can Do! to your father, from a Gulf War Veteran SeaBee. Mad respects to those who served before me and their setting the bar so high.
Coby is gonna bawl on this movie. If you guys are hellbent on making her cry I recommend the big boys - The Green Mile and Schindlers List
With a big box of tissues. Both films (Green Mile & Schindler's) are excellent.
They aren't though, this is one of the hardest yet unmissably great films they've had Coby ever watch.
Add Hacksaw Ridge, Letters from Iwo Jima, Je Suis Karl, Marley and Me, Hiachi a dog's tale. Just to start
It’s a crime that this didn’t win best picture the year it released. The Oscars began losing their significance back then, when the truly superior movies were passed over for movies that better promoted “the message”, and other agendas.
WOW I am impressed with all the actors Coby was able to recognize.
Our young translator she couldn't place was also in Twister with Bill Paxton. That's the first association I make.
I remember seeing this when it first came out. The rumbling of the tanks was scarier that almost any horror movie I had ever seen, just the slow building suspense.
I watched this in the cinema as a young Officer, and found it difficult to watch but it portrayed the feelings of a tight band of soldiers and their interaction well. Now after leaving the Army and becoming a school teacher the film is somewhat more relevant to me. Conflict is difficult to deal with, it is your comrades around you that take through it. The peace can be harder when they aren't there when you need them. So thank you for watching this and helping others understand what some have to go through. I now find this movie really hard to watch as it brings back smells and sounds that keep me awake at night, but the horror was completely surpassed by your beauty. So thank you.
I know it was hard for you to watch it... just imagine how hard it was to live through and experience it. That is why it is so important that we make and watch movies like this, to appreciate and respect what those before and now have done and are doing for us.
My Grampa hardly ever talked about the war (WWII), except for the funny stories, but the one thing he did say (after having a little too much whiskey one night) was that the visuals were not as hard as the smell. So, thankfully we do not have Smellovision.
Never apologize for crying Coby, people appreciate genuine and honest reactions. Besides, I guarantee that you were and are not the only one to do so.
That is why the Oscars are a useless, political award.
She now understands war a little better. At the beginning of the movie she is aghast that they shoot men with their hands up surrendering, by the end of the film she is calling for the man surrendering to be shot.
The Oscars lost all credibility by not awarding this the best film and giving it to Shakespeare in Love, not because it was a bad film, but because this is one of the greatest pieces of film ever created.
The Academy hasn't done much since to earn back my respect.
I'm so glad you correctly identified steam boat Willy and didn't confuse him with Mellish's killer
Yes! Finally someone gets that right. SO many get it wrong
It’s been over 20 years and most people still get it wrong. The only similarity those two characters have is they’re both white and have a shaved head.
one is a regular German soldier and the other is SS.
I feel like I post this on every Saving Private Ryan reaction... Spielberg held a screening of this movie for the crew and the many technical advisors, many of them D-Day Omaha Beach Veterans. In the middle of the landing scenes, some of the Veterans (men in their 70's and 80's at the time) started walking out. Spieldberg, concerned they hated it, followed them out... To find these old men, crying, shaking, and holding each other, in the lobby. One of them said "I could smell the diesel (from the flamethrower)"... "I can still smell the diesel". More than half a century - and it was just a little too close, too real a memory.
I have lived long enough to remember meeting World War One veterans... and now they are all gone. I will probably live long enough to outlive the last World War Two veterans as well. We need to remember them.
The sniper wouldn't shoot him again. That's not how snipers work. For one thing, a wounded man occupies two or three others to help him. A dead man occupies no one. And a wounded man may draw out others who won't come out for a dead man.
Call of Duty experience?
This June 6th marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It's hard to imagine the enormity of it all. There were 160,000 allied troops, 5,000 ships and 2,200 aircraft involved in the invasion. We should all take a couple of seconds out of our busy lives and say a little thanks for what they did for us that day. When you walk thru the American cemetery in Normandy you feel how big the sacrifice was.
I remember watching this movie when it first came out in the theaters with my brother and my cousin who just enlisted in the Army Reserves. It was the first movie where we walked out and absolutely had nothing to say. We couldn't speak of the reality of these soldiers who truly sacrificed and died for this beautiful country. To the previous and current generations of soldiers and their families: THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU
The Sullivan Brothers, all four died aboard the same ship during the war. Thereafter, no siblings or spouses could serve in the same unit or theater of operations to this day.
I’m glad that of the reaction that you had, that war is awful and cruel. This was a very realistic film. I would suggest seeing the series Band of Brothers to see guys go from D-Day through the end of the war.
When our nation sends its sons to war, and it is mostly sons even though there are women serving now, that when they come home they aren’t the same because they did and saw terrible things. Films about our other wars from WW2 through Afghanistan & Iraq should educate in addition to telling a story. Thank you for showing your heart whilst reacting to this film. It is one of Spielberg’s best. I would also suggest viewing Schindler’s List, The Color Purple (original), and AI: Artificial Intelligence.
I've seen this movie numerous times so I'm somewhat desensitized, but I still cry every time Mrs. Ryan is notified of the 3 sons deaths.
Same. Especially since my dad and his three brothers served during WWII. All made it home, thank goodness.
To my mind it's the most heart wrenching scene ever made.
This movie actually caused quite a bit of D-Day veterans to have PTSD flashbacks when they watched the movie in theaters
I watched this movie when it came out. I was stationed in Germany at the time and watched it in a German theater with Germans. The movie was in English. The manager spoke to the audience before the movie and said that this movie is extremely realistic with the violence, especially the first 30 minutes. This movie is important because it is our shared history, however if after the first 30 minutes if you feel that you cannot watch the violence then come to the front desk and we will give you a refund.
What was the reaction of a German audience?
@HouTexHemi the Germans I watched it with were emotional as the rest of us. At the time, this movie was the most realistic war movie in showing what war and bullets and tank rounds do to someone who is hit by them. None got up and left that I remember. Everyone was in awe at the realism that the film showed. Everyone was very quiet when it was over. Dead silence. Watching it in the theater felt like you were on the beach with them.
@HouTexHemi also, as someone who lived in Europe for over 10 years off and on, the European society is way more mature than the society it the US. Most Europeans who are alive today, great grandparents and grandparents, and parents saw their cities destroyed in two separate world wars. They watched war right in front of them for a century. Only the war veterans in the US have seen war, except for refugees that have come here. The Europeans are extremely mature as a society because of their history.
I saw this opening weekend to a packed theater. When it was over there wasn't a sound when everyone was leaving except for a few people weeping. Never experienced anything like that again. 🇺🇸
My wife and I saw it when it came out, and the theater was full of WW2 vets. It was a surreal experience, nothing like this had ever been made before. The theater was silent, parts of the theater had the sounds of weeping. I was numb when I left that night.
Nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture but won for:
Best Director
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Film Editing
Best Cinematography
I'm a guy in his mid 30s, no kids yet. To this day, I stand by my belief that their mother getting that news is by far the most heart-wrenching part of the movie.
I've always said, if I don't see someone cry during that scene, there's something "off" with them!
Mrs. Sullivan, who has a song dedicated to her got 5 notices. 5. The ultimate sacrifice.
Jeremy Davies (Upham) was of course cast partly because his character had to know French and German. In any case, he did the role well.
his first big break was in Spanking the Monkey, which deals in incest. Then there was Ravenous, which deals in cannibalism. Plus a few "fun" roles like Twister.
This movie was made (in 1998) when most of these actors (not Tom Hanks) were in the early stages of their careers. THIS movie got them into other films, making them the actors that you know today. The male cast went through a Basic Training, held by Dale Dye, to teach them how to be military actors. Matt Damon was NOT included in this, which made him a stranger to the other actors, and he was generally disliked by them.
You asked about watching this movie if you were a veteran; vets who were at Normandy had great difficulty watching this, because it was so close to what they actually went through.
I enjoyed your reaction. Thanks.
After watching this movie when it came out… I got a newfound ultimate respect and appreciation for what veterans do and have done. I watch this film every Memorial Day in remembrance for those that have served, gave their lives for our freedom, and those that still serve our country. ❤❤❤❤
32:00 it's not for the waste that hovarth was hesitating to give more morphine, it's that two morphine doses are fatal. Wade knew he was gonna die, so he asked for the second dose so that he could die off without more pain.
This film should destroy you. "Earn this!" is not just Captain Miller's message to Private Ryan, it’s a message to all of us to never forget the sacrifices of so many to give us the freedoms we enjoy. My grandfather was part of the second wave to hit this beach and saw the carnage in real life. My father was a highly decorated LRRP team leader in Vietnam. I served during Desert Storm. This film is the best depiction of 20th Century warfare. Another film I highly recommend is "Glory"(1988). It’s based on the letters and history of Colonel Robert Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts during the United States Civil War. The 54th was one of the first regiments of 100% colored soldiers and the film is very accurate.
Lets give credit to *Coby* for sharing her emotions that's brave within itself, the internet can be a harsh place. Let's also shout out she's wearing camo pants...
I saw this at age 14 with my parents in a theater full of WW2 vets. Unbelievably heavy. Beyond cinema. Great channel
My military friends and I went and watched this 3 times the weekend it opened. Every showing, there were several old WW2 vets crying, being walked out by their wives after the 1st 30 minutes.
After a few more happy movies Coby needs to see Hacksaw Ridge. A brutal but incredibly inspirational movie that was downplayed because his heroics wouldn't have been believed.
Downplayed, up-played, played upside-down and sideways… Mel will do anything to manipulate viewers and force his agenda.
"Earn this" - two words every American should remember when thinking about those souls who gave their lives to defend and protect freedom and democracy.
us brits also share that sentiment
@@itzbp9949 Didn't mean to leave you out but the list would have been huge. ✌
@@Filboid2000 i know what you meant. I was just sharing that sentiment
@@itzbp9949 To be honest with you, you folks more so than us colonists - you were staring annihilation in the teeth for about two years until the Japanese were kind enough to invite us to the party . . . much to their chagrin.
@@Filboid2000 that's very true. This country got battered by the nazis for 3 years. Bombs after bombs and we were losing. Had the us not joined we probably would've lost
I'm glad you could empathise with Upham, so many reactors give him shit and declare how much he sucks but he was absolutely paralysed with fear. Nice to see some sympathy and understanding.
Well come on..he talked Capt Miller into letting that enemy soldier go, How did that work out? He also did nothing as his fellow brother in arms is fighting for his life, so tell me what reasons do we have to like this naive and cowardly character, please tell me?
@harvey4512 Well the basic training was suppose to be enough but clearly it didn't take for him and look what happened. I don't need training to know it's a freaking war, you aren't winning it by being nice..it's not wise to let a enemy who you just fought and just tried his best to kill you walk away to rejoin his military..that's just beyond stupid in a war.
Oh, he sucks no doubt. And dishonors the real life unit he portrays. He socks.
@@shootingreal5945 absolutely agree! Upham is an unreasonable coward that makes the blood boil!
@@shootingreal5945 Basic Training is in the name BASIC, can you follow orders and maybe point a gun in the right direction? Yes? Good. THEN you go to infantry school, typing school, etc etc. Upham was a map reader and translator, an army equivalent of an office worker. That's like asking the cooks to deploy with special forces and expecting them to all earn themselves a medal of honor.
My wife and I were at the theater waiting to go in when the audience for this film came out. I was astounded by the number of older men coming out who were visibly shook/crying. Told my wife we need to see this....and a week later tears!
My grandfather was a tailgunner over in Asia the last couple years of the war. He was underage when he enlisted. His mother had to sign a waiver for him to enlist. He was the 4th son to go off to ww2. Fortunately, they all came home.
My grandfathers flight crew wasn't as lucky. He and another gunner were left at base. The war had just ended. No need for them. The plane was shot down over China on that flight. My grandfather rarely spoke of the war. Only once did my dad even hear about it. This movie always makes me so proud of my grandpa and his brothers. RIP boys.
What hits so hard about the 2 “German” soldiers who were surrendering is they actually weren’t German. They were speaking Polish and begging for their lives, saying they weren’t Nazis. They were representative of what happened to many in the Polish army in that they were forced to serve the Nazi war machine or face certain death. The reason we don’t get subtitles for this scene is the movie was to draw in the audience into this scene as much as possible, giving them an inkling of what it would’ve been like to be these soldiers. I actually didn’t know this fact until recently when I watched a very good video about this very scene (my deepest apologies to the person who made the video as it’s been a few years and I don’t remember who did it). But yes, war is hell and without an interpreter near by there’s no way anyone would know what they were saying.
Lmao, you mean Czech. They were speaking Czech. And very much not from Poland
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.
its not realistic. numbers don't add up. its exaggerated for propagandist agenda of hyping importance of d-day ( in reality a relatively small operation compared to others in war) ,
He's not "the little one" or "the young one", that's DANIEL F***ING FARADAY! Put some respect on his name
Remember the men and women in there 90s are far more experienced than any of will ever be.
The tree on the tank is meant to break up the outline of the tank at a distance, to make it harder to aim a cannon at it. One type of allied tank (the Sherman) had a special variant (called the Firefly) with a much longer gun, that had much greater range and armor piercing power. The Germans learned to spot the Fireflies and hit them first, so they began painting stripes on the end of the barrels, just over the part that exceeded the length of normal Sherman guns. The human eye and tendency to pattern-recognition meant that it was hard to notice at a distance that the barrel was actually longer. It's surprising how little things like this can disrupt your ability to spot something.
WHY did RUclips make the premiere countdown SO LOUD
It's ok Coby. These men shed their blood for us and our country. So it's certainly ok for you to shed your tears for them. May God continue to protect our men and women in uniform.
This film drains anyone that watches it. Coby, you deserve a month of comedies, If you'd like to stick with Hanks, I suggest 'Big' or 'Spash'.
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My dad and grandpa took me to see this in theaters when I was a kid. Dad was a forward observer in Vietnam grandpop was there with the 16th infantry during the invasion. During this scene, I was like 12 or 13. Close to the end of the scene I turned and my grandpa and dad had both walked out of the theater. It was too much for both of them. I just kept watching. Years later as an adult I watched it with my dad hanging out one day. He told me that grandpa and him both lost it during this scene seeing it for the first time. My dad said it was the only time in his entire life he saw his dad cry. Even my dad who's stone cold hard guy tough as granit said watching this made him dizzy and short of breath when he first saw it.
No one even remembers who won Pest Picture in 1999... It was Shakespeare in Love BTW. A movie no one has watched more than once and no one remembers. Saving Private Ryan should have won all the awards that year honestly.
Thanks for not hating on Upham as many reactors do, which is totally missing the point of the character. The last thing Spielberg intended was for us to hate Upham.
Oh I still am disgusted by Upham.
@genghisgalahad8465 is Millers fault for bring Upham along all I say is get him more Trained Trained or Don't Bring Him if he is going to act like that
@@genghisgalahad8465 Upham heightens the film's realism. Not everyone is able to turn into Sgt. Rock on command.Many soldiers froze with fear at a crucial moment and were haunted by it for the rest of their lives.
Spielberg said Upham was there to represent him, and all of us; everyday, ordinary men thrust into a situation they were neither trained nor prepared for. What would any of us have done in Upham’s situation? If we’re being honest we’ll say “I don’t know” because you can’t possibly know until you are actually in that situation.
You need to watch Schindler’s List.
Watch with a case of kleenix. There is a HBO movie to watch before Schindler list call Conspiracy