THE BEST WAR MOVIE EVER MADE! | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | First time movie reaction & commentary!
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This movie was beyond captivating and did such a great job of making me feel like I was there that dreaded day in Normandy. Incredible! Thank you so much for watching!
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Hey guys, to everyone saying I paused it too much, please note that 5 of my previous hard edited videos were taken down, so I really had to add in a lot of my own commentary to not get copyrighted. I really do get immersed in the movie, even with the pausing, but I am definitely not a silent watcher! Thank you to the people who left constructive criticism though, point taken :)
Have you considered putting the taken down ones on vimeo; a music reactor started a vimeo channel as he kept on having videos taken down. May be an option to consider, kerk
Please just be yourself, pauses are okay by me (and should be for everyone), after all this is a reaction channel and we are here to watch your reaction and hear your thoughts. If anyone wants to watch the movie without pauses, buy it or rent it, or whatever, and watch to your hearts content.
Hey there.. I very like your precise, emphatic and well spoken comments. You handle this certainly better than many other "reactors" who basically just perform, which is truly annoying. But as a true (and at times maybe a bit old fashioned) cinema lover, I'd really really appreciate it if you do not destroy the entire flow (and editing) of the film by "cutting" it into so many pieces. No pausing. It's already a shame to not see so many masterpieces on the big screen where they belong, but therefore, the expercience should be a flowing one at least. Otherwise, very well done..
Another movie reactor had a fair use timer running on the video when showing scenes. 9 minutes max.
Watch "Pitch Black" it's a great Vin Diesel movie
As a German I always watch this movie with a weird feeling in my stomach. On the one hand history has proven that it was a good thing that the Germans could not defend the Atlantic wall, on the other hand my grandfather was one of the bad guys in Normandy (and before that in Poland, Latvia and Russia).
He was a soldier because young healthy men didn't really have a choice back then (and admittedly in the early years he believed the lies of the Propaganda). Before the war he was a young fun loving man who loved his wife and children and when he made it home .... let's just say there were days my Dad wished his Dad had not made it home.
It got better after a few years, but the war had definitely killed the happy young man and just left someone full of fear and rage and bitterness.
I personally never witnessed my Grandfather hurt anyone or speak bad of anyone but still sometimes I looked at him and wondered what he might have done back in those 6 years of war and it still gives me chills today to think of it.
Grandfather in law was Heer, 1st Co, 4th Regiment, 32nd infantry division as a signal cable runner on the East Front. KIA1944.
Dad rode with the 3rd Army, General Patton, 44-45
Wow! Such an honest story! I think the report by Hannah Arendt: "Eichmann in Jerusalem - on the banality of evil" from the Adolf Eichmann-trial in the 60s is one of the most important for understanding history. Evil isn't foremost the result of evil people or monsters, but the result of consciencious people doing what they see as their duty, put in the hands of bad men - all the way to the top of the system (as Eichmann). This isn't an excuse, one can always be accused for not being a hero in opposition to evil, but an explanation. Most of us aren't heroes or monsters, most of us just try to survive under the conditions we are given. Some times that is on the "right" side and some time that is on the "wrong" side of history.
I live in Norway and grew up in the 70s with people who for some strange reason could always tell some story about how they had a part in the resistance and the liberation. I suspect most of them mostly tried to "get by" as good as they could and that many stories were exaggurated a lot after the war to be able to "take part" in the victory. The "common resistance to the occupying force" was important as an unifying narrative after WWII.
Your grandfather could have been an hero, he wasn't - most people aren't, he was just a normal man doing what he believed to be his duty, heroes wouldn't be heroes if they weren't so few.
Thanks for sharing Brigit. To this day, Berlin has an office were you can go to look up WWII veteran details. Including when and where they died in combat.
@@EricPalmerBlog there they only had the papers for his release from prison camp.
Where he was before capture I only know from my what my Dad and uncles told me.
Long stories full of covert missions behind enemy lines (mostly in Russia) and none can be proven because there is no papertrail left, my Grandmother sent and received letters via an address in Berlin, when he finally made it home he burnt all the pictures with destroyed tanks and bridges and threw the iron cross and other military decorations he had received into the local river..... the only city name I know for sure is velikiye luki.
To this day when someone is drunk and tells stories in great details the saying in my family goes : "velikiye luki hin und zurück"
But enough of that. Life goes on and it is not healthy to dwell in the past - just as long as one does not forget the horrors of what dictatorship and war can cause.
Omg.Brigit, Seriously?? He was taken prisoner at Velikiye Luki ??? I know that story. Nicknamed "Stalingrad of the North".
The author Paul Carell tells the story in detail. A nightmare for sure.
Kind regards
The two men near the beginning of the film who were trying to surrender were actually speaking Czech, not German. They were saying "Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" They were most likely conscripted into the German army after Germany conquered Czechoslovakia. Regardless, to kill them when they were clearly trying to surrender would've been considered a war crime.
There were a whole series of war crimes trials that took place after Normandy, before Germany even surrendered. I think 4 men were found guilty and hung, but there were some 60 other convictions that resulted in prison terms.
They were called Osttruppen or Ost Battalions. A lot of them were Red Army POW’s.
@@AlexKS1992 Those were mostly Russians, Ukranians and other minorities in the Soviet Union. Czechs usually don't end up in those afair.
@@DerOberfeldwebel Yeah a lot of them were just Russians and others.
In Wehrmacht served also about 450 000 Poles, called Wasserpolacken. Of course most of them were forced to be here. My grandgrandfather was one of them.
When older Ryan says to his wife at the end "Tell me I’ve led a good life… tell I’m a good man…" absolutely crushed me. 💔
I choke up every time. And it reminds me to try harder to be a good person. Great scene!
At 10:38 when Vin Diesel hands him the knife he says "it's a Hitler youth knife" and then the guy says, "now it's a Shabbat challah cutter right?". Shabbat Challah is a kind of Jewish bread I believe.
And moustache guy is Jewish.
IIRC shabbat is sabbath dinner on Saturdays and challah is indeed bread.
Yes, Challah is a delicious bread I make it at least once per year.
Its also a realisation that some of the Germans were children. A Hitler Youth Knife was a part of the uniform for children who were a part of the paramilitary youth organisation of the Nazi party, basically cadets.
I went on a school trip to Normandy, many, many years ago, and as well as the rows and rows of white crosses of the allied casualties there were plaques for the fallen German soldiers and it struck me that many of them were aged 15 and 16, the same age I was at the time.
But just think about it, he became that Jewish bread in the end and he was "cut" up by the gentile SS soldier with the same dagger plunged into his heart.
On another note, the Jewish messiah Jesus, proclaimed that he was the bread and the wine. "Take, eat, for this is my body broken for you"
This was Vin Diesal's first movie. He and Ed Burns, who did this to earn money for his own productions, praised Speilburg, because when they were not on cam, they were hovering behind him and camera, asking questions, learning, which they say he was incredibly gracious, and walked them through shots, and lighting and all that film things.
Another outstanding reaction. I love that when there's something you don't understand, you pause for a moment and look it up. Thank you for your effort.
The letters in their pockets are death letters to be mailed by their fellow soldiers expressing to the deceased loved one's how much they loved them and what they meant to them.
My maternal grandfather was stationed at Peleliu during WWII. I never met him because he died in 1984. But from what my mother or my grandmother told me, he loved movies. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark was his favorite. I think he would be most pleased with this film and tickled since Steven Spielberg directed it.
No, they're not crossing the Channel only in this boats. This landing crafts were released by much bigger transport vessels which also carried the heavy stuff like tanks and artillery. They also got air and naval support by battleships, heavy cruisers, destroers, fighter and bomber planes.
The landing boats disembarked form largerer ships few miles off shore
The two germans surrendering at the beginning, were trying to tell they were captured prisoners from invaded countries , forced to fight. Which happened a lot.
They were Czech
I don't think they were captured prisoners. More likely they were living in occupied Czechoslovakia (Or Czechs living in the Sudetenland) and when they were old enough they were simply drafted.
They could have been actual Czech prisoners from prison or pows from the eastern front but either way they we’re fighting against their will.
They gave weapons into the hands of their previous prisoners? That's not a very smart move.
Spielberg invited veterans to the film premiere back in the 1997. A majority walked out after 15 minutes because they couldnt believe how accurate the Omaha beach scene was. It brought on PTSD again for them.
The whole film is the finest representation of every person who lost their lives to secure our freedom and liberty. Something that the youth today I feel take for granted and do not realise their day to day problems, will never match the peoples who lived through that 6 year Hell.
"The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead." ~ Colin Powell
Saving Private Ryan Filming Locations When it comes to the filming locations, Spielberg went all in! The film was extensively shot in England and Ireland, except for the cemetery scene, the filming of which took place in France. Production was also supposed to take place in Seaham, County Durham, but government restrictions prevented it
Is that an actual graveyard in France or did they build a set in France?? Not something I’ve actually though before.
@@jjc5871 it was an actual grave site. Spielberg and the team said when they saw sunlight had hit cpt miller's grave they knew they had to shoot it and they made the old pvt ryan salute the grave
The final battle scene was a purpose built set in Hatfield Hertfordshire.
When this movie came out CBS did an interview of people who have seen it, a couple Omaha veterans were there watching it. A couple minutes in and they needed to go to the hospital for ptsd. When they were okay they answered saying it was exactly like this, only 10 times more violent, along with that they were stuck there for 10 hours not 20 minutes, and they had to cross 3 football fields. The violence is accurate but obviously the layout of the beach isn’t
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Finally, a "reactor" who did a little basic research before watching a film to get a historic perspective! It drives me crazy when someone posts a reaction video to a movie or listens to a song and makes stupid comments because they're showing their ignorance.
The reason that I feel that Melish reacted like that was, he realized with the knife that the Germans that were killed were just kids. And used to defend the beach that day.
No, it’s because he’s a Jewish soldier and he’s holding a knife that is the symbolism of the hate against him. He says “now it’s a Shabbat Challah Cutter” which is a knife used to cut Jewish bread at the start of Shabbat, a Jewish holiday.
I thought it was because he's Jewish, and he was having an emotional response based on that...
@@SC-ew2fc No. It’s because he just went through an absolute horrific nightmare of a beach assault and it finally hit him in that moment. Talking about the knife had nothing to do with it.
Band of Brothers!!!! Such a good watch!
@Dilligent Yeoman
- On what level is it B grade? It's got good production and acting.
- The same people made it, so it's no rip off.
- They made it because during the filming of this, they came across the story of the 506th airborne and because of the reaction of WWII veterans.
- It tells a completely different story. Yes, it follows American soldiers during WWII. That's about it. That's almost a genre in itself. BoB isn't about a rescue mission or the moral question of "how much is one life worth" or anything.
Honestly, I think you just watched another movie thinking it was Band of Brothers or something because what you say makes little sense.
Band of Brothers is more moving because it follows real people and you have the interviews of the actual soldiers . I always had an issue with the end of SPR because after all they go through to find Ryan, it seemed so far fetched to then just not immediately drag him to safety whether he wanted to go or not. I Loved the movie, the way it was filmed and how it depicted WWII in Europe, it is just that the ending seemed too contrived for me to be believable.
@@Bock3039 It's a bit of a 101st circle jerk, not that they dont deserve every bit of Praise and Honor, men in the 82nd and other PIR and Glider Troops would say "It wasnt just the Goddamn 101st taking Normandy"
@@rubenlopez3364 I never got the impression they implied the 101st did all the work. It's just from their point of view. All they showed Easy company doing in Normandy was dropping and getting lost, taking out some cannons, fighting in a small town called Carentan and fighting off an assault. Hardly them taking Normandy by themselves.
They could've gone the same route as something like "A Bridge Too Far" and showing a bigger picture, but that wouldn't have made the same emotional impact as following one company. And if they chose to make a series about a company in the 82nd, men of the 101st would be saying the same thing instead.
The 101st are more popular to many people today than say the 82nd, because of this series, but you can't really fault the creators of the series for that. Probably just means they made a good series about the 101st. Can't make a series or film for every soldier in a World War.
@Dilligent Yeoman BOB is better by far than SPR. And you cand make a knock off of your own movie.🙄
I highly recommend "Downfall" (2004)! The movie is about Adolf Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII and it was nominated for best foreign language film at the 2005 Academy Awards !
There are weirdly no reactions to downfall on yt.
Yes. Downfall is excellent!
Der Untergang ist mein deutscher lieblingsfilm.
Great movie, IMO.
Imagine being the parents of the five Sullivan brothers who were all killed when the USS Juneau was sunk in the Pacific.
No thank you.
The day of disembarkation is not chosen at random. It was originally scheduled to be scheduled for June 5, but the weather conditions did not allow operations. The disembarkation was to be done in the early morning, after a moonless night (for the night airdrops). The beaches being trapped and mined, the landing was to take place when the tide was rising. So that the pilots of the embarkations do not get trapped and that the distance between the beach and the German bunkers is as short as possible to avoid being exposed for too long
Saw it in the theater. Some people were stunned into silence and muffled crying.
WWII history is one of my hobbies.
Great review. Thanks for sharing.
I don't remember exactly what nationality the two people trying to surrender and got shot were but essentially they were being used against their will by the Germans as soldiers. They were actually on the Americans side. Makes it even sadder they ended up getting shot anyway.
Czech. They said they were Czech.
Many thousands volunteered to fight in the SS from just about every conquered country.
And some non-conquered ones, too (Spain, Switzerland, Finland, India, etc).
There was even an SS unit of British volunteers fighting on the Eastern front (recruited from POWs).
So who knows what the motives, and pasts, of these two guys were? Maybe they were forced into it, but I wouldn't take their word for it.
And, technically speaking, if I were one of the Americans who shot them, I'd probably offer the defense that 'if they wanted to surrender, why did they keep advancing toward us like they were planning something underhanded?'. Like the Japanese often did in the Pacific theatre, so they could get close enough to kill more American troops.
Not saying it was justified. I just like analyzing these things.
There’s a reason why they are often called the” Greatest Generation “
2 world wars. some even in the Korean war
Saving Private Ryan changed the way that war movies were made. Prior to this most of them didn't show the violence in such a realistic and sustained way. And even since then there's really only a handful of war movies that can match what Saving Private Ryan did. Those are Black Hawk Down (2001), We Were Soldiers (2002), and Lone Survivor (2013) all three of which I very highly recommend
And Hacksaw Ridge (2016).
10:53 Fish is Jewish. Caparzo finds a Hitler Youth knife and hands it to him. Fish makes a "joke" about the knife being a "Shabbat challah cutter," or a knife used to cut holy bread. He then begins to cry because he realized the boy they killed was literally just a boy serving in the Hitler Youth, probably no older than 16.
I think Mellish cries because he is shocked.
The last couple of minutes of the movie are one of the most heart wrenching moments, when Ryan kneels at the cross and I guess pleas to Cpt Miller hoping that he deserved their sacrifices for him to be saved and sent home, then when he turns to his wife and asks if he's a good man. That just cuts to the core, it always tears me up.
Great reaction, cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
I do wish people would realize this is an anti-war movie. It brutally shows the human cost of war in lives lost and shattered. It does not glorify war at all. To my mind this and Das Boot are the best anti-war films ever made.
Couldn't be more wrong.
@@Melrose51653 you couldn't be more ignorant. See how easy making blanket statements is? Happy now?
He wasn't having a revelation on the beach...he was stunned by the explosion next to him.
Also, there was a mother from Iowa who lost all 5 of her son's at one time. Look up "The Sullivan Brothers". All 5 brothers served on the same ship...and all died at once when their ship sank.
There are several military cemeteries around the world...8,000 graves in Tunisia, 10, 000 in the Philippines, etc.
The reason the soldier cried when he was handed the knife...he was emotionally exhausted. The biggest and bravest man breaks down after awhile
The knife was a Hitler Youth knife, meaning they were probably very young.
He didn’t care about that. He broke down because he just went through an absolute horrific nightmare of a beach assault and it just hit him in that moment.
@@Gunnar001 you never know
@@jiji7250 No. It’s pretty obvious.
Fact : two soldiers surrender to the Allied forces but, speaking German, their pleas for mercy aren’t understood and they are executed on the spot but they weren’t speaking German, they were speaking Czech, pleading: “Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!"
This is an all-time great war film, but I think one of the best ones I've seen is Paths of Glory. It does not sugarcoat the ugliness of war, but still leaves the slightest bit of optimism, which is typically not a signature of Stanley Kubrick.
Come and See is another brilliant war movie, made in the mid 80s it shows the absolute barbarity of war. I believe you can see it on youtube.
Tom Hanks says .War is like a box of Bullets, You never know where you gonna get shot.
Bridges were huge, you could not get armor across rivers otherwise. So it was done on both sides.
Update.....the Allies recon had seen the German armor was backed off the coast. A source of contention between Rommel, who wanted them positioned on the beaches, and von Rundstendt, old man who believed wait until Allies land and attack once in land. The Allies were bombing all the bridges for months, to prevent German reinforcements getting to the beaches. Once the beachheads were established, the Allies wanted the bridges to advance, because all the bridge building material was jammed up in logistics.
The whole American philosophy was to push the advantage while you have it. You caught the opponent in a bad situation, exploit it fast. The Germans were as well. It was the whole concept of blitzkrieg, opposite of WW1 and trench warfare, and was pushed by Patton, though he was not participating in D-Day.
The story that this movie is loosely based on is the Niland brothers. Edward, Preston, Robert, and Fredrick. Originally, they thought 3 of the 4 brothers had died in combat so they sent the 4th brother, Fredrick, back to the US. There was no squad sent to find him or anything like that, he was in friendly territory trying to see one of his brothers. Eventually, they learned that one of the other brothers, Edward, was actually still alive and in a Japanese POW camp. He was in the camp for nearly a full year before being freed. He was captured on May 16, 1944 and the camp was liberated by the British on May 4, 1945.
Yep. Now that you've watched a fictional story, time for the 10 part mini series Band of Brothers. The *true* story of Easy Company 506th 101st Airborne. It will change your life.
Absolutely, it will change your perspective on some things.
Concur.
Never seen it.
@@grayadam It's a great watch. You been missing out!
This story is not fictional
There is a graveyard in Normandy but the opening scene is shot at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington DC, it's where many US servicemen and women are buried, it's absolutely sprawling and pretty amazing to visit. Actually it used to be the estate of famous Confederate general Robert E Lee, who led the army of Northern Virginia for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. More Americans died in the war than any other in history (nearly half a million). And after the North/Union won the conflict, Lee's estate was confiscated and converted into a cemetery for all the dead, as kind of a forced penance. There are beautiful views of the US capital from the property and it's also the final resting place of President Kennedy.
have seen this movie many times. And several reacters. You had a great interactive reaction. I think thru time, this movie may be come to be known as one of the most "real" depictions of war. The confusion, the violence, the blood, noise and all the varied reactions of the soldiers. Showing how even in the middle of something like that, you cannot completely know how anyone would respond.
This Movie has so many Famous background actors, besides Vin Diesel, as you saw. There is also Bryan Cranston ( Breaking Bad ), Ted Danson ( Cheers ) , Andrew Scott ( Sherlock ) , Denis Farina ( too many to count lol) . But the scene that got me the most was the demise of Giovani Ribisi ( the medic Wade ). He was also great in ' A Million Ways to Die in the West ' with Seth MacFarlane ( creator of Family Guy, American Dad, Ted, The Orville, Cleveland show, tons of others. I would love to see your reaction to A Million Ways to Die in the West ( great comedy )
7:20 These boats were called 'Higgins Boats'. Meant to land as close to the beach as possible with at least a platoon size of men that could swarm the beach.
Mellish joked about the Hitler youth knife, “And now it’s a Shabbat Challah Cutter.” Which is a knife used to cut Jewish bread at the start of the jewish Shabbat ceremony. He was taking it as a souvenir but cried as it reminds him of his tradition, home, and how the knife symbolises the hate for him and his people.
The American Cemetery in Normandy, Colleville-sur-Mer is peaceful, beautiful, and a place you can feel. They say that if you can walk across the grounds without crying you are already dead.
This department actually exists in the US military in fact if there's a draft if you are the only male descendant you will get a pass the first couple rounds unless things become dire same thing if your brothers are killed and there's only one male descendant left they will try to retrieve that person the same is also true when it comes to killed and captured Kia and Mia the military will do whatever it can to try to retrieve somebody who's been captured or killed including sometimes losing more people to retrieve the body of of somebody killed behind enemy lines this gives the whole military faith that they will not be left behind dead or alive
I served in Afghanistan, and what you talk about around 14:00 is absolutely correct. With me, they called it dissociation...I tended to bounce between intense personal involvement in my mission/job and complete apathy as a way to keep a grip on myself.
I was in a Provincial Reconstruction Team in the south of the country, and our job was to build and then help the locals maintain veterinary, sewage, and medical facilities that the Taliban couldn't provide them with...this would bring them over to our side and encourage support for the Coalition and Afghan government.
I was a farm kid from eastern Iowa, which meant that all this was incredibly personal to me: I was able to help Afghans with sheep and goats because my grandpa and father had both raised them for a living for years.
But to distance myself when IEDs went off or when something bad happened, I would completely shut down...it was my mind's way of dealing: I was either All In, or Folding.
Thank you for reacting to this and sharing it with us. I appreciate your empathy.
watch The Fighting Sullivan's, a true story they lost all 5 of their sons same day on the same ship
Killing or not killing soldiers that are surrendering has NOTHING to do with "having mercy". One is a war crime, the other.. is how it's supposed to be. As soon as a soldier surrenders, they are a prisoner of war and is no longer allowed to be killed.
House of mash please do Hacksaw ridge it's the true story of a soldier that won the medal of honor without picking up a gun, he saved so many lives after being accused of being a traitor, he even saves his superior officers who called him a coward. At the end of the movie there are interviews with the real men.
Although it was more or less based on The Niland brothers, They would not send a rescue unit. Two of the Niland brothers were serving as paratroopers. One with the 82nd airborne (Bob Niland) and the other with the 101st airborne division (Fritz Niland). Both divisions were dropped in Normandy. Fritz Niland (101st airborne), when the fighting was over, went to the 82nd to visit his brother. He was informed that his brother Bob was killed. After that he was shipped home. When the war was over they found his brother Edward (air Force) was not dead bot in a Japanese prison camp. The other brother who was killed, Preston Niland was also killed in Normandy in a infantry unit June 7th.
As far as letting the prisoner go, I would think about how I would like to be treated if I was taken prisoner but also all soldiers, German & Allies were under the Geneva Convention rules which prohibited abusing or killing soldiers who surrender though it did happen. Breaking those rules, committing war crimes were prosecuted after the war.
War crimes by the winners are not prosecuted. Lmao. Eisenhower’s death camps.
The two guys near the beginning who get shot while trying to surrender aren't German. They're actually speaking Czech, saying "We're not German, we're Czech, we were forced to fight but we didn't kill anyone."
Thank you for watching this film.
It is one of the most true depictions of war to be put on film.
No other film has captured war since. If you want another war film watch ... we were soldiers.
Band of Brothers is up there my dude.
In The Bridges Of Toko Ri (another very good film about aircraft carriers and early jets in the Korean War) one of the characters remarks "Why does everyone fight". And his answer is "Because you are here". No choice on the battlefield. Sun Tzu refers to it as 'death ground'. Ground that your men will fight to the death for because there is no way out.
Just remember, these guys are not seasoned soldiers, they were farmers, grocers, mechanics, teachers, this was their first military action, so as far as having their head in the game it would be pretty hard
I'm subscribed. You're the first "reactor" who actually researches what things mean. I like that.
Matt Damon is the only actor not to go through boot camp before filming so that the other actors actually resented him.
Hi Ash, I really enjoy your style of reacting! 👍 I like how you take time to pause and reflect. Also as you say, it probably helps you to not get them taken down. There will always be people who will probably criticise, whatever you choose to do... (ET-cetera instead of ECK- cetera!! 🤦) And there are so many reaction videos of the "normal" styles out there, that people can go watch them, if they are not liking yours so much.
So for me, please continue...
This movie is so intense and moving - i saw it in the cinema and it stayed with me for months afterwards. And wonderful performances all round.
Hope you're having a great weekend. 🌞 Take care and stay safe. ❤️
11:00 The guy who got the Hitler Youth knife is Jewish, which gives him extra glee to see the Nazis lose territory ("now it's a Shabbat challah cutter right.") But he also realized the among the dead included children, as Hitler Youth were children and adolescents by definition, and many teenagers served in both the Axis and Allied armies. The reality of all of the death, including of children, is hitting him.
Also, at 23:40, great eye! Yes, the movie was shot in the U.K.
And at 32:20, it's actually even worse than you think. If you look at the soldier they let go when Wade got shot, the commander's collar has an SS badge on it. It's one thing to be a German soldier of that time, you didn't really have a choice in that if you were in Nazi or Nazi occupied territory. It's quite another to be part of an SS unit, who were committed Nazis and among the most vicious perpetrators of the Holocaust.
A truly remarkable war movie which portrays so much of the human side of war, people remarking how its not true, well it not a bloody documentary its a very well crafted war movie and shouldnt be judged otherwise.
Don't confuse a sticky bomb with a " Molotov Cocktail" A sticky bomb is high explosive wrapped in a sock covered with mechanical grease. When thrown, it will stick to the tank. Hence, a "sticky bomb".
I suggest "Valkyrie" (2008) with Tom Cruise!
Underrated film. I liked it.
Many WWII vets left the theaters because the first 10 minutes were so realistic and they had problems dealing with it.
I don't know if you look at comments from two months ago, but no one in WW2 had body armor and the helmets only protected against shrapnel (not bullets). The first wave on Omaha Beach suffered about 75% KIA and most of the rest were wounded. The survivors NOT letting people surrender after they had just killed 3/4 of their friends happened on all sides. Note that the Omaha Beach part of SPR was done as realistically + historically accurately as they could. The details of rest of the film were done as realistically as possible to reflect the post-D Day combat which happened. However, there was no mission to find someone like Private Ryan so the plot after the beach scenes is fiction.
Sullivan brothers all 5 lost in the battle of Naval Battle of Guadalcanal went with their ship. This caused the war department to set a policy to kept at one in a non combat area. This film is loosely based on historic events. Great film.
If you look closely at the man's jacket at the beginning of the movie you will see a patch of an eagle. That's the insignia of the 101st Airborne Division, The Screaming Eagles. A clue to who the man is ...and isn't ;-)
...and if you are interested in a couple other war movies, I'd like to suggest a couple.
Spielberg's often forgotten 3rd WWII movie, Empire Of The Sun (Cristian Bale's first role, I believe)
Gallipoli... WWI story about a pair of Australian soldiers, one of which is a very young Mel Gibson.
The Germans didn't have suicide vests or something like that. You mistook that for the Japanese, who did very often surrender, only to blow themselves up with a handgrenate later on. The Germans didn't do that.
They shot the two Czech soldiers in German uniform, because the GI's hatet the Germans, who wanted to kill them seconds ago. That's war and it happened from both sides. The GI's didn't realize, that those were no Germans, who were probably pressed into German service.
One of the more realistic scenes of SPR.
You have to put it out of your mind, but it comes back. If you stay out for a long time, it catches up to you. Then you have to process the loss, the fear, and the rage. You can come back to center but it takes time and support from those who love you.
18:01 Jacqueline was slightly upset hehehehhe. I love your videos, you look things up on the go thats awesome.
As for upham. I don't blame him. He's a office boy. He's not a Frontline soldier. The only reason they took him along is because he's fluent in German and French.
Ryan and his unit are wearing the "Screaming Eagle" insignia of the 101st Airborne paratroopers. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg produced a ten part series based on their experience from training to D Day all the way to the end of WWII. BAND OF BROTHERS. Many 1st time watchers have viewed the series, but your insight and passion for knowledge suggests to me that it might be a worthwhile experience.
36:36 yeah. Hit the nail on the head. In fact there wasn't music during the D-day scene UNTIL they acknowledge the "view" of the the countless bodies washed ashore.
Spielberg wanted you to be completely submerged in the chaos of the battle, which btw, well fkn done.
It isn't until the dust settles does he allow to take in what happened, along with the characters, and to feel the tragedy for the lives lost with the score.
Brilliant.
The successful landings at Normandy turned the war into Allies favor. Yes, the combat scenes on the beach were based from events told by soldiers that had been there.
Regarding the German soldier, I can;t say. My father did tell me what they did to a woman that surrendered to their tank crew on Iwo Jima on February 21, 1945. They searched her clothing for booby traps (she surrendered naked per instructions), gave her clothes back to her, build a small pen from barb wire, gave her food and water and continued to fight.
I’m glad one of your videos came up on my list again I have no idea how I got unsubscribed from your channel but I’m glad I won’t miss any more of your reactions
You can this the best war movie ever and that us definitely arguable. There are three other films that are also widely argued as the best war movies ever. Please react to them so that you can decide for sure which are the best. The movies are Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Come and See.
Letters from Iwo Jima should be on that list.
there are about 11 American cemeteries in Europe containing the final resting places for US soldiers. The Normandy invasion were soldeirs from Britain, Canada, Australians and Americans.
As far as POWs are concerned, it isn't about judgment calls. All US officers are given specific orders about what to do with POWs they come across. In the high profile cases of prisoner abuse, it always gets out and is routinely punished.
To answer your question, would I pretend to be Ryan to go home. No much like Ryan in the film, I would rather be fighting, also they would find out the moment they checked his information
I would've killed the Wehrmacht-Heer soldier
Where you paused it was perfect at 28:30 it really captures how much Reiben despises Ryan
How did Upham get the courage to kill the German Soldier? Well the Cowardly Upham defended the soldier after killing Wade , he killed the soldier after killing Miller. Upham is responsible for a good degree of his team's deaths
Molotov cocktails actually were invented a few years before this, in Finland during the Soviet occupation, but that's a different thing from sticky bombs
At 11:00 "we're back to the same shot".
Yes, and No. Same shot, but did you notice the different color of the eyes?
Two people, who have seen two different outcomes. Excellent way to foreshadow who this story is about...
Private Jackson/sniper is played by Barry Pepper. He teams up with Tom Hanks in the best movie EVER called "The Green Mile". If you want a good cry
you must do that movie. STEPHEN KING.
One of the most important yet unknown members of Eisenhower’s staff was an RAF captain, a rather lowly officer’s rank amongst the stars of the various generals you’d expect to find, of a English man by the name of Flagg. He was Eisenhower’s meteorologist. The weather that morning and day was dodgy. The entire invasion, based on Flagg’s recommendation, had already been postponed from the scheduled date of June 5. Flagg had received weather re
Reports from ships and planes and proper weather stations across the Northern Atlantic. The forces gathered were likened to a enormous beast, held back by chains or the like. Essentially, the only decision Eisenhower would make until a beachhead was secured or the invasion was deemed to have failed, was to go or not go that particular day. The entire invasion was, at that moment, was both an all or none and a day by day proposition. The entire invasion would go forward or none would. No piece by piece. The first portion of the invasion to go, thus the one needing to know earliest, were the Airborne operations. They had to go under cover of darkness. So, Eisenhower had to make the go/no go decision by something on the order of 5:00 or 6:00am, then the air transports would take off shortly after the following sundown. The men, machines, equipment and supplies were gathered. The men who would go ashore by boats were already at sea. The reason for the postponement from the 5th to the 6th was entirely based on Flagg’s recommendation that the seas were going to be too rough, endangering the landings. It may seem trivial but even the cooks did what they could to support the troops making the landings and had prepared for and laid on a veritable feast, noted by the troops as having the feel of a condemned man’s last meal. It was prepared and served, however, on the 4th/5th.
Cooks in England and at sea in the channel, then had to scramble to put another especially hearty but unplanned meal. Trivial as this detail is, it illustrates that this enormous beast couldn’t be held poised to attack indefinitely. Reports of the weather worsening came to Captain Flagg but with the possibility of a 24 hour window when conditions might be deemed ‘marginal.’ Captain Flagg, sitting in some tiny office in London had to make some recommendation to the Supreme Allied Commander on the best course of action. If they didn’t go, it would be some days before they could go again. As the invasion was poised off Normandy, the Germans would be more likely by the hour to ascertain the true landing site. It’s difficult to argue of another more meaningful or important decision being laid on the head of a weatherman. Flagg is said to have laid out what he knew, and Ike listened but needed a definitive “Do you think we can do it? Will we get this ‘window,’ in which we can land relatively safely?” Flagg was re
Reported to have said he couldn’t say for sure, but he thought it would be possible. Was that science? Gut instinct? Who can say? Ike walked from circle of officers a few paces, stood in thought, turned to the grou
Group of land, sea and air war chiefs and said, “Ok, we go.” Off the heads went to make the calls to set it all in motion. That was it. Ike had issued the only, but most important, order. He then sat at a small desk and composed a letter, reading more or less, “We did everything we could, all preparations were made, the final decision to go was mine. The soldiers, sailors and airmen performed magnificently but the landings have failed and responsibility is mine and mine alone and I accept full responsibility for its failure.” He folded neatly, put it in his pocket, not to be ‘rediscovered’ there on the evening of the 6th, well after it was clear the invasion had, despite suffering all those casualties, succeeded. That letter is in the Dwight David Eisenhower Presidential Library in Kansas.
Only a 2 or 3 days after the landings storms churned the channel to froth and equipment bought ashore and on still on the decks of the invasion ships was lashed by wind and rain. The reports Capt. Flagg received of storms coming was frighteningly accurate. Thankfully, the
Thanks for the information on the Niland brothers. My knowledge of events of that time had more to do about the Sullivan Brothers.
At the end you mentioned "that letter has been passed down" but in reality, that isn't the case. Each man wrote a letter to a loved one, parent, wife etc in the event of his death. This letter was taken out of the breast pocket and passed on to it's final destination for each poor soul who didn't make it out....
Definitely top 5... glory, the patriot, we were soldiers, ....
The GI is eating the apples, because that's what you are learning in military: You are eating someting, when you have it in front of you. Because you don't know, when and if you are getting the next meal.
You found something to eat, even if you aren't hungry?
Eat it right at the spot, when the situation allows it!
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Cant let the German soldier go he knows they are there and is a security risk they cannot take him with them either.
With regards to whether to have killed the German who ultimately killed at least 4 members of Hank's band, historically in WWl, a British unit wiped out all but one German unit. A British stared down his gunsights at the last miserable, snivelling, cowardly little german soldier and decided he could never harm anyone, so he let the German live. That harmless German was Adolph Hitler. And to top that, in 1920 Annie Oakley admitted she'd never missed a shot, but if she knew now what she didn't know then, there's one she wished she'd taken and missed. While touring Europe with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany thought her shooting talent was fake. He wanted her to shoot a cigarette out of his mouth. Being royalty, would only shoot it out of his fingers. One missed shot would have stopped 2 world wars and saved so very many. I wouldn't have been proud of it, but yes, I'd probably have shot Uphams German.
Want to apologize for failing to include two crucial indications for successfully making and using a sticky bomb. First, remember to stick a fuse in the high explosive and, of course, LIGHT the fuse. Second, do not THROW the sticky bomb at the tank. You must run up to the tank and slap it on This is, of course, exceedingly dangerous, but it is required, if you wish to disable the aforesaid tank. One cannot count on cooperation from the Germans, as they will do their utmost to kill you BEFORE you attach the bomb. Would recommend you do not try this at home.
Who knows how you would feel on letting an enemy go , you would have to be in that experience and decide them
You really should watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Both are done by the same guys who made Saving Private Ryan. Well worth it.
Part of the film was shot in Normandy, some in England.
Mellish calls the hitler youth knife a Shabbat Challah Cutter Jewish bread knife!
Thank you for clarifying that! Now I understand his pain
@@houseofmash5748 I don't.
called it a WHAT?
It sounded like 'and an ounce of Shabbat Challah, right?'
A sarcastic quip from Mellish (given that the Hitler Youth division was SS).
Unlike some here in the comments, I don't think Mellish was breaking down in sympathy for the 'poor Hitler Youth boy soldiers.' (they weren't much younger than the Allied soldiers, and renowned for their fanaticism and tenacity in battle, and for being SS)
I think the stress, the fear, and the knowledge he had just killed actual SS soldiers (Mellish being Jewish) just overwhelmed him.
Some of the boats landing on D-Day got caught on reefs, which meant their doors couldn't open and the men had to jump over the side. To make things worse, the men who were landing at D-Day were offered extra rations that morning. Jumping into the water on a full stomach and with all your equipment, you were guaranteed to drown. That is if the climbing didn't get you killed first.
At the start of D-day there was no place to keep and handle prisoners therefore there was a no prisoner policy until the beach was secured.
Also Spielberg used amputees for the scenes on the beach.
Full Metal Jacket is totally worth the appearance checking yeah
Is that you, John Wayne?
Great reaction! I don't mind the pauses because sometimes a reactor might be giving some commentary and miss some important parts of the film they are watching. I also am glad you mentioned about not judging Upham since you weren't there. So many people get so angry at him and I think we, as movie goers, have seen too many action or war movies where fear is not represented fully like in this film. They tend to forget that even though he is present in most of the length of the movie, he himself has never been part of the action until right at the end. I would recommend watching Band of Brothers if you haven't yet. It was made by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg after this film. Amazing mini series watch!
Oh wow, never noticed that he is Daniel Faraday from Lost. Mind kinda blown.
The allies that invaded the north of france on 6/6/1944 were Britain,USA,Canada and the free french.
24:14 you can’t ask us what we would do because we weren’t in the moment or had their point of view. Learning about ww2 is one thing, but knowing their point of view is something no one will ever know, unless you served in ww2 that is.
My family has fought for this country since texas was tejas. Last of my name but cant/couldnt join cause of a criminal record. The shame i feel when i see war movies.....