This Movie Was Absolutely GUT WRENCHING! Our First Time Watching SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) Reaction
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Decided to drop this a day early bc we were so excited to get this out there! Thanks to our Patron DP for requesting this one! It was a great film throughout and it definitely made us appreciate all the things we take for granted in life bc without the brave men and women in our military who have fought or still do now, we would not be able to do the things we have the privilege of doing! *Thanks for protecting us everyday!*
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Air Force, '78-82, Thanks for the props and getting through this tough-to-watch, top-notch film. Only thing I hated was Cpt. Miller and his unit's decision to stay and help Ryan's guys..Would've placed his azz under arrest and dragged him back, His orders were from the TOP and had priority over that bridge..But then the movie wouldn't have been as great without that final battle..(If only air support could've made it 60 seconds sooner!) A++ Acting from Hanks/ Damon and the support cast..Spieburg's best, He'll never be able to top it!!
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. One thing to know, pay no mind at all to that man who took off his helmet on the beach at 7:13 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.
I think it would be a very good thing to have every high school student watch this film so they know how ugly war truly is and the sacrifices that so many have made so we can be a free country. Maybe then, we wouldn't be so divided appreciating this country as it should be even though we are far from perfect as we strive to be.
@@scottromer8584hay 194paises en el 🌎 y unos 185paises son libres.
Saving Private Ryan
YES! THIS is the right movie!!!
After Vietnam, America transformed into a country whose military became one of … professional soldiers. Drafts were discontinued … in favor of an all volunteer force. Only about 3% of Americans had ever served in the military. This may be the reason for the lack of empathy toward veterans and wars, itself.”
I would call upon you, and everyone, to not just “watch” a combat-accurate movie …. but, to watch it while considering yourselves as unseen soldiers that are THERE, experiencing the occurrences along with your fellow soldiers, friends. Great every Veterans Day, Memorial Day.
This movie is a fictional film of WWII’s D-Day invasion … in which three of four brothers are KIA (killed in action) and a squad / platoon (8 men) search for the remaining live brother.
D-Day remains the LARGEST amphibious invasion in history … the transfer of 39 divisions (22 American), over 1 million soldiers to Normandy France.
The Allies began their invasion at 6:30am and and finally repelled the Germans by days end … at a cost of more than 10,000 KIA & MIAs. That would LITERALLY BE staring at death and bloodshed EVERYWHERE …. one could look nowhere that was absent its brutality!
American soldiers that survived the first day’s invasion attested to the films’, accuracy in the nature & brutality of combat.
A slightly unknown factoid is that German machine gunner that was depicted firing down onto Americans landing at Dog-1 Omaha Beach … massacring them before they could even get off their LST. That machine gunner identified himself well after the war as Heinrich Severloh, an 18 year old son of a farmer, that was conscripted by the Germans. Heinrich admitted that he believed he killed more Americans in a single day than any other soldier … more than 1000, possibly over 2000 … and for the rest of his life, the nightmares would never stop! Soldiers on both sides would have to eventually unpack & deal with all of their horrors …. secreted away for later, more convenient times for reflections.
Another surreal oddity was the character of the typist Upham …. his character oddly reflects the character of our nation …. America. From 1937, years before America was attacked at Pearl Harbor (and beyond) …. America sat back, failing to act as Germany began exterminating 6MILLION men, women, children, and elders because of their race, using them as reasons for German failings …. We sat back, refusing to involve ourselves in Europe’s ‘Problem’ …. while Germany invaded and overwhelmed every other country except England. We finally pulled ourselves together and entered the combat! In combat, EVERY man (boys 17-20) reacts differently …. assimilates combat differently …. but, EVERYONE is afraid! We all lock our horrors away in the recesses of our minds …. only later to have to deal with them again!
Back to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, I would hope that you & EVERY American would sit down a day or two before every Memorial Day & Veterans Day and rewatch this film (or, Hacksaw Ridge). But, next time rejoin the film, mentally doing so AS AN UNSEEN MEMBER OF THE SQUAD … to mentally & emotionally connect to the other soldiers as friends, buddies … hopefully, to understand all of the veterans combat problems. America, the people (the 97% never experiencing war, are now highly insulated from soldiers / veterans … stunned into remembering the wounded, maimed & dead … but seem to never comprehend those with invisible wounds … those that returned with PTSD, the veterans that choose to be homeless because feel they don’t deserve to continue living a good life, those 22 that are committing suicides every day.
This movie was produced loosely on a true story and several similar situations. I’m not seeking compassion … rather a realistic understanding of WHY we returned as we did! Even though we got back to family & loved ones. They only recognized our shell, but found strangers with in. Some of us got back … but, not really, not completely! Others couldn’t accept the peaceful life, their friends couldn’t return to … and chose life on the streets as self-punishment.
Movie done, how did you make it??? How’s that ‘assimilating combat’ and ‘survival guilt’ working for you?
Not so good for me and others, either!!!
My Father was 19-yrs-old when he landed on Omaha beach on June 6, 1944. He fought his way across France hedgerow by hedgerow until he was peppered with shrapnel from a German artillery round earning him a purple heart and a ticket home. His four brothers also served in the European theater. What really gave me pride though was finding out that when I was a kid, my Parents used to drive to Travis air force base on the weekends to help welcome home returning Vietnam veterans that they didn't even know.
Thank you and your whole family for their service. Your dad is a brave man.
your dad is awesome and so are you and your family thanks for sharing that!
Your father was a hero and a great man.
God bless them.
God bless him . My grandfather was 22 , 29th infantry first wave of d-day on Omaha beach.. he also made it through. God bless them…Pure Hero’s
One thing in all of these reactions I have never heard anyone mention is that at the end of the movie when Ryan's wife comes up to him as he is front of the Captain's grave she reads his name like she didn't know who he was. Ryan probably never spoke of what happened to anyone, not even his wife. It is heartbreaking.
Communicating with civilians is one of the most difficult and worst things. They will never understand; they ask too many questions, and many are horrible questions. My family is just now learning some stuff, and I know they will never see me as the same quiet, laid back, trying to help any person, individual they knew, but I have terminal cancer, and the pain medicine makes me talk when I would normally just stfu so they have learned many things I have seen and done and the look in their eyes and the silence speaks volumes. It took years just to sleep through the night and not have to wake up and clear the house, but you must suppress that shit when you are with someone. The crap I saw in South America in the late 80s was far worse than the shit I saw in Iraq in 90. So yeah, I do not doubt he never talked with them about any of it.
@@mystic37 My grandfather was in WW2 and we had always been told that he was a mechanic. It wasn't until his end of life when he was on hospice and on pain meds that we found out he was more than a mechanic and that he had been in battles bc my grandmother said the meds gave him terrible nightmares. She has some indication of what he experienced but when she confronted him to try to help or comfort, he refused to speak of it and he refused his pain meds after that.
Thank you for your service, I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
@@mystic37what’d you do lol
I used to catch my Grandpa from time to time crying out in the backyard as a kid I would ask Grandma why is he crying she just told me he must have gotten something in his eyes not till after they both passed and read some letters did I realize why he would be that way he never had guns in the house I understand why now and he was so gentle and sweet to us grandkids I just can't picture him firing a weapon in anger SO PROUD OF YOU GRANDPA and I will see you again when my time comes
This movie really captures the brutality of WW2. The soldiers surrendering at Normandie are actually saying “Please don't shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone! I am Czech!" The amount of displaced people sent to fight a terrible fight is unimaginable.
Yeah, I love this detail that almost everyone misses. I'm American and I know that many many soldiers who were forced to fight for the Nazis were not Nazis or even German. Poles, Hungarians, Czech, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Bulgarians, the list just goes on and most of them did not want to be there.
@@forrestcrain3401 hehe thats funny what you said.imagine! even most of the german soldiers want to fight!they must!fight or die the nazi government say.a deserteur shot quickly on the frontline.a conscientious objector haveno many options.your family will die or you are proud to die for your fatherland.
@@forrestcrain3401 Allegedly, there even were Czechoslovak soldiers who landed in Normandy as a part of the Allied Forces. So there were Czechoslovaks fighting against Czechoslovaks.
Yes there were an estimated about a million soldiers from other countries that fought for the German army and about 600k of them were volunteers. They were not all conscripted. About 65 to 70% of those were sent to the Russian front.
It was common practice for German soldiers to claim they were not really German and conscripted to fight because they thought they would get better treatment as a POW if they did.
It was very difficult to almost impossible for allied from line soldiers to know the difference to better safe than sorry and they were all treated as German soldiers and volunteers.
Quit trying to start Internet rumor. What you said does not translate from Czech or German. You must have a little penis and are trying to compensate for it by starting such a rumor.
My great grandpa fought on Normandy. When he was alive we watched this movie and that was the only time I ever saw him cry in his life. He just watched real quiet crying and repeating the names of the buddies he had lost on the beach and after. He still knew everything about them. Their names, their families, what they looked like. He told me he had to remember them because if he (and others) forgot them then they’d truly die.
Good lord, that is too profound. May he rest in peace along with his buddies. Much thanks to all those that served.
The guns in the bunkers were MG42s, nicknamed "Hitler's Buzzsaw" by the Allies for the sound it made when firing, and that it had nearly twice the fire rate of the comparable American B.A.R. and the British Bren gun. They could also fire almost continuously since they had stored spare barrels with them to switch out when overheated.
The medics on the beach were trying to save that one guy because he was the company surgeon, and they knew without him that many more troops would die from wounds that only he could treat.
Combat helmets then were just hard hats to protect from explosion debris. They were not bulletproof in the slightest and that one guy got EXTREMELY lucky that that one shot hit at such an angle to be deflected.
The two men surrendering that couldn't be understood were Czech conscripts, saying that they hadn't killed anyone, they were intentionally missing shots. The German army conscripted a lot of men from occupied territories to match the growing Allied presence in Europe.
Those blimps are actually called barrage balloons, which were set up with thick cables that would cause enemy planes making strafing attacks to hit them with their wings, shearing them and causing them to crash.
Many young men were drafted at this time, especially if they had special skills like Upham's translation ability, and those with a college education were sent straight to officer training. I hate how a lot of people react to Upham during the last battle with scorn and hatred, as if they understand what it's like to be in the middle of a battle. No one knows how they'll react in that situation until they're in it. I'd like to think I'd charge bravely up those stairs to the rescue, but I could just as easily freeze in pants-shitting terror, and so could you. So could anyone.
This story was inspired by the real Sullivan brothers, all five of whom were serving on board the USS Juneau when it was sunk at Guadalcanal, killing them all. The US War Dept. adopted the Sole Survivor policy after this, preventing all of the members of one family from enlisting/serving to avoid tragedies like this. The Navy commissioned a Fletcher-class destroyer, naming it the USS The Sullivans in their honor. The ship's motto: "We stick together"
I agree with your take on Upham. It took me a few years before I realized the same thing and changed how I saw him.
Good points but I would compare the mg42 more to the browning 1919 or M2 instead of the BAR or bren. Also the story was inspired by the niland brothers who may have been splint into different units because of what happened with the Sullivan brothers. Overall good points tho
The MG 42 was also called hitler's sewing machine. The MG 42 is still used today as a turret machine gun on german army leopard tanks.
Our M-60 MG (the pig) was based on the MG42 because we were impressed with it's performance.
A veteran was once asked how accurate the Omaha beach landing scene was. His answer was: "Not enough bodies." Kinda tells us all just how bad things were during that landing.
Also, Matt Damon's story about the Ryan brothers was totally improvised. Great acting on his part.
Great reaction to a classic!
I read some statements from guys who were there after they watched this film. Another one said “there was a lot more blood. And organs. And screaming.”
There was the Sullivan Brothers. A family of five brothers who all served on the light cruiser Juneau in the Solomon Islands. None survived the sinking of it. After that War Department policy said no siblings could serve in a single unit.
13:33 The gray haired officer on the right talking is former USMC Captain Dale Dye Jr . He is a highly decorated Vietnam combat vet. Dye is also the military consultant for this movie and others like Platoon and Casualties of War. When directors want the actors in a movie to appear authentic the call him.
... or the late Marine gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey.
This movie got part of its inspiration from the true story of the Sullivan brothers from Iowa. They were all killed during WWII on the USS Juneau in the pacific. Due to the Bixby family having only lost two of the five sons they thought dead in the civil war, the Sullivan brothers were - and remain - the single greatest wartime sacrifice of any American family.
And this is why we stand for the National Anthem.
The Pianist & Schindler's List are even more enthralling
To gain a more accurate sense of the horrors of D-Day, keep in mind that the allies attacked at 5 different beaches of Normany. The Americans at Omaha and Utah, the Brits at Gold and Sword, and the Canadians at Juno. The allies advanced from the foothold they gained to move inland to free Europe. The Russians advanced toward Germany, eventually taking Berlin, which ended the war.
I read that waiting for something...
I often forget it's only common knowledge to me. Most others don't know this information.
So many have died for the freedom that gets scoffed at by many of those who won't even take the time to understand the sacrifices. Thanks for taking the time.
thanks for being kind and thanks for watching 😊
My grandfather fought on the front of “The Battle of the Bulge”. He never ever once spoke to me, my brother or my cousins about it. When we were kids we found an old cookie tin in a drawer filled with military medals. He politely asked us to put them back. I’ll never forget that.
* my dad and his siblings relayed the stories to us kids.
wow that’s amazing your grandfather is awesome !
"I've probably seen one of his movies, but I really couldn't tell you"
> I just went from 44 to 94 years old.
This is what your Grandfather/ Great Grandfather, went through between the ages of teenager to mid 20s. Highest respect in the world for theses men.
The real Veterans say it was a 1000 times worse than this, an it went one for hours.
i believe it
I worked in a movie theater when this came out. A lot of D Day veterans came to see it but had to leave the theater during the beach landing scene because it was too real.
wow i can’t even imagine
I saw this movie when i was younger. At the end when Capt. Miller says “earn it”. I took that as a message to all of us to earn it, and I have been proudly serving in the military, and always remembering those who came before me, and hope I “earn it” for them.
Yeah, that’s definitely a message to America & the free world.
My grandfather landed on that beach 90 days after D-Day, and fought all the way to Germany by the end of the war. I saw this with him in the theater when it came out.
Massive Thank you for his service. God Bless.
What a great movie. Band of Brothers series is done by Hanks and Spielberg, and is f*&#kin awesome, and so is The Pacific.
they do sound good will add to the list
Yes! SPR is fiction. BoB is real, well about 90%. Since the series is 10 hours long you get to know they men really well. TP is darker but just as good. A good use of your time.
Awesome! If someone can watch this movie and not be moved emotionally, then they have no soul. I'm glad you guys did this one.
Two parts just get to me so much, the opening at Normandy when the old Ryan is overcome with emotion at the captains grave. The other is when they went out to deliver the news of the three sons to the mother, just can't stop tearing up at those scenes.
those two are intense thanks for watching 😊
Grew up in Iowa and knew many farm wives of that generation. People just don't understand what it was like in that day for a farm family to lose all it's sons like that. It was devastating, family then and there was everything.
Normally, they wouldn’t send a car for notification. The family would just get a telegram.
In cases where there were multiple deaths, an Army officer would be sent. So when she saw the car, she knew it was really horrible news.
No, General Marshall didn’t have the letter to Mrs. Ryan in his book. He had a letter from President Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby, the mother of five Union (the North) Soldiers in the Civil War who were all killed in battle. The President wrote her a personal letter to thank her. He read it to those subordinate offices to tell them that he wanted Ryan found. The cool thing was General Marshall was reading it to them, but didn’t need to look at the paper anymore because he had every word memorized. It was a beautifully worded letter to convey such sincere gratitude to that mother. She lost all five sons, and he didn’t want Mrs. Ryan to lose all of her sons.
A veteran who participated in those beach landings was asked what he thought of the movie when he was coming out of the theater. He replied "They didn't make it bad enough."
The Normandy sequence is one of the great sequences in war films of all time, if not THE greatest. It's hard to top. Spielberg hit this one outta the park.
100% thanks for watching 😊
The man who read the Bixby letter was George Marshall.
General Marshall was the Chief of Staff of the US Army and would later become the architect of the Marshall Plan. That master stroke rebuilt war torn Europe and Japan, stopped the spread of Soviet influence, and laid the foundation of seventh five years of global prosperity previously unknown in human history.
George Marshall was a genius and a man of immense conviction and decency. He is, in my estimation, the greatest man this country ever produced. If the world were a just place, cities would be renamed for him.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There really was a USS Sullivans (DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.
The blimps were called "barrage balloons." They were intended to keep enemy fighter planes from being able to fly over the fleet. They also absorbed the impacts of cannon shells in a barrage (cannon attack) so the the bombs would not explode directly on the ships.
My Dad served I the Pacific during the war. He was in the(in combat zones) Coast Guard and earned 2 purple Hearts. When Pearl Harbor and this movie came out, he told us he lived it and he didn't want see it. Obviously he wasn't he wasn't at either spot but, combat. He lost two brothers during the war.
Yalls edits are amazing... thanks for letting us see so much of the movie with yall... ❤
thanks for acknowledging them! we appreciate the feedback
I am a combat veteran . Thank you for this and God bless you both.
Fantastic job, you two! This is the most understanding and comprehensive reaction of this powerful film that I've seen. Thank you so much!
I always forget Nathan Fillion and Ted Danson are in this. (Fillion was the "wrong" Ryan who had brothers too young to be combatants; Danson shows up as a commander shortly after that scene). Great reaction, guys. Gold content.
35:44 Morphine is more than a "pain reliever". Tylenol is a pain reliever, morphine is a pain killer. It's basically synthetic heroin, and produces an extreme sense of euphoria. Unfortunately, it also slows your respiration and heart rate, which is why they were hesitant to give Wade any more, in his condition, considering it would almost certainly kill him, which it did. But it also made the end of his life, much more comfortable than it would've been, otherwise, which is why Captain Miller gave it to him. He realized there was nothing more they could do for him, so they might as well make him as comfortable as possible, on his way out.
aw that is so sad 😞 thanks for watching 😄
11:35 The fish were killed by the pressure waves from bombs not bullies.
12:53 That was "the sole survivor rule." Adopted by the U.S. in 1942.
50:25 Over 78,000,000 people died in WWII 67% of them were civilians.
53:55 "A prisoner of war is a man that tries to kill you, failed and then asks you not to kill him" - Winston Churchill
thanks for all of that and thank you for watching 😊
@@TheOctobersReact your welcome. Saving Private Ryan is one of my favorite movies and I'm always curious to see how other people see it.
My father was in World War 2 and Korea, his father in World War 1. Some of my ancestors were in the American Revolution, and some in the Civil War. I know that all they ever wanted was to go back to having lives as civilians in peace.
wow that is crazy, your whole family tree has been at war for us, thank you and thank them!
It was a series of moral dilemmas. Not just the saving private Ryan, but the strategic sacrifice of life at the d day invasion knowing the inevitable loss of life, to the decision not to shoot the burning enemy and end their suffering, to the shooting of surrendering soldiers, to trying to save the girl, taking out the machine guns rather than going around it, shooting only the enemy who was released only to come back in circulation as predicted, Ryan not leaving his company when he was ordered to do so, to the sitting on Ryan to keep him out of danger…just a masterpiece on the absurd but very real ethics of war. And of course the ethical responsibility we all have to earn the gifts of life and freedom we have because of so many who gave their lives so we could enjoy these gifts! Thank you and God Bless all of our service men and women!
I'm glad you didn't hate on Upham as much as some reactors do. I think anyone who hates Upham after watching this movie has totally misread Spielberg's intent toward the character.
He wasn’t a soldier at heart, but he was there and he at least did that, it’s easy to pretend everyone e was so brave, but the point is he was there, in real life. And reality is hard, people freeze up. I can’t speak to bad cause I’ve never had to face death in that way. Thank god
Those two surrendering soldiers in the beach seen who got shot, are actually speaking Czech. They were press ganged into joining the German army when their country was annexed by appeasement. Most people forced to fight for the Germans surrendered as soon as possible because they don't want to be there.
She isn't "confused"; she's emotionally moved (which may or may not have actually happened) by the fact that three brothers were killed.
Our Flag Represents Our Fallen Patriots & Servicemen .. This is why we get so upset when people Burn it, take a knee to it, or Disrespect it in anyway 😢 Even though they have a right to do so 😢 But I bet Our Fallen Patriots would be the first to Defend them & their Freedoms that we all take for Granted 😢
❤GOD Bless you all my Sister's & Brothers from other Mother's I ❤Love you all .. In ❤JESUS name i pray 🙏Amen. 😗💋😍😊🇺🇸🙏😇👍
Something that people never mention, the German soldiers were actually crying as they killed all of those people on the beach knowing 1000% it was going to be a slaughter. They didn't want to do it, often villainised but everyone was a victim of war.
Many of those ‘German’ soldiers behind the invasion beaches were not, in fact, German at all. The German Army ‘recruited’ men from conquered countries to serve in Ost or ‘Eastern’ battalions. Half a step up from a penal battalion. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians and many, many other nationalities were pressganged into service to free up pure German units for frontline combat. The eyes that shed the tears you mentioned viewed the Brits, Canadians and Americans that landed that day as allies at most or, at least, soldiers of nations that had never wronged that man in a German uniform. The two ‘Germans’ trying to surrender that the two Americans kill are speaking, from memory, Czech and saying “We’re NOT Germans, don’t shoot!”
The soldier who was with Tom hanks and took a round in the chest appeared on the Graham Norton show in the red chair. Hanks who was a guest straight away said “do we know each other?” And talked about their experiences in Ireland filming this scene.
I was 11 years old when I first saw this movie. I am 37 now, and I still have not gotten over Wade's death.
So a little backround on Millers unit. It's not directly said but if you know WW2 history you can parse out their experience level. Sgt Horvath on Normandy fills a tin up with sand from France. Along side the tins are two others marked Africa and Italy. Also Sgt Horvath says he's been with Miller since Kasserine Pass, which was a major battle in Tunisia. So Captain Miller has been commanding his unit from 1942 through North Africa invading Sicily and then Italy before landing on Normandy. They have bee fighting for 2 years prior to Normandy. They were an experienced and elite company.
Normally I roll with you two on the movie reactions but as a retired vet , this one I have to bow out because of some of the combat scenes. Hope you understand. Keep doin what you do though.
understandable really !
You say the Omaha invasion force knew they were going to die but they did not. The naval bombardment was supposed to destroy the hardened enemy positions but failed to do so making the assault far more deadly than it should have been. They were soldiers and they expected a fight but they did not expect to be failed by their higher ups and dropped into a meat grinder.
"Never heard of Steven Spielberg"....
who said that??
"...you can't do that to that poor lady." Instead, they're going to do it to six OTHER poor ladies.
You absolutely should be hard on Upham. He allowed his cowardice to sacrifice his comrades. Many people come to his defense saying garbage like, "some people can't take war". My time down range taught me that no one really handles it well. If we were there only for ourselves, we would have all crumbled. But we weren't. We were there to take care of our brothers in arms, and they would take care of us. Any man who freezes the way Upham did, should never be considered a man, much less a friend. It is the one unforgivable sin in warfare; to actively sacrifice your brothers in arms to your own cowardice. His role in the movie is to be the perspective of civilians and their moral judgement, far removed from the actual conflict. That man is worse than the enemy.
I recommend a 1944 movie titled the Fighting Sullivans. That will explain the comment made about the Sullivans.
thanks for watching 😊
14:47 It meant so much to him that he memorized it. He didn't look at it toward the end.
It's not just about getting him home for his mother, he's the last of his bloodline.
I just found your site, I must say I've seen several young people react to this film and the understanding and heart you two have is so heartening to see! My dad was there D-Day on the USS Frankford destroyer. He helped take out several of the pillboxes so the soldiers could advance up the hill. Veterans in the theaters had to get up and leave until Normandy scenes had passed. They said it was so accurate all the was missing was the smell of diesel and blood.
Your dad is absolutely awesome. I believe that would be extremely hard to see though, especially bc it felt like something that would not end so i cannot imagine having to relive it. Thanks to your dad for his bravery and his service!
I absolutely love learning about the greatest generation. These men went to war to stop evil and world conquest.
they are the greatest generation
History nerd here. The men going onto the beaches at Normandy were not prepared. The beaches were bombed to hell and back, and shelled by the US and Royal navy. The weather caused them to miss most of the fortifications here on Omaha. The Germans were understrength, and most were forced conscripts from the East (Poland, Czechs, Russians). The Germans bought into the deception that the landings would happen further north, at Pas de Calais, so German commanders held the reinforcements thinking it was a feint.
It is truly a moving experience to go there and walk the Cemeteries I traced My Grandpa and Great Grandpa's travels from both WWI and WWII Great Great-Grandpa was KIA in 1916 in the Somme, France he has no known grave Grandpa survived WWII landing in Normandy after the beaches were secured went on to fight in France and the on to Holland getting wounded in Holland in 1944 Grazed by a bullet on the left side of his face that left him with a big scar he never talked about his time in Europe always told me it was shaving accident and that I had to be careful when I grew up and started to shave we found a ton of stuff his time in the army in the chest that was always locked letters and his medal for getting wounded. I can't picture Grandpa firing a weapon in anger as he was so kind and gentle with us grandkids after reading his letters I am so proud of him and the rest of the men and even the women from this generation are and always will be The Greatest Generation may they all rest in peace.
My grandfather 18 at the time was an infantryman in the 1st infantry division who was one of the first to land ashore. He fortunately survived the events of dday and went on to fight in many battles in france. He was wounded in action whilst saving a soldier who was hit by shrapnel from artillery fire. It is with great pride that i can say he did his duty with the utmost courage and devotion. He was medically discharged afterwards and lived to tell his stories most are hair raising but most he could not talk about. He set an amazing example for me and i also can proudly say that i also today serve in the first infantry division just as he did those many years ago. God bless my country God bless all.
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FYI - the bixby letter is real letter that Lincoln wrote to Mrs Bixby, the text in the movie is verbatim to what the actual letter says.
Jah bless. Another great movie that I remember vividly from seeing in theaters. My Gaga who served in the United States military for decades took me and my friends to see this. He went in the service when he was 18. We walked to the movies that day to see something completely different but ended up going to see this. The only time I ever throughout my life saw him show any emotion. He didn't say a thing but his face said it all. He was a straight soldier until the day he died.
This was especially emotional for me, as the actor who played old man Ryan looks surprisingly like my grandfather who fought in France & Belgium. He never talked much about fighting, and usually just talked about guys he remembered. In '81-'83 we worked together doing salvage on demolition jobs when I was 18-20, and sometimes when aircraft flew overhead, he would get real quiet, and every morning when we entered an abandoned building, he would sometimes go in a different way, and we never knew where he was until he was right back with us. My mom said he always did that (as if he had made sure the area was secure).
wow i can imagine how this would make you feel extremely emotional. shout out to your grandfather we appreciate him!
I went back to a work mates flat in London one night to drink and his sister was there chilling. I was an Aussie fresh off the boat and mentioned I’d like to visit the D Day landing sites during my adventures . She grabbed her photo album and turns out she was a make up and props artist, she created the beach characters missing half bodies etc. Looked real even in the album with smiling actors laying on the sand chatting to her.
I was an army wife. It's special to have been married to a veteran. This movie is quite sad!
And to the young couple. They had tanks armored vehicles heavy weapons and barely got through the beach. It does something to your mind to see your friends and brothers dropping dozens at a time.
My grandfather was in the first wave at Normandy.He never wanted to talk about it
This films does a phenomenal job at showcasing the brutality of WWII, the most horrific war in history.
60 million lives lost for what?
I can’t believe the film is 25 years old now.
'SdKfz 2' German Army, the Kettenkrad was an ingenious half motorcycle, half-tracked vehicle, hence its name - 'ketten' meaning tracks, 'krad' meaning motorcycle.”
You mentioned that you hadn’t seen any Steven Spielberg film; some of his more well-known were Jurassic Park, Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones movies, etc. But highly recommended as an equal to “Saving Private Ryan” is “Schindler’s List.” Also an extraordinary series that he and Tom Hanks produced is “Band of Brothers,” considered one of the greatest series ever made for tv.
36:21 German soldier says "I surrendered myself" than begins saying lords prayer "Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name" Upham asked "Were you on the machine gun?' German soldier replies "No, I reload, I did not shoot"
9:51 these 2 soldiers were actually Czech, and if you speak the language theyre saying "I'm Czech, we didnt kill anyone". Czech people usually got forcedly constripted into joining the German Army in WW2.
If you like this, Tom Hanks and Spielberg made two ten episode miniseries called "The Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific". You have got to watch those. I'm a combat veteran and I attest that those are the best military history shows/movies ever. Told straight from the mouths of survivors. Band of Brothers is about air dropping into Normandy and then the subsequent battles through the European campaign and The Pacific is about the Marines and the island hopping campaign. The actors and writing do an amazing job of bringing those stories to screen.
At 10:29 the subtles said, speaking in Czech. Those weren't German soldiers. They were from a German occupied nation. They basically said, please don't shoot us we didn't shoot, please don't don't kill us." The men who killed them, not only did they kill surrendering troops but essentially forced labor. They in this context and now are guilty of war crimes.
My grandfather served on the USS Niblack DD-424 as a sonar officer, tasked with escorting supply convoys across the North Atlantic to Britain. My family has comm recordings of the events of the ship answering a distress call from one of their fellow destroyers that had been torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the screams, the frantic orders, the explosions and gunfire, it's harrowing. Very proud of that man for his role in hunting down those bastards and giving them what for.
This maybe a hot take: Calling the mother losing her sons a sacrifice is very cynic because a sacrifice implies that you did it willingly but she never had a saying in any of it. I'm sure if she had the choice she wouldn't have let her sons go to war. The cruel world just ripped them from her bosom and threw them into a meatgrinder.
I always feel a need to defend Upham. He was the 1940's version of a nerd. Nerds don't do well in war. Films over the years would have us believe Rambo was the standard. Not true. These men, millions of them joined or were drafted from all walks of life. On the stairs he didn't decide to freeze like that. He was literally paralyzed with fear. Do I hope I'd do better? Of course I do. We all do but he represents millions of boys terrified out of their wits. Don't you realize how he would have replayed his failure to intervene everyday until the day he died? Was he a coward or just human?
The truth is, we are all Private Ryan, and what those men did from 1940-1945 gave all of us a chance to 'earn it'.
That is the real GREATEST GENERATION.
YALL NEED TO WATCH THE POWDER MOVIE WITH THE BOY WHO'S MOM WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING WHILE PREGNANT
The first wave onto Omaha Beach suffered a 95% casualty rate. The Germans had their fire dialed in.
Didn’t y’all recognize the German soldier in the stairwell let the guy live is because he was the same soldier who was instrumental in not having him killed at the radar installation? That’s why he passed him by, paying him back for saving his life. If you don’t tear up at the end of this movie you are emotionless 😥
no it wasnt, trust us, we have researched it, similar but different
@@TheOctobersReact ok, let’s agree to disagree 🤷🏼♂️
First. My dad was an army officer for almost 40 years. Classic movie & thank you all veterans!
this was on your list!
@TheOctobersReact I think I said it before but this definitely an all time classic, anybody would probably recommend it. Lol I kind of like my more under-rated films. I do have other war movie recommendations if ya need any 👍. And yeah it is an all-time classic.
The fish died because they cant breathe in blood. General Marshall was not reading it at the end he memorized it. Very power. Its a shame no one writes like that anymore.
wow insane ! thanks for watching 😊
The five Sullivan brothers were World War II sailor brothers of Irish American descent from Waterloo, Iowa, who were serving together on the light cruiser USS Juneau, were all killed in action during and shortly after its sinking around November 13, 1942.
this movie is loosely based on the Niland btoyhers
Great Pod cast Thank you Hand Salute from an Old Nam Veteran 1971
10:20 “Please don't shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone, I am Czech!”
Many “German” soldiers on the wall were actually conscripts from previously conquered nations, mostly from Eastern Europe, who had no desire to be there. Unfortunate, but I suppose it worked in the Allies favor.
This movie made me appreciate more the things when my father was in Africa and Italy in WWII and the sacrifices he did....
wow shout out to him!
This fish died due to the artillery and mortar rounds hitting the water. The percussion is so great, especially traveling through water, it would rupture any living things insides.
that’s absolutely insane ! thanks for watching 😊
The two guys surrendering were Czech and were saying: "Dont shoot i am Czech i didnt kill anyone"
I was on Juno Beach a few years ago, you can't take 2 steps without seeing rocks with bullet holes or impact damage. It was mind blowing!
wow! even still? that’s insane!
What you don't see in the beginning is when Captain Miller is sending guys into the crater (with the mirror on the bayonet), all of them were dead in the crater where Jackson ran in to.
oh wow thanks for watching 😊
I feel like a lot of people miss this, but the German that passes Upham in the stairwell is the one that he convinced them to let go earlier. Right before Upham kills him the German calls out his name.
Edit: I guess I commented to early. Looks like you guys caught on to who he was. Great job by the way. This is one of the better reactions to this movie I’ve seen.
A lot of people have said that that is the same person so I actually looked it up and they are not the same person even though they look strikingly similar I actually thought that in real time also but wasn’t sure but thank you so much for your kind words. It was an amazing movie. I can honestly say this is Mr. October speaking this might be the best movie I ever saw.
@@TheOctobersReact I thought i replied already but i don't see it here, so i apologize if this posts twice. Anyways, that is nuts that it's not the same guy on the stairs. I watched this so many times and always thought the entire point of him not killing Upham is because he spared him before. In my defense, it does make it more confusing when Upham actually kills the guy they let go a few minutes later. I would of gone to my grave thinking it was the same guy in all 3 scenes if you hadn't replied.
@NoChance345 I think the guy upstairs just got in the fight of his life and he genuinely just didn’t have it in him to want to get another physical altercation, I think Apple is cowardice in that moment, as what made him to decide to shoot the German soldier in the end. We have a literally gotten that same comment about 100 times so you were definitely not alone, but I definitely fact check this for sure, if you ever take a screenshot on your cell phone, if you’re watching it and compare them side-by-side they’re not the same person. A lot of people have been very critical of others, including myself, but at the end of the day he just wasn’t a soldier like everyone else he did his best I guess.
@@TheOctobersReact Yeah i searched it immediately when i saw your reply. I was like no way I've had this wrong for 20 years or however long it's been out, but yeah the first site i found said if you compare their uniforms and faces the stair guy is definitely a different guy. I'm actually kind of mad at Spielberg for not making it clearer that it's a different guy. It will always be an amazing movie though.
What a burden Ryan carried for the rest of his life to live up to the men that gave theirs up for him when he asks his wife if was a good man and lived a good life gets me every time and I tear up it makes me think of my Grandpa and after this movie I wondered if Grandpa ever carried that kind of guilt for surviving the war and some of his friends did not he never talked about the war we knew as kids he was a WWII vet but to us it was not big deal everyone's Grandad fought in the war not till I got older and after he passed did I realize just what he did I wish I could tell him today that he is my hero for what he and those other men did for us. Give a big shout to the women of that generation while the Husbands were overseas they kept the home fires burning and made the weapons and ammo they sometimes got overlooked in the role they played all of them are truly The Greatest Generation.
I saw this movie in theaters when it came out. I sat in the first row. And in 1997, the Dolby Sorround was loud as fcuk... You can imagine that we were shocked.
There's a soldier's saying about morphine I wish I could remember it verbatim. It goes something like "one for the wound, two for the soldier". If you give a soldier too much morphine it could kill him and they sometimes did it for hopelessly wounded men. Usually, medics write the letter "M" on a soldiers forehead and clip the used syrette to his collar so follow up medical personnel won't OD him accidentally. In this case, Wade knew he was going to die so he asked for an overdose of morphine so he could slip into unconsciousness and die peacefully.
you know when Spielberg screened the movie to Vets of WW2, some of them had to walk out of the movie because how clear it was. Sure he did his job, but little did they know how well.
This is a taste of what war is like. Now add the overwhelming sound, the smells, the pain of little things, and the anguish of watching people you work side by side with for months die in moments. Anyone who thinks about sending young men to fight and die needs to watch this, and ask if whatever cause they are pushing is worth this.
32:22 For those Sons of Anarchy fans out there........ The “deaf guy” is Opie!
The moment that moves me the most is that mother who collapses on her porch. Just awful. Just awful.
I Saw it when it came out. And still is hard to believe they made this almost 26 years ago.
As gory as the movie is, when Wade dies is the hardest scene in the whole movie for me. Releasing the German at the radar scene becomes a very hard lesson for the new kid Uppham (spl). Good reaction.