SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) TWIN BROTHERS FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION!
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- Here we are with not only a cinematic masterpiece, but a classic as well; Saving Private Ryan has everything you want. Action, sadness and Tom Hanks!
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Sad announcement, for some reason UA-cam randomly decides after 3 days this video is hit by copyright and is blocked in 3 countries; literally beyond stupid but sadly that is the way it is. Sorry to those who can't watch the video, I don't know what to do about it. :(
Plain BS, why you guys?
There’s stacks of the same type SPR reactions on UA-cam?
Don’t let them get to you…watch Schindler’s List 😊
@@justsmashing4628 Trying my best not to lol, it's hard since I see so many other people doing the same movie with no issues; I don't even get it. But oh well, Schindler's List will definitely be coming!
@@OctoKrool hoping it’s was a rogue algorithm…probably written in German:))
So fu#k them, Schindler’s List and a million views :) cheers
nothing a good VPN can't solve
Have y’all watched the movie “Fury” (2014)? If not then y’all should watch it I think y’all will like it
When the captain said “Earn it”, he wasn’t just talking to Ryan.
He was talking to all of us.
"Earn this" is not just for Private Ryan, it's for the generations that come after
Well said: "Humor is the little light in all the darkness that we experience."
Yep, I was just gonna comment that and then I saw your comment. It's 100% true, and has been for thousands of years. Simply because of the fact that you don't need any physical material to create enjoyment from humor.
Just going to note that the humour of most military and first responders is unlike most other humor. Most "normal" folk will find a lot of it dark and unsettling, a coping mechanism.
@@danielrupp7578 spent 8 years in the infantry and our humor is very dark compared to the other Jobs in the military, 11b and 0311 will understand
Also you fail to realize is for the most part the soldiers in this squad D Day was not their first battle.
They have been in Africa, Sicily, Italy and then D Day. They are all suffering from what is now called PTSD. That is why Tom Hanks has the shakes.
And Ryan most likely hadn't been through such hell.
The Allies knew they would see heavy causalities in the first wave. They used experienced officers and NCOs to lead mostly green enlisted troops. For most of them, it was their first battle. The more veteran units were saved for the second and third wave.
PTSD sucks.
@@eugenehawkins6131
Also they weren't exactly at a disadvantage. The Germans had this section of the coast only lightly manned and fortified with inexperienced soldiers (well, Omaha beach was better defended though) or conscripted POW because they were successfully deceived beforehand.
Great comment. My grandfather landed in Africa, Sicily, and Italy, but then got to come home; I wish I could ask him how he got to avoid this D Day.
The beach scene in this movie was so well done that veterans had to leave the theater.
The story Matt Damon told Tom Hanks about back home was completely unscripted. Tom's reaction was genuine.
The saddest part of the D-Day scene is that no matter how good they made it look in terms of realism, there is no way they could possibly make it as horrifying as the real moment actually was. This is probably the best depiction though in terms of how close they could make it.
ik like the smell the fear, how long it was,the weight which was on average 130 pounds which they had to carry around the beach etc.
For those of us who have never experienced the horrors of war, this was more than close enough to reality.
I think I remember someone saying that the movie was 20 minutes while in reality it was 5 hours
There is footage of the real thing. It wasn't as intense and bloody as the movie depicts. But war movies serve as important and necessary propaganda for national cohesion.
It was worse than the movie depicts. The first wave onto Omaha Beach suffered a 95% casualty rate. They we’re on that beach for hours. Some of the D-Day veterans who saw it said the only thing missing was the smell of diesel fuel.
Chubby Rain said, “It must be rough being a medic for this kind of shit. The number of people you just can’t save?” If you have not yet seen Hacksaw Ridge, I highly recommend it. It is based on conscientious objector Desmond Doss, who became a combat medic and receiving the Medal of Honor. The film stars Andrew Garfield and is directed by Mel Gibson.
Grrreat film. I've seen it at least 10 times.
Hey brothas! I’m 29 and my dad is 72, I’m the second to youngest to my sister who is 28. I had a history teacher named Mr McLaughlin in 10th grade, tell me about his dad that served during D-Day. He showed my class this movie and I was shook! I’m like, how am I younger than you as my teacher, yet my dad is the same age as your dad? Not only did that take me back, but having a Black American Great grandfather that served during the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, made me realize how back to back family trauma took place in every era of serving America regardless of race. Keep up the good work ❤️
I've been to the cemetery in Normandy and it's soul-crushing to see the rows on rows of crosses. But the thing I didn't expect to hit me the hardest was the German cemetery a bit down the road. When you walk there you see that the Germans had their main force on the eastern front and the "men" fighting the Allied forces were just kids. 16-17 year old children in graves of 2 or 3, more than double the Americans buried in Normandy. It's absolutely horrifying.
I hope one day humans can evolve past hatred and war
Come to Flanders and immerse yourself in the First World War. Such un unreal war. It started in the Edwardian era when men were gentlemen and women ladies in long skirts. In 1918 when it ended, an entire generation was lost, an era ended and a new cold world had just hatched. Terrible. Those who survived and returned home sure felt lost and betrayed, on both sides. Check out the city of Ypres and the surrounding hills. Passchendaele cemetery in particular. Prepare to be bulldozed by emotion and amazement.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 it’s crazy to think how an entire new world was born out of the ashes of the two world wars. And then how much the world changed again (in a very different way, but still) after 9/11.
@@dylanholman3 crazy is an understatement. It's a machinery of madness that guides the fate of all of us. And meanwhile, people keep worrying about their mortgages and where to go on holiday...and are willing to take a vaccine that has been pushed down people's throats and nobody worries event though we shouldnt trust anything that the goverment gives to you for free...
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Yes, you're right - those who trusted the government enough to get Polio, Smallpox, Measles and Whooping Cough vaccines, to name a few life-saving/life changing vaccines, were fools - just "sheep" who couldn't think for themselves. The concept of vaccines to protect against disease has been around for a long while now. There is always some small, usually infinitesimal, risk in taking anything - even aspirin. Stop making up conspiracy theories and get a life - the government isn't out to get you.
I watched this movie 1 time & couldn't do it again. As a retired soldier it really hit hard. Thanks for doing this one guys. Enjoyed watching with you.
You can not fault this movie, it's class in every single way.
It gets it's best sequence out of the way in the beginning so nothing you see later will feel as impactful. It gets super sentimental and patriotic at the end, not necessarily a bad thing but can understand why someone would feel it was a flaw, also it's way to "one-sided" (Americans all good, Germans all bad) and seems almost too pro war in a way because of it. I found it boring, great style but no substance, nicely filmed but shitty content and message.
@@Mr.Goodkat The reactors clearly didn't feel that the film lost its impact after the opening. While the patriotism you saw is never expressed by any character. The Americans even shoot surrendering enemies whether Germans or Czech. "We're not here to do the decent thing", Miller says. While Mike says that keeping Ryan alive might be the only decent thing they can look back on. All the soldiers either just want to go home or protect their friends. Not make their country proud. The film was widely praised for its anti-war message.
@@jp3813 I never said it loses it's impact after the opening, I said - "It gets it's best sequence out of the way in the beginning so nothing you see later will feel as impactful." based on their reactions I think they would agree that was the most impactful part, it's the part they single out to rave about after the movie is over and like I said a movie should not peak at the very beginning and wind down from there.
Patriotism doesn't have to be put into a movie in such a heavy handed way or through the characters being patriotic themselves it can permeate the movie through other more subtle means, when describing the horrific aftermath on the beach, all the bodies and blood the script refers to it as "magnificent" and all the Germans are designed in such a way to repel empathy whilst the Americans to attract this wasn't done by accident but purposefully designed that way, might as well retitle the movie "Team America" it's a sneaky, deceptive, dishonest propaganda piece.
@@Mr.Goodkat 36:48 I feel that they raved about the final battle just as much if not more. As for your accusation of the film's intent, Spielberg has never been known for subtlety.
Mr. Goodkat,
The unnecessary sniping aimed at the British in the dialogue was also unfortunate (Monty overrated, can't take Caen etc) as was the stealing of British history. The British (and Canadians) were engaging the Tigers in Normandy not the Americans.
The British were fighting the Tigers at Villers Bocage on June 13th, same date as the fictional battle of Ramelle. The Tiger that comes over the bridge has the unit insignia and red turret numerals of one of Michael Wittmanns 2nd Kompanie Schwere SS Panzer Abteilung 101, which was at Villers Bocage.
"We're not here to do the decent thing we're here to follow fucking orders!" Might be the most cold blooded line ever uttered by Tom Hanks
Cold-blooded but, true.
A part of this movie is so special it even got a nickname. It's called 'The Letter scene'. From the beginning with a woman typing a telegram until the words 'And get them the hell out of there'. It's a masterpiece. You almost cried during it. So... thank you for that. Thank you for staying human
After "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks team up produced a mini series "Band of Brothers." A story of 101 1st Batallion Paratroopers trained to fight German Nazi during WWII. Perhaps, for the first time, OctoKrool can start with mini series. I've been following your channel all the way from Malaysia. Keep It Up. Stay Safe.
Band of Brothers is fucking amazing! I hope they watch it
Yes!
Also produced The Pacific - But it's showing the Navy and Marine's taking on the Japanese through the islands/Midway all while "Band of Brothers" was going on!
@@Soldrik_ The little kid from Jurassic Park plays the lead character (one of them that is, as there are more than one main protagonist throughout the series).
Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Hurray 😊 great movie, thanks,you are men of your word.
Now for Spielberg’s other masterpiece…Schindler’s List (7 Oscars!)
Hopefully followed up with Spielberg's less well-known WWII movie, Empire Of The Sun.
Lol, now comment on every video until they do Schindler's List
@@jacket5456 apparently it works :)
Always overlooked is the third installment of Spielberg's WWII trilogy, "Empire of the Sun." Starring a 12-year-old Christian Bale. Not much fighting; a very different sort of war movie.
It was refreshing to see some empathy shown in your reactions to and evaluations of Uphams cowardice. Even though it's impossible to watch that scene without being absolutely furiously frustrated with his hesitation to act, in real life it's very difficult to know how you're going to react when faced with a traumatizingly scary situation that you weren't properly prepared for. It's easy to say "Well I still would have NEVER..." behind your computer in the warm comforts of your home when you're well fed and rested, but the hard truth is you don't really know what you're made of until external circumstances force you to find out.
That is facts first time and really every time I’ve seen saving private Ryan I’ve been furious at upham but like you said you don’t know what you got in you till your actually in that situation.
Real bullets being fired at you by people actually trying to kill you kind of changes things. Very few people have had the experience of a 50 cal round fired at them, and as shown by this movie, it does not just hit you it dismembers you. As scary as your drill sergeant might seem, they are not trying to kill you, they are preparing you for the people who are trying to kill you.
I do know what I’m made of. And cowardice isn’t a natural human characteristic.
There was countless men like Upham in this war that just didn’t have it in their DNA to do what had to be done in war. Some people freeze in fear whilst other thrive in it.
The men like Upham were also heroes and should never ever be forgotten; I’m glad they represented in the film too.
@@jrus690 Also, that was a German 20mm AA cannon which is way more powerful than a .50 cal 💀
When this movie first came out in theaters, there were a lot of cases of people (veterans) having to leave the theaters because it was so triggering to their PTSD. People say that this depiction of war is one of the most accurate reenactments on film. I still can't wrap my mind around it. God bless those men.
My great uncle was a medic in the European campaign. He never really talked to anyone, he just sat on his porch, smoking his cigarettes and drinking his coffee. he was not sociable even decades later. Back before they knew what PTSD was and what the effects were.
It wasn't just the medic if you remember the beginning young man also cried out to his mom showing them no matter how big and strong of a man their last words are crying out for their mother 😭
Yeah, I watched this movie many times without grasping the significance of that moment. But, then, it made sense to me. You're born into this world screaming for your momma. Your first source of comfort and security. When you're dying, you're going to reach out for that same source of support.
@@saejinlee6304 yeah who was there for you as a child when you got hurt or sick so I'm assuming that's why so many cry out for their mother as they die whether their mother's alive or pass on already as well
And don't be too hard on the guy that took off his helmet to look at the bullet holes on the beach and got domed immediately...having the helmet on would have made no difference. The helmet of World War 2 was not meant to stop a bullet...note that the bullet that hit his helmet already went through twice, it just missed his head to the left side. If he had left his helmet on, that next shot would still have gone right through into his brain. 💯
want a surprising fact. I was in the Navy 1985-89 and we still had helmets like that, the Kevlar newer type were not widely available as of then. Even our 'bulletproof' vest for manning the 50cals at battle stations was the older type with literally metal plates inserted in parts of the vests.
I always wondered why the bullet that hit that guy didn’t kill him yet the guy Wade is working on takes a bullet to the head and kills him instantly. I thought it must have been a more powerful gun.
@@lauraweatherford7643 Well...the guy that took off his helmet actually did get hit in the head by a bullet, the difference was that the bullet passed through the helmet and down the side of his head and then back out of the helmet, but never actually hit his skull. There is a gap between the helmet and the head that is created by the helmet liner and the canvas webbing that held the helmet on the head like a hard hat...so that guy that briefly got lucky had the bullet that hit him travel through/along that gap without ever hitting his head. 💯
Steel Helmets where not really there to protect the wearer from bullets. They couldn't stop a direct hit like that. They where designed to protect the wearer from head wounds from flying debris.
Actually a interesting fact to illustrate this is that when the British Army first introduced Steel Helmets in the first world war the number of soldiers hospitalised with head wounds actually increased by quite some margin. This confused the army brass until it was noticed that the number of soldiers being killed by head wounds had dropped by a similar amount.
I've watched that opening scene so many times. Battles like that just demonstrate the randomness of life and death. Doesn't matter if you're the best soldier on planet earth. The beach is being sprayed with gunfire and there's nothing you can do except keep moving.
I cant believe you guys didn't recognize the sniper as one of the actors from The Green Mile. Him and Tom Hanks must be buddies.
Barry Pepper.
@@greenman4946 He's also the reporter in "We Were Soldiers"
He’s not a well known actor but he’s in a shitload of movies. He did 2 or 3 others with Vin Diesel as well if I remember right.
Barry Pepper also portrayed Roger Maris in Billy Crystal's wonderful film "61*", about the 1961 homerun race between teammates Maris and Mickey Mantle. Maris ultimately won the race, ironically with 61 homers, beating Ruth's record of 60. However because it was a 162 game season for the first time, the commissioner recommended that it be listed as a separate 162 game record if he didn't break the record in the same 154 games that Ruth played, in 1927. Maris first tied, then broke Ruth's record during the last 8 games, so the asterisk was used to distinguish it as a separate record, which preserved Ruth's record as well. A number of years later, they were consolidated into a single record with Maris holding it until it was broken in 1998 by Mark McGwire.
First movie I ever saw Barry Pepper in was...cringe..."Battlefield Earth" with John Travolta. The novel was ok, but the movie was a mess. It might have been Barry's first movie it was so long ago....
One thing you two mentioned was the color of the water on the beaches being blood red. There are stories of the sand on those beaches being red for a few months afterward because they were stained with the blood of so many fallen soldiers.
Another thing to remember is that the D-Day invasions took hours, even though it looks quick in the movie, it went on and on and on. Most of the heavy artillery that was supposed to come along with, including the tanks, sank in the waters before they could get ashore.
The missed drops they mention when talking about the 101st Airbone brigade that parachuted in was because the drops were supposed to be just behind the German defenses so that they could help take out some of the larger guns and emplacements, but due to high winds and storms the day/night before, they were blown off course and landed much further inland that planned.
In fact, the landings in Normandy were almost unsuccessful had it not been for a very clever campaign of misinformation by the allies. They purposely leaked information, and also let the Nazi high command "intercept" communications showing massive troop and equipment buildup elsewhere in UK, about 100 miles north of where the actual invasion was happening. The Nazi commanders moved most of their Panzer tank units to the spot across the English Channel from this spot in order to better defend from the "pending invasion". To further this misinformation plot, some troops were sent to the location on the UK coast, as well as equipment and artillery, although everything but the troops were actually balloons which, from a distance, were real enough to fool the German spies. Even once the invasion of Normandy began, Hitler and the Nazi high command did not move the Panzer units to reinforce the defenders at Normandy until hours later, still believing the Normandy invasion to be a ruse and waiting for the "true" invasion across the English channel. This, of course, never came, and by the time they finally moved to reinforce the German defenders at Normandy, it was too late for the Germans as the allies had already established a presence on the beach and began to move inward as the other waves came ashore.
Also, regarding the scenes in the movie, not only did the production company have to set up hotlines for vets who had PTSD triggers from the battle scenes, but WWII vets who were there reported that it was exactly how it was on that day, except for the smells of diesel fuel. Several vets had to leave the theater because of the memories. It has been repeatedly praised by historians as being one of the accurate depictions of war ever on screen. Spielberg went to great lengths to make it accurate, even going so far as to hire amputees to act as soldiers during some scenes so that, in an explosion, their artificial limbs would come off and the realistic loss of a limb would be evident. Extremely powerful stuff.
the soldier looking for his arm on the beach in the beginning is a recreation straight out of the archives footage.
Ok you guys nailed this reaction! I've watched every reaction to this movie on YT and you guys mentioned things nobody else brought up! Understanding what happened with Upham(The translator), and how his action of pushing to let the German soldier go and that the same German soldier ends up being the one to take out Captain Miller is something a lot of reactors completely overlook. I think they get confused because the soldier they let go looks similar to the soldier who stabs Mellish in the chest, but you guys nailed it immediately! You made great points around that whole story arc. This is easily one of the best reactions to this movie!
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If you want more war movies, "Come and See" is a Russian gut punch set in 1943 Nazi-occupied Belorussia. It's brutal and relentless.
The child actors in Come and See acted better than people who have been in the industry for decades.
When you saw this movie when it first came out, you only knew a couple of these actors, and maybe not even by name. You watch the movie now and you recognize half the people in the fuckin movie and have a whole list of other movies they’ve done.
Speilberg intentionally made the Omaha Beach scene compressed and brutal. I believe each 'incident' filmed (guy looking for arm, flamethrower exploding, ect) was corroborated by multiple veterans. This film excels on so many levels - war combat film, human study in morality and compassion, leadership, ect. 'Ryan' at the end of the film must feel what so many combat veterans feel, why or how did they survive while so many did not. Good reaction and analysis.
The knife scene was probably one of the worst deaths in cinema history but Mike's last stand was such a badass moment.
I served as an Army Infantry
(Grunt) Sergeant. As a 19-year-old, African American Grunt Private, during the period December 1983-December 1984. I earned my Combat Infantryman Badge for my service inside the Korean DMZ. Essentially, there's no place to run or to hide while engaged in a combat mission. So, you fight to win. We (Grunts) never quit on our brothers, and we never leave our brothers behind. Your emotions and commentary touched my heart. I often wonder if my experiences and service made a difference. South Korea remains free, so I'm thankful. Unfortunately, very nice guys are hurt and are lost to war. This movie demonstrates how brutal and senseless war has always been. I would do it all again and make the same sacrifices.
Couple of historical notes:
1. Flamethrowers exploding from being shot in combat was something that rarely happened in combat. While theoretically possible to happen, it had to be a particular set of circumstances (such as chemical composition inside the tank, where the round hits specifically on the tank, the type of round that hits it, and a wide array of other things) for such a thing to happen. And it rarely did.
2. At the real Omaha Beach, there were flamethrower operators that landed in the first wave, but as regular infantry. The flamethrowers themselves were held back in reserve waves with the other heavy weapons; the idea being once the beach was secured, the operators would go to the rear and retrieve their weapons so that’d they would be used on defenses further inland. Of course, things at Omaha didn’t go according to plan, and once the weapons caught up with them, the main defenses were already taken out. So in reality, while there were flamethrowers present that day, they weren’t landed with the first wave of infantry that hit the beach.
3. The sniper scene where Jackson shot through the enemy scope DID actually happen once in combat. But, it happened during the Vietnam War and was done by a Marine in the middle of a sniper duel. The shot happened at a much closer range than in the film at only happened if the two were aiming at each other.
4. Reiben (the Brooklyn guy) surviving goes against many people’s expectations as well. He was a B.A.R. man, which was an important weapon within the squad during the war. The average life expectancy of a B.A.R. man in combat was 30 minutes.
5. That headstone at the end wasn’t faked for the movie. There’s actually a Captain John Miller that served with the 2nd Rangers buried at Arlington, but they just used his name for creative purposes. The film doesn’t actually reflect the real Cpt. Miller’s service.
Band of Brothers is amazing too. Both my grandfathers were their.
The Pacific, it's little brother, is equally great.
Here's something that took me a while: The actor who plays Corporal Upham, Jeremy Davies, plays a very different role as Dickie Bennet on Justified.
He’s also in the 2018 game god of war
Lost, also.
Quick message for those on the Patreon, the full reaction will be up later tonight; it's been taking an insane amount of time to upload as I found a small mistake in the earlier version I had. Hoping it won't be too long, it's totally my mistake and I'm sorry!
Please can you watch the patriot its amazing, mel gibson is in it!
You guys should watch lone survivor, thats a great war movie
I like your videos you see running man
Please watch Apocalypse Now
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- *MY COUSIN VINNY* 🔥🤣
I can't speak for military people, but I was an EMT for about 8 years. A lot of the carnage shown, I've witnessed firsthand (though not as often or as severe).
It constantly amazes me that humans can be so cruel to each other. And the limits of what a person can see and experience before they snap. And how pointless war is.
If you want a movie almost as good, with much less violence and gore, but still high-stakes, how about "Apollo 13?"
I think the “shakes” are body stress. He has been in for so long. Little to no sleep, massive stress and adrenaline. I also was thinking the amount of dissociation the mind would be force into. The scene where he sobbed over loosing the medic. Our brains can only handle so much. No wonder why the suicide rate is so high with veterans. I can imagine the mental toll wars or any combat would have.
*also did you notice the sniper. Jackson. He was in the green mile with tom hanks as well.
Shakes from PTSD from already having been in the shit for quite a while before D day
look up shell shock world war one videos. people in ww1 went through way worse shit.
@@weisthor0815 Trench Warfare was horrific
PTSD and anxiety are the cause. That’s why his squad knew he wasn’t alright. It was also affecting his decision making as you saw during the radar site scene. He was shaking in the Higgins boat before landing on the beach because he was anxious knowing he was about to see so many of those kids die and those kids were fresh in and had no clue what combat was like until they landed.
@@weisthor0815I don’t know if you can call any of it “worse” it’s all extremely bloody and horrific
Speaking of a medic's jobs in the war, another great movie is Hacksaw Ridge.
I second that. The Lost Battalion and Dunkirk are a must as well.
“We were Soldiers” is great too!
“The most gruesome wa…!” Hacksaw Ridge: Hold my beer!” Very good move by the way!
Hacksaw Ridge?
Come and See: "Hold my vodka."
Best war movie of all time hands down!
Got this movie on VHS when I was like 9 years old & watched it over & over with my dad. Such nostalgia for me!
same
The story of Private Ryan is inspired by the Sullivan brothers (who are mentioned in the movie, in the telegram scene). There were five of them: George, Frank, Joe, Matt, and Al, from Waterloo, Iowa. George and Frank, the oldest brothers, had served in the Navy in the 1930s, and after Pearl Harbor, they re-enlisted along with the younger three, on the condition that they serve together. They were assigned to the light cruiser USS _Juneau,_ and all five were killed when the ship was sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, in November 1942. The US Navy named two ships USS _The Sullivans_ in their honor: a _Fletcher_ class destroyer (DD-537) in 1943 (decommissioned 1965), and an _Arleigh Burke_ class guided missile destroyer (DDG-68) in 1995 (still in service). The ships' official motto is "We stick together."
Cpt. Miller's line, "Earn this." wasn't just for Pvt. Ryan. It was for all of us. The people men fought and died for. Earn their sacrifice.
The Thin Red Line an amazing war movie with a huge cast.
Still waiting for the first reaction to that one after 9000 reactions to Saving Private Ryan lol.
@@Heaven_is_a_frequency6263 lol I know right!It is so good but nobody has reacted to it!
I guess I'm the exception to this movie. The Thin Red Line bored me to tears. Some of the most painful time I've ever spent in a theatre.
@@shadaxe Hmm first person I have heard of that didn't like it.
@@shadaxe me too!
And after all they went through, just think, big picture: we were still only just getting started. This was June 1944. There were still 11 months of combat left in Europe. And then, they had the Japanese to worry about on the other side of the world.
which is covered in parts in "The Pacific".
I love the speech Reiben gives about griping...when the captain says I’ll happily sacrifice my men, including you Reiben....and Reiben is the only one from the og squad to survive
I watched Saving Private Ryan when it first came out in high school in the 90s and it made a long-lasting impression on me. My grandfather was a medic in WW2 and he said it was the closest thing he ever watched to real combat. He saw so many of his buddies pass away crying for their moms and was wounded twice in WW2 and Korea. The stabbing scene with Mellish was one of the hardest movies scenes I ever watched even now years later.
This film was very successful in Italy and I saw it at the cinema as soon as it came out. The first twenty minutes are truly an incredible experience: it feels like you are at war. Greetings from Milan, Italy.
Greetings man, we actually visited Italy a few years ago and it's such a beautiful country; would love to go back someday! :)
It's interesting with peoples different takes on things, I never saw "Mr Brooklyn" Reiben as a surprise last minute survivor stepping up to anything towards the end, to me he seemed the most hardcore of them right from the start, more like special forces material or something. He just struck me more as one of those battle hardened quiet badass types who are 100% dependable and stay focused and deliver no matter how crazy shit gets. I don't think his griping ever meant he was fearful to go on the mission, but rather that he realised the cost of lives it would probably come with and felt it was wasted on just one man.
Edward Burns. He was always one of my favorite characters in this film. Along with Tom Sizemore.
Alot of veteran's that went to see this movie when it aired had to leave during the D day scene as it was so realistic it give them haunting memories
Everyone that reacts to this movie with no fail always says the same thing: "Is that Vin Diesel!?"
Hanks (Capt Miller), Edward Burns (Reiben), Tom Sizemore (Mike), Barry Pepper (Jackson aka sniper), Matt Damon (Ryan), Vin Diesel (Caparzo), Adam Goldberg (Mellish), Giovanni Ribisi (Doc), Jeremy Davies (Upham), Ted Danson (Capt Hamill)..guy who saved Hanks crew when Giamatti put log thru wall, Paul Giamatti (Sgt Hill), Dennis Farina(Anderson)...guy who says to Hanks, “I have a new mission for you..straight from the top”, & deaf guy who tells Hanks where Jimmy Ryan is..played by Ryan Hurst who played Opie on SOA. && Bryan Cranston as a War Dept Dude
Now React To HEAT 1995!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You forgot Nathan Fillion as the wrong Pvt Ryan ;-)
@@gregall2178 My Bad!
@@22Bodhi You went and made James Frederick cry all over again :-D
You guys could also react to “Road to Perdition” another Tom Hanks film, directed by Sam Mendes!
Great film that got little recognition.
If you don't already know of, you may be interested in Director/Veteran Samuel Fuller's "big red one" and/or "the steel helmet". He said the way to make a real war movie is to have a sniper behind the screen taking occasional shots as the audience.
I’m watching this in honor of the 79th Anniversary of D-Day. My best friend lives near Omaha Beach and said when he went there it was so peaceful. It’s so strange what time does.. easy to forget but never should be. Those men were heroes 🇺🇸
Y’all should check out Band of Brothers. It’s a Spielberg/Hanks production about the 101st airborne during WW2. The best miniseries ever
I hope you guys will react to Band of Brothers soon since you watched this!
Best series ever! I watch it religiously once every year!
and The Pacific!
My wife and I (married only 3 months, I was 27- she was 23) saw this on a Friday night with six or seven of our friends when it opened in the theater. She openly wept through most of the film, and then just burst into tears randomly several times through the rest of the weekend for no reason, at the drop of a hat. To this day, she will not even entertain the thought of watching this movie again. I ask her why and she says she absolutely loves the movie, but she can't take the realistic emotional and destructive side of it- she thinks she might have a heart attack or stroke out if she sees it again. That says a lot for the realism and acting of this movie.
She might have been there in a previous life. The movie triggered all the lost memories and trauma.
It's okay to cry guys! You both already show so much empathy it's refreshing to see emotion from men.
It was hard to make friends with veterans at all because they had seen so many friends die.
Interesting fact: in the beginning when the two guys surrendered and got shot, everyone thought they were speaking German, they were actually speaking in Czech (a country Germany invaded) and they said “Please don't shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone! I am Czech!"
Damn that’s heavy. I kind of wish they’d thrown down subtitles for us on that
Just because they were speaking Czech doesn’t mean they weren’t actually german
I absolutely love this movie it’s one of my all time favorites I’ve watched it more times than I can count
I'll raise a glass to those that fell and to those who suffered the memories off an I'll forgotten war, thank you for the courage you had.🙏🙏🙏
In '98 there were way more WWII veterans still actively out and about. The theatre we saw this movie in had a few of them. When the movie ended, you could hear a pin drop as people walked out in silence. Everybody was going up to the veterans and thanking them for their service in the lobby. Tears were shed for sure. It hit so hard for us to come as close as you could to seeing what it was like. Until then, he/or she was just an old man/lady or someone's grandpa you took for granted. Eye opening experience.
I like all the characters but Upham’s my favorite because he challenges the audience so much. He’s layered and opens up more of a discussion than the other characters. Brilliant addition to the story.
You should watch the other WWII movie that was released that same year and was also nominated for Best Picture, The Thin Red Line. Especially if you watch Apocalypse Now. Those two occupy a different area of the genre and are shining examples of it.
sadly Upham is an example of why we shouldn’t take “anyone” into war.
Just like taking a child cost Vin Diesel his life, taking someone like Upham cost American lives. they didn’t even use him as a translator.
that moment when he is given a pencil instead of a typewriter....:)
@@AltCTRLF8it didn’t cost Vin Diesel his life. It costed Adrian Caparzo his life
Tom Hanks is goated. You guys gotta do Forrest Gump and Castaway
like what....freemason kind of goated?
The only film my husband got emotional at the end, he is ex- engineer in the British army, many moons ago, great movie, apparently Stephen Spielberg spoke to his Grandfather who told him the reality on the landings! So sad 😞
Sizemore is my favorite actor in this movie, great performance.
Thank you for doing this movie.
It’s still the best depiction of war of all time....
If you want to watch another good war films....we were soldiers...and hacksaw ridge.
Wow...I could have sworn I have reacted to you guys watching this already...but I guess not. This is always an emotional watch for me...hope you guys really like it...and that it was not too hard for you to watch. 🖖💯✌
Definitely always an emotional watch for me too🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
When Captain Miller says "Earn This" to Ryan on the bridge, don't just see it as a message to him but a message to all of us who live under the freedom that those men sacrificed their lives for, because that is the debt that we owe to the future.
A lot of the actors who appeared in cameo roles were well known, but apparently worked for scale in this film. Dennis Farina, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Brian Cranston among others. This was also the first feature film for Matt Damon, and his entire "Alice Jardine" story was his improvisation.
It makes me sad watching history details fade. When I saw this in the theater, everyone just ~knew~ that was the Normandy cemetery. Nowadays, it’s ~just~ a cemetery 😞
Two great war films to check out are "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), winner of the best picture and best director Academy Awards for that year. And "Hamburger Hill" (1987), in my opinion one of the best Vietnam War films ever made.
This movie is the best war movie ever made in cinema. I could type in this one movie for the rest of week, suffice to say the following...
The next time you're strolling down the street and you see an old man tottering towards you with a cane or being pushed in a wheelchair. And, he's wearing a ball cap with "WWII Veteran - D Day" on it. Show him MAD RESPECT. What he did in his past has given you your future. As Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) said in his last dying breath, "Earn this."
Gotta do Remember the Titans if you didn’t recognize the deaf soldier!
Agreed
That was Ryan Hurst who did many movies and TV shows: Bates Motel, Sons of Anarchy, and even a couple of season as Beta, in The Walking Dead....
i think it might be the same or guy or could be different guy but i think he was also in we were soldiers he t
Medics do in field triage. They will look at your wounds and decide how much of a chance you have to live. That will decide how much resources they will put into you. Most would get a field dressing and morphine. But the medics knew real medical treatment would be hours away if lucky, days if not.
“Earn this” wasn’ta message to Pvt Ryan.
It was a message to all of us.
The people that get to live in freedom because of sacrifices like those.
I need to think about it more, but maybe Pvt Ryan as a character is metaphor for something else.
Civilians? Innocence? Redemption? Am not sure
Sergeant Horvath reminds me of Nathaniel Greene, one of the unsung heroes of the American Revolution. He got shot six times during a battle and he survived to a ripe old age. Although Sergeant Horvath died, my point is, what a badass.
Well, throw my suggestion on to the pile, because you guys gotta do Band of Brothers. So good.
Ribbisi's death is heartbreaking. What an actor.
Makes me cry every time
That is the one scene in the movie that I have a hard time watching. Even the toughest of men long for the comfort of their mother in a time of pain and suffering and that was the part that gets to me. Absolutely heartbreaking
seen it 30x and still get teary!!! this movie was *ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!!* 🥇
@@modelotimefooooo1853 It truly is a masterpiece. The combat sequences are done superbly, however, the depth and quality of writing is remarkable.
@@kwantoon only part i was annoyed with was when Ubbum took ages to bring ammo and that one dude got stabbed. He never had to die‼️🙁
This and The Martian and Interstellar are why there are all the jokes about saving Matt Damon
The character Ryan is based on U.S. soldier Fritz Niland. His two brothers are buried side by side in the cemetery over Omaha beach. One died on June 6th and the other June 7th 1944. The ground in front of their graves is worn away by visitors paying their respects.
I was hoping you would get to this one just so I can watch your reactions.
The sniper is our boy Barry Pepper who played Dean in The Green Mile.
You would be surprised how many first time folks don't realize that the guy they let go was one the
who killed Miller..
When this came out many of the men who were actually survivors of D-Day walked out of the theaters
because it was so realistic and they couldn't handle it.
Watch Das Boot (1981)! WW2 submarine movie from the german perspective and an absolute masterpiece (6 Oscar nominations). Watch the original with subtitles, not the dubbed version.
TBR Schmitt just reacted to the Director's Cut of Das Boot a few days ago if you're interested.
I enlisted in the Army after having dropped out of college due to financial difficulties. I did return to college after having served and I earned my Bachelor of Arts in December 1992. I wanted to attend law school, but I began to develop the onset of my VA diagnosed PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I served as a United States Infantry Sergeant, and I earned my Combat Infantryman Badge for my service inside the Korean DMZ (December 1983 - December 1984). I subsequently served as a Police Sergeant, and I retired as a Federal Investigator.
The fear and anxiety can be managed, but you fool yourself into the irrational concept known as, "I must bury my emotions." But, the vivid thoughts memories will be and are triggered by the most obscure exposures to a stimulus.
Every single day of your life is filled with a direct bond to and with everyone who has experienced the futility of a firefight.
You should watch the Band of Brothers series. It's also about WW2, but it follows 1 company throughout the whole war. I believe it's 10 episodes. It's pretty rough, but it's so good.
Curtis is always here in the flesh he should do a reaction one time when he's not
Thing is, no one really knows how they will actually react in different real combat or war situations the first time. It’s too easy to hate Upham for being too shitscared to move. And arguing for not shooting a POW, but in the end Captain Miller made that call not to shoot the German soldier.
This is a movie editing scenes together that tell a full dramatic story. In a real life war, most soldiers don’t have a full picture of what’s happening beyond a few metres away, and certainly not the future. Upham had no way of knowing what was really happening at the top of the stairs. He and Miller couldn’t know for sure what that spared German soldier would eventually do. Maybe he would live to kill more Allied soldiers, fighting alongside his own fellow soldiers, as war is kill or be killed. Maybe he was a full on Nazi believing in the cult of Hitler. Maybe he was school teacher before, and a soldier only under duress, and would surrender later, desert, or just be killed in the next battle. It’s unlikely they would ever have met again in real war.
Absolutely the Nazis were the aggressors, and WW2 is that rare fully justifiable defensive war, and often it was kill or be killed, but many of the German soldiers weren’t there out of personal choice or support for the Fuhrer, or the Nazi party. Hitler’s Germany was a brutal dictatorship once Hitler engineered his rise to power. Refusing to be a soldier if called on by the Nazi party wasn’t an option if you wanted you and your family to stay alive and relatively well.
In the end, too often, ordinary people are ordered to sacrifice their lives to kill other ordinary people in wars started by self-serving leaders who don’t genuinely care about soldiers or civilian casualties as individual human beings, each with value equal to their own. That’s the real tragedy.
I hear you and yes definitely nazi Germany wasn’t an all rainbow party going on. But out of all the report that have been read NONE of German soldiers relatives got to face ANY kind of consequences for what a family member might have done or not as part of the war machine, NONE ! And there’s was a lot of reports being read.
That : “ I was afraid what could happened to my family “ was an excuse repeated over and over by nazi party members who didn’t wanted to assume the consequences of their willingly actions !
By mentioning it you are spreading a nazi propaganda.
The Irish Army provided the extras in this scene, which constitutes Ireland’s biggest contribution to WW2 since they sat the war out.
The degree of difficulty the filmmakers set and then achieved for this movie will never be equaled again. Not a false note on any level of craftsmanship. It was like every person in every area of production had their, to borrow a sports reference, "career year" on this film.
If you haven't seen Platoon or Full Metal Jacket, they're a must.
Just be prepared if you watch these two, fellas, neither one has a happy ending. I remember the first time I watched Platoon, I sat in stunned silence for several minutes as the end credits rolled.
'Humour is the light in the darkness' great line Octokrool! I think i'll use that in future if that's ok with you? lol!
Lol, go for it! :)
They were very heavily loaded and had unreliable life preservers. It had been suggested that rhe first two waves go in lightly loaded so they could cross the beach more quickly. However, they were loaded down with 70 plus pounds of gear, including gear needed much later that could have been brought by later waves.
The flotation device worked, but if it was put on improperly, something easy to do, it would flip them over, head down, and drown the user.
Lastly, instead of delivering the tanks directly to the beach by boat, they developed "swimming" tanks call DD or dual-drives. They were unstable in calm water and most sank on D-Day. Most of the tanks that made it ashore were delivered by boat when the commanders realized that was the safer option.
Many of the men being seasick had to do with the fact that they were fed a very large breakfast on the ship earlier that morning - many of the drownings also occurred from men being too seasick to get out of their gear quickly as it dragged them down.
Ironically, the soldiers that were too nervous to eat breakfast actually fared better.
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“Malcolm X”
“Clockers”
“Eve’s Bayou”
“The Hand That Rocks The Cradle”
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Started watching you for your Stand By Me reaction (huge Stephen King fan) and I loved your comments and the fact that you're twins. I'm a twin and I have 21 year old twin sons. I am currently watching your reaction on SPR and realized that Teddy in Stand By Me says that his father stormed the beach in Normandy and that's where SPR starts out. It's easy to see from Spielberg's amazing work how potentially devastating the war was on the men who fought. No wonder the character of Mr. Duchamp was crazy. Sorry for the extremely long comment. Have a great day, guys!
MASK - (1985 movie with Cher) - Guys, you like emotional feel good true story movies (Lean On Me). This is an unbelievable story about an amazing kid with a physical deformity. It’s a don’t feel sorry for me story that is masterfully written. Love to see you react to this.
Keep up the great work gents and thank you
Heh... Apocalypse Now is amazing, and it does take place in Viet Nam during the conflict...but I don't really think the war is the point. Merely the setting.