Dark Knight(Entire Bank robbery scene in the beginning of movie...this was shot in IMAX) Dark Knight Rises(Entire Bane plane scene in the beginning of movie...this was shot in IMAX) IT (Sewer scene) The Revenant Star Wars The Last Jedi Bram Stoker's Dracula Ex Machina Prometheus The Martian
Actually there are. In the 20 years after SPR we Got a new version of the Unknown Soldier: ua-cam.com/video/NTYesNj_sBg/v-deo.html and Generation Kill: ua-cam.com/video/v3GkHcZHQrY/v-deo.html both of which are chocked full of great scenes of warfare.
My grandfather served in WW2 and I watched this opening scene with my dad, uncles, and him. I already seen the movie but I will never forget we all were paying attention to my grandfather's reaction than watching the movie. It was true fear and sadness on his face at the same time. I remember him breaking down which I never saw in my life from him. He passed this year at the age of 95.
Can you imagine seeing this film in cinema back in 1998? Lights go down, and then this scene plays. Nobody had ever seen anything like it, unless they were there to experience the real thing. No war film had EVER portrayed combat in this way. Some veterans had to leave the cinema because it was so intense and so real, even though they had left the military 50 years ago, it was resulting in PTSD type symptoms. This is as authentic as it gets in its portrayal of the horrors of war. Steven Spielberg is a true artist
I was 15. Until then, violence in war movies always looked “clean.” Sure, there were atrocities, violence, and tragedy depicted, but nothing had shown the sheer brutality and chaos of war quite like Private Ryan. Until then, I imagined myself as being capable of brave in war. This movie shattered such childish fantasies.
I was 19 when I saw it at a theater in Kirkland, Washington. As harrowing as it was, it easily remains among my top 3 cinema experiences of my life. I remember leaning over and telling my buddy I was watching it with that it's going to win best picture around 5 minutes in, I still can't believe it lost to Shakespeare in Love... The amount of meticulous planning and tight-fisted execution in this film is astonishing, bravura filmmaking to be sure.
Today, June 6th 2024, I'm Paying respect to those who sacrificed everything on this day, June 6th 1944, 80 years ago. We must never allow this history to be forgotten.
I heard that was some psychology that could explain why he did that. I can't remember what it was called or what it meant but it was fascinating learning about it in class.
@@UhKimboze it's because the mother was/is always the caretaker for children growing up. It's a very common thing for people who are dieing to cry out to their mom.
My Grandfather is one of the soldiers that survive D-DAY. He told me this story when I was 12. HE said "I remember everything from that day, our company successfully landed but we were welcomed with machine guns. We were charging and a mortar hit us, I stood up kept running towards a trench. Then I shouted Captain I'm in! But when I turned around I'm alone they are all dead some shouting MAMA." He cries while telling me this story. RIP Grandpa
I cry for men like ur grandfather. How is it the universe in time will forget their sacrifices? That boggles my mind. Surely ur grandfathers experiences must be acknowledged by something more than us. I hope so, he and every single human who has fought for anything deserves it. Unless the universe really is that cold, naturally..
My grandfather and I watched this in the cinema in '98 and he just suddenly requested to go out and he bawled and cried. He said that this was the movie that caught everything in detail. He fought in WW2 when he was 19 and he's now 98. Got three toes amputated from the war. Heck of a soldier.
I’ve not watched the D-Day scene since my nightmares last week and it was graphic as hell and especially with united 93 also crashed into Normandy because Ziad knew I had fled with someone else instead of him and I was literally pulling the fence down and I witnessed United crashing rather then being on the flight this time. I absolutely loved the saving private Ryan and united 93 crossover and I hope I have more nightmares like this with the fighting on whoever loves me first
This scene was so realistic and so impactful the Department of Veteran Affairs set up a hotline for WWII vets to call who were traumatized and experiencing PTSD after viewing it.
@@rbush83 I always think this when I see comments like this as well. Why are some people so lazy they’d rather wait days for a response to their question than just finding it out themselves in a matter of seconds lol.
I went to see this film in the cinema in '98, when I was 21, the age of many of these soldiers. That scene got into my body like no film ever had, and in 2023, no production has managed to move me to such an extent. I was born and raised 200 km north of Normandy, by the sea in Pas-de-Calais. The courage of these men to liberate my country is absolutely indescribable.
I was born 4 years later in 2002 and the Normandy scene is still in me. It’s been a week since I watched it first time and we’ll remember how mentally prepared I was for this scene but it wasn’t what I expected
My great grandfather stormed that beach, and managed to make it back home. Crazy thing it, he didn't have kids with my great grandmother until he got back, meaning the odds state that I shouldn't even be here, and yet here I am. I never got to meet him but what a badass he must have been,
As a 20 year old young man, the courage these men had is absolutely inspiring. I can not imagine the fear, all we can do is remember their sacrifice and hope to emulate their bravery.
You would have been the same if you were born into such a time and place. If you were born a boy in the 1890s in England, France, or Germay, you would definitely have been in the trenches of the 1st World War. And it's not your fault at all. It's just a matter of time and place and circumstance.
They were young men, very young. Drafted into service collin. I agree. Ready my recently posted comment. This must have been HELL my friend. Dare I even go there, more frightening and hellish than anyting we witnessed in the 'modern era' afer this. The Normandy Beach landings were gnarly. This was a movie. The Real thing, well, imagine tides of water full of body parts, blood, guts... If only the USA had got involved sooner. They should have known this bastard Hitler was a maniac but they called it a 'European War'. Sadly, it took Pearl Harbor to make them realise it was anything but. This was indeed, a WORLD war. 😐
@@daynawithawhy And then everybody clapped an he was congratulated by the president himself (Or knighted if you're British)! It actually happened, believe me.
It does, even the Germans shouting “Mutti, Mutti, Mama” during the wars is sad, anything that has someone dying and screaming for they’re mother and other family members is just hard to watch.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of this horrific day. I always watch this movie every year on this day to remind myself why I’m able to live in freedom. The things that these men witnessed were some of the most terrifying and horrific things you could possibly imagine. Imagine going through months of intensive training all to die within 30 seconds. The fact that there’s people who don’t seem to understand the sacrifices these men made for us is a tragedy. Without their sacrifices, we wouldn’t be able to live in freedom. To all of you who served on that horrible day, thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country. You will never be forgotten.
Despite all the technological advances over the past 20 years, this movie is still the best war movie ever made. Technology can't replace creativity and passion.
Nah. SPR starts strong but degenerates into Kelly's Heroes as it goes on. Das Boot was made years before SPR and is still the superior movie. And many modern movies wipe the floor with SPR like for example 2017 Unknown Soldier, 9th of April and Black Hawk Down.
Steven Spielberg went all out with this scene. The amount of detail shown is incredible. Imagine a war scene being so realistic that it scares real life war veterans
@@shadow7988 it was deliberately done that way for various reasons, the first being that the viewer is then put right in the perspective of the soldiers trying to stay down and shield themselves so you're really put right in the middle of the carnage, secondly the camera being used that way meant that you deliberately only saw snippets of the horror so that your imagination can fill in the gaps, it's a film technique used to draw fear and horror in the viewer
I remember seeing this with my dad when it came out. Only movie premiere he's been to in his life. When the movie ended, no one moved. The theatre was perfectly still through the credits. Lights turned on and no one moved for what seemed like five minutes. I remember hearing someone behind me sobbing. Still one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen.
Yes. There are a number of people who are of the opinion that The Thin Red Line is a better movie. They have their reasons that may certainly be valid for them. However, the fact is I don’t know of any war movie that affected veterans the way SPR did. Not sure if you’re aware of movie reaction videos? There’s so many about SPR. It’s good to see younger people watch it and find out about the invasion that was so important.
@@gmar7836 I’m used to it now and I loved how this movie and United 93 got a crossover type thing, it was very intense with United 93 flying over Normandy as I was pulling the barbed wire fences down; thank goodness the plane was not loaded because I could have died instantly if it was
This isn’t someone’s imagination that thought up all this brutality and gore, this is a *REAL* depiction from the men who experienced the carnage first hand.
Only useful training lesson: Dig a hole. Hide in it and hope that most of it misses. Then become POW and survive the war to go back to your family. Or join the local resistance team and DON'T GET CAUGHT!
@@larsdetering8996 considering that the enemies were Nazis, you’d probably be executed on sight. Their prisons were, needless to say, somewhat occupied already.
@@JK-ei7wr Ehhh if you were American or British the wehrmacht would probably treat you “decent” not always but in general they had more respect for them. If you were on the Eastern front you are fucked either way. One of the reasons the casualties were so high on that front you were going to have a shit time as a pow on either side, so fight to the death.
@@stephenvargas5806 I figured that might be the case, but I was looking at it more from a practical perspective than a moral one. I can only imagine that with prisons filled with the “Undesirables” (Jews, Poles, Slavs, etc.), the Nazis wouldn’t be as willing to accept even more mouths to feed, especially in the latter part of the war when supplies were scarce. To me, it would make more sense to have simply executed any prisoners (as horrible as that sounds), but I don’t have any sources to back that with.
No , Everyone dies except Pvt Ryan. I feel bad for both the sides. Deutsch boys had no other option than to fight. Apart from insanity of Nazi politicians, common Deutsch soldiers also sacrificed their lives for the fatherland.so, here the villains are not even main villains.
My Grandfather was on Omaha Beach. Many years after the war ended, my Mother who was a young child at the time, asked him how he survived D-Day and Omaha Beach. He recalled that he held up his dead buddies as human shields to make his way up the beach. Horrifying to think of having to be that resourceful to survive this place so many soldiers called "hell on earth..."
If anyone is curious, what happens at 4:48 is known as 'derealization' and its an intense form form of disassociation. Disassociation occurs when stress causes us to become detached or untethered to our activities of daily living or our jobs or our families. Derealization on the other hand is when an event is so traumatic or scary or incomprehensible to a human being that it triggers a sort of protective measure to help cope with the experience, by making it seem not so real, almost like a dream. It is more easily triggered in people who have suffered acute traumatic events before, such as people with lingering PTSD, but it really can occur in any of us if the situation is intense, frightening, or traumatic enough. Basically your thought process just becomes like those spinning spokes on UA-cam when its loading or a little hourglass or swirling ball on your desktop. Sometimes your mind needs a few moments to deal with it all.
I realized (no pun intended) what it was because when I watched this movie.I was suffering from depression and I had lived through a couple of similar episodes. It is not even scary. You feel like you are outside your body, controlling it like if it is a puppet. Everything is not real, like if you are immersed in a distant virtual reality. In a way, dreams feel more real. Feeling like you are drugged is a better analogy. My episodes usually lasted for a couple of minutes. Anyway, it was eerie to see in on the screen but the OP is right: it is like if your brain throws up a barrier to protect your mind. I guess that it is the reason why it is not scary: it is an active form of defense. Of course it happens due to an underlying unnatural suffering.
My great grandfather was on the german side that day. He said he only stopped shooting when the MG was too hot and even then they kept shooting with their rifles. It was a mass slaugther and he said you could see the sand turn more and more red. He became an hardcore pacifist after the war and often visited other veterans on both side. They all were just boys or young men thrown into carnage by the ones who didnt value their lifes.
My grandfather was here so was my uncle. I can't help cry when I watch what they had to experience. My uncle said when he watch this in theaters he could smell and hear the battlefield. He had to walk out of the theater because "This is exactly what it looked like, exactly."
@@UghHimAgain There’s been plenty of father’s and son who’ve fought in conflicts together. Not necessarily side by side at times but it’s happened. You can have a child at 18 and be 36 by the time he’s an adult.
@Rachet Hunter would you really still serve if you're 36? I figured during the events of WWII the Age limit was like 18-30 and YOU HAD to be in top shape.
@@UghHimAgain Bro… It was World War 2 lmao they were not picky. Once the US entered WW2 they had men aged 20-44 liable for military service and men aged 18-64 were required to register for the draft.
Who is here again on the 80th Anniversary of D-day. Let's never forget this ever. "Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade"
I remember being a small child and watching this, didn't even blink an eye. But now being 18 it is hard to watch it. After watching this I started appreciating my life even more.
Yeah that's because now you are around the same age as these boys that stormed the beach so it hits closer to home. I have the same thing, as a kid this scene didn't do me much but now that I'm 23, I realize that it could be me storming that beach.... makes it even scarier.
I watched this movie when I was like 13 on my big ass 21 inch pc and didn’t blink an eye. Anyways I’m 18 rn and watched the scene because I saw an article saying this scene was extremely realistic and decided to give it a try. Big mistake almost threw up. Also I watched it on a tiny 6 inch iPhone this time, little matter it was too hard to watch. I can’t even imagine how it felt for the veterans who literally gone through this hell.
Same, as a child i didn't even feel awkward or something, now with 16 i watch this and this is raw af, i teared. As a child i didn't feel like this because maybe i wasn't aware about all the extreme suffer of the scene, and thinking that such scene really happened is just sad
Worst part is that these young men who were pumping bullets into each other weren't really enemies. They had no personal animosity toward each other. If they met on the street outside of a war context they'd quite possibly become friends. Sure they were deadset enemies in the heat of battle, but the enmity was forced upon them by the big wigs who never saw the frontline. They were fighting other mens battles. War is the nadir of humanity. Nobody escapes unscarred.
@@stirlinghogan4441 a death isn't a number, it's a real person's life ending. A lot of people died in ww2 but that doesn't mean you can write off people dying from corona and say that we are lucky.
The scene that gets me is the young solider hiding behind one of the steel bars crying and terrified of the gun fire all around him. Literally broke my heart!
It must be a strange feeling to know that the reason you’re alive is because the guy handling the machine gun was shooting at your friend instead of you. And in that respect, no one who landed on the beach truly died in vain.
@G E T R E K T 905 And I lost my grandfather in WW2 and my uncle in the Vietnam war. Sorry for your loss but when it comes to human history in general this is still the most peaceful times.
@G E T R E K T 905imagine being in D Day I would be shaking as hell I would literally jump off the boat and swim back I dont even care This is fucking scary. I would die in the first 10 secs
@@richsalazme I get what you mean, but can we stop comparing the two. Both are sad and terrifying, let’s just show are respect and that’s it. Also condolences to both of your loses, may they rest easily.
You got to remember that many battles were fought involving good men and D-Day was just a very very small percentage of the full story! Filipinos actually died the most serving US military since 1900!
RIP to both my dad, who served in WWII and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and Tom Sizemore who gave such an incredible and memorable performance as Sgt. Horvath. Mr. Sizemore is now in the company of his WWII Band of Brothers.
@@Cinemaphile7783 Germans too, they weren't the villains, all sides of the war had soldiers who did evil and good, they were just men fighting for their country
Especially how quickly people want to fight. Imagine going through such horrors just because of some mad men who are in power. Young men dying for the disillusions of old fucks. War should be forbidden.
@@arminxvs3372 you should study politics more kid,there is no way war can be stopped.and by this day as im typing this comment,there is still a war going on
@@acap4395 Kid? I guess you are younger than me but that's beyond the point. Read my comment more carefully. I used a conditional, a "should" because that is my opinion. I am very aware that war is present and will always exist on this planet. We as humans are just that forsaken. Nonetheless I think that war is always initiaded just for some personal gain of a King, an Emperor, Dictator or Prime Minister. It's always the innocent farm boys and youth that is sacrificed because someone in power thinks they are entitled to something. People pay the prize for someone else's mistakes.
Saw this in the theater, opening weekend. This sequence was hard to take and you could hear a pin drop, between the gasps and sniffling. Most powerful depiction of war I’ve ever seen in a movie. I was numb and so glad when they finally got off that damn beach. 😢
I had the same feeling watching it at home and I’m still very numb a week later. My night terrors have been so intense lately and I think I know the ending already and I might not make it. I’ve been very lucky in the first 2 hours though
Yeah, right? War is the worst thing humanity can ever do to each other. But unfortunately, most presidents nowadays are so interested in trying out their new war machines. Also, i dont think that most of them dont even care about people.
@@haziblathif491 Again. Countries want to take control of land. Not just to defeat an enemy. So why would you nuke the enemy when that makes the land useless?
4:27 really fucks me up Just imagine you and a group of your best mates and think about the memories you’ve been through, the childhood, growing up together. Then to be fatally wiped out by another young man from across the world who’s just obeying his orders.
People talk about how realistic and sad it is but I literally marvel and how well steven Spielberg shot, directed and paced this scene......as a film director you can only dream of making scenes as powerful as this sequence
Spielberg is responsible for some of the best ww2 media ever, bless that man. Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Band of Brothers, Pacific, he's even producing yet another one this year about Fighter Pilots
@@luallual8180 Not about fighter pilots, more like bomber pilots. Masters of the Air is being filmed right now. It'll be on Apple TV (HBO bailed) and it'll be a part of the "trilogy" alongside Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
Honestly I was thinking things like that to cope with what I was seeing so I get your perspective. Like it truly is awful but it’s awful because he makes it so well and real.
“Freedom” “God bless those souls for protecting the world” Child, those men, German and American, are victims of the vicious world they lived in, every country fought for Resources, military and political influence, and knocking out potential threats, nothing is heroic, so stop describing it as such because the idea itself is unbearable.
I am French, I was born in Normandy and I still live there. Every June 6, I have a thought for all these American, English, Canadian soldiers, as well as some French, who lived through this tragic sunrise so that mine would be happy. I think of it when I stroll freely on these same beaches, or when I pass over the Pegasus Bridge as well as in front of the Café Gondrée of Bénouville, the first liberated house in France. Thank you is far too weak a word for their sacrifice, but that's the least I can say. There are many monuments scattered throughout my region to try to pay homage to them but it is very little compared to their sacrifice. We try to deserve what those men did that day.
English? British which means Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland and England. It's a bit disrespect of you to forget the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish soldiers! British= English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish NOT English!!! Stop being so damn disrespectful and learn some geopolitics! God Damn!
@@drrd4127 That is true. I say English out of simple footballing habit and also because this landing had left England, but I obviously include all the people you mention in your message, it is not a question of lack of culture you are not teaching me that the United Kingdom and Great Britain do not only include England, no need to be disrespectful in turn by asking me to repeat my studies for a simple word error in a language that is not mine.
As an American, when I visited Normandy I was astonished at how long/wide the beach is compared to the American east coast beaches.. how far these young men had to make it. Also the French are super cool if you just put sober basic effort into learning their culture a bit, I hate most of my fellow Americans attitudes toward the French, great country with great workers rights compared to America at least lol
My former wife's dad was there. His name was Buddy. He didn't talk much about this day. He passed in 2013 at the age of 94 in Texas. Buried in East Texas. I sure enjoyed his company. He enjoyed farming.
I actually knew someone who survived this and he told my dad about his experiences before he died because they were really close. My dad said that when he told him, he said that he was the first person he ever talked about this to and that it had taken him 70 years just to be able to even talk about it without crying. He became really close friends with another soldier in his unit and then watched him die without ever even making it off the boat.
Most of this movie (especially the combat scenes) was filmed using hand held camera's in as few takes as possible (take this and the halftrack scene for example) one of the reasons it's so striking in the combat scenes yet so few war movie directors use this technique. Damn shame.
I thought the movie was 25 years old now, I can’t believe I missed it when it re released for its 25th anniversary. I’ll definitely have to watch for its 30th
@@flexgado249 1998 actually, it’s probably coming close to 28 now and in 2 years, I’ll be watching the Normandy scene in theatres for its 30th anniversary. I can’t imagine the reaction I’ll have
fun fact: Some veterans walked out after this scene not because it was wrong, it was because IT WAS SO REAL they didn't want to relive it again. One even said "The only thing missing is the smell"
@@mr.t658 Diesel apparently. Saw some guy on Joe Rogan talk about it, some D-Day veterans left the cinema because the scene was so realistic and triggered their memories so much, that they started to smell the diesel from the landing craft
79 years later, and you still feel for the brave men that sacrificed their lives for our future today through this cinematic masterpiece that portrayed such a devastating day during the war
@Pyrrhazvery sad to think about. This movie should be widely shown to every American. It’s a shame how we threw away so much of what these men fought for
It was the best anniversary ever being at my college placement in Nevil Hall hospital and then I headed straight to the ceremony itself waiting for my 2009 Woody, my sister, Mummy and Woody.EXE to arrive and they arrived at the same time as the veterans and I was by them the entire ceremony. It’s so incredible what Woody.EXE has done and even my sister cried her eyes out when this very opening scene played during the event and the veterans told me it was very accurate. Woody.EXE Is just incredible
I just realised that the shot starting at 8:49 is shot from Miller's POV. You can hear his breathing just beneath the barrage of guns and explosions going subtle. So subtle but absolutely makes the scene. Spielberg is a genius.
That’s me at night having my nightmarish flashbacks of the movie itself, I hated how my entire family ignored it when I was having the severe panic attacks but it eventually caught the attention of my mother but i refused to talk about the movie to her
I worked retail before I joined the military, I tried to go back to retail after the military. World felt totally different and I break down in tears over so many little things now, its hard to talk to people and pretend to be normal.
Except now they’re starting to give a little more. You can now get a 0% VA loan down on a home while still active duty, requirements are 180 days peace time duty or 90 days war time duty.
I feel like if this was made in todays cinema, it wouldn’t of looked as realistic & gritty. The amount of practical effects that’s being used is both amazing & stunning.
we have to never forget and take lesson of the past to never see this again . never see another Reich III or Hiroshima , or Pearl Harbour , and all the mess our ancestors knew during this shitty war .
The first time I saw this movie scene in hs, I teared up a bit. Most of these men were in their teens to early 20s-30s. They never got to go back home & enjoy a cold beer or share a laugh with their loved ones again. Truly the bravest generation of the modern age. War is hell on Earth.
@@Chalice1017 I saw the movie outside Phoenix, AZ in the theatre. Several old men, D-Day Vets, walked out during the opening scene. I asked one (who ended up coming back in) after the movie was over why he left. Was it disrespectful to those who died? He replied, "I lived through that hell once. I wasn't about to relive it. That was like it was that day." Snowflake? Hardly.
Now this is how you do shaky cam right. It's not used for dramatic effect, instead it's used as if the camera man is one of the soldiers. This allows us to feel just as vulnerable as these men, as well as the chaos of the war zone.
There is no way to do shaky cam right. I like SPR but I'll always kind of resent this movie and the Bourne Trilogy for destroying the action genre. what is the point of a movie where you can't see jack shit going on? IMO shaky cam is why this scene will always rank lower than stuff like Pickett's charge from Gettysburg, or the D-day scenes from The Longest Day.
@@shadow7988 This movie used shaky cam, fast shutter, and grainy film stock to mimic the aesthetic of WWII reels. It was the first to do so, but it unwillingly set a standard for later action movies that abused this aesthetic for no reason. In Saving Private Ryan, it was entirely justified. Not so much in the Fast and the Furious.
@@intiorozco5063 I understand why they ultimately did it, but I never agreed with the artistic choice. To me, it's like CGI: It's a crutch for people like Steven Spielberg who can't do action(Which is the REAL reason SPR has so much shaky cam and jump cuts). A guy known for campy kids movies probably isn't going to do action sequences in an adult film all that well unless he happens to be George Miller. He knew his shortcomings in this department can't really be concealed just by throwing a ton of money at sets and costumes, so....shaky cam! It's technically far from the first time this has been done, either. They shaky cam'd parts of the fight between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope for similar reasons(Both actors being old/not really mobile enough for a fancy sword fighting scene), for example. Main difference was that it was way more subtle in the past and usually only got used in the more extreme circumstances. SPR just threw it and that god awful handheld camera technique into EVERYTHING to the point you can't even see what's happening most of the time.
@@tctyt Please explain how the movies I listed aren't more accurate in their depictions of the horrors of war? Just look at the village scene in Come and See and tell everyone that it isn't as accurate depiction of the horrors of war than SPR is.
Yup, and it’s even scarier when you think of Stalingrad, Verdun and ww1 in general and other meat grinders. The fact that all of those things actually happened scares me, it scares me more than any horrid movie ever could
@Cian MacGana its less scary to run into machine gun fire compared to charging onto the battlefield and fighting your enemy with swords and spears like in ancient and medieval times
@@443tify for me at least, i think machine gun fire is more scary since if ur gunna fight a dude with a sword u can just either run or throw ur sword or anything at him, while if ur running onto a mg's field of fire, u can't run or throw anything cuz ur too busy taking cover that has the possibility of breaking after being shot enough times
My Papa was on that beach that day. He was the 2nd wave of men. They had to watch what was happening on that beach knowing the same thing could happen to them. I can't even imagine what that was like. He was a farm not from Virginia who joined the Army because he couldn't swim. He was tossed over the side, almost drowned but he fought his way into that beach. My Nana had a dream he was in the water and being shot at. Normandy is 9 hrs ahead of Washington State. She just knew something big was happening. I'm so incredibly proud of my Papa, for my Grandpa's (grandparents divorced) and all the men who were on those beaches that day. Never forget what they did for us
My grandfather served with the British forces at gold beach (along from Omaha) he survived the war and will always be a hero. Thanks to my American and Canadian brothers for the largest sea invasion in history departing together from England. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
I saw this in the theaters twice in '98 people were screaming, the women were crying and sobbing in their seats my friend was cussing the entire time. There was really no war movie with a scene done and looked like this. It was technically brand new and the response was insane. I think my mouth was open the entire time and I thought the movie was over when they climbed towards those bunkers and took control of it but the movie really just started.
Our theatre was pretty quiet with some gasps of horror. Most of us were just to stunned to say anything. When that particular scene was over we just looked at each other obviously wondering what the rest of the movie would be like.
That's the reason why I love Steven Spielberg. He does movies of every genres, from SciFi epics to war dramas to family movies to thrillers to historical dramas to action adventure movies. And those people who say that Spielberg only makes PG-13 movies show them this scene or the entirety of Schindler's List. Love him or hate him, he's one of the best.
Its true that light hearted movies or political thrillers are his bread and butter but when he goes full Rated R Gritty and gruesome, he goes full 100 percent.
I showed this movie to my granddad and he said this was the most realistic war movie hed ever seen. That was mostly because he'd never been to war of course. But my other granddad who served in the Vietnam war also said this was too realistic.
@Proud Kiwi Only those old veterans know that war is not thrill movies, nor online games. Actually, my grandpa was one of them......except he didn't participate in the bloody Sino-Japanese War II (1937~1945). A couple of years ago, grandpa found peace in the afterlife. His memories was passed down to my father......and myself. In 1949, China was in the turmoil of the Civil War; my grandpa a soldier of the National Revolutionary Army (under the command of President Chiang Kai-shek).The Army was defeated, and in full retreat......it was the exact time when my grand parents moved to Taiwan. He is a quiet and tough man, but he will not be quiet when he watches movies like these.......he will possibly be overwhelmed by his battlefield memories, memories of his brothers, those who lost their lives on the battlefield. "Do you know what the Hell is?" According to my father, this is what his father told him. "War is Hell."
Saw this opening weekend right after graduating high school in 1998. Saw lots of movies at the theaters in my life. This was the best movie going experience for me. It was a privilege to watch this in a theater filled with WW2 vets. Also, I miss that era of American culture and I miss being young.😂
Interesting fact: When this movie was shown in theatres, this scene was so realistic that veterans watching it who were here mostly walked out of the theatre, as it so accurately showed what it was like.
Funny you should mention that. When the movie opened up in my town...Mom,Dad & I went to go see it. There were 2 elderly couples behind us. When this scene was shown the 2 older gentlemen got up and went to the lobby. They were standing there shaking. My dad and I got up and went to them. One man kept muttering " My g0d... I thought I'd never see this again." We just put our arms around them.
Not necessarily the entire movie, but specifically this scene is Spielberg’s best work. This isn’t a corny combat scene like people had saw before this film, with orchestra music and slow-mo heroism against all odds. This was a horror movie. The shots were perfect. There’s moments running up the beach with the soldiers where you feel like you’re next to die and then it cuts to bring you in close to the pain of someone on the ground already dying. And the Germans in the pill boxes were steady cam the entire time, straight down the barrel, showing how much of an upper hand they had. One gun mowing down dozens of frenzied young men and Tom Hanks.
The three most disturbing moments in this IMO: The boy with his guts hanging out screaming mama The guys on fire who still charge straight at the enemy The guy who seems to absentmindedly pick up his own arm and carry it off with him
Flare you are what you call an asshole, you are probably 11 and don’t understand the meaning of this scene and what it means to people that had family members storm these beaches
@@JJ-su7re where are you from and unless you’re a nazi who wanted this damn war to continue for much longer you should pay respects to the people who helped bring this war to an end
@LIED ABOUT HITLER I honestly can’t tell if you’re a troll or an actual nazi because the leader of Germany at the time was not just taking back land he was trying to kill off an entire group of people, he was committing mass genocide and was planning to expand the German empire across Europe. He was a monster who had no care for human life and believed that each person had only one purpose in life, don’t you dare call me a sheep when you have the audacity to try and give that man a good reason for what he did.
As a french man, this is my annual appointment, every 6th June to watch the introductory scene of the D-Day landings; the biggest military operation in the history of humanity
Yes, but I think that the battle of Normandy remains the most important in terms of logistics, when we think of the preparatory air and naval bombardments of the German coastal defenses, the parachuting of thousands of Americans on the morning of June 6th, the crossing of la Manche and the landing of hundreds of thousands of troops from more than 10 nationalities on the beaches. This first massive surge took place in a single day.
Tk Supra+ ¡LOL! Don't be silly my friend, Operation Bagration was the largest operation (after Barbarossa) and which destroyed 17 German divisions and seriously damaged another 50, D-Day was a simple skirmish compared to Bagration.
@@tksupra7536 remains one kf the biggest military disasters the US ever had. Unorganized airstrikes. Wrong infantry landings and the armor nowhere to be scene.
I would argue this is one of the greatest scenes in movie history. Steven Spielberg put a lot of work into this. It is just as good as Come and See. Quite an extraordinary movie and this particular scene.
@@jdjshzhhhsushhszjp8969 I didn't mean the machine guns but explosions on the beach. If one goes off close to you without killing you, you'll be experiencing instant hearing loss immediately.
This is probably the most impactful scene I’ve seen in a movie. The use of lighting, the filter, the lack of music, and the cloudy setting. All of these characteristics heavily encapsulate the absolute horror leading up to the scene and of what these brave men had to endure. The amount of gore is also something to consider too.
Movie has alot of inaccuracies 😂, like the guy screaming with his guts out , that would never happen , you would just be in shock, but I get it , it's just a movie
@@loves2smooch384 This was the first movie I couldn’t handle so much blood but I pulled through it. My family has noticed I’ve changed a lot and I’ve not been normal since
From a movie-making perspective, this scene is PHENOMENAL in almost every single way possible. The atmosphere is bone-chilling; there are so many disturbing moments, (like having the soldiers being absolutely horrified, one of the soldiers screaming in pain, another soldier without his face, and a soldier looking for his arm that just got blown off are so disturbing) but these are things that add to the dark and gruesome tone. It’s visually fantastic and looks real; whether it’s practicals or special effects, the setting truly looks like a battlefield that is about to be bloody. All of the shots and camera angles are perfect (switching between multiple perspectives and angles works very well). Seeing the battlefield from multiple perspectives helps make the scene even better. The sounds of the weapons and explosions are fantastic. The costume design, and makeup are on point. I also think the lack of music makes the scene all the more compelling and scarier (also the parts where it goes totally silent are creepy)! No doubt in my mind this is one of the best scenes in cinema, period!
Tom Sizemore? The Colonel McKnight? What the hell? I re-watched Black Hawk Down in the other day and I didn't know that he already passed away? God rest his soul.
@frost3193 My reaction was the same as yours when I learned Tom had moved on. I discovered it by chance because I googled his name and as far as I recall it was a day or two after his passing. Needles to say, I was baffled.
It's still nuts that this is the most accurate scene for any war movie.. So realistic to the point WWII veterans cried in the theater watching it... It's a must watch for anyone that wants to join the Military so you know what you could potentially get into. And so much respect for the young men that went oversea's against their will and also to the boys/men that went to war at their own will during WWII. Such a brutal war and yet so many story's from the vets that don't get the recognition they deserve.
There are far more realistic scenes than this. For example Das Boot has tons of excellent realistic scenes of submarine warfare, then there is the battle against tanks in Stalingrad, Memphis Belle has great realistic scenes and 2017 Unknown Soldier is nothing more than realistic scene after realistic scene!
@@Pikkabuunone of the examples you used demonstrated amphibious assaults, let alone scale of death. This is real as it gets, being outside of vehicles.
I will never forget this opening sequence as long as I live. We had never seen anything like it at the time. My best friend and I were speechless. Also, without this film we don’t get the greatest mini series of all time Band of Brothers. Thank you Steven Spielberg.
I’m just a regular 20 year old and I’m literally shaking and my hearts pounding. I cannot imagine being there and have survived. If you know someone who served at all, but especially there, please tell them they are truly the most resilient people alive to have come back from that and not die later from suicide. I am in awe and feel so awful for what you’ve gone through. I hope our generation can prevent this/end this.
My grandfather landed on Normandy 6 days after the initial invasion, on June 12, 1944. When he arrived the beach had already been taken by the Allies and was secured, but he would never forget the sight of all those dead soldiers stacked up one on top of each other as tall as a man, for as far as the eye could see.
@@robo3715 Which the Greatest Generation didn't help save. Also by the time US joined the war Germany was already on the ropes and by the time US forces started doing something Germany had already lost the war.
@@robo3715 Doesn't matter who was there on D-Day. It didn't decide the war and it didn't do anything for my country. And IMO claiming that some generation is better than any other is pretty stupid, as all generations have had their troubles and there were generations that had to tackle far larger problems than the WW2 generation had to. How about the generation that fought the American Revolutionary War or the US Civil War?
@@robo3715 And what country you are from? And as I said the Germans had already lost the war so even if the landings failed Germany was done. Also considering that we fought on the German side and that the Germans didn't have the manpower to defend themselves then why and how could the Germans invade my country?!
Such a masterpiece of film making. I love how the POV goes from underwater and out of the water a few times. One second you’re in silence and peacefulness and then a second later you’re in chaos and hell.
No soundtrack... Just the ruthless war and its sounds of shooting, explosions, screamings and cryings... One of the most realistic warfare scenes! Watching it is like a time travel.
So many young men had spent their entire lives working hard to get a good job and to work well at school just to be gone in a matter of minutes after the carrier door opens
This is nothing compared to experienencing this in the cinema. I vividly remember that I thought I had to get out because that scene was such overwhelmingly realistic. The first 15 minutes definately wrote cinema history. A true masterpiece.
If there are any other scenes in 4k HDR that you would like to see, leave a comment down below
Dark Knight(Entire Bank robbery scene in the beginning of movie...this was shot in IMAX)
Dark Knight Rises(Entire Bane plane scene in the beginning of movie...this was shot in IMAX)
IT (Sewer scene)
The Revenant
Star Wars The Last Jedi
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Ex Machina
Prometheus
The Martian
Could you upload the first 5-8 minutes of Blade Runner the original please?? Also, do you have a list of the 4K UHD films that you own?
Got the opening plane scene up from The Dark Knight Rises
ua-cam.com/video/SsbNOKn2cOs/v-deo.html
My man!!!
Blade Runner intro is up! ua-cam.com/video/P1jXmJmmj3o/v-deo.html
It`s been 20 years, but still there is no better warfare scene than this one. Cinematic masterpiece.
Actually there are. In the 20 years after SPR we Got a new version of the Unknown Soldier: ua-cam.com/video/NTYesNj_sBg/v-deo.html and Generation Kill: ua-cam.com/video/v3GkHcZHQrY/v-deo.html both of which are chocked full of great scenes of warfare.
@@Pikkabuu not even close
Arguably the greatest movie sequence of all time.
@@ogoslin
Nope. Both of the movies that I linked beat this.
Pikkabuu no
My grandfather served in WW2 and I watched this opening scene with my dad, uncles, and him. I already seen the movie but I will never forget we all were paying attention to my grandfather's reaction than watching the movie. It was true fear and sadness on his face at the same time. I remember him breaking down which I never saw in my life from him. He passed this year at the age of 95.
I'm sorry man may he rest in peace ❤
So sorry man... Rest in Peace his Soul.
Omg im so sorry 😢😢❤❤❤
Really sorry buddy xx
I had a similar experience viewing the film with my grandfather
Can you imagine seeing this film in cinema back in 1998? Lights go down, and then this scene plays. Nobody had ever seen anything like it, unless they were there to experience the real thing. No war film had EVER portrayed combat in this way. Some veterans had to leave the cinema because it was so intense and so real, even though they had left the military 50 years ago, it was resulting in PTSD type symptoms. This is as authentic as it gets in its portrayal of the horrors of war. Steven Spielberg is a true artist
I was 17. I'd bought a big tub of Haagan Daaz. Had a few spoons, this scene began, and I didn't touch it again. This movie shook me to my very core.
My sister saw this in theaters on release and she told me no one was prepared for this and it was extremely unexpected.
I almost threw up.
I was 15. Until then, violence in war movies always looked “clean.” Sure, there were atrocities, violence, and tragedy depicted, but nothing had shown the sheer brutality and chaos of war quite like Private Ryan. Until then, I imagined myself as being capable of brave in war. This movie shattered such childish fantasies.
I was 19 when I saw it at a theater in Kirkland, Washington. As harrowing as it was, it easily remains among my top 3 cinema experiences of my life. I remember leaning over and telling my buddy I was watching it with that it's going to win best picture around 5 minutes in, I still can't believe it lost to Shakespeare in Love...
The amount of meticulous planning and tight-fisted execution in this film is astonishing, bravura filmmaking to be sure.
Today, June 6th 2024, I'm Paying respect to those who sacrificed everything on this day, June 6th 1944, 80 years ago. We must never allow this history to be forgotten.
Amen.
Respect to all those who fallen. Crazy, this is why we're free. 🙏
The liberals are doing everything to mess this country up
All white troops.. think about it
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The poor boy crying for his mother was one of the most heart wrenching moments in the movie. Incredible acting.
War is hell on earth
@@Jules279 and to think that most of the soldiers were forced to fight by their countries... So messed up
That very scene, and this battle as a whole was the end of childhood innocence, not just for me, but for everyone both practically and essentially.
I heard that was some psychology that could explain why he did that. I can't remember what it was called or what it meant but it was fascinating learning about it in class.
@@UhKimboze it's because the mother was/is always the caretaker for children growing up. It's a very common thing for people who are dieing to cry out to their mom.
My Grandfather is one of the soldiers that survive D-DAY. He told me this story when I was 12. HE said "I remember everything from that day, our company successfully landed but we were welcomed with machine guns. We were charging and a mortar hit us, I stood up kept running towards a trench. Then I shouted Captain I'm in! But when I turned around I'm alone they are all dead some shouting MAMA." He cries while telling me this story. RIP Grandpa
Omg
:'(
You just brought tears to my eyes.
I cry for men like ur grandfather. How is it the universe in time will forget their sacrifices? That boggles my mind. Surely ur grandfathers experiences must be acknowledged by something more than us. I hope so, he and every single human who has fought for anything deserves it. Unless the universe really is that cold, naturally..
This hurts hearing it. Man to know this was worse than the movie shows. Dang it man
That scene with the poor guy holding his intestines while screaming for his mother haunted me ever since I first saw the movie. It’s so disturbing.
That is the most heartbreaking and disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in a movie. It’s so sad.
Yup , worse might have happened/ might even be happening right now
The HUMAN Yeah, that’s what makes me shudder. Thinking that this is happening in real life to soldiers, maybe even worse.
Me too
I almost cried
My grandfather and I watched this in the cinema in '98 and he just suddenly requested to go out and he bawled and cried. He said that this was the movie that caught everything in detail. He fought in WW2 when he was 19 and he's now 98. Got three toes amputated from the war. Heck of a soldier.
Blessings to your grandfather. If he ever shares any stories please be sure to document them.
I’ve not watched the D-Day scene since my nightmares last week and it was graphic as hell and especially with united 93 also crashed into Normandy because Ziad knew I had fled with someone else instead of him and I was literally pulling the fence down and I witnessed United crashing rather then being on the flight this time. I absolutely loved the saving private Ryan and united 93 crossover and I hope I have more nightmares like this with the fighting on whoever loves me first
God bless him & you.
This made my cry
I thank him for his service. May he rest in peace🙏🏽🕊️
@@YourTypicalHispanic I think he's still alive
This scene was so realistic and so impactful the Department of Veteran Affairs set up a hotline for WWII vets to call who were traumatized and experiencing PTSD after viewing it.
source?
@@mialia15104 I found the hotline phone number in news articles from 1998 with 2 seconds of googling. Go source yourself.
@@rbush83 I always think this when I see comments like this as well. Why are some people so lazy they’d rather wait days for a response to their question than just finding it out themselves in a matter of seconds lol.
@@flyinggoose1456 you look it up first, if you can’t find it, then ask, much faster that way
lol they are vets buddy, not millenials.
77 years everyone. Remember the fallen and those who fought here.
Edit: 8 decades. 80 years have passed. Remember them people. Remember the fallen.
Why should I?
According to big-brain twitter, all these men were racists nazis.
At the Moment im reading the book "WN62"
His autor was an MG-42 gunner at Obama beach.
Realy interesting.
@@axolet they were fighting the Nazi’s..
@@Name-bd3xx I'm being very, very sarcastic
@@axolet that’s the Germans lol
This scene is scarier than any horror movie.
@El Demente Sexual the scene isn't real but the actual d day landing was
Yer & it was real 🙏
Thank those who fought for us
It's so scary because it actually happened...
@@bigassforehead3900 Wow, how did you figure that out? I thought Tom Hanks had time traveled with a whole camera crew to d-day!
@@xraystudios3693 probably
I went to see this film in the cinema in '98, when I was 21, the age of many of these soldiers. That scene got into my body like no film ever had, and in 2023, no production has managed to move me to such an extent. I was born and raised 200 km north of Normandy, by the sea in Pas-de-Calais. The courage of these men to liberate my country is absolutely indescribable.
God bless you, sir. Humility and sacrifice is a trait that almost all humans can recognize
I was born 4 years later in 2002 and the Normandy scene is still in me. It’s been a week since I watched it first time and we’ll remember how mentally prepared I was for this scene but it wasn’t what I expected
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Wow that’s crazy. Pas de Calais was where the Germans anticipated the allies would land and heavily fortified it
My great grandfather stormed that beach, and managed to make it back home. Crazy thing it, he didn't have kids with my great grandmother until he got back, meaning the odds state that I shouldn't even be here, and yet here I am. I never got to meet him but what a badass he must have been,
As a 20 year old young man, the courage these men had is absolutely inspiring. I can not imagine the fear, all we can do is remember their sacrifice and hope to emulate their bravery.
May all those who instigate this, warmongers, and megalomaniacs, rot in piss. Amen.
And may those who had to stop them find peace.
You would have been the same if you were born into such a time and place. If you were born a boy in the 1890s in England, France, or Germay, you would definitely have been in the trenches of the 1st World War. And it's not your fault at all. It's just a matter of time and place and circumstance.
as a 30 year old, youre a retard. you should have been drafted
i agree
They were young men, very young. Drafted into service collin.
I agree. Ready my recently posted comment.
This must have been HELL my friend.
Dare I even go there, more frightening and hellish than anyting we witnessed in the 'modern era' afer this.
The Normandy Beach landings were gnarly. This was a movie. The Real thing, well, imagine tides of water full of body parts, blood, guts...
If only the USA had got involved sooner. They should have known this bastard Hitler was a maniac but they called it a 'European War'. Sadly, it took Pearl Harbor to make them realise it was anything but. This was indeed, a WORLD war. 😐
I watched this movie in a theatre in 1998, heavily pregnant with my 4th son, a WWII Veteran sitting behind me, crying quietly in the dark
Did he sit through the whole film? Would of been a moment of awe seeing this in the theaters, I was only 9 at the time.
@@DavidWi0207He did, and at the end I shook his hand and thanked him for his service, then lots of other people came up and shook his hand too
@@daynawithawhy And then everybody clapped an he was congratulated by the president himself (Or knighted if you're British)! It actually happened, believe me.
@@user-gh2rr5hx7c Ok redditor.
@@user-gh2rr5hx7c stfu stinky redditor
7:05 That one soldier crying Momma still hurts the most.
Edit: added timestamp
100% !
That was horrible
Unfortunately it does.
It does, even the Germans shouting “Mutti, Mutti, Mama” during the wars is sad, anything that has someone dying and screaming for they’re mother and other family members is just hard to watch.
It because that guy is just a kid. Even he is a soldier most of them are 18 to 23 yrs old. Imagined growing in a peaceful country then this!
Today marks the 80th anniversary of this horrific day. I always watch this movie every year on this day to remind myself why I’m able to live in freedom. The things that these men witnessed were some of the most terrifying and horrific things you could possibly imagine. Imagine going through months of intensive training all to die within 30 seconds. The fact that there’s people who don’t seem to understand the sacrifices these men made for us is a tragedy. Without their sacrifices, we wouldn’t be able to live in freedom. To all of you who served on that horrible day, thank you for your sacrifice and service to our country. You will never be forgotten.
Despite all the technological advances over the past 20 years, this movie is still the best war movie ever made. Technology can't replace creativity and passion.
Nah. SPR starts strong but degenerates into Kelly's Heroes as it goes on. Das Boot was made years before SPR and is still the superior movie. And many modern movies wipe the floor with SPR like for example 2017 Unknown Soldier, 9th of April and Black Hawk Down.
@@Pikkabuu idk but the best war movie i’ve ever seen was 1917. Beautiful filming
As someone making few film myself, it's about knowing what you need. Afterall it's just a tool and only as good as the user.
@@Pikkabuu dude why do I read all your comments convincing people SPR is a bad movie?
@@636rider7
Where did I say that SPR is a bad movie?! I said that it isn't as great of a movie as people make it out to be!
Steven Spielberg went all out with this scene. The amount of detail shown is incredible. Imagine a war scene being so realistic that it scares real life war veterans
Just wish he could have held the camera still so you can actually see half of it.
@@shadow7988 i think the shaky cam is meant to be a pov of one of the soldiers.
@@shadow7988 I can see everything.
Its JANUSZ KAMIŃSKI work btw.
@@shadow7988 it was deliberately done that way for various reasons, the first being that the viewer is then put right in the perspective of the soldiers trying to stay down and shield themselves so you're really put right in the middle of the carnage, secondly the camera being used that way meant that you deliberately only saw snippets of the horror so that your imagination can fill in the gaps, it's a film technique used to draw fear and horror in the viewer
Heard that WW2 veterans had to leave the theater because of how realistic this scene is.
Ya. Include my grandfather. Hes go out at this scene and suicide. RIP.
@@manabjaman6205 lmao really huh? "include my grandfather he go out this scene and suicide rip"
Manab Jaman I will believe you, but I highly doubt that.
@@sitdownnerd2465 jackass
Manab Jaman fuck you for telling bullshit
I remember seeing this with my dad when it came out. Only movie premiere he's been to in his life. When the movie ended, no one moved. The theatre was perfectly still through the credits. Lights turned on and no one moved for what seemed like five minutes. I remember hearing someone behind me sobbing. Still one of the most impactful movies I've ever seen.
Yes. There are a number of people who are of the opinion that The Thin Red Line is a better movie. They have their reasons that may certainly be valid for them. However, the fact is I don’t know of any war movie that affected veterans the way SPR did. Not sure if you’re aware of movie reaction videos? There’s so many about SPR. It’s good to see younger people watch it and find out about the invasion that was so important.
I had a horrible dream about D-Day and my mother woken up to me screaming my heart out and this happened at 4am i think. I refused to go back to sleep
Thank Spielberg. He knows how to make a movie
@@nicolelawless9942ohhh I’m sorry you went through that
@@gmar7836
I’m used to it now and I loved how this movie and United 93 got a crossover type thing, it was very intense with United 93 flying over Normandy as I was pulling the barbed wire fences down; thank goodness the plane was not loaded because I could have died instantly if it was
This isn’t someone’s imagination that thought up all this brutality and gore, this is a *REAL* depiction from the men who experienced the carnage first hand.
This scene is so accurate that veterans watching it were literally having ptsd attacks in the theater
We know lol
Lmaooo a kikadoodledoo made this science fiction film
ah yes a “science fiction” film indeed
We know
Imagine training all those months, only to die in 30 seconds.
especially the ones that didn't even make it off the boat.
Only useful training lesson: Dig a hole. Hide in it and hope that most of it misses. Then become POW and survive the war to go back to your family. Or join the local resistance team and DON'T GET CAUGHT!
@@larsdetering8996 considering that the enemies were Nazis, you’d probably be executed on sight. Their prisons were, needless to say, somewhat occupied already.
@@JK-ei7wr Ehhh if you were American or British the wehrmacht would probably treat you “decent” not always but in general they had more respect for them. If you were on the Eastern front you are fucked either way. One of the reasons the casualties were so high on that front you were going to have a shit time as a pow on either side, so fight to the death.
@@stephenvargas5806 I figured that might be the case, but I was looking at it more from a practical perspective than a moral one. I can only imagine that with prisons filled with the “Undesirables” (Jews, Poles, Slavs, etc.), the Nazis wouldn’t be as willing to accept even more mouths to feed, especially in the latter part of the war when supplies were scarce. To me, it would make more sense to have simply executed any prisoners (as horrible as that sounds), but I don’t have any sources to back that with.
Don’t worry son you’ll be fine
You’re a main character
Patrick Thomson George RR Martin **laughs**
They all die in this movie🤣
@@lukekilleen6009 right!
Quentin Tarantino *laughs while surrounded by feet*
No , Everyone dies except Pvt Ryan. I feel bad for both the sides. Deutsch boys had no other option than to fight. Apart from insanity of Nazi politicians, common Deutsch soldiers also sacrificed their lives for the fatherland.so, here the villains are not even main villains.
My Grandfather was on Omaha Beach. Many years after the war ended, my Mother who was a young child at the time, asked him how he survived D-Day and Omaha Beach. He recalled that he held up his dead buddies as human shields to make his way up the beach. Horrifying to think of having to be that resourceful to survive this place so many soldiers called "hell on earth..."
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Jesus christ
This is so fuckin sad💔
If anyone is curious, what happens at 4:48 is known as 'derealization' and its an intense form form of disassociation. Disassociation occurs when stress causes us to become detached or untethered to our activities of daily living or our jobs or our families. Derealization on the other hand is when an event is so traumatic or scary or incomprehensible to a human being that it triggers a sort of protective measure to help cope with the experience, by making it seem not so real, almost like a dream. It is more easily triggered in people who have suffered acute traumatic events before, such as people with lingering PTSD, but it really can occur in any of us if the situation is intense, frightening, or traumatic enough. Basically your thought process just becomes like those spinning spokes on UA-cam when its loading or a little hourglass or swirling ball on your desktop. Sometimes your mind needs a few moments to deal with it all.
Great explanation. Thanks!
also applies for the guy who's losing his arm and desperately looking for it without caring anything else.
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I realized (no pun intended) what it was because when I watched this movie.I was suffering from depression and I had lived through a couple of similar episodes.
It is not even scary. You feel like you are outside your body, controlling it like if it is a puppet. Everything is not real, like if you are immersed in a distant virtual reality. In a way, dreams feel more real. Feeling like you are drugged is a better analogy.
My episodes usually lasted for a couple of minutes. Anyway, it was eerie to see in on the screen but the OP is right: it is like if your brain throws up a barrier to protect your mind. I guess that it is the reason why it is not scary: it is an active form of defense. Of course it happens due to an underlying unnatural suffering.
Yea. I get so scared with that scene.
My great grandfather was on the german side that day. He said he only stopped shooting when the MG was too hot and even then they kept shooting with their rifles. It was a mass slaugther and he said you could see the sand turn more and more red. He became an hardcore pacifist after the war and often visited other veterans on both side. They all were just boys or young men thrown into carnage by the ones who didnt value their lifes.
You are lucky to have had such a great grandfather.
May he R.I.P.
War is the worst thing for humanity.I hope we and our children will live in peace
He was there and lived? I assume he spent some time as a pow then
He was defending his land against the globalist invaders
@@EdmondDantes53 The biggest war is yet to come.
My grandfather was here so was my uncle. I can't help cry when I watch what they had to experience. My uncle said when he watch this in theaters he could smell and hear the battlefield. He had to walk out of the theater because "This is exactly what it looked like, exactly."
That age gap kind of dosent make any sense unless your uncles father had him at like 12
@@UghHimAgain There’s been plenty of father’s and son who’ve fought in conflicts together. Not necessarily side by side at times but it’s happened. You can have a child at 18 and be 36 by the time he’s an adult.
@Rachet Hunter would you really still serve if you're 36? I figured during the events of WWII the Age limit was like 18-30 and YOU HAD to be in top shape.
@@UghHimAgain Bro… It was World War 2 lmao they were not picky. Once the US entered WW2 they had men aged 20-44 liable for military service and men aged 18-64 were required to register for the draft.
@@UghHimAgain not sure what uncle it was but it wasnt my dad's brother it was my grandpas brother.
Who is here again on the 80th Anniversary of D-day. Let's never forget this ever.
"Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade"
Me
@@randomguy56789 nice
I remember being a small child and watching this, didn't even blink an eye. But now being 18 it is hard to watch it. After watching this I started appreciating my life even more.
Yeah that's because now you are around the same age as these boys that stormed the beach so it hits closer to home. I have the same thing, as a kid this scene didn't do me much but now that I'm 23, I realize that it could be me storming that beach.... makes it even scarier.
I watched this movie when I was like 13 on my big ass 21 inch pc and didn’t blink an eye. Anyways I’m 18 rn and watched the scene because I saw an article saying this scene was extremely realistic and decided to give it a try. Big mistake almost threw up. Also I watched it on a tiny 6 inch iPhone this time, little matter it was too hard to watch. I can’t even imagine how it felt for the veterans who literally gone through this hell.
Same, bro.
Same
Same, as a child i didn't even feel awkward or something, now with 16 i watch this and this is raw af, i teared. As a child i didn't feel like this because maybe i wasn't aware about all the extreme suffer of the scene, and thinking that such scene really happened is just sad
Worst part is that these young men who were pumping bullets into each other weren't really enemies. They had no personal animosity toward each other. If they met on the street outside of a war context they'd quite possibly become friends. Sure they were deadset enemies in the heat of battle, but the enmity was forced upon them by the big wigs who never saw the frontline. They were fighting other mens battles. War is the nadir of humanity. Nobody escapes unscarred.
Truer words have never been spoken
It's civilians fighting the war, but it's the politicians who start it.
Couldn't have said it better
@Andrew Z Well actually Hitler was in ww1 frontline
How can you be friends with people who committed the Holocaust?
Others are complaining how bad 2020 is. While we who knows history knows how lucky we truly are.
You do know that people die from COVID right??
Chonnk more people died in ww2 than from this 99% survival rate virus
@@stirlinghogan4441 a death isn't a number, it's a real person's life ending. A lot of people died in ww2 but that doesn't mean you can write off people dying from corona and say that we are lucky.
@@chonnk4826 i get your point, but What i mean is we are lucky that our survival rate is a lot higher than people in wwii
@@gabrieldauz3533 the people who died on d day should be grateful that they are luckier than the 850 000+ people who died in the Yellow River flood
The scene that gets me is the young solider hiding behind one of the steel bars crying and terrified of the gun fire all around him. Literally broke my heart!
It must be a strange feeling to know that the reason you’re alive is because the guy handling the machine gun was shooting at your friend instead of you. And in that respect, no one who landed on the beach truly died in vain.
Yeah they did, look at america now. None of the men that died would have boarded a landing craft for this shithole country as it exists today
Or you survived because luckly the machinegunner had to reload in that moment, which the odds were pretty low.
That's one hell of a perspective...Wow
no one died in vain except the man crying for his mother
@@robfusLess of reloading more of swapping barrels out because it was starting to melt.
Remember kids, despite it being 2020, you are still living in the most peaceful time in human history.
@G E T R E K T 905 And I lost my grandfather in WW2 and my uncle in the Vietnam war. Sorry for your loss but when it comes to human history in general this is still the most peaceful times.
@G E T R E K T 905imagine being in D Day
I would be shaking as hell
I would literally jump off the boat and swim back I dont even care
This is fucking scary.
I would die in the first 10 secs
@@richsalazme I get what you mean, but can we stop comparing the two. Both are sad and terrifying, let’s just show are respect and that’s it. Also condolences to both of your loses, may they rest easily.
That depends on where you live. European region is for sure
@G E T R E K T 905 they suffer for nothing people are really dumb these days
75 years ago today (June 6th 2019) RIP to all those who were lost at D-Day ✝
15 hours and allready 80 likes wow
Greatest War movie
You got to remember that many battles were fought involving good men and D-Day was just a very very small percentage of the full story! Filipinos actually died the most serving US military since 1900!
Always remember the fallen heroes, May they rest in peace.
@@pizzacrumz1777 stop comparing
someone in 2024? 80 years! true heroes. greatest generation. courage to battle the tyranny.
we owe everything to them...
RIP to both my dad, who served in WWII and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and Tom Sizemore who gave such an incredible and memorable performance as Sgt. Horvath. Mr. Sizemore is now in the company of his WWII Band of Brothers.
What a brave soul. RIP now dude
Rest in Peacr
Both in hell
@@sylviaplath1128your an evil satanic being I hope you go there
@@sylviaplath1128Rat 👊👊👊👊👊👊
*A moment of respect for everyone who died in WW2, and everyone who died in the D-Day Battle.*
Thank you.
🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
@@Cinemaphile7783 Germans too, they weren't the villains, all sides of the war had soldiers who did evil and good, they were just men fighting for their country
@@AdachiAhhh amen
@@AdachiAhhh “they could’ve said no and not serve” 🤓 *licks Cheeto dust from fingers*
@@justaboredperson5845 same for allies
This scene scares me more, than any horror movie ever could.
Especially how quickly people want to fight. Imagine going through such horrors just because of some mad men who are in power.
Young men dying for the disillusions of old fucks.
War should be forbidden.
True man this shit game me nightmares lol
Its not that bad compared to factory farming. It is hell on earth
@@arminxvs3372 you should study politics more kid,there is no way war can be stopped.and by this day as im typing this comment,there is still a war going on
@@acap4395 Kid? I guess you are younger than me but that's beyond the point.
Read my comment more carefully. I used a conditional, a "should" because that is my opinion. I am very aware that war is present and will always exist on this planet. We as humans are just that forsaken. Nonetheless I think that war is always initiaded just for some personal gain of a King, an Emperor, Dictator or Prime Minister. It's always the innocent farm boys and youth that is sacrificed because someone in power thinks they are entitled to something. People pay the prize for someone else's mistakes.
Saw this in the theater, opening weekend. This sequence was hard to take and you could hear a pin drop, between the gasps and sniffling. Most powerful depiction of war I’ve ever seen in a movie. I was numb and so glad when they finally got off that damn beach. 😢
I had the same feeling watching it at home and I’m still very numb a week later. My night terrors have been so intense lately and I think I know the ending already and I might not make it. I’ve been very lucky in the first 2 hours though
It is our responsibility to not let this happen again.
Yeah, right? War is the worst thing humanity can ever do to each other. But unfortunately, most presidents nowadays are so interested in trying out their new war machines. Also, i dont think that most of them dont even care about people.
It wouldn’t if world war 3 happened it wouldn’t be guns and men fighting in fields it would be nukes and missiles
@@mrminkman952
Countries want to take over land. Not just a nuked wasteland.
@@Pikkabuu Countries launch nukes not to conquer lands but to defeat the enemy.
@@haziblathif491
Again. Countries want to take control of land. Not just to defeat an enemy.
So why would you nuke the enemy when that makes the land useless?
4:27 really fucks me up
Just imagine you and a group of your best mates and think about the memories you’ve been through, the childhood, growing up together. Then to be fatally wiped out by another young man from across the world who’s just obeying his orders.
that's the war buddy... that's the war
5:05
War , only the politicians win while the soldiers suffer
@@formodius Soldiers and civilians.
@@formodius They were nothing but plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war to the government. We live in an unforgivable reality
People talk about how realistic and sad it is but I literally marvel and how well steven Spielberg shot, directed and paced this scene......as a film director you can only dream of making scenes as powerful as this sequence
He is considered a goat director before this film even came out of course its gonna be a masterpiece
Spielberg is responsible for some of the best ww2 media ever, bless that man. Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Band of Brothers, Pacific, he's even producing yet another one this year about Fighter Pilots
I thought Spielberg was on the machine gun shooting em and you said good shot
@@luallual8180 Not about fighter pilots, more like bomber pilots. Masters of the Air is being filmed right now. It'll be on Apple TV (HBO bailed) and it'll be a part of the "trilogy" alongside Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
Honestly I was thinking things like that to cope with what I was seeing so I get your perspective. Like it truly is awful but it’s awful because he makes it so well and real.
Today, 80 years later, may we remember and appreciate all those brave people who stormed that beach and gave their lives for our country! 🇺🇸
Brings to life the pure horror these young men went through for our freedom today. RIP to all of those who fought.
In peacetime, children bury their parents;
in wartime parents bury their children.
(translated from Spanish)
.
“Freedom”
“God bless those souls for protecting the world”
Child, those men, German and American, are victims of the vicious world they lived in, every country fought for Resources, military and political influence, and knocking out potential threats, nothing is heroic, so stop describing it as such because the idea itself is unbearable.
@H S explain
@@Nothing-ui7pj twat
@@DTOLL9000 But hurt
Man, I don't know if I could have done this. These guys were true heroes.
Of course you couldn’t have done this.
@@willpomeroy7711in fact, we all couldn't
It's not about if you could have done something, you would have done it.
That's what good soldiers do .
And we have the best
I am French, I was born in Normandy and I still live there.
Every June 6, I have a thought for all these American, English, Canadian soldiers, as well as some French, who lived through this tragic sunrise so that mine would be happy.
I think of it when I stroll freely on these same beaches, or when I pass over the Pegasus Bridge as well as in front of the Café Gondrée of Bénouville, the first liberated house in France.
Thank you is far too weak a word for their sacrifice, but that's the least I can say. There are many monuments scattered throughout my region to try to pay homage to them but it is very little compared to their sacrifice.
We try to deserve what those men did that day.
English? British which means Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland and England. It's a bit disrespect of you to forget the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish soldiers!
British= English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish NOT English!!!
Stop being so damn disrespectful and learn some geopolitics! God Damn!
@@drrd4127 That is true. I say English out of simple footballing habit and also because this landing had left England, but I obviously include all the people you mention in your message, it is not a question of lack of culture you are not teaching me that the United Kingdom and Great Britain do not only include England, no need to be disrespectful in turn by asking me to repeat my studies for a simple word error in a language that is not mine.
As an American, when I visited Normandy I was astonished at how long/wide the beach is compared to the American east coast beaches.. how far these young men had to make it.
Also the French are super cool if you just put sober basic effort into learning their culture a bit, I hate most of my fellow Americans attitudes toward the French, great country with great workers rights compared to America at least lol
@@jjcoola998 exactly. The beach is HUUUGE. MUCH worse than the movie. And the German guns are on the side
Beautiful words.
My former wife's dad was there. His name was Buddy. He didn't talk much about this day. He passed in 2013 at the age of 94 in Texas. Buried in East Texas. I sure enjoyed his company. He enjoyed farming.
The German MG42 POV was sadistic.
you do what you had to do to stop the enemy
it means they have no mercy what so ever
War has no mercy. Kill or be killed
You seen the German 88 they used in Bastogne? War is hell
What the soviet infantry did to women and even little girls in East Prussia and Berlin, was beyond sadistic. War is hell.
I actually knew someone who survived this and he told my dad about his experiences before he died because they were really close. My dad said that when he told him, he said that he was the first person he ever talked about this to and that it had taken him 70 years just to be able to even talk about it without crying. He became really close friends with another soldier in his unit and then watched him die without ever even making it off the boat.
Could you please tell us the full story?
@@anthonyortiz350 I would love to, but I don't have the full story myself. That's something I'd have to ask my dad.
He feels traumatized for seeing all those dead bodies on the beach.
@@Pipkiablopls ask ur papa pretty pls
8:45 that pov running scene looks so real, everything, sounds, acting, camera movements
Most of this movie (especially the combat scenes) was filmed using hand held camera's in as few takes as possible (take this and the halftrack scene for example) one of the reasons it's so striking in the combat scenes yet so few war movie directors use this technique. Damn shame.
That screaming from the Soldier as Miller is running is fucking haunting
Meh.
It was shot on a lense with a high focal length, that gives you that claustrophobic feeling.
This scene was cause for winning awards..one of my favorite scenes in all movies 👍
24 years later Saving Private Ryan stays undefeated in the best War movie
I thought the movie was 25 years old now, I can’t believe I missed it when it re released for its 25th anniversary. I’ll definitely have to watch for its 30th
I will say thin red line beats this one not by much
@@nicolelawless9942 you’re right 1999
@@flexgado249
1998 actually, it’s probably coming close to 28 now and in 2 years, I’ll be watching the Normandy scene in theatres for its 30th anniversary. I can’t imagine the reaction I’ll have
fun fact: Some veterans walked out after this scene not because it was wrong, it was because IT WAS SO REAL they didn't want to relive it again. One even said "The only thing missing is the smell"
Not exactly a fun fact
whats the smell?
@@mr.t658 Diesel apparently. Saw some guy on Joe Rogan talk about it, some D-Day veterans left the cinema because the scene was so realistic and triggered their memories so much, that they started to smell the diesel from the landing craft
You can go on that beach and you won’t call it a fun fact anymore
not sure that’s a very fun fact...
79 years later, and you still feel for the brave men that sacrificed their lives for our future today through this cinematic masterpiece that portrayed such a devastating day during the war
Sacrificed their lives so we could live in a worse world run by the small hat tribe
They were drafted and forced into this.
@Pyrrhazvery sad to think about. This movie should be widely shown to every American. It’s a shame how we threw away so much of what these men fought for
It was the best anniversary ever being at my college placement in Nevil Hall hospital and then I headed straight to the ceremony itself waiting for my 2009 Woody, my sister, Mummy and Woody.EXE to arrive and they arrived at the same time as the veterans and I was by them the entire ceremony. It’s so incredible what Woody.EXE has done and even my sister cried her eyes out when this very opening scene played during the event and the veterans told me it was very accurate. Woody.EXE Is just incredible
Lol those poor germans who died trying to prevent what we have now 😢
I just realised that the shot starting at 8:49 is shot from Miller's POV. You can hear his breathing just beneath the barrage of guns and explosions going subtle. So subtle but absolutely makes the scene. Spielberg is a genius.
You're the king of pointing out brilliance for us plebs.
That’s me at night having my nightmarish flashbacks of the movie itself, I hated how my entire family ignored it when I was having the severe panic attacks but it eventually caught the attention of my mother but i refused to talk about the movie to her
Imagine going from a desk job or truck driver - to this. Then IF you survived expected to just go back to your desk job or truck driving.
Life goes on. It happened, and then it was over with. Have to keep moving forward as a human.
@@codeman9145it isn’t that easy for someone we experienced something as traumatizing as this….combat changes people
@@Orly90yeah it’s just, oh move on.
I worked retail before I joined the military, I tried to go back to retail after the military.
World felt totally different and I break down in tears over so many little things now, its hard to talk to people and pretend to be normal.
Except now they’re starting to give a little more. You can now get a 0% VA loan down on a home while still active duty, requirements are 180 days peace time duty or 90 days war time duty.
I feel like if this was made in todays cinema, it wouldn’t of looked as realistic & gritty. The amount of practical effects that’s being used is both amazing & stunning.
Lots of movies still use practical effects. And a director of Spielberg's caliber can argue with the studio to allow them.
News: this movie caused school shootings
@@Sodapop-rd5ku source: trust me bro
@@aurorapaisley7453 comments of source: Twitter and reddits most toxic
All Quiet on the Western Front released this year. Amazing practical effects, I would compare it to this film.
75 years ago today....We should never forget.
we have to never forget and take lesson of the past to never see this again . never see another Reich III or Hiroshima , or Pearl Harbour , and all the mess our ancestors knew during this shitty war .
Well you forgot what Britain and the Soviet Union did, so I’m not showing fuck all to you
1933* is where all started.
Least we forget
I forgot how sick this scene made me feel
The fact that humans willingly butcher eachother like this is one thing I know I'll never have the answer to.
Yea…
Hey Hi Florian, didn't expect to see you here :)
This movie is still a masterpiece.
@@tanaykamath1415 didn't expect to see you here either
The first time I saw this movie scene in hs, I teared up a bit. Most of these men were in their teens to early 20s-30s. They never got to go back home & enjoy a cold beer or share a laugh with their loved ones again. Truly the bravest generation of the modern age. War is hell on Earth.
I remember people walking out of the theater during this opening scene. Brutally honest.
Really?! Shame on them then!! Poor snowflakes couldn’t bear to face the truth eh.
I read somewhere that actual veterans who saw this in the theatre had to leave because it was so realistic.
@@Chalice1017 I saw the movie outside Phoenix, AZ in the theatre. Several old men, D-Day Vets, walked out during the opening scene. I asked one (who ended up coming back in) after the movie was over why he left. Was it disrespectful to those who died? He replied, "I lived through that hell once. I wasn't about to relive it. That was like it was that day." Snowflake? Hardly.
@@Chalice1017 The veterans walked out, are you calling them snowflakes?
Chalice1017 Try being in a war yourself, then see if you have PTSD.
Now this is how you do shaky cam right. It's not used for dramatic effect, instead it's used as if the camera man is one of the soldiers. This allows us to feel just as vulnerable as these men, as well as the chaos of the war zone.
This is the first use of shaky cam in modern war movies since Paths of Glory in 1957.
There is no way to do shaky cam right. I like SPR but I'll always kind of resent this movie and the Bourne Trilogy for destroying the action genre. what is the point of a movie where you can't see jack shit going on? IMO shaky cam is why this scene will always rank lower than stuff like Pickett's charge from Gettysburg, or the D-day scenes from The Longest Day.
@@shadow7988 This movie used shaky cam, fast shutter, and grainy film stock to mimic the aesthetic of WWII reels. It was the first to do so, but it unwillingly set a standard for later action movies that abused this aesthetic for no reason. In Saving Private Ryan, it was entirely justified. Not so much in the Fast and the Furious.
@@intiorozco5063 I understand why they ultimately did it, but I never agreed with the artistic choice. To me, it's like CGI: It's a crutch for people like Steven Spielberg who can't do action(Which is the REAL reason SPR has so much shaky cam and jump cuts). A guy known for campy kids movies probably isn't going to do action sequences in an adult film all that well unless he happens to be George Miller. He knew his shortcomings in this department can't really be concealed just by throwing a ton of money at sets and costumes, so....shaky cam!
It's technically far from the first time this has been done, either. They shaky cam'd parts of the fight between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope for similar reasons(Both actors being old/not really mobile enough for a fancy sword fighting scene), for example. Main difference was that it was way more subtle in the past and usually only got used in the more extreme circumstances. SPR just threw it and that god awful handheld camera technique into EVERYTHING to the point you can't even see what's happening most of the time.
@@shadow7988 Please, stay off the internet
To this day, the most accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
No. Not even close even when SPR came out as Stalingrad, Die Brücke and Come and See had already been released.
@@Pikkabuu no.
@@Pikkabuu it is accurate.
@Jonathan Bonnard that movie glorifies war so much
@@tctyt
Please explain how the movies I listed aren't more accurate in their depictions of the horrors of war? Just look at the village scene in Come and See and tell everyone that it isn't as accurate depiction of the horrors of war than SPR is.
First time I watched it I cried. I make myself watch it again every once in a while to remind myself of why I need to be grateful
This morning, June 6, 2023, we remember. Thank you to the guys of the Greatest Generation.
I bet if there was a gathering/march like what we do on ANZAC day (I'm an Australian) most people would be on their phones. ;-;
This happened… just step back and have a think that this all actually happened.
Yup, and it’s even scarier when you think of Stalingrad, Verdun and ww1 in general and other meat grinders. The fact that all of those things actually happened scares me, it scares me more than any horrid movie ever could
Probably worse than this.. this is scary.
better than charging onto the battlefield with a sword
@Cian MacGana its less scary to run into machine gun fire compared to charging onto the battlefield and fighting your enemy with swords and spears like in ancient and medieval times
@@443tify for me at least, i think machine gun fire is more scary since if ur gunna fight a dude with a sword u can just either run or throw ur sword or anything at him, while if ur running onto a mg's field of fire, u can't run or throw anything cuz ur too busy taking cover that has the possibility of breaking after being shot enough times
My Papa was on that beach that day. He was the 2nd wave of men. They had to watch what was happening on that beach knowing the same thing could happen to them.
I can't even imagine what that was like.
He was a farm not from Virginia who joined the Army because he couldn't swim. He was tossed over the side, almost drowned but he fought his way into that beach.
My Nana had a dream he was in the water and being shot at. Normandy is 9 hrs ahead of Washington State. She just knew something big was happening.
I'm so incredibly proud of my Papa, for my Grandpa's (grandparents divorced) and all the men who were on those beaches that day.
Never forget what they did for us
How are you an American and your English suck balls deep what the f@ck
@@woody6130 dude you americans call football "soccer" you detention of english itself is shit
@@woody6130 lol
❤❤❤
It looks fake
My grandfather served with the British forces at gold beach (along from Omaha) he survived the war and will always be a hero.
Thanks to my American and Canadian brothers for the largest sea invasion in history departing together from England. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
I saw this in the theaters twice in '98 people were screaming, the women were crying and sobbing in their seats my friend was cussing the entire time. There was really no war movie with a scene done and looked like this. It was technically brand new and the response was insane. I think my mouth was open the entire time and I thought the movie was over when they climbed towards those bunkers and took control of it but the movie really just started.
Our theatre was pretty quiet with some gasps of horror. Most of us were just to stunned to say anything. When that particular scene was over we just looked at each other obviously wondering what the rest of the movie would be like.
What? What kind of reactions are these?
@@anotheraccount444 What do you mean?
@@anotheraccount444bro its called trauma bro , you cannot experience the horror what happened. Have some responsibility bruh.
@@anotheraccount444fr. Like I’m sorry you probably experienced this in some way but I’m trying to watch a Movie here.
That's the reason why I love Steven Spielberg. He does movies of every genres, from SciFi epics to war dramas to family movies to thrillers to historical dramas to action adventure movies. And those people who say that Spielberg only makes PG-13 movies show them this scene or the entirety of Schindler's List. Love him or hate him, he's one of the best.
Don't forget Animaniacs! One of the, if not the best director of his generation. Certainly the most versatile.
This movie is still a masterpiece.
Its true that light hearted movies or political thrillers are his bread and butter but when he goes full Rated R Gritty and gruesome, he goes full 100 percent.
Without a doubt the best of all time. So many classics
I showed this movie to my granddad and he said this was the most realistic war movie hed ever seen. That was mostly because he'd never been to war of course. But my other granddad who served in the Vietnam war also said this was too realistic.
u bet the director had to work with quite a few real vets, survivors and historians to bring you this
damn your twisted way of storytelling.
@Proud Kiwi
Only those old veterans know that war is not thrill movies, nor online games.
Actually, my grandpa was one of them......except he didn't participate in the bloody Sino-Japanese War II (1937~1945).
A couple of years ago, grandpa found peace in the afterlife. His memories was passed down to my father......and myself.
In 1949, China was in the turmoil of the Civil War; my grandpa a soldier of the National Revolutionary Army (under the command of President Chiang Kai-shek).The Army was defeated, and in full retreat......it was the exact time when my grand parents moved to Taiwan.
He is a quiet and tough man, but he will not be quiet when he watches movies like these.......he will possibly be overwhelmed by his battlefield memories, memories of his brothers, those who lost their lives on the battlefield.
"Do you know what the Hell is?" According to my father, this is what his father told him. "War is Hell."
The Vietnam War was nowhere near as intense as WW2
@@snoop512 but it was still extremely brutal
Saw this opening weekend right after graduating high school in 1998. Saw lots of movies at the theaters in my life. This was the best movie going experience for me. It was a privilege to watch this in a theater filled with WW2 vets.
Also, I miss that era of American culture and I miss being young.😂
Interesting fact: When this movie was shown in theatres, this scene was so realistic that veterans watching it who were here mostly walked out of the theatre, as it so accurately showed what it was like.
Funny you should mention that. When the movie opened up in my town...Mom,Dad & I went to go see it. There were 2 elderly couples behind us. When this scene was shown the 2 older gentlemen got up and went to the lobby. They were standing there shaking. My dad and I got up and went to them. One man kept muttering " My g0d... I thought I'd never see this again." We just put our arms around them.
@G E T R E K T 905 bad nostalgia probably
I actually tucked them, the old men
@G E T R E K T 905 Probably not
Not just them, i remember wives, daughters, sons, and anyone who was or had someone part of tge war walked out crying.
Not necessarily the entire movie, but specifically this scene is Spielberg’s best work. This isn’t a corny combat scene like people had saw before this film, with orchestra music and slow-mo heroism against all odds. This was a horror movie. The shots were perfect. There’s moments running up the beach with the soldiers where you feel like you’re next to die and then it cuts to bring you in close to the pain of someone on the ground already dying. And the Germans in the pill boxes were steady cam the entire time, straight down the barrel, showing how much of an upper hand they had. One gun mowing down dozens of frenzied young men and Tom Hanks.
80 years ago, I always come back to this scene when June 6th passes
The three most disturbing moments in this IMO:
The boy with his guts hanging out screaming mama
The guys on fire who still charge straight at the enemy
The guy who seems to absentmindedly pick up his own arm and carry it off with him
Where's the scene with the dude picking up his arm?
Edit : Never mind I found it ( 5:23 )
@@clawyraptor9029 i got chills on this scene, idk
For me it’s that part where blood was gushing out of that guy’s arm and he was saying that he was going to die and how much it hurt
I can only say this, thank you boys. Thank you for what you did for all of us. It's beyond words, beyond measure. God bless you all.
Flare you are what you call an asshole, you are probably 11 and don’t understand the meaning of this scene and what it means to people that had family members storm these beaches
But really for what?
@@JJ-su7re where are you from and unless you’re a nazi who wanted this damn war to continue for much longer you should pay respects to the people who helped bring this war to an end
@LIED ABOUT HITLER I honestly can’t tell if you’re a troll or an actual nazi because the leader of Germany at the time was not just taking back land he was trying to kill off an entire group of people, he was committing mass genocide and was planning to expand the German empire across Europe. He was a monster who had no care for human life and believed that each person had only one purpose in life, don’t you dare call me a sheep when you have the audacity to try and give that man a good reason for what he did.
@@Thexs1111 tool
As a french man, this is my annual appointment, every 6th June to watch the introductory scene of the D-Day landings; the biggest military operation in the history of humanity
God bless you. 🇫🇷
Greetings from America 🇺🇸
No it’s not, operation Barbarossa launched by Germany was. 3 million soldiers armed to the teeth.
Yes, but I think that the battle of Normandy remains the most important in terms of logistics, when we think of the preparatory air and naval bombardments of the German coastal defenses, the parachuting of thousands of Americans on the morning of June 6th, the crossing of la Manche and the landing of hundreds of thousands of troops from more than 10 nationalities on the beaches. This first massive surge took place in a single day.
Tk Supra+
¡LOL! Don't be silly my friend, Operation Bagration was the largest operation (after Barbarossa) and which destroyed 17 German divisions and seriously damaged another 50, D-Day was a simple skirmish compared to Bagration.
@@tksupra7536 remains one kf the biggest military disasters the US ever had. Unorganized airstrikes. Wrong infantry landings and the armor nowhere to be scene.
I would argue this is one of the greatest scenes in movie history. Steven Spielberg put a lot of work into this. It is just as good as Come and See. Quite an extraordinary movie and this particular scene.
The sound effects are brilliant to describe the intense of war.
@PahitPlayz hah, i have no idea on guns sound xD
In reality, the sounds would be so loud that you get some level of instant hearing loss and tinnitus as a bonus.
@@MikkoRantalainenthe mg’s were 100-300 meters away it wouldn’t have been as loud as you’d think
@@jdjshzhhhsushhszjp8969 I didn't mean the machine guns but explosions on the beach. If one goes off close to you without killing you, you'll be experiencing instant hearing loss immediately.
The cinematography at 8:38.... It doesn't get any better than that. What an absolute masterpiece.
Spielberg is a genius.
ya nothing better than death
i liked 852 better. buddy got exploded.. nvm
I also love the cut to the soldier asking for orders at 5:51 after the close up shot of Tom Hanks with the audio dissonance. EXTREMELY surreal!
This is probably the most impactful scene I’ve seen in a movie. The use of lighting, the filter, the lack of music, and the cloudy setting. All of these characteristics heavily encapsulate the absolute horror leading up to the scene and of what these brave men had to endure. The amount of gore is also something to consider too.
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Movie has alot of inaccuracies 😂, like the guy screaming with his guts out , that would never happen , you would just be in shock, but I get it , it's just a movie
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This was the first movie I couldn’t handle so much blood but I pulled through it. My family has noticed I’ve changed a lot and I’ve not been normal since
From a movie-making perspective, this scene is PHENOMENAL in almost every single way possible. The atmosphere is bone-chilling; there are so many disturbing moments, (like having the soldiers being absolutely horrified, one of the soldiers screaming in pain, another soldier without his face, and a soldier looking for his arm that just got blown off are so disturbing) but these are things that add to the dark and gruesome tone. It’s visually fantastic and looks real; whether it’s practicals or special effects, the setting truly looks like a battlefield that is about to be bloody. All of the shots and camera angles are perfect (switching between multiple perspectives and angles works very well). Seeing the battlefield from multiple perspectives helps make the scene even better. The sounds of the weapons and explosions are fantastic. The costume design, and makeup are on point. I also think the lack of music makes the scene all the more compelling and scarier (also the parts where it goes totally silent are creepy)!
No doubt in my mind this is one of the best scenes in cinema, period!
The eastern front deserves a scene of this quality.
Check out 1993 Stalingrad, Come and See (The village scene.) or 2017 Unknown Soldier.
@@Pikkabuu They are great movies, they show the war from a non-heroic perspective unlike Hollywood, but the quality is not the same, you know.
Enemy at the Gates? Not as good overall as SPR but some scenes are really well done.
@@alejandrobasaldua5930
Could you explain how a scene like this loses to the landing in SPR?
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Random, how does one survive something like this? Or is your life left to fate?
I’ve returned, only to say RIP to the actor that played Sgt. Horvath. Some legendary acting from him…
Tom Sizemore? The Colonel McKnight? What the hell? I re-watched Black Hawk Down in the other day and I didn't know that he already passed away? God rest his soul.
@frost3193
My reaction was the same as yours when I learned Tom had moved on. I discovered it by chance because I googled his name and as far as I recall it was a day or two after his passing. Needles to say, I was baffled.
I can’t believe it’s been almost a whole year since he died and I didn’t even know! I’m absolutely devastated
It's still nuts that this is the most accurate scene for any war movie.. So realistic to the point WWII veterans cried in the theater watching it... It's a must watch for anyone that wants to join the Military so you know what you could potentially get into. And so much respect for the young men that went oversea's against their will and also to the boys/men that went to war at their own will during WWII. Such a brutal war and yet so many story's from the vets that don't get the recognition they deserve.
As someone who plans on enlisting. I know what I might face, but after seeing the Ukraine war I just felt useless and I just wanted to help.
There are far more realistic scenes than this. For example Das Boot has tons of excellent realistic scenes of submarine warfare, then there is the battle against tanks in Stalingrad, Memphis Belle has great realistic scenes and 2017 Unknown Soldier is nothing more than realistic scene after realistic scene!
@@Pikkabuu Three years and you are still incorrect.
@Pikkabuu Nitpicking much? This entire scene is about as realistic as it gets for a war film imo
@@Pikkabuunone of the examples you used demonstrated amphibious assaults, let alone scale of death. This is real as it gets, being outside of vehicles.
I will never forget this opening sequence as long as I live. We had never seen anything like it at the time. My best friend and I were speechless. Also, without this film we don’t get the greatest mini series of all time Band of Brothers. Thank you Steven Spielberg.
I’m just a regular 20 year old and I’m literally shaking and my hearts pounding. I cannot imagine being there and have survived. If you know someone who served at all, but especially there, please tell them they are truly the most resilient people alive to have come back from that and not die later from suicide. I am in awe and feel so awful for what you’ve gone through. I hope our generation can prevent this/end this.
end this?! we ended it back in 45 lol the only wars we will see now is by a push of a button, hardly any troops at all will be deployed
@@edwardpeak8481 both russia and Ukraine have had approximately 60000 casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war
@@edwardpeak8481 We didn’t end it in 45. There are still wars and genocides going on to this day. War only ends with when all life ends.
@@Justjustinp I refuse to believe that. We can stop war. And we will eventually. Question is when and if we destroy our civilisation before that.
And you know something even more crazy! A lot of these soldiers were younger than YOU!!!
My grandfather landed on Normandy 6 days after the initial invasion, on June 12, 1944. When he arrived the beach had already been taken by the Allies and was secured, but he would never forget the sight of all those dead soldiers stacked up one on top of each other as tall as a man, for as far as the eye could see.
Salute to your grandfather...😕 I know the smell had to have been horrendous.
This really shows how terrible a war is
And it shows how terrible man can be to each other
A soldier doesnt figth because he hates what infront of him he figths because he loves whats behind him
@Pestarzt during draft yes but modern day soldiers are volunteers they want to see action cause regular 9 to 5 is boring
@@herkkoproductions6028 since when is getting killed fun
@@SugarRayValentine Joe Rogan said on a podcast he knows personally soldiers who LIKE killing people and go fight wars just for the sake of killing
80 years on. We will never forget. Never.
Yup 🙏🇺🇸
@@clarktubeyt Never Forget 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
6/6/1944, 75 years ago today. The Greatest Generation saved the world. We'll never forget.
And how did the Greatest Generation save the world?
@@robo3715
Which the Greatest Generation didn't help save.
Also by the time US joined the war Germany was already on the ropes and by the time US forces started doing something Germany had already lost the war.
@@robo3715
Doesn't matter who was there on D-Day. It didn't decide the war and it didn't do anything for my country.
And IMO claiming that some generation is better than any other is pretty stupid, as all generations have had their troubles and there were generations that had to tackle far larger problems than the WW2 generation had to. How about the generation that fought the American Revolutionary War or the US Civil War?
@@robo3715
Finland. Now please explain how the Allied landings on France guaranteed us our freedom.
@@robo3715
And what country you are from?
And as I said the Germans had already lost the war so even if the landings failed Germany was done.
Also considering that we fought on the German side and that the Germans didn't have the manpower to defend themselves then why and how could the Germans invade my country?!
Such a masterpiece of film making. I love how the POV goes from underwater and out of the water a few times. One second you’re in silence and peacefulness and then a second later you’re in chaos and hell.
both are chaos and hell just different kinds
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No soundtrack... Just the ruthless war and its sounds of shooting, explosions, screamings and cryings... One of the most realistic warfare scenes! Watching it is like a time travel.
80th anniversary today. Thank you to all who served.
So many young men had spent their entire lives working hard to get a good job and to work well at school just to be gone in a matter of minutes after the carrier door opens
This is nothing compared to experienencing this in the cinema. I vividly remember that I thought I had to get out because that scene was such overwhelmingly realistic. The first 15 minutes definately wrote cinema history. A true masterpiece.
Imagine experiencing this for real
This scene just reaffirms how thankful we should be for whatever we have, and thankful to those who served for us
Its been 80 years ! Salute to those boys