Saving Private Ryan PT1 | First Time Watching | Reaction | Movie
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
- Ray, Julien, Gerard, and Alex react to Saving Private Ryan. This is our first time watching this great movie
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My grandfather struggled watching this. It took 6 attempts before he saw the full movie. He said the opening Normandy scene was way worse and needed about 100 times as many bodies and lasted like 9 hours, otherwise a very real movie. He passed not long after this came out, but he told us some stories we will never retell because of the graphic nature and some stories that have already been told publicly. Really makes you appreciate the brave soldiers who serve our country that much more!
Yeah the battle just to get off the beach took 3 hours and mostly occurred because the machine gunners ran out of ammo
One of the best things I ever did in HS was interview my grandma for WW2 essay. Had a huge impact. She was a civilian in Italy, but she had a lot to teach.
Thanks to your grandfather and all the rest!
I saw this 13 times at the cinema when I was 15/16 years old.
I saw old men crying and leaving, so I started going to the matinee showings, sitting next to an old man by himself, and every single one of them stayed for the whole movie. Some talked to me, some didn’t, one just held my hand and cried. I loved them all ❤️
Thats awesome
@@RKnights awesome for me. I adore old men. Same way I adore puppies. Was raised by my Gramps who was like mr. Rogers with the mind of an 11 year old.
Everyone's gangster until the scene when the mother receives the letter.
We're only human.
8:17 If you look closely, you'll notice that Mrs. Ryan loses her composure when she sees the Chaplain step out of the car - at the time, it was customary for the US Army to send Chaplains out when they were letting relatives know about particularly awful or substantial losses of loved ones in the war.
Mrs. Ryan was probably well aware that she could be expecting to hear at least 3, and likely all, of her sons had died in battle if she saw a man of the cloth stepping out of the car.
My grandfather was a WW2 vet and he would not see the film. My friends grandfather landed on Omaha Beach. He had to leave during the opening scene because he could smell the cordite, blood and desiel. Over 50 years later it took him right back.
that seemed to be a common reaction - that veterans who never talked about the war before had breakdowns as they watched the movie especially the opening scene. There were many news reports about movie theatres dealing with veterans experiencing extreme reactions - whole audiences crying
@@kelly9876 yup. It was so powerful. There had been violent war movies before... but this was and is a singular movie.
Im not surprised. It was a tough scene. I cant imagine living it.
My grandpa was in WWII (Pattons 3rd Army) he was not at d-day as he had graduation two weeks afterward. He shipped off in August 1944 and landed in France and liberated Ohrdruf. He refused to watch this movie. He saw the trailer and it was the only time I saw him cry. He died a couple years afterward.
Helmets didn't actually stop bullets, he got severely lucky, that, that Bullet Bounced Off.
I saw this in the theater and yes there were several older vets there…I went into the hallway and there was a man crying and his wife comforting him. Both my grandfathers fought, one for the US Navy and the other for the British Royal Armored Core. My British grandpa would talk about the war but only the fun stuff they did out of boredom like paint scorpions different colors and then make a ring of fire around them and bet on which one would win….One day when I was 15 or so he just started talking out of the blue about the real experience in North Africa, fighting through Sicily and Italy. My dad hadn’t even heard these stories before. He told his story for about 10 hours straight and then that was it, he never spoke about it again.
That's great that you got to hear about it and he got some off his chest.
In the movie the Normandy landing lasted 20 minutes in the real battle it took 6 hours for the first Americans to get up the bluffs. When you think you are having a bad day, remember what these men went thru.
Two decades later this movie is still relevant that's how you prove you made a legendary movie
Dude love your user name. That is top notch!
I have a friend who says his grandfather couldn't watch this movie cuz it brought back too much pain and misery.
Alot of WW2 vets walked out during the opening scene back when it came out.They said it was too much like the real thing.
Sounds about right. I remember when this came out. As others have said, a lot of WWII vets at the time walked out of the the theatre, not because they were offended, but because it was so hyper-real, it was too much.
I think one of them said that the only thing missing were the smells of the battlefield.
To answer Alex’s question -is this real?
The answer is no. It is fictional.
However the movie referenced the Sullivan brothers & General Marshall read the letter from Lincoln about the Bigsby brothers. The Sullivans & the Bigsbys were real.
There was the Niland Brothers. One brother was in 82nd Airborne & was killed on D-Day. A 2nd brother, Army infantry, was killed on 7 June. A third brother was shot down in Burma. He was believed killed but he showed up after the war. Apparently he was a POW.
Brother #4 was Fritz Niland, 101st Airborne 501st PIR. Turns out he was buddies with Muck & Malarkey from BoB. Fritz was transferred to the US where he was given an assignment as an MP for the rest of the war.
It was because of SPR that Spielberg & Hanks got together & went looking for another WW2 project to do. They came across Stephen Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers. Rest is history.
Spielberg is constantly doing WW2/Holocaust projects because he doesn’t want people to forget it.
Because the family name passes down with the son, normally 1 son was supposed to stay home in major wars. Of course, there were many times every son would sign up and all of they could get killed.
18:00 In war all soldiers call out for their mothers in the last few moments of their life.
And those soldiers who witness this that memory will haunt their dreams until the day they die.
My grandfather was first wave of DDay 29th infantry.. true hero
This movie is the reason there is a WWII memorial on the National Mall in D.C. Tom Hanks after making this movie realized that there is a Korea, Vietnam, Civil War .memorial but not one for WWII. He initiated the fund raising, design and construction of the memorial that is there now.
There was a family the Sullivans as referenced in the movie why the Ryans were in separate companies. They served in the Navy. All FIVE sons killed in the sinking of the USS Juneau in 1942. A biographical movie The Fighting Sullivans (1944). Another family the Borgstroms lost 4 of 5 sons who served in the Army and Marines in WWII. The surviving son after missing in action was found and discharged by special orders.
This is one of those movies for anyone that served during this battle or served in the military that is very hard to watch. I saw it after it came while I was stationed at Hill AFB, UT when I was in the Air Force. When my wife and I saw it there were a few other couples in the theater. As soon as the movie was over no one uttered a word we were all stunned into silence no of us spoke a word. This movie is based on an actual incident that happened during WW2, known as the Sullivan Brothers incident. It was where several brothers from the same family aboard the same ship had gone down in combat. Since then anyone in the military that does not have another male heir is not allowed to serve in combat in the same theater of war at the same time.
That is the US military cemetery in Normandy on the bluffs above Omaha Beach, many of the US soldiers killed in Normandy were buried there instead of being shipped back to the US for burial. The battle for Normandy lasted over 2 months after the D Day landings so many of the dead buried there were killed after D Day, like fictional Capt John Miller.
19:05 When Doc Wade asks for "a little more morphine" everyone knew he was done and his clock was about to run out.
The only thing you can do is ease his glide-path to the end.
Yeah we agree
yes, no pint in pain, you're a gonner anyway
This movie always makes me cry because of the stories my grandpa tells me the pain they felt it breaks my heart for them my grandpa saw so many ppl he cared about die in front of him war movies are hard for me to watch because of my abilities I have but I watch for my grandpa.
My grandfather only shared his experience (N Africa mostly) in general terms. He once met another old man taking his daily walk. They were both veterans. The other guy turned out, had been in the Africa Corp ... and gramps couldn't continue walking with him. the Germans had plenty of "the world's best machine gun" overlooking Normandy" ;-( There were supposed to be tanks at Omaha, but all of them sank in the heavy waves going in, most of the crews drowned. Some tanks made it ashore on the British/Canadian side.
The first scene is the cemetery. That’s where everyone is buried during the Normandy campaign
This movie came out while I was in Okinawa back in 97. I watched young Marine's go into the movie theater hooting n' hollering. All that left after the movie was silence.
Marines*. No apostrophe. Semper Fi .
Thank you for your service.
H&S 1/3. '99 -02.
@@roddyjo.76 i havent served but i wish to.
@@julienn8844 Good luck young sir. Whichever branch you choose I hope you do well.
This is a Great Movie and one of the Very few that show the raw and terrifiying Brutality of War.
Love your guys Reactions Ray i like you very much and i am sure you already know better,i dont know what actions you are taking but you really need to do something about your weight so you dont get to have serious health issues.Much Love to all of you Guys from Greece.
They don't make men like these anymore. Tough, determined men with huge balls. The greatest generation? Damn straight.
The French father tried to get the American soldiers to take his little daughter because he had every reason to think she would have been safer with them than with the Nazis; who were known for their cruelty. She didn't understand this and was terrified and angry with him. It was an unrealistic plan, but his motives were the best.
My grandfather said that it was like they took a camera back in time.
Hello beautiful souls, as a Vet to all the Men and Women who served in the Military Living Or Died.. I would like to tell you all I love you and thanks for your Contribution and God Bless You all for being my Hero
Thank you for your service.
Airborne troops were frequently dropped almost at random when pilots could not identify landmarks or simply could not bring themselves to fly into thick ground fire. The general who orders the mission is George C. Marshal who, after the war, was tasked with rebuilding Europe, which he did with great success. Snipers often did not shoot to kill. By wounding, they could draw out other soldiers to help them, creating more targets. A dead soldier is just a dead man. A wounded soldier ties up others to care for him. Capparzo was safe from the sniper who was waiting for more chances. Normandy in the first days was a chaotic and very dangerous place. German units were also cut off. Normandy was rural. Fields were contained by the famous hedgerows that forced units to fight field by field, often not knowing where they were. It's still easy to get lost there. Some of the German forces were out of good positions due to some success of the Allied effort to mislead them as to the planned invasion site. Those operations included huge units of inflatable tanks, planes and guns that looked good from the air and suggested that the invasion would be aimed at Calais, the shortest trip across the channel, as well as playing recordings of mechanized units to fool German agents in England to send faulty reports and generating false radio traffic. And elaborately using a corpse, put out by submarine, to seem to be a courier shot down whose papers appeared to be orders for invasion at the wrong place. German units didn't take long to regroup and had the usual advantages of the defenders. And it didn't take a genius to know what strategic ports the Allies needed to take. (And yes, he was eating apples. Normandy specializes in Calvados, a strong apple liquor.)
In the theaters many vets had to leave during the opening sequence at Omaha Beach.
"Is this a true story..." It's loosely based on the Niland brothers from Tonawanda, New York.
the opening scene is where all the dead lay to rest who fought in france its all real.
Kudos guys. Yall knocking it out of the park. This is very loosely based on the story of Sergeant Frederick “Fritz” Niland.
4:10 Those guys are called "sociopaths".
I'm disappointed you've never seen this bud. It is a heart wrenching, and true to life story of the bond of military brotherhood.
That scene of the Men in the landing craft getting all shot up is true. That's the Bedford boys from Bedford Va. All from a small town. All of them killed at that moment.
Band of Brothers is based on the book of the same name written by Steven Ambrose.....you might want to read it.
This isn't a true story but its based around an actual group of brothers. the 101st was misdropped all over northern France due to it being night and the amount of AA-fire they were receiving.
People don’t realize how brutal combat can be. This film does a good job at portraying it.
first combat scene... thats war man, remeber this scenes when some politician says something about invading some random country for some random excuse like freedom or democracy...
The Sullivan Brothers all five of them were lost when their ship was torpedoed. After that it was no brother were allowed to serve in the same command.
Actual graves! In Normandy for all the allied soldiers killed. A coincidence as well, there was a CAPT Miller from Pennsylvania as well, which the crew found after the fact, which was the last shot of the movie.
Dale Dye MIGHT be playing Colonel Sink here too. He's just credited as a "war department Colonel."
Interesting note is that Spielberg and others named Tom Hanks' character, Captain Miller because older veteran portraying Damon's James Ryan collapsing front of the grave. They picked actual Miller's grave over in Europe.
You right man he was going through shock in slow motion no one else got that when they watch this I noticed
Look up "The Sullivan Brothers." 5 brothers killed on a single ship.
Those graves are real it's Normandy France. France maintains it.
The insane opening D-Day scenes were filmed on a beach in Ireland, which ironically was neutral ground during WW-II.
Really? I thought they filmed it in France. Thanks for the info
and the beach was too short, as well.
Wade's death is crushing.
At the beginning,the military learn from this.They send Special Forces in first to relay intell as to where to send in the main forces.Navy SEALs were sent in the first Gulf War and they relayed intel to where the main forces could storm the beach.
The Bullets don't go through the water like that, the Mythbusters proved it they shot all kinds of guns into the water from different Calibers and as soon as the bullets hit the water they break up because it's like they hit the Ground they even shot a .50 Caliber and as soon it hit the water it broke up into small pieces
I was just going to comment this. Lol however! The rounds can skip on the water like how people skip stones. So it does still have the potential to un-alive or at least hurt people
My old high school teacher was a medic on Omaha beach, his hand shook just like Tom Hanks character. I'm sure many men broke that day. I had 3 great uncles and a grandpa who all served in WWII. One was captured in the Phillipenes and endured the Bataan death march, and another fought from North Africa to Berlin and was in Bastogne with the 101st when it got surrounded. He told a few stories about The Battle of The Bulge and Bastogne. The stuff of nightmares.
We thank them for their service. Did they all come back home?
@@RKnights yes sir, but the one that fought from North Africa to Berlin had really bad PTSD. He was gone from 1941 till 1945. 4 years and he never got home for leave. He was my grandmas brother and she said she didn't know him when he came back because he had changed so much. He become a raging alcoholic and burned up in a house fire while drunk. Such a sad ending for a soldier who gave so much to end tyranny.
great job guys...
Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers and The Pacific. Peek cinema. Can't wait for Masters Of The Air.
Agreed
I love the guy in the far right and the far left reaction, great reaction video from one of my favourite movie of all time
So good!
They got the idea for this movie based on the Niland brothers that were mentioned in the book (1992) "Band of Brothers" which with the success of this movie HBO made the 10 part mini series "Band of Brothers" in the book 2 Troopers of E/506th (Muck & Malarkey ). meet up while on leave with Sergeant Frederick William "Fritz" Niland (H/501st PIR , 101st A/B)and his Brother Bob Niland (D/505th PIR 82nd A/B) BOB had been on combat in the MTO (N.Africa/Sicily/Italy) so the picked his brain about combat and he was killed on june 6th while manning his machine gun. Second Lieutenant Preston Thomas Niland was killed on june 7th with the 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division,, Technical Sergeant Edward Francis Niland was shot down in may in Burma but was taken as a POW. their was no rescue mission it was when Fritz went to find his brother Bob over at the 82nd that the chaplain found him and he was sent home and served state side as a MP till the end of the war.
One inaccuracy often pointed out is that bullets cannot shoot through water. Many men did die because of drowning, but not from being shot under water. It always bothers me that the director didn’t know, or worse, just thought it looked wicked.
the worst one for me was taking your unarmed medic on a uphill charge at a machinegun. . . NEVER would you
@@Blizzard0fHope I can’t believe they did that. Really? He was never armed in the movie? But he had to go, so he could be killed. Bizarre.
@@tracyfrazier7440 Medics are generally supposed to be non-targets in battle. Hence the big symbol on their head. They are non-combatants.
LAWL. every COD since the launch of Xbox has stolen this scene. The experience of having grandparents who lived through this and explained it to me, watching this movie,and then playing the release COD fucked me up as a kid. Storm Normandy, Kill nazis, that’s the American dream.
This is loosely based on the Sullivan Brothers where All 5 were KIA
Freedom is not free!
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Everyone except whiteshirt
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Отличный военный фильм,показывает и обнажает лица людей такие какие они есть)
I agree with you. There was a sense of realism here that made it a human experience
This was based on a real situation .. the info on the brother in New Guinea was false, he came home. The Sullivan brothers? All five served on the same ship, all went down thanks to the Japanese.
The D-day beach scene Was considered accurate however the searching for the one person is somewhat fictional.
You need to check out Goodfellas, Heat, American History X, The Shining, Training Day...
FUN FACT:
THE SNIPER SHOT THRU THE SCOPE WAS ACTUALLY A REAL EVENT, BUT IN VIETNAM, NOT WW 2!
A MARINE SNIPER NAMED SGT. CARLOS HATHCOCK PULLED OFF THE VERY SHOT IN VIETNAM AND DESCRIBES IT IN AMAZING, BRUTAL DETAIL IN HIS BOOK "ONE SHOT, ONE KILL"
THE DUDE WAS UNTOUCHABLE AS A SNIPER AND EVEN HAD A BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD BY THE VIETCONG!! THAT'S WHAT LED TO THE SCENARIO OF THE SCOPE KILL SHOT!!!
The White Feather.
Bullets, actually lose Velocity in water, and they won't hurt you.
Bullets still have a kill velocity a few feet in water and this film was based on stories of the soldiers that were there.
The thing that always gets me about Upham is that he was afraid to kill, rather than being afraid to die (though he was that too). He couldn't fathom killing Steamboat Willie, he hadn't fired his weapon since basic training, and he knew that if he went up the stairs he would have to kill the man attacking Mellish. It wasn't until he saw Steamboat Willie kill Captain Miller that his heart hardened and he realized he wasn't going to get out of the war without killing. Deep, deep stuff.
Excellent !! Just finished your BOB series. Well done gentleman.
Thank you kindly!
the cemetery scene was at the actual cemetery
I could tell after the BoB series that this movie would be up soon. Good stuff guys!
Loved the reaction now I'm here to watch it again on youtube.
Although it makes for a dramatic visual, flame throwers where not used in the European theater.
Flamethrowers were used in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during WW2. The US Army used them on a limited basis in Europe. They were used more in the Pacific theater. The English, German and Russian armies used them also.
@@JB-bv1rg I should have been more specific. Not used during the Normandy invasion.
Great reaction to a great movie. Check out Platoon, Fury, Hacksaw Ridge, Apocalypse Now
Wasn’t shrapnel, the medic wasn’t the one chuckin the nade
Dang I was really convinced it was :/
4:10 - no offense, but you have no idea how hard to do, what you just described, is. I don't even think most professional athletes or body builders could do what you just described (submerged fully in water, with full gear on, pumped on adrenaline [shaky hands and body] getting shot at from the only direction you have to go while holding a another dead body up with what I presume is one hand, and trying to swim towards said gunfire with your other free hand, or maybe that 2nd hand is holding your rifle IDK)
Great reaction though.
None taken. I was just saying I don't think I would have any regard for the corpses as this seems like a survival situation. I do understand the difficulty of it, but I was exaggerating my suppose action to display the brutality of what is transpiring. Thank you for your kind words though!
@@julienn8844 Nah I know you were exaggerating, I think most people that swim or do physical activity would know this haha
If anything I'm sorry for going off like that, I'll chalk it up to having a bad day but it does not excuse the vitriol.
Looking forward to more reactions, take care man!
@@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear your totally fine! Hope you do enjoy more reactions.
Humbles you doesn’t it
Yes it does
I can’t pay attention to anything when you got that dude Alex over there lookin like a whole snack
Great reaction…subbed…Schindler’s List next please 😊
If you lost 1 family member you got a telegram. The priest signaled to her that there were multiple losses.
The greatest Generation
The average age of the US troops on Omaha Beach was 20 1/2 (historian Andrew Roberts). TWENTY AND A HALF YEARS OLD.
That opening scene was filmed at the actual American Cemetery in Normandy on the bluffs above Omaha Beach...but when you go there, make sure you bring tissues or something, because you will cry....I broke down a few times myself.
5:36 Do not sweat that guy taking of his helmet, they were never designed to really stop bullets, and that next shot would have killed him whether he was wearing it or not. He actually took off the helmet to look at the TWO holes the shot just before that had made as it went through his helmet TWICE without actually hitting his head inside of it.💯
Standard procedure for notifying next of kin of the death of a soldier was a regular telegram delivered by regular channels...Western Union or whatever, with any letter from the Commanding Officer to follow later as the mails allowed. The Army would only send out a car to notify the family of the death of enlisted personnel if more than one member of a family had been killed or went missing. And that was not just any Pastor, it was her local parish Priest or Minister...so when she saw him get out of an official Army car, she must have known that something truly terrible had happened.✌
Oh damn really goes to show how deep this movie is
Yes Boys!👍
I'm so mad at you guys. Technically it's my own fault. When I started, I thought 'a three hour movie reaction in 20 mins? Let's see how they pull this off.' When it came to the end of the video in the middle of the movie, that's when I saw this was part 1, but PT1 I thought was part of the private Ryan title. So now I have to SUB to see part two... BTW, saw this in the theater when it came out. You guys had headphones, but if ever you have a chance to see it in a theater, or a really really good home theater setup, the opening is way more intense.
You had me nervous lol. I thought we messed up or offended you. Lol. It only made sense to make this a two part video. I'm glad you joined us. I hope you like all of our content. BTW, I have a 7.1 atmos surround sound system and I will be checking it out. 😀😀😀
Don't hate Private Oppum! You don't know what you would do unless you served, even if you served, you weren't in anything like this.
Thanks to that generation, we still speak english.
there is a docu about the film abouy how spielberg never what the actors would see on the beach, they used amputees and the sound od bullets hitting flesh was shots fired in to pigs that sounded like a man getting shot #
Next Hacksaw ridge
Maybe. We are gonna take a little break from war stuff.
This is the last of the real men.
Let’s goooooo
Yup we did it finally!
@@RKnights awesome can’t wait for part 2
The Sullivan brothers all died in WW2
please watch lone survivor. navy seal movie based on a true story
This is pretty much made up for the movie (the story), but still a great film
Kudos guys. Yall knocking it out of the park. This is very loosely based on the story of Sergeant Frederick “Fritz” Niland.