Hello everyone! For those just seeing this I just wanted to leave a little note. Unfortunately my grandfather passed right before we started watching war movies (not the best time to watch them lol). He served in the army and this video was shot before his service. That's why you can see here how anxious I am. I could not stop thinking of my grandfather and everything he has been through. His service was 2 weeks after this filming. He was brave and one of the best people you could ever meet. His favorite things were always those dancing silly toys you found around holidays. I hope you all forgive my anxiety and enjoy watching with us. 😊😊😊❤✌🏽
Please don’t ever forget that we all live safe, well fed, comfortable lives because hundreds of thousands of teenaged boys who couldn’t even shave yet… they died for us.
As a veteran ive served in almost every operation since the gulf war and i have nothing on these guys. This is why they were called "the greatest generation"
Dude agreed The only people on earth who remotely know what this sort of combat is like, are the Ukrainians & Russians I wasn’t infantry, I was an AH64 pilot so I had a lot of firepower at my disposal & I used it so I know what it’s like to see the destruction of the weaponry…took me years to get over the fact that i probably killed 200+ enemy combatants during my tours I cannot imagine what it’d be like to be under accurate & sustained artillery fire or MG on a flat beach where I had to run 300yds just to get to “safety” My great uncle Val was a medic in the 29th infantry ID, he was wounded in Anzio so he missed Utah Beach but landed in Marseille during Operation Dragoon in August of 44 He was 16 when he joined. 17 when he landed in Morocco during Operation Torch…unreal. “ “Valorous Val” was his nickname after his actions in saving 2 GIs while on their way to Bastogne. He was put up for the MOH but as he told it, his Colonel wasn’t gonna give a “pollock” the MOH so he received the Silver Star instead
@@NP-ui3tr 29th ID is in this! They landed at Omaha, Upham is in the 29th, in fact. The guy yelling "what the hell do we do now , sir?!" is also 29th. This is real history, because Miller mentions being Company C of the 2nd Rangers, which did land there. That shit went so bad that Lt Gen Omar Bradley about called the whole thing off and evac'd the survivors. But these tough bastards made it happen.
Denmark here .. The soldiers who surrendered, but got shot anyway did not speak German but were from Czechoslovakia that was the first to be invaded by the Germans along with Austria. So they were forced to fight for the Germans which is also why they were eager to surrender. So this part of the movie is even more tragic than you or most people watching this know.
I had to turn off the sound. I didn't need it because I've seen the movie many times. I couldn't take the whining. Consequently, I didn't make it to the end. Just too annoying.
My heart and my biggest hugs go out to you ladies. My grandfather served in the US Army during the Korean War, so he was also a veteran just like your grandfather Toy. The beginning of this movie takes place at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. I had the honor of visiting that site and plant American flags. To see the graves of all those men who died at Normandy under the white crosses and stars of David, it’s hard not to get choked up. I even had the opportunity to walk across Omaha Beach where this battle took place in real-life. You could still see all the shell holes from artillery and bombs. There are even some German bunkers left behind from the war that you could go into. This is widely regarded as the greatest is war movie ever made. Steven Spielberg made Saving Private Ryan as an ode to his father who also fought in World War II. The fact that this didn’t win the Academy Award for best film is a damn shame! Saving Private Ryan influenced so many films that followed, including video games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. Tom Hanks is portraying a Captain leading a unit of U.S. Army Rangers. These are elite infantry units who are often assigned the most difficult and dangerous missions. Before the Invasion of Normandy, U.S. Army Ranger Battalions had already seen heavy combat in North Africa and Italy during World War II. This explains why Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore) was collecting soil from France, as you can see he had already collected soil from the other places he has fought in. The opening of this movie depicting the Battle of Omaha Beach is famous for its intensity and realism. Many World War II veterans who fought there on D-Day had a difficult time watching this given the memories of such a horrific experience. I remember one veteran said that what happened at Omaha was worst than what this movie depicted. (12:01) They have to ensure that the enemy is down and no longer a threat. The story of Saving Private Ryan is loosely inspired by the Niland brothers from Tonawanda, New York. Frederick William "Fritz" Niland served in H Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the Invasion of Normandy. Two of his brothers, Robert and Preston, were killed in action while fighting in Normandy with other units. His fourth brother, Edward, was believed to have been killed in the Pacific, but it turns out he was captured by the Japanese and spent a year in a POW Camp in Burma. Thankfully Frederick and Edward survived the war. There is also some inspiration from the Sullivan brothers. They were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together as sailors aboard the light Cruiser USS Juneau. They were all killed in action on November 13, 1942, when the Juneau was sunk by Japanese torpedoes during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In the aftermath of their deaths, the US Armed Forces tried to ensure that brothers wouldn’t be allowed to serve together in combat. The German soldier known as “Steamboat Willie” whom Corporal Upham shot at the end (57:06) was indeed the same one who killed Wade at the radar site earlier in the film. Reactors often mistake Willie for the Waffen-SS soldier who stabs Mellish to death (53:58), but if you look at photographs of the two side-by-side, you can see that they are two different men. While they both have similar haircuts, Steamboat Willie has a more gaunt appearance. There are unfortunately times in war where you might not have the time or resources to take prisoners, so you would either have to kill the enemy or let them go. The dilemma in this case is if you let the enemy go, they might just end up back on the battlefield to kill you or your buddies. Since you’ve watched Saving Private Ryan, I really hope you ladies have the opportunity to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I would also strongly recommend Hacksaw Ridge if you decide to watch another war movie in the future. ❤️❤️
One thing that you missed, the German guy they let go was not the same one who killed Melish later on with the knife, nor who let Upham live on the stairs. Those were two different people. The German guy that they let go was the one shooting at the US soldiers on the bridge and the one who ultimately killed Captain Miller (Tom Hanks). Upham was there to witness this, which is why he shot him at the end. In a way, it was the loss of Upham's innocence and the realization that, so times in war, you have to do the hard thing, something that may not feel morally right, simply to protect yourself and/or your fellow soldiers. You can almost see it in Upham's eyes, "We let you go once, and you repay us by killing them who let you go. Now you lost that chance." War is brutal. Another thing is that the battle on the beach lasted for minutes in the movie, but hours in real life. It's funny to hear you both remarking that you hoped it would end soon, because that's exactly what most of those soldiers were hoping for as well, but they had a lot longer to go. Also, at the end, you can hear in his wife's voice as she reads the name of Captain Miller that she's never heard of him. That means that poor Ryan has been carrying around the burden of everything that happened for all that time without being able to share it. So many vets do this and it's hard to fathom having to carry burdens like that alone. My grandfather was a WWII vet, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, among others, and it wasn't until the end of his life that he decided he wanted to write down his experinces. I wish he had felt he could have shared them sooner as I'd love to have heard them. RIP to both our grandfathers.
The Sullivan Brothers, which were first mentioned why they were splitting up brothers, were 5 brothers that enlisted in the Navy at the start of the war. Their ship, the USS Juneau, was torpedoed and sank within a few minutes, and all 5 brothers sank with their ship. After that incident, they never allowed brothers to be together in combat.
Just for some added context two of the brothers survived the sinking. One died the next day and one lasted 3-4 days. The survivors were finally rescued 10 days after the sinking. There were only 10 survivors out of a crew of 673. In addition there were 30 other sets of brothers serving on Juneau.
Straight up. I played all the OG MoH games on PC, but I'll never forget the first time I played the PS2 MoH game at my friends, and just being absolutely blown away by how real it looked and felt at that time. For the technology available back then, it was so incredible to see. I was probably like 13 I think (iirc it was released in 2002?)
My family had a similar real life Saving Private Ryan in WWII. My grandfathers 3 brothers were all killed and the Army came for my grandfather. My great Grandfather said no to the Army bc he had already lost 3 sons and had no one else to help him on the farm so the Army did not take my grandfather
The unit that Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) is leading are U.S. Army Rangers. The Rangers were highly trained elite infantry who excelled in special operations. For the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach, the 5th Ranger Battalion and three companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion were assigned to support the main assault force, which was 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division. Most of the U.S. troops who landed on D-Day were in units seeing combat for the first time. But there were, of course, veterans of earlier battles scattered throughout those units to provide them with leaders who had previous combat experience. Those experienced soldiers would often have been officers, like Captain Miller, and non-commissioned officers, like Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore). The scene where Horvath is collecting soil as a souvenir of his landing in France is a hint to the battles he has already been through. The tins of dirt in his pack are souvenirs of his service during the fighting in North Africa in 1942-43 and the fighting in Italy in 1943-44. Later in the movie, when Miller and Horvath are remembering a soldier named Vecchio, Miller refers to him as "that kid that was with us at Anzio". Anzio was a particularly brutal campaign that took place near Rome in early 1944, during which the Ranger battalions suffered heavy casualties. If I remember correctly, there is also comment made by one of the Rangers stating that he had been serving under Miller "since Kasserine". Kasserine Pass was a battle in North Africa in early 1943, and it was just after Kasserine Pass that the 1st Ranger Battalion became the first U.S. Army Ranger unit to enter combat. All of these hints and comments are an indication that some of the Rangers, including Miller and Horvath, had already been through many months of intense combat prior to the events in the movie.
Great comment...though you did leave out the 1st Infantry Division...one of the most experienced US divisions...also being assigned to assault Omaha Beach, since the Allies understood how difficult that beach could be to take. Yes, the Rangers were there to assist the 29th ID, but so was the Big Red One.👍😁
@@iKvetch558 Very true. The 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division was right there in the first wave alongside the 116th Regt of the 29th Division, as were the bulldozers and DD tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion. I focused on the 116th Regt because that was the assault element being directly supported by the Rangers and would have been the other troops with whom Miller's Rangers were intermixed in the opening scene of the movie. Based on the beach sector being given as Dog Green, it can be inferred that Miller and his Rangers were part of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, while the troops around them would have been 1st Battalion/116th Infantry Regiment. The 1st Infantry Division, as you stated, was a veteran unit. They had fought in North Africa and Sicily prior to being moved to England to prepare for the invasion of France. By contrast, the 29th Infantry Division, as well as the 4th Infantry Division which was the assault force at the other American landing site, Utah Beach, were both green units entering combat for the first time on D-Day.
@@lorddaver5729 If you were addressing me, then yes, I do know that. The British and Canadian troops assaulting Sword, Gold and Juno beaches did, in fact, outnumber the U.S. troops landing on Utah and Omaha Beaches. And the British 6th Airborne Division parachuted into Normandy the night before, at about the same time as the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were making their jumps. The Normandy invasion could not have succeeded without the enormous contributions made by the British and Canadian ground forces, the Royal Navy, and the Royal Air Force.
A good point about the soldiers being "calm". They are not, they are numb and in shock. Long before PTSD was coined, the term was "shell shocked". Personally, I think that term describes better the situation so many soldiers suffered.
Yeah, personally, as someone who has experienced combat, I feel like "PTSD" and "Shell Shock" should be two different categories. The immediate after effects of combat are a very different psychological experience compared to the longer term traumas that a veteran can carry with them. Soldiers can be rattled and in shock after combat, but have remarkably little long term trauma, and vice versa. They seem to be two very different psychological states.
@@eibbor171 I know they mean the exact same thing, that's why I pointed out that I believe there should be two different categories. It's almost like I wrote a paragraph explaining my thoughts on the issue.
@@TheGoIsWin21 oh my mistake i misunderstood you then im only running on 0hrs of sleep or the past 3 days. Not exactly at my sharpest mentally also letters are a bit blurry
5:03 - "So I wonder if something else is going to happen just based on [the game she played]. I'm not going to say because you're here. I'm not going to call it out early. I'll wait." Proceeds to blab what's going to happen over the next minute.
This is the obligatory "now watch 'Band of Brothers' and then 'The Pacific' HBO miniseries" with optional making of / documentary for the former, post.
What the German soldier says to Mellish at the end of the knife fight is haunting. It almost makes me regret learning German. He says: "Give up, you don't stand a chance. Let's end this here. It will be easier for you, much easier. You'll see it will be over quickly."
That coupled with Mellish screaming “stop what’s happening!” Is so disturbing. You can hear the denial in mellish’s voice and him begging for his life it’s honestly amazing acting from both of them.
It's funny how most people don't recognize that the almost-deaf soldier that knows Private Ryan is Ryan Hurst, who was also "Opie" from Sons Of Anarchy.
Just when I didn't think she could get any hotter she pulls out that Lucky Strike story! Friends used to do that in high school but I didn't know the origin of it!
This is one of the greatest War films ever, I will never forget seeing it theatrically with a group of veterans and afterwards everyone of them were crying.🙏
Fun fact: Tom Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this movie, but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show… which I’m glad because Hanks already won 2 Oscars before, so it was time to recognize other talent for a change 😊
I am a combat vet. I don't know how to thank you for this. There are some. Mostly non vets who will not understand but I don't care. What you have both done is beyond any words that I have except to say how much this helps heal some of us. Thank you for this and God bless you both.
I would imagine the Sgt was collecting dirt from the places he had fought as a souvenir or trophy. Not unlike soldiers in Vietnam collecting NVA flags or other war material. Other trophies captured during WW2 included enemy weapons, helmets, swords, medals, personal documents and, in some cases skulls and/or teeth of enemy dead. In Vietnam some soldiers even collected ears.
My grandfather was in the Air Force, served in both Korea and WWII, and when this movie came out, he told me how accurate the opening beach sequence was. He didn't care for the rest of the movie, saying how unrealistic it was to send a group in after a single soldier. He lived well into retirement. I had issues with him as a person, but I thanked him for his service, all the same. RIP, Thomas Conley.
Yes, everyone seems to agree about that. But, if it's so, what does that say about the human species? How can one avoid concluding that the human being is a natural predator and parasite against his own? If he weren't, then freedom would be free. But it isn't, because you can count on other humans to try to rob their own kind of their freedom. Not even wolves or gorillas do that.
----- @thetr00per30 ----- - I was a member of a "Best-Games"-club back in the day and one of the games I received through this membership was the game 'Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault'. I managed to beat the game eventually, but with much less hair, if you know what I mean. The beach landing part was hell, no pun intended. But the part that frustrated me the most was the dang jungle. They kept on sniping me from the trees, and at one point I got so mad I nearly threw my computer out the window. It probably wasn't such a good idea to play on the hardest difficulty. -----
Toy, please do not apologize for being horrified with the war scenes. That is what war is. We should all be horrified. This movie presents this very well. War should not be something ANYONE wants. I am glad you watched this movie. I send you both a big hug.
There were in fact four brothers. The Niland Brothers. Frederick “Fritz” Niland was believed to have survived where his three brothers were killed in battle. Fritz was found and he was sent back to the United States to serve out the rest of his service. Believing his three brothers were dead Fritz later found out that his brother Edward had in fact survived and was taken captive in Burma under the Japanese in a POW camp.
Hannah! Not sure if you remember how I described my feelings about seeing this movie. It was my birthday, and I really wanted to see it, so you were right there with us…agonizing through the movie, at barely 2 months old, I’m sure you don’t remember much about that day lol…except maybe me blubbering and crying my eyes out at all military personnel I encountered the rest of that see day!!! This was the second movie you attended! The first was The X-Files movie! I am sincerely proud of BOTH 💕of you for enduring such a gut wrenching work! Reminds us why they will Forever be the Greatest Generation!!
The game probably was one of the medal of honors or call of duty. This movie came out first, games were inspired by the movie, not the other way around.
The opening scene Ryan goes to the grave of his brother, at the end he's at the grave of Capt. Miller's grave. His family is directly behind him at the first grave site, at the end, his family remains at a respectful distance, except for his wife who has no idea who Miller is. Ryan went home and never told anyone about that day in Ramell. WW II was fought by men; the average age of U. S. combat personnel was 26 years old. The SGT. in the assault boat wasn't putting food in his mouth, that was chewing tobacco. They were in very rough seas and it took hours for the soldiers to disembark the troop ships into the Higgins Boats. Not knowing when they would ever have a good cooked meal again, many of the soldiers ate a hearty breakfast before disembarking. The first group to load into the boats bobbed around in the water for several hours before heading toward the beach. Many get seasick during that time. The vomit wasn't the main problem, the blood in the boats created a psychological problem when the boats returned to bring more soldiers to the beach. In Vietnam, the average age of combat personnel was 22, not 19 as many people think. Also, the largest number of U. S. personnel killed in action in Vietnam those who enlisted not draftees. Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb". Capt. Miller said he taught at Thomas Alva Edison High School. That's a Spielberg paying homage to Thomas Alva Edison High School in Philadelphia, PA. 54 former students from that school were killed in action in the Vietnam War, more than any other school in the nation. The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood. Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie. There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers. The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier. Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. "The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. Unfortunately, you didn't include that in your video presentation. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment. There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. ClarkChairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
When this movie released, several members of my family went to see it because my uncle was there at the landing at 18 years old. He was with us in the theater, but had to walk out after only a minute in tears. All he would say is, "That was how it was, I can't look at it." We all left and it wasn't until the movie made it to DVD that I actually watched it. He refused to ever watch it, said there is no way. That landing was a terrible event that effected so many so profoundly.
I had a Pacific veteran tell me that the only thing the opening scene got wrong/couldn't encapsulate about the amphibious landings he'd been part of was the smell.
Girl on the left didn't seem to have much reaction and was just content to play with her hair continuously for 2 hours........ maybe next time put it up in a ponytail?
The woman who played Ryan's wife was one of the most stunning women around when she was younger. Check out Black Narcissus for the truth of this statement. :)
Young ladies, I understand that it’s just a movie but everything you see in the opening scene happened to real men on that fateful day in June of 1944 I’m 40 now so I’m old lol but my grandfather & two great uncles fought in WWII; as a vet myself I’d like to say for some of us, this isn’t just a movie. As a former officer, I’ve led American boys into combat (honor of my lifetime) so I very much feel for Tom Hank’s’ character & how the deaths of your men can impact you. PS The “real war” was in the Pacific, the USMC treated men with “battle fatigue” the same as they would a man who was wounded. The Marines went thru hell during WWII, everyone focuses so much on the ETO that the Marines’ actions in the South Pacific are a bit overshadowed as much as it “pains” me to say that lol as an Army man
@@NP-ui3tr then you should already know that the Army fought in both in Europe and the Pacific; both were brutal. The Army bore the brunt of WW2 as it does with almost every war.
Omaha Beach was particularly brutal because they had to land during low-tide to avoid all the beach obstacles which meant they had to travel across about 300 yards of open beach. 3 Football fields. In the movie it makes it seem like it was more like 100 yards. Many of the wounded men drowned as the tide came in. Was literally fish in a barrel for the defenders. The fact that those men managed succeed is a miracle.
You recognized the German captive they let go but he's the one who shot *Captain Miller* right before you realized it was the German from earlier. The same *Captain Miller* who let him go...
Fun fact: Tom Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this movie but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show… which I’m glad because Hanks already won 2 Oscars before, so it was time to recognize other talent for a change
When you watch this. Makes you look at 90 year old ww2 vets in a larger and more respectful light. They were teenagers and this was what many chose to go.
My grandfather and great uncle fought in World War II and were fortunate enough to return after years of being prisoners of war. Their story is our legacy. I grew up and was taught to be a pacifist almost my whole life. I am now 50 years old. And I am very often grateful to the Allies who liberated us, even if it was not my time. Love and peace from germany.
15:20 the soil is meant to convey the character had amphibious landings in the North African Campain and the Sicilian/Italian campaign. He's a veteran of a long bloody war.
My grandfather was at Normandy, but in the second wave, he lost his left eye. Thankfully, he made it home. I also had both great-grandfathers in WWI, more specifically in the Battle of the Somme. I'm ex-army. It's a great movie, but it 1000% depicts the worst of war. I can personally relate to the Wade scene; I lost two buddies in Afghanistan, and I felt a certain type of way. But POWs are POWs, despite what we feel.
@Badger.AD.1066 Every member of my father's side has fought in every major war all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Father and uncle in Vietnam, 1st Air Calvary, I was in Somalia. My son is the only one who escaped war.
@@lw3918 I understand what you are saying. Almost every male member of my family has served. I'm originally from Ireland, and I have been tracing my family tree. I had relatives who were at Vinegar Hill during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, where the Irish and French fought against the British. I also had a relative who fled to the U.S. just as the Civil War broke out. He docked in New York, and not long after, he was assigned to the Fighting 69th. He never married or had kids, and when the letters stopped coming home, it wasn't long before I found out he died at Bull Run. That's probably the most significant thing in my family.I've got both his letters; they have been passed down since my grandmother died. She passed them on to me, so I get it. Though we Irish haven't invaded anyone, we seem to fight a lot in wars just so we can stick it to the crown. 😂 That's a little joke, but everyone who took part in the campaign- we wouldn't be where we are without their great sacrifices. That's why, out of all the war movies, *Saving Private Ryan* holds a special kind of place for me personally. I've visited both camps, Auschwitz and Dachau; it's truly a strange feeling standing in those camps. Every year, I visit Normandy; at least I can actually do that.
If ever you feel like you are oppressed or treated unfairly, just remember the first 15 minutes of this movie and think about how that is something that you never have to go through. Does the trick for me every time.
Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches underwater, and flamethrowers not really exploding that way in 1944. One thing to know, pay no mind at all to that man who took off his helmet on the beach at 10:06 and then got shot in the head...that next shot would have killed him even if he had kept his helmet on. The helmets of WW2 would almost never stop a bullet, except under very very rare circumstances. The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent behind enemy lines to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured. The 4th brother was found and notified by an Army Chaplain, and was sent home, but as far as the brothers none of what happened in this movie happened in real life. There really was a Company C of the 2nd Rangers that landed on Omaha Beach, but they were commanded by Captain Ralph Goranson, and they did not land quite where it was shown in the film. Probably the most important historical thing that Spielberg got wrong is that he had the boats that carried the Rangers to the beach being driven by Americans...they were not. On D-Day, the boats that carried the US Rangers to the beach were driven by UK sailors of the Royal Navy. There are many other things in the film that are not accurate to the real history of D-Day, but that one really fails to honor some of the men that fought and died at Omaha Beach, so it is definitely the one most worth noting. The location at the beginning and end with the French and US flags is the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial...located in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Most of the US servicemen killed in the 2 and a half month long Normandy Campaign are buried in this cemetery...a total of 9388 burials.
A call went out for pictures of the Normandy countryside; snapshots poured in, showing small roads and structures which went undetected by aerial reconnaissance.
The metal cans of dirt and sand are from the beaches that the unit the Sergeant was with and had taken part in amphibious assaults onto during the war up to that point. The US forces landed in North Africa, then Sicily, and although many US and Allied troops landed in Italy following the takeover of Sicily, the rangers depicted here as well as the 1st Infantry Division that also took part in those same assaults in North Africa and Sicily went to England to train up for the Normandy landing, so the Sergeant has no can from the invasion into Italy. A little more trivia from units that took part in Normandy, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into Sicily, Normandy and Holland (Operation Market-Garden (SEP 1944) earning 3 Combat jump stars on their jump wings, whereas the 101st Airborne Division only jumped into Normandy and Holland earning 2 combat jump stars.
Fantastic movie from Steven Spielberg, this man just knows how to make fantastic movies. I know exactly what game you are talking about, it is, Meal of Honour, I played it on the PS2, great game. FUBAR...Fu**ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic. 2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down. 3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie. 4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. 5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. Outstanding leadership skills to dampen the friction between Horvath and Reiben. 6. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇 7. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder". A movie I'm in briefly.
Lucky Strike was introduced in 1871 at Richmond, Virginia, as chewing tobacco. The name came from a gold rush era phrase that identified the very few who were “lucky” enough to “strike” gold. In short it was meant to mean only the best top-quality products. The “lucky” cigarette is a single upside-down cigarette inside of a fresh pack that's saved for last. This tradition may have begun in World War II-US soldiers would flip Lucky Strike cigarettes upside down and smoke the end with the logo first to prevent enemy troops from identifying them by their cigarette butts.
Interesting tidbit: the sniper shot, through the enemy scope, is a throw back to Vietnam sniper Carlos Hathcock, who took out an enemy sniper, through the scope, at 760 yrds
My grandpa on my mom's side was in WWII as he was forced at pew pew point to be in the German luftwaffe (air force) or he'd have been shot. He ended up fighting all over Europe in France, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Netherlands and during a battle he was sharing a foxhole with another guy whwn a grenade was thrown into it and it blew the other guy's head off and my grandpa was taken as a POW by the Americans. He was then sent here to the States where he stayed as a POW for the remainder of the war and then was allowed to go back to Germany after the war was over. Then in 1965, my grandparents, along with my oldest aunt and my mom (who was 2 years old), immigrated to the United States because my grandpa enjoyed it here while he was a POW. My mom eventually became a US citizen in high school and my grandpa tried to become a citizen at one point but ended up not being allowed to become a citizen due to not having any of the paperwork from his time in the war that showed all of the places he served, what he did in the war etc. My grandpa passed away in 2005 at the age of 86. Any time my grandparents came to visit us or we came to visit them, out of respect for my grandpa, us kids weren't allowed to play with any type of toys that were considered "weapons" nor were we allowed to talk about anything war related or ask him about the war.
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Hello everyone! For those just seeing this I just wanted to leave a little note. Unfortunately my grandfather passed right before we started watching war movies (not the best time to watch them lol). He served in the army and this video was shot before his service. That's why you can see here how anxious I am. I could not stop thinking of my grandfather and everything he has been through. His service was 2 weeks after this filming. He was brave and one of the best people you could ever meet. His favorite things were always those dancing silly toys you found around holidays. I hope you all forgive my anxiety and enjoy watching with us. 😊😊😊❤✌🏽
May he rest in peace. He will have been a happy man having grandchildren like you ❤❤❤
May your grandpa rest in paradise.
This is a hard watch for anyone, more so for someone as sensitive as you, Toy 🏴🙂
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I feel ya. Dad died 3 weeks ago and we just had service on Sunday. USAF Honor Guard did the flag folding and handover.
Please don’t ever forget that we all live safe, well fed, comfortable lives because hundreds of thousands of teenaged boys who couldn’t even shave yet… they died for us.
As a veteran ive served in almost every operation since the gulf war and i have nothing on these guys. This is why they were called "the greatest generation"
Dude agreed
The only people on earth who remotely know what this sort of combat is like, are the Ukrainians & Russians
I wasn’t infantry, I was an AH64 pilot so I had a lot of firepower at my disposal & I used it so I know what it’s like to see the destruction of the weaponry…took me years to get over the fact that i probably killed 200+ enemy combatants during my tours
I cannot imagine what it’d be like to be under accurate & sustained artillery fire or MG on a flat beach where I had to run 300yds just to get to “safety”
My great uncle Val was a medic in the 29th infantry ID, he was wounded in Anzio so he missed Utah Beach but landed in Marseille during Operation Dragoon in August of 44
He was 16 when he joined. 17 when he landed in Morocco during Operation Torch…unreal. “
“Valorous Val” was his nickname after his actions in saving 2 GIs while on their way to Bastogne. He was put up for the MOH but as he told it, his Colonel wasn’t gonna give a “pollock” the MOH so he received the Silver Star instead
@@NP-ui3tr 29th ID is in this! They landed at Omaha, Upham is in the 29th, in fact. The guy yelling "what the hell do we do now , sir?!" is also 29th.
This is real history, because Miller mentions being Company C of the 2nd Rangers, which did land there.
That shit went so bad that Lt Gen Omar Bradley about called the whole thing off and evac'd the survivors. But these tough bastards made it happen.
My grandfather and five great uncles fought in WW2. Uncle Bob volunteered for Korea.
The west is falling apart, lot of good these wars did.
@@thebesttheworldhastoofferchannPlease go to the front lines.
5:10 it's not like the game. It's not like the movie. The movie and the game are like that day. 😢
Right? Jeez 😳🤨🇬🇧
Denmark here .. The soldiers who surrendered, but got shot anyway did not speak German but were from Czechoslovakia that was the first to be invaded by the Germans along with Austria. So they were forced to fight for the Germans which is also why they were eager to surrender. So this part of the movie is even more tragic than you or most people watching this know.
They were yelling "do not shoot us, we didn't kill anyone!"...
I remember hearing that on another yt channel
I took a shot every time she said OH MY GOD!!! I was drunk in the first two minutes!!
I had to turn off the sound. I didn't need it because I've seen the movie many times. I couldn't take the whining. Consequently, I didn't make it to the end. Just too annoying.
@@Straydogger so you watched a reaction video without hearing them react to it?
I had to get my stomach pumped halfway through
Damn i even couldn't count how many times she said that 😂 greetings 🤙🏾
@@Straydogger mate at this point you should've just watched a pirated copy of this movie at your leisure!
My heart and my biggest hugs go out to you ladies. My grandfather served in the US Army during the Korean War, so he was also a veteran just like your grandfather Toy. The beginning of this movie takes place at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. I had the honor of visiting that site and plant American flags. To see the graves of all those men who died at Normandy under the white crosses and stars of David, it’s hard not to get choked up. I even had the opportunity to walk across Omaha Beach where this battle took place in real-life. You could still see all the shell holes from artillery and bombs. There are even some German bunkers left behind from the war that you could go into.
This is widely regarded as the greatest is war movie ever made. Steven Spielberg made Saving Private Ryan as an ode to his father who also fought in World War II. The fact that this didn’t win the Academy Award for best film is a damn shame! Saving Private Ryan influenced so many films that followed, including video games like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. Tom Hanks is portraying a Captain leading a unit of U.S. Army Rangers. These are elite infantry units who are often assigned the most difficult and dangerous missions. Before the Invasion of Normandy, U.S. Army Ranger Battalions had already seen heavy combat in North Africa and Italy during World War II. This explains why Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore) was collecting soil from France, as you can see he had already collected soil from the other places he has fought in.
The opening of this movie depicting the Battle of Omaha Beach is famous for its intensity and realism. Many World War II veterans who fought there on D-Day had a difficult time watching this given the memories of such a horrific experience. I remember one veteran said that what happened at Omaha was worst than what this movie depicted.
(12:01) They have to ensure that the enemy is down and no longer a threat.
The story of Saving Private Ryan is loosely inspired by the Niland brothers from Tonawanda, New York. Frederick William "Fritz" Niland served in H Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the Invasion of Normandy. Two of his brothers, Robert and Preston, were killed in action while fighting in Normandy with other units. His fourth brother, Edward, was believed to have been killed in the Pacific, but it turns out he was captured by the Japanese and spent a year in a POW Camp in Burma. Thankfully Frederick and Edward survived the war.
There is also some inspiration from the Sullivan brothers. They were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together as sailors aboard the light Cruiser USS Juneau. They were all killed in action on November 13, 1942, when the Juneau was sunk by Japanese torpedoes during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In the aftermath of their deaths, the US Armed Forces tried to ensure that brothers wouldn’t be allowed to serve together in combat.
The German soldier known as “Steamboat Willie” whom Corporal Upham shot at the end (57:06) was indeed the same one who killed Wade at the radar site earlier in the film. Reactors often mistake Willie for the Waffen-SS soldier who stabs Mellish to death (53:58), but if you look at photographs of the two side-by-side, you can see that they are two different men. While they both have similar haircuts, Steamboat Willie has a more gaunt appearance. There are unfortunately times in war where you might not have the time or resources to take prisoners, so you would either have to kill the enemy or let them go. The dilemma in this case is if you let the enemy go, they might just end up back on the battlefield to kill you or your buddies.
Since you’ve watched Saving Private Ryan, I really hope you ladies have the opportunity to watch Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I would also strongly recommend Hacksaw Ridge if you decide to watch another war movie in the future.
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One thing that you missed, the German guy they let go was not the same one who killed Melish later on with the knife, nor who let Upham live on the stairs. Those were two different people. The German guy that they let go was the one shooting at the US soldiers on the bridge and the one who ultimately killed Captain Miller (Tom Hanks). Upham was there to witness this, which is why he shot him at the end. In a way, it was the loss of Upham's innocence and the realization that, so times in war, you have to do the hard thing, something that may not feel morally right, simply to protect yourself and/or your fellow soldiers. You can almost see it in Upham's eyes, "We let you go once, and you repay us by killing them who let you go. Now you lost that chance." War is brutal.
Another thing is that the battle on the beach lasted for minutes in the movie, but hours in real life. It's funny to hear you both remarking that you hoped it would end soon, because that's exactly what most of those soldiers were hoping for as well, but they had a lot longer to go.
Also, at the end, you can hear in his wife's voice as she reads the name of Captain Miller that she's never heard of him. That means that poor Ryan has been carrying around the burden of everything that happened for all that time without being able to share it. So many vets do this and it's hard to fathom having to carry burdens like that alone.
My grandfather was a WWII vet, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, among others, and it wasn't until the end of his life that he decided he wanted to write down his experinces. I wish he had felt he could have shared them sooner as I'd love to have heard them. RIP to both our grandfathers.
The Sullivan Brothers, which were first mentioned why they were splitting up brothers, were 5 brothers that enlisted in the Navy at the start of the war. Their ship, the USS Juneau, was torpedoed and sank within a few minutes, and all 5 brothers sank with their ship. After that incident, they never allowed brothers to be together in combat.
They mixed that situation with the Niland brothers for this story.
@@mestupkid211986no, they only mentioned the Sullivan brothers, this movie is solely inspired by the Nilland brothers.
@@jazzmaan707 There is a great movie about them as well.
@@Uriahjw Yes, I saw that movie when I was a teenager, back in the 1970's. I think Myrna Loy or Ann Baxter was the mother. But, it was a great movie.
Just for some added context two of the brothers survived the sinking. One died the next day and one lasted 3-4 days. The survivors were finally rescued 10 days after the sinking. There were only 10 survivors out of a crew of 673. In addition there were 30 other sets of brothers serving on Juneau.
Dang, you're a real one if you still remember Medal of Honor. That's what we all played before Call of Duty.
man, i saw "medal of honor" and got a whirlpool of memories of playing that game. 'Allied assualt' is my favorite.
Straight up. I played all the OG MoH games on PC, but I'll never forget the first time I played the PS2 MoH game at my friends, and just being absolutely blown away by how real it looked and felt at that time. For the technology available back then, it was so incredible to see. I was probably like 13 I think (iirc it was released in 2002?)
My family had a similar real life Saving Private Ryan in WWII. My grandfathers 3 brothers were all killed and the Army came for my grandfather. My great Grandfather said no to the Army bc he had already lost 3 sons and had no one else to help him on the farm so the Army did not take my grandfather
The unit that Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) is leading are U.S. Army Rangers. The Rangers were highly trained elite infantry who excelled in special operations. For the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach, the 5th Ranger Battalion and three companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion were assigned to support the main assault force, which was 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division. Most of the U.S. troops who landed on D-Day were in units seeing combat for the first time. But there were, of course, veterans of earlier battles scattered throughout those units to provide them with leaders who had previous combat experience. Those experienced soldiers would often have been officers, like Captain Miller, and non-commissioned officers, like Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore). The scene where Horvath is collecting soil as a souvenir of his landing in France is a hint to the battles he has already been through. The tins of dirt in his pack are souvenirs of his service during the fighting in North Africa in 1942-43 and the fighting in Italy in 1943-44.
Later in the movie, when Miller and Horvath are remembering a soldier named Vecchio, Miller refers to him as "that kid that was with us at Anzio". Anzio was a particularly brutal campaign that took place near Rome in early 1944, during which the Ranger battalions suffered heavy casualties. If I remember correctly, there is also comment made by one of the Rangers stating that he had been serving under Miller "since Kasserine". Kasserine Pass was a battle in North Africa in early 1943, and it was just after Kasserine Pass that the 1st Ranger Battalion became the first U.S. Army Ranger unit to enter combat. All of these hints and comments are an indication that some of the Rangers, including Miller and Horvath, had already been through many months of intense combat prior to the events in the movie.
Great comment...though you did leave out the 1st Infantry Division...one of the most experienced US divisions...also being assigned to assault Omaha Beach, since the Allies understood how difficult that beach could be to take. Yes, the Rangers were there to assist the 29th ID, but so was the Big Red One.👍😁
@@iKvetch558 Very true. The 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division was right there in the first wave alongside the 116th Regt of the 29th Division, as were the bulldozers and DD tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion. I focused on the 116th Regt because that was the assault element being directly supported by the Rangers and would have been the other troops with whom Miller's Rangers were intermixed in the opening scene of the movie.
Based on the beach sector being given as Dog Green, it can be inferred that Miller and his Rangers were part of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, while the troops around them would have been 1st Battalion/116th Infantry Regiment.
The 1st Infantry Division, as you stated, was a veteran unit. They had fought in North Africa and Sicily prior to being moved to England to prepare for the invasion of France. By contrast, the 29th Infantry Division, as well as the 4th Infantry Division which was the assault force at the other American landing site, Utah Beach, were both green units entering combat for the first time on D-Day.
You do know that British and Canadian troops also went ashore in Normandy?
@@lorddaver5729 If you were addressing me, then yes, I do know that. The British and Canadian troops assaulting Sword, Gold and Juno beaches did, in fact, outnumber the U.S. troops landing on Utah and Omaha Beaches. And the British 6th Airborne Division parachuted into Normandy the night before, at about the same time as the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were making their jumps. The Normandy invasion could not have succeeded without the enormous contributions made by the British and Canadian ground forces, the Royal Navy, and the Royal Air Force.
A good point about the soldiers being "calm". They are not, they are numb and in shock. Long before PTSD was coined, the term was "shell shocked". Personally, I think that term describes better the situation so many soldiers suffered.
Yeah, personally, as someone who has experienced combat, I feel like "PTSD" and "Shell Shock" should be two different categories.
The immediate after effects of combat are a very different psychological experience compared to the longer term traumas that a veteran can carry with them. Soldiers can be rattled and in shock after combat, but have remarkably little long term trauma, and vice versa. They seem to be two very different psychological states.
the Captain's hand shaking is a symptom of PTSD
@@TheGoIsWin21 they mean the same thing its just PTSD sounds softer and less scary. George Carlin uses that exact example in one of his bits
@@eibbor171 I know they mean the exact same thing, that's why I pointed out that I believe there should be two different categories. It's almost like I wrote a paragraph explaining my thoughts on the issue.
@@TheGoIsWin21 oh my mistake i misunderstood you then im only running on 0hrs of sleep or the past 3 days. Not exactly at my sharpest mentally also letters are a bit blurry
5:03 - "So I wonder if something else is going to happen just based on [the game she played]. I'm not going to say because you're here. I'm not going to call it out early. I'll wait."
Proceeds to blab what's going to happen over the next minute.
ugg, stopped watching after the first 8 minutes of blabbing and not looking like they're serious.
This is the obligatory "now watch 'Band of Brothers' and then 'The Pacific' HBO miniseries" with optional making of / documentary for the former, post.
Also 'Masters of the Air'
What the German soldier says to Mellish at the end of the knife fight is haunting. It almost makes me regret learning German. He says:
"Give up, you don't stand a chance. Let's end this here. It will be easier for you, much easier. You'll see it will be over quickly."
That coupled with Mellish screaming “stop what’s happening!” Is so disturbing. You can hear the denial in mellish’s voice and him begging for his life it’s honestly amazing acting from both of them.
If I had one dollar for every time toy said "OH MY GOD!" I could retire early.
you mean after 5 minutes
It's funny how most people don't recognize that the almost-deaf soldier that knows Private Ryan is Ryan Hurst, who was also "Opie" from Sons Of Anarchy.
i know him as gary bertier "remember the titans"
This isn't just the best Steven Spielberg movie ever..It is the best movie ever😢😢❤❤
You both did really well. This was always going to be a tough watch. I'm also sorry for your loss Toy.
Just when I didn't think she could get any hotter she pulls out that Lucky Strike story! Friends used to do that in high school but I didn't know the origin of it!
When *Captain Miller* succumbs to his bullet wound they focus on his hand that is no longer shaking
This is one of the greatest War films ever, I will never forget seeing it theatrically with a group of veterans and afterwards everyone of them were crying.🙏
Fun fact: Tom Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this movie, but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show… which I’m glad because Hanks already won 2 Oscars before, so it was time to recognize other talent for a change 😊
Cut down on your talking about 90% please.
You first.
I am a combat vet. I don't know how to thank you for this. There are some. Mostly non vets who will not understand but I don't care. What you have both done is beyond any words that I have except to say how much this helps heal some of us. Thank you for this and God bless you both.
Thank you for your service and thank you for your kind words. ♥️♥️♥️
Tom Hanks: "We need support!!"
Vin Diesel: "I am, Groot!!"
Tom Hanks: 🤨🤨🤨
First off, Toy - condolences for your loss.
Your emotions here do you ladies credit. Very powerful reaction, thanks for sharing.
I would imagine the Sgt was collecting dirt from the places he had fought as a souvenir or trophy. Not unlike soldiers in Vietnam collecting NVA flags or other war material. Other trophies captured during WW2 included enemy weapons, helmets, swords, medals, personal documents and, in some cases skulls and/or teeth of enemy dead. In Vietnam some soldiers even collected ears.
My grandfather was in the Air Force, served in both Korea and WWII, and when this movie came out, he told me how accurate the opening beach sequence was. He didn't care for the rest of the movie, saying how unrealistic it was to send a group in after a single soldier. He lived well into retirement. I had issues with him as a person, but I thanked him for his service, all the same. RIP, Thomas Conley.
Thanks for watching this with us old veterans. Freedom isnt free
Yes, everyone seems to agree about that. But, if it's so, what does that say about the human species? How can one avoid concluding that the human being is a natural predator and parasite against his own? If he weren't, then freedom would be free. But it isn't, because you can count on other humans to try to rob their own kind of their freedom. Not even wolves or gorillas do that.
@@unwindout yup wolves don't have socialist or communist trying to screw everything up
yes, the game was Medal of Honor "Frontline" The game series was developed by DreamWorks and absolutely came about because of this movie.
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- I was a member of a "Best-Games"-club back in the day and one of the games I received through this membership was the game 'Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault'.
I managed to beat the game eventually, but with much less hair, if you know what I mean.
The beach landing part was hell, no pun intended.
But the part that frustrated me the most was the dang jungle.
They kept on sniping me from the trees, and at one point I got so mad I nearly threw my computer out the window.
It probably wasn't such a good idea to play on the hardest difficulty.
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That "earn it" at the end wasn't just a message to Ryan. It was a message to all of us.
AAAMEN!!!!
So true.
Toy, please do not apologize for being horrified with the war scenes. That is what war is. We should all be horrified. This movie presents this very well. War should not be something ANYONE wants. I am glad you watched this movie. I send you both a big hug.
"It is good that war is so horrible; lest we should all be far too used to it."
-Robert E. Lee
@@benschultz1784 Amen
Here, here!
Exactly. Only people that don't understand how gruesome and horrible war is want to be in it or want it to happen.
Message to R2D2: Blink twice if you are being held against your will...
Beep... Beep... Boop...
Somehow to me there's something very attractive about a woman cradling a plush R2D2....I'm such a geek.
New drinking game. Everytime Hanna touches her hair. Take a shot. Pass out from alcohol poisoning.☠️😆
Please drink responsibly.
New sober game. Every time Hannah touches me. Take a shot. Never get drunk and go about your day.
There were in fact four brothers. The Niland Brothers. Frederick “Fritz” Niland was believed to have survived where his three brothers were killed in battle. Fritz was found and he was sent back to the United States to serve out the rest of his service. Believing his three brothers were dead Fritz later found out that his brother Edward had in fact survived and was taken captive in Burma under the Japanese in a POW camp.
Hannah! Not sure if you remember how I described my feelings about seeing this movie. It was my birthday, and I really wanted to see it, so you were right there with us…agonizing through the movie, at barely 2 months old, I’m sure you don’t remember much about that day lol…except maybe me blubbering and crying my eyes out at all military personnel I encountered the rest of that see day!!!
This was the second movie you attended! The first was The X-Files movie!
I am sincerely proud of BOTH 💕of you for enduring such a gut wrenching work! Reminds us why they will Forever be the Greatest Generation!!
21:00 RIP TOM SIZEMORE HELL OF AN ACTOR HE WAS.🫡
The game probably was one of the medal of honors or call of duty. This movie came out first, games were inspired by the movie, not the other way around.
It was Medal of Honor: Allied Assault from 2002, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, he just recreated the intensity from the movie for the game.
A true OG for remembering Medal of Honor!
What this reaction needed was a OMG counter 😂
One Of My All Time Favorite Movies, Great Reactions Ladies ❤❤
Thanks so much for watching with us!
Medal of Honor had D-Day as the first battle and it was quite genuine. I played that game too a log time ago.
Listening to the predictions of the letters, and the coming to the doors, and knowing what's in store: priceless.
Medal of Honor: Front Line. One of the best damn games to ever come out
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” 😊❤❤ Epic - Classic- Spielberg genius in the 70’s. Wow! One of the greats of all time.
The sound of those approaching tanks in the theater: unbelievably intense.
The opening scene Ryan goes to the grave of his brother, at the end he's at the grave of Capt. Miller's grave. His family is directly behind him at the first grave site, at the end, his family remains at a respectful distance, except for his wife who has no idea who Miller is. Ryan went home and never told anyone about that day in Ramell. WW II was fought by men; the average age of U. S. combat personnel was 26 years old. The SGT. in the assault boat wasn't putting food in his mouth, that was chewing tobacco. They were in very rough seas and it took hours for the soldiers to disembark the troop ships into the Higgins Boats. Not knowing when they would ever have a good cooked meal again, many of the soldiers ate a hearty breakfast before disembarking. The first group to load into the boats bobbed around in the water for several hours before heading toward the beach. Many get seasick during that time. The vomit wasn't the main problem, the blood in the boats created a psychological problem when the boats returned to bring more soldiers to the beach. In Vietnam, the average age of combat personnel was 22, not 19 as many people think. Also, the largest number of U. S. personnel killed in action in Vietnam those who enlisted not draftees.
Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb".
Capt. Miller said he taught at Thomas Alva Edison High School. That's a Spielberg paying homage to Thomas Alva Edison High School in Philadelphia, PA. 54 former students from that school were killed in action in the Vietnam War, more than any other school in the nation.
The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood.
Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie.
There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers.
The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier. Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill.
"The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. Unfortunately, you didn't include that in your video presentation. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment.
There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. ClarkChairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984
When this movie released, several members of my family went to see it because my uncle was there at the landing at 18 years old.
He was with us in the theater, but had to walk out after only a minute in tears.
All he would say is, "That was how it was, I can't look at it."
We all left and it wasn't until the movie made it to DVD that I actually watched it.
He refused to ever watch it, said there is no way.
That landing was a terrible event that effected so many so profoundly.
I had a Pacific veteran tell me that the only thing the opening scene got wrong/couldn't encapsulate about the amphibious landings he'd been part of was the smell.
Girl on the left didn't seem to have much reaction and was just content to play with her hair continuously for 2 hours........ maybe next time put it up in a ponytail?
For the Medal of Honor Frontlines reference, you get a like.....great reactions too.
Thanks so much for watching with us!
Empire of the Sun is one of my favorite movies of all time!
Game? That's a real event
The woman who played Ryan's wife was one of the most stunning women around when she was younger. Check out Black Narcissus for the truth of this statement. :)
Young ladies, I understand that it’s just a movie but everything you see in the opening scene happened to real men on that fateful day in June of 1944
I’m 40 now so I’m old lol but my grandfather & two great uncles fought in WWII; as a vet myself I’d like to say for some of us, this isn’t just a movie.
As a former officer, I’ve led American boys into combat (honor of my lifetime) so I very much feel for Tom Hank’s’ character & how the deaths of your men can impact you.
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The “real war” was in the Pacific, the USMC treated men with “battle fatigue” the same as they would a man who was wounded.
The Marines went thru hell during WWII, everyone focuses so much on the ETO that the Marines’ actions in the South Pacific are a bit overshadowed as much as it “pains” me to say that lol as an Army man
@@NP-ui3tr then you should already know that the Army fought in both in Europe and the Pacific; both were brutal. The Army bore the brunt of WW2 as it does with almost every war.
"Blood In Blood Out" probably has one the most devastating deaths, but one of my favorite gangster flicks. Another 3 hour movie that seems to zoom by
The game was Medal of Honor Frontline. Intense!!!!
Toy had 115 “oh my god”s
Omaha Beach was particularly brutal because they had to land during low-tide to avoid all the beach obstacles which meant they had to travel across about 300 yards of open beach. 3 Football fields. In the movie it makes it seem like it was more like 100 yards. Many of the wounded men drowned as the tide came in. Was literally fish in a barrel for the defenders. The fact that those men managed succeed is a miracle.
You see that life is not a game. 😢 truth. 😢
You where dead right about the lucky cigarette. That surprised me watching this.
Spielberg movie, must do one of his firsts, "Duel."
That is one needy cat!
Last year I went to Normandy, France to see the place where my grandfather survived. I often think about how I'm alive today...
My paternal grandfather fought in some important battles of WWII as well as in Korea. Never knew him, he died when I was very young.
You recognized the German captive they let go but he's the one who shot *Captain Miller* right before you realized it was the German from earlier. The same *Captain Miller* who let him go...
But he wasn't the guy on the stairs, like they thought. They look similar but it wasn't.
This was a great reaction ✌🏽💪🏽💯👍
Thanks so much for watching with us!
Fun fact: Tom Hanks was nominated for a Golden Globe for this movie but lost out to Jim Carrey for the Truman Show… which I’m glad because Hanks already won 2 Oscars before, so it was time to recognize other talent for a change
Feel bad for you getting ptsd flashbacks from the game. Please call your local VA for possible survivor benefits...your country owes you.
When you watch this. Makes you look at 90 year old ww2 vets in a larger and more respectful light. They were teenagers and this was what many chose to go.
My grandfather and great uncle fought in World War II and were fortunate enough to return after years of being prisoners of war. Their story is our legacy. I grew up and was taught to be a pacifist almost my whole life. I am now 50 years old. And I am very often grateful to the Allies who liberated us, even if it was not my time. Love and peace from germany.
Love and peace to you as well.
"He will fight savagely". In his official message to the troops, Eisenhower didn't mince words, regarding the enemy. He owed them honesty.
15:20 the soil is meant to convey the character had amphibious landings in the North African Campain and the Sicilian/Italian campaign. He's a veteran of a long bloody war.
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I said Toy, start squeezing that pillow. Sorry to hear about your grandfather😢 Love you!
My grandfather was on Omaha beach that morning. First wave.
My grandfather was at Normandy, but in the second wave, he lost his left eye. Thankfully, he made it home. I also had both great-grandfathers in WWI, more specifically in the Battle of the Somme. I'm ex-army. It's a great movie, but it 1000% depicts the worst of war. I can personally relate to the Wade scene; I lost two buddies in Afghanistan, and I felt a certain type of way. But POWs are POWs, despite what we feel.
My grandfather was with the Engineers, not the 1st Wave, but still in the game.
@Badger.AD.1066 Every member of my father's side has fought in every major war all the way back to the Revolutionary War. Father and uncle in Vietnam, 1st Air Calvary, I was in Somalia. My son is the only one who escaped war.
@@lw3918 I understand what you are saying. Almost every male member of my family has served. I'm originally from Ireland, and I have been tracing my family tree. I had relatives who were at Vinegar Hill during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, where the Irish and French fought against the British. I also had a relative who fled to the U.S. just as the Civil War broke out. He docked in New York, and not long after, he was assigned to the Fighting 69th. He never married or had kids, and when the letters stopped coming home, it wasn't long before I found out he died at Bull Run. That's probably the most significant thing in my family.I've got both his letters; they have been passed down since my grandmother died. She passed them on to me, so I get it. Though we Irish haven't invaded anyone, we seem to fight a lot in wars just so we can stick it to the crown. 😂 That's a little joke, but everyone who took part in the campaign- we wouldn't be where we are without their great sacrifices. That's why, out of all the war movies, *Saving Private Ryan* holds a special kind of place for me personally. I've visited both camps, Auschwitz and Dachau; it's truly a strange feeling standing in those camps. Every year, I visit Normandy; at least I can actually do that.
@@timothyforce1949 still a brave man 💂♂️
If ever you feel like you are oppressed or treated unfairly, just remember the first 15 minutes of this movie and think about how that is something that you never have to go through. Does the trick for me every time.
Interesting seeing someone watching the opening D Day scene after only seeing it from the video game first, lol. That girl is a keeper.
Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches underwater, and flamethrowers not really exploding that way in 1944. One thing to know, pay no mind at all to that man who took off his helmet on the beach at 10:06 and then got shot in the head...that next shot would have killed him even if he had kept his helmet on. The helmets of WW2 would almost never stop a bullet, except under very very rare circumstances.
The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent behind enemy lines to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured. The 4th brother was found and notified by an Army Chaplain, and was sent home, but as far as the brothers none of what happened in this movie happened in real life.
There really was a Company C of the 2nd Rangers that landed on Omaha Beach, but they were commanded by Captain Ralph Goranson, and they did not land quite where it was shown in the film. Probably the most important historical thing that Spielberg got wrong is that he had the boats that carried the Rangers to the beach being driven by Americans...they were not. On D-Day, the boats that carried the US Rangers to the beach were driven by UK sailors of the Royal Navy. There are many other things in the film that are not accurate to the real history of D-Day, but that one really fails to honor some of the men that fought and died at Omaha Beach, so it is definitely the one most worth noting.
The location at the beginning and end with the French and US flags is the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial...located in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Most of the US servicemen killed in the 2 and a half month long Normandy Campaign are buried in this cemetery...a total of 9388 burials.
Much effort was spent on creating a decoy landing at Calais, far to the northeast, directly across from Dover, where the Channel is narrowest.
Lady in orange outfit, did you comb your hair for 3 hours during all movie? thats only i saw
War films to watch nexttt
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Forrest Gump (I mean Gump gets drafted🤷🏽♂️)
- All quiet on the west side
-Midway
-1917
Not sure if you caught it but the first Ryan they meet in the town who breaks down in tears was played by Nathan Fillion from Firefly/Serenity...
Producer's note: they did. If you haven't watched their Firefly reactions, I recommend them. Some of our favorite videos.
Ryan, who is a private, and who must be saved.👍
ZIP IT! 😂
A call went out for pictures of the Normandy countryside; snapshots poured in, showing small roads and structures which went undetected by aerial reconnaissance.
The metal cans of dirt and sand are from the beaches that the unit the Sergeant was with and had taken part in amphibious assaults onto during the war up to that point. The US forces landed in North Africa, then Sicily, and although many US and Allied troops landed in Italy following the takeover of Sicily, the rangers depicted here as well as the 1st Infantry Division that also took part in those same assaults in North Africa and Sicily went to England to train up for the Normandy landing, so the Sergeant has no can from the invasion into Italy. A little more trivia from units that took part in Normandy, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into Sicily, Normandy and Holland (Operation Market-Garden (SEP 1944) earning 3 Combat jump stars on their jump wings, whereas the 101st Airborne Division only jumped into Normandy and Holland earning 2 combat jump stars.
Fantastic movie from Steven Spielberg, this man just knows how to make fantastic movies. I know exactly what game you are talking about, it is, Meal of Honour, I played it on the PS2, great game. FUBAR...Fu**ed Up Beyond All Recognition.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. Outstanding leadership skills to dampen the friction between Horvath and Reiben.
6. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
7. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder". A movie I'm in briefly.
Medal of Honor: frontline on PS2 I remember that game lol literally exact same opening sequence
Amazing movie! But difficult to watch, so thank you both for reacting to this classic.
Enough with the hair. Jeezz
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Is she talking about Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault?
Saw this movie, then played that game couple so years later.......
wooof!
Medal of Honor yes, but it was Frontline
There's an article at Den of Geek which may be interest to you, titled "How Saving Private Ryan Influenced Medal of Honor and Changed Gaming"
Lucky Strike was introduced in 1871 at Richmond, Virginia, as chewing tobacco. The name came from a gold rush era phrase that identified the very few who were “lucky” enough to “strike” gold. In short it was meant to mean only the best top-quality products. The “lucky” cigarette is a single upside-down cigarette inside of a fresh pack that's saved for last. This tradition may have begun in World War II-US soldiers would flip Lucky Strike cigarettes upside down and smoke the end with the logo first to prevent enemy troops from identifying them by their cigarette butts.
This is a quote...I played a game like this😂😂
Respectfully….lady on the right is fine lol😂. And I would recommend the movie Dungeons and Dragons: Honor among thieves😁
Interesting tidbit: the sniper shot, through the enemy scope, is a throw back to Vietnam sniper Carlos Hathcock, who took out an enemy sniper, through the scope, at 760 yrds
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LOL, ok, yup, she said it......MOH.
Then it was Battlefield 1942......for a loooooong time.
My grandpa on my mom's side was in WWII as he was forced at pew pew point to be in the German luftwaffe (air force) or he'd have been shot. He ended up fighting all over Europe in France, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Netherlands and during a battle he was sharing a foxhole with another guy whwn a grenade was thrown into it and it blew the other guy's head off and my grandpa was taken as a POW by the Americans. He was then sent here to the States where he stayed as a POW for the remainder of the war and then was allowed to go back to Germany after the war was over. Then in 1965, my grandparents, along with my oldest aunt and my mom (who was 2 years old), immigrated to the United States because my grandpa enjoyed it here while he was a POW. My mom eventually became a US citizen in high school and my grandpa tried to become a citizen at one point but ended up not being allowed to become a citizen due to not having any of the paperwork from his time in the war that showed all of the places he served, what he did in the war etc. My grandpa passed away in 2005 at the age of 86. Any time my grandparents came to visit us or we came to visit them, out of respect for my grandpa, us kids weren't allowed to play with any type of toys that were considered "weapons" nor were we allowed to talk about anything war related or ask him about the war.
Fearless Captain Hannah will lead us into combat with the battle cry "TRY NOT TO DIE!!!"
PTSD was recognized but in WW II it was called battle fatigue and in WW I it was called shell shock.