Crying in Pain Reacting to Saving Private Ryan
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The sniper wasn't praying for forgiveness, he was praying for accuracy...
The sniper was praying for the sole of his target.
"Oh my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight."
I beg to differ, he was definitely praying for accuracy.
He was definitely praying for fighting prowess and to be able to do his best for the men around him. He most definitely was not praying for his enemies in any way shape or form. He was praying in essence, to be able to kill his enemies fast and efficiently.
@@johngravelyn8050 soul*
He was a man of God he was praying for the souls of the soldiers he kills he was asking God for forgiveness as he kills
When Ryan's wife comes up and reads the name on the headstone, there's no sign of any recognition. That's when you realize Ryan has never told the story to anyone in his family. He's just handled it alone.
Wow i never thought about that
People who go through a war rarely ever talk about what they experienced, many of the bravest amongst us have enough humility that they feel they don't even deserve accolades for their deeds, this documentary here on the Victoria Cross is a perfect example of it, the main focus of the show was Major Robert Cain who won a Victoria Cross but never even mentioned it to his daughter (she never found out about it until after he died)
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My grandfather was the same way. He never told my grandma or my mom about anything he saw or did. I found out later by digging through old papers and letters of his that he was in the 175th Combat Engineers attached to the 8th Army during the Battle of the Bulge. They caught the spearhead of the offensive and did everything they could to slow the Germans down. 40 years later he would still wake up screaming at night.
I realized that a while back and it makes Ryan a HUGE piece of shit
My Grandfather never told anyone about what he went through in WW2. Until I came back from a conflict. He set me down and told me about his experiences in the Pacific in the 77th US infantry Pacific theater.
The two "German" soldiers that were surrendering and were shot were saying the were conscripted and were forced to fight by the Germans. They were actually Czech.
they were saying : "I didn't kill anyone.. ".. other European nations who were occupied by nazis were forced to fight or be killed..
@@petrmilota6398 In the military there is a command of NO Quarter's given which means no prisoners, because you have only so many men in the mission and can not spare to use one to guard prisoners, and complete the mission successfully. We were over run at our firebase and were given a no quarters given standing order so no prisoners were taken. Vietnam May 1968 firebase Elvira (Hun) 199th LIB. So you see it does not matter who, or what they said No Quarters, Sin Loy (spelling?) Vietnamese for sorry about that.
@@josephrichmond6253 efficient..but wrong
@@petrmilota6398 oh yes, no doubt that it’s morally wrong, but sometimes morality has to take a backseat to practicality. This is why historically lower ranked soldiers could use the excuse of “I was following orders” post WWII though that excuse no longer works.
@@petrmilota6398 to be fair it's not like they'd take armed guard off them nevermind trust them with a rifle. They're there to move boxes for the Germans. They can try to escape, but then their family dies.
I was a Navy Corpsman, I served 10 years, 8 with Marines. I saw this on a Tuesday afternoon. There were 12 of us. Myself, and 11 others, all veterans. At the end of the movies, the house lights went up. All of us had teary eyes. One old man stated the following- "As far as war movies go, that was the most accurate depiction I've ever seen . As for the ACTUAL D-Day, it didn't come close"
His hat said it all- D-Day Survivor, Purple Heart. I have always deferred to his expert advice. As bad as you think it was as shown in the movie, it was much, much worse.
Good to hear from you "Doc", I hope you got them all home.
Tom Boyte,
GySgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
0331 Infantry, Machine Guns
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
HMC '87-'07
The front assault workerd because men were willing to die for it
My grandfather, also a Navyman was present at D-Day. He was on a minesweeper. He only ever told his war stories to me, I was the only one who ever asked him about them. He said that the movie was very accurate, but nothing else.
@@JUDOCON11I mean, they also were dropped off on a beach with nothing but ocean and a rising tide behind them. Kinda had to push forward off the beach and to whatever cover they could find to survive.
There are three scenes in this film that just kill me.
1. The mother, collapsing because ... she knows.
2. The older man in the beginning overwhelmed by his memories. And then later in the film, self-doubt.
3. The death of the medic. Just so incredibly heartbreaking.
Captains death for me was the biggest tear jerker in the movie along with the scene where Ryan asks his family if he’s a good man
When Wade dies, when Capt. Miller dies and when Ryan asks his wife if he's been a good man....kills me every single time.
Re: your questions about the D-Day sequence att the beginning . . .the Allies landed on five beaches. Omaha Beach was the worst of the five, and the Dog Green sector of the beach (where the movie sequence was located) was one of the two worst sectors on Omaha. Part of the reason it was so bad was that a refitted and experienced German infantry division moved into position at Omaha not long before D-Day; most intelligence briefings still had an understrength and overstretched infantry division covering four of the five beaches including Omaha.
They had to land on the beaches; you couldn't do it all by airborne (parachute) drops. Bombers *were* sent out to attack the coastal defenses before the landings; but those attacks were mostly ineffective, in part because of the bombers' inability to clearly sight targets and a desire to not unload on their own transports.
The Omaha Beach sequence of the movie went on for like 15 minutes. In reality, it took them over six hours to advance off the beach and onto the heights above.
Another contributing factor to the murderous landing was the inability of the Allies to land a significant amount tanks on the beaches. Almost all of them sank.
Thank you! Very helpful info.
Also - in the days/hours leading up to the invasion, bombers WERE supposed to soften up the defenses as well as leave craters on the beach for cover. Unfortunately, a combination of bad weather and relatively primitive technology made precision bombing exceedingly difficult (if not impossible) and a lot of the bombers dropped their bombs well inland from the landing zones.
@@meghanmonroe Completely agree!
Americans only committed to war in Europe in 1943. The Brits and Russians did most of the fighting. Don't believe Hollywood hype.
I was 17 when this came out and I went to the midnight showing. The only open seat was front row center, I sat next to an elderly couple. After the first 7 minutes they both left.
When I left after the movie the couple was sitting on the bench in the lobby and the husband was crying. Everyone kept walking by, I sat down next to them. He had his World War two 28th infantry division vet hat next to him . His wife told me that they called their daughter to pick them up. However she lives in Chicago and we were more than two hours north of there. As we waited he was inconsolable.
I sat with them and waited for their daughter, walking with them to her car.
I had a panick attack while i was watching this film for the first time.
Thank you for being there for him. God bless.
@@jackprescott9652 I watch this one and Schindlers list yearly.
Thank you
You did the right thing to stay with them. Thank you for being descent.
The Omaha beach scene was depicted with such accuracy that it made government officials to set up a special call-line for veterans among other things, when this movie came out.
I remember hearing about some guys grandpa going to see the movie, he had to leave the theater before the opening sequence was even over because he could smell the Diesel fuel. And he wasn't even at D-Day, he was a marine in the pacific.
It was far from historically accurate. Definitely an impressive scene, but, not accurate.
@@Gunnar001 didn't say 'historically accurate' just accurate, in a way that makes one think of the brutality and certain amount of chaos that's in the situation, showing dismemberment and otherwise hard to look at action. And just the sound of battle, no music. That's more of the point of my comment.
@@Gunnar001 Then how come people who were ACTUALLY THERE say it's impeccably accurate?
I think they know better than you. Do not sit here and pretend that you were on that beach June 4th 1944. You weren't. Shut up.
@@pyro1047 Some of those landings in Pacific were very similar so I can see him making the connections. Peililu and Saipan come to mind.
To answer your question @6:21, there were paratroopers dropped in the night before but they were miss dropped all over. There’s a miniseries from hbo called Band of Brothers that tells that side of the story and it is also a work by Speilberg and Tom Hanks like this movie and it is phenomenal and a must watch. The beginning of each episode the real men depicted who survived speak and at the end of the series you get names to faces
Highly recommended!
I don't think she could handle it. Gotta read the room.
@@MoMoMyPup10 read what room? All I mentioned was a highly regarded mini series that follows the question asked at the time frame I stamped that she had asked. No one is demanding she watches or else they are unsubscribing. Relax
It's been 52 years since I got back from Vietnam. I was almost 20. It's been with me every day since. You just learn to live with it. War is the stupidest thing humans do.
And yet you did it?
@@asafoster7954 Maybe he was Drafted
@@christhegamer7082 did you know drafted troops have a constitutional right to refuse to bear arms?
@@asafoster7954 yeah and then go to prison when they refuse.
@@CaptFreedumb no you have a right no not bear arms lol
Every Teenager in school should be made to watch this movie. That generation sacrificed everything so you can worry about your pronouns.
As a Canadian growing up we did have to watch this in high school! Part of history class.
I was a teenager when I first saw this movie; this movie hits you VERY hard
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So you basically want children learn history based on movies.
@@johnkimble4119 - this movie is no where near the true hideous nature of war. But why waste life learning about imposed pronouns that do nothing to improve the self and society? and in fact are another control method to tear us further apart. But feel free to use yer pronouns on your own self.
Lauren, you're not the only person who cried during this movie. Both of my sons spent time in the Middle East during the war and it was a very difficult time for me. My sons came home safe but it's too easy to imagine what might have happened. I love your passion and will watch you again.
@@Douxidoux that does not negate the fact that my sons lives were in jeopardy.
I was stationed in Germany when this film was released and knew several men in the Deutsche Bundeswehr. We all got together and went to see this film, not knowing what we were walking into. That opening Normandy scene was horrific to us, but what devastated us even more were the older people in the audience who broke down and even tried to get out of the theater. We jumped up and helped several of them to the lobby. I remember one of my German buddies saying, "Our grandparents were all crazy." as the scenes unfolded before our eyes.
Little did we know that a few years after this film was released we'd be watching on TV as planes flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was when the second plane hit the second tower that I knew my war had just arrived and that it was now my time to do as our grandfathers had done. I have no idea how I made it through it all alive when so many of my buddies came home under an American Flag, but here I am. This film, and other ones like it, show people who never see combat what others endure on their behalf.
What a disgusting comment where you celebrate USA’s terrorism that killed millions of people in the Middle East. The USA committed a far worse crime than 9/11.
@@DanielMazahreh Cry me a river. No one is innocent. Not even you.
@@briangreen9677 Unlike your pro-war ignorant @$$, I didn't support any of the USA's war crimes that killed millions of people in multiple continents especially the Middle East. And that is how you respond to such genocide? "Cry me a river?" Please don't behave like a Holocaust denier.
The message to earn it isn’t just for Ryan, it’s for all of us. To earn the sacrifices of the greatest generation, the sacrifices of all who fight for us.
11:16 those soldiers aren’t German , there Czech conscripts forced by the Germans to fight. So the entire time he’s saying “ I’m not German , I’m Czech , I didn’t kill anyone , I’m Czech.” And yes that was a whole war crime the Americans committed.
Also fun fact but the invading American and Canadian units were instructed not to take axis prisoners within the first 24 hours of the Normandy invasion.
@@Brandawn69 it’s still pretty much a war crime. If it was vice versa it would’ve been a war crime.!
@@thathalflatino not debating if it was a war crime or not, it 100% was. Just an overlooked one since nobody was gonna bat an eye during the DDAY invasion.
To the American soldiers, they were just more Germans. And the Germans had a bad habit of firing until they ran out of ammo, killing as many GIs as they could, then surrendering. So there was little sympathy for them among the Allied soldiers.
That was a scene in a movie. It wasn't real. It's a movie, they're actors.
A frontal beach was needed to open up a beachhead to allow future reinforcements and supplies. Even if the paratroopers who landed during the night hit all their marks the casualties during the beach landings were still going to be high.
Military planners knew going in the first waves landing on the beaches would receive high casualties and that’s why most of them (with the exception of the Rangers and some veterans of the North African campaign) were troops who had little to no combat experience.
The reading to this was they wouldn’t go in already scared out of their minds knowing it was going to be a slaughter going in. The fresh troopers will take the initial brunt of the beach defenses and try to open up enough holes in the defenses for the veterans to exploit in the following waves.
They didn't know that, actually. Their intel had told them their bombing and naval shelling had destroyed the fortifications. The paratroopers were dropped to disrupt reinforcements and take out artillery pre sighted on the beach (Band of Brothers shows this, with the Battle at Brecourt)
@@mestupkid211986 That's true, but planners had factored in that casualties with the first couple waves would still be heavy even if the pre-landing shellings and bombing raids did their jobs perfectly. They took the term Fortress Europe seriously.
For the most part the shelling and bombing did their job pretty well on most of the beaches with the exception of Omaha where German resistance was at its strongest.
@@Tullaryx They actually didn't take the Fortress Europe seriously. The Rear Admiral even made a jab about it, the shellings at Normandy were very, VERY subpar if you compare it even to the US in the pacific. The sky was overcast, so the bombings completely missed. You can even look at the other sectors, Gold or Sword for instance, where the British basically just walked in, and the Germans considered the British the bigger threat.
It's strange how someone you meet briefly, in this case less than 24 hours, can impact you forever.
Ryan lived with Captain Miller's words in his head, every single day of his life.
50 years later, he finally gets an opportunity to thank him, and pay his respects.
It's awe-inspiring.
It's as if Ryan is acting as a stand-in for the rest of us, because we can never repay those men for what they did.
Not only for an imprisoned Europe, but for the billions yet unborn.
They saved humanity.
Operation Overlord was on of the most complicated military operations of all time. This is the ugliness of an apposed landing. There was paratroopers behind the beach, at both ends of the operation. Naval fire support was supplied by all free navies. Destroyers were running themselves aground trying to get fire on pill boxes. The tanks that were supposed to support sank before they reached the beach, sand bars had troops nearly swim for hundreds yards to get ashore. As much as went right, there was a long list of things that went wrong. The German garrison Omaha Beach (where 2,0000 died) were doing anti invasion drills so unfortunately were able to go active almost instantly. The herculean effort that was this operation a person could study for decades.
One thing that sneaks by is that the German soldier who shoots Capt Miller (Tom Hanks) is the same soldier that Miller let go earlier in the movie. Upham sees this & reacts to it... and when Upham confronts the soldiers at the end, it's that soldier who stands up to him (because he knows him somewhat & thinks he won't do anything), and whom Upham shoots; finally getting it / getting over his "baptism by fire".
the air bombing of the omaha beach missed, as did most of the navy shelling. Also the germans had artillery a mile away raking the beach. Everything that could go wrong went wrong at omaha. The landing actually went on for 6 hours, not 20 minutes as shown here. General bradley thought about giving up on the omaha beach landing, but that would have meant leaving behind the wounded already there, so they kept pouring men onto the beach. Finally the navy ships went in to hit the germans at close range, nearly beaching the ships.
*USS Texas gangster lean intensifies*
@@DerpyTurtle0762 haha I was about to bring this up! The captain of the Texas flooded the ballast tanks on one side to get more angle on the guns to effectively hit targets farther away. She is now in dry dock in Galveston undergoing a $32,000,000 restoration project. The last remaining Dreadnaught in the world and 110 years young.
This movie has that effect on just about everyone who watches it. This is how war really is. It's ugly, personal and in most cases unnecessary. Small piece of advice based on your reaction, watching Schindler's List might put you into therapy. That said it's a movie that like this one everyone should see at least once. Schindler's List is another masterpiece by Spielberg that reveals the levels of inhumanity we as a species are capable of and the grace and courage more of us should have.
I have seen Schindler's list. The first time I was fine, and every subsequent time, I sobbed
a chilling complement film to Schindler's List is "Conspiracy", an amazing glimpse at the cold-blooded minds of the planners of the holocaust. Shows how demented and black-hearted that very intelligent people can be.
I cry every single time. Doesn’t matter how many times I see a reaction
You would have to be very strange to not cry. I am a 63-year-old “tough guy” and I still shed tears every time I see it. I think a lot of people don’t let themselves go to where they’re feeling watching this. You risked letting yourself feel your way through this movie.
9:31 they are military chaplains, it's their job to provide spiritual comfort to soldiers both on and off the battlefield. That soldier he was praying over was clearly dying and he wanted to make things right with God before it was to late, so maybe think about it before saying something dumb.
Fr bruh shit did pissed me off tbh
Thank you!
Any time someone watches this movie and acts condescending towards Upham, I ask them what they do when a heated argument happens near them in public.
Most people curl into their phone or their restaurant plate and would either run or do nothing if violence broke out. Most of us will never know how we'd respond to real violence, but we should at least be honest with ourselves or try to prepare ourselves.
Thank you for watching this movie even though it was at times very difficult to watch, I cried right along with you. I just found your channel and think you are an amazing reactor. I look forward to more movie reactions!
Band of Brothers the HBO series tells the true story of Easy Company of the 506th of the 101st Airbourne and features the real men who survived. Hacksaw Ridge is also the true story of Desmond Doss. My uncle died serving in the Army Airforce in WW2 in Europe. A great uncle died in WW1. My father was wounded in Korea. Freedom is never free and we are indebted to those who sacrificed to preserve it, that is why we all should earn it.
It’s commendable that you understand how uppom feels cause there are a lot of reactors who call him a coward even though he wasn’t trained for combat
D-day at Normandy was so brutal. I've seen vets say it's the closest possible thing you can put on film to the real deal.
They had to change landing points because of weather, and the planes couldn't make it. (if I remember correctly)
Just found this channel due to the algorithm. Very intense and raw reaction. This movie can do that to you. One of the most accurate WWII movies ever made. I'm officially a fan of the channel. You're a sweetheart and you took one on the chin with this one. Love this movie but even I don't watch it just to watch it. Reactions alone are enough to make me cry.
I look forward to more reactions from you. You have a great personality and you tell it like it is in your analysis. "I like that in a pilot" Viper - Top Gun. 😉
Good on ya. Can't wait for your next reaction.
I love The GI who has hearing damage. He cracks me up every time. There should be an Oscar for bit part players, Upham is experiencing COGNATIVE BLINK. His brain couldn't comprehend the situation and shut off. He wasn't trained as a RANGER he was a TRANSLATOR. It makes sense and is not uncommon in war.
3:24 Welcome to Normandy. The depiction of D-Day in this film is widely regarded as the most gruesomely accurate depiction of the invasion to date. It is accurate in many levels, in fact most agree the only unrealistic part of it was that it only lasted 20 minutes.
6:30 They tried bombers and they dropped thousands of men behind lines but weather conditions were so poor that both paratroopers and bombing runs were so far off their marks they might as well have not happened at all.
"Guilt Complex - The Movie" bruh, you hit it right on the head. I'm dying from that - great movie, excellent reaction.
I saw this in theaters when it came out. Never seen the crowd so silent, if not weeping (except maybe for Shindler's List). Pretty sure there were some WW2 vets in the audience.
Cries...laughs, "This is not funny""...cries again ❤️
I cried badly on Saving Private Ryan badly.. in 2012. And I watch each year almost after that.. each time! I cried. Really saddest war movie ever!
I would recommend watching Band of Brothers as well. It will give you an idea of some of the other things going on behind the lines and what the soldiers had to deal with.
Well done watching such a powerful movie, everyone should see this to understand just how difficult it was for all the young men who experienced it . I admire your open emotional response.
"Nobody else knows the words either, that's fine" (German trying to sing American National Anthem)That was a hilarious line Chicago!
Thank you for this amazing reaction video, I felt bad for you having to go through this. The two scenes that get me teary every time is when the mother sees the official car coming down the dirt road to tell her three of her son's have died and she collapses onto the floor as her legs give way. The other is the death of the medic when he keeps saying he wants to go home and asking for his mom, heart wrenching. Incredible acting throughout this film.
Believe me, you’re not the only one crying when watching this movie. It really touches your heart. You should watch “Schindler List” also an amazing movie, And directed also by Steven Spielberg.
This is what i call A REACTION
I went to see this with my uncle. I knew he had been in the army and had been wounded in WW2, but he never talked about it. At the end of the movie he was ghost white and drenched in sweat. We sat together all night, it was the first time he had told anyone about his experiences fighting his way from the beach at Normandy till the surrender a year later. A few months later my aunt confided in me that he had talked about it with her. She was relieved, his screaming nightmares had finally stopped. This movie brought closure, understanding and peace to so many veterans who were traumatized by their experiences.
27:50 always reminds me of a medic that although I didnt know personally, slept in the same hooch as me and right across from me actually.
This guy was a medic and one of my mechanic buddies from my company went on a patrol with his unit and was hit by an IED. Apparently the only person we lost on that IED strike was that medic that slept right across from me and my buddy said that his last words before he died was if everyone was ok. I have never forgotten him.
Also, my buddy that was on that patrol committed suicide in 2018, so there's that too...
Now you see what your grandparents' generation went through and did to ensure you have the life and freedoms you have. Many other servicemen have gone through equal horrors to do the same. Never forget what was paid, and still is being paid, to let our country have what it does.
This is often referred to as the "Good War." In truth, no war is ever really good. At best they may be necessary. A rather different WW 2 movie made the same year as this, but set in the Pacific, is The Thin Red Line. It's not as well known as Saving Pvt Ryan, but is worth a look. The 1962 film The Longest Day gives the big picture of D-Day. For a German perspective on the war, consider Das Boot (1981), Stalingrad (1993), and Downfall (2004).
Of course the Third Reich was one of the most evil regimes in human history and their war crimes should never be forgotten. That said, a lot of folks forget that the Germans were mostly impressionable young men, subjected to heavy indoctrination and many of whom were drafted.
And really what else are you gong to do when a foreign Army is razing your homeland to ash? The Allies weren’t 100% innocent, either. Dresden, anyone?
It’s very easy to demonize the Germans of that time and consider every one of them to be cartoonishly evil and as utterly insane as Hitler and Goehring and the like. Hindsight is 20/20, after all. An honest examination of history requires more nuisance.
I cried too and it's nothing to feel ashamed about. The film is truly a classic and explores the full range of humanity in the most extreme circumstances possible. Your reaction simply shows your humanity. God bless you ❤
One has to remember that this policy was driven by the fact that on January 12th, 1943,
Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa, were informed that all 5 of their sons had been killed in the sinking of the Cruiser USS Juneau.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I shed tears just typing that out.
absolutely correct
You're absolutely right when you said that you clearly didn't understand what was going through most of the flic.
High on the Culturally Clueless Scale.
Don't they teach history in Chicago schools??
Or did you sleep through your classes?
You are so right, Jeffrey. She represents a generation that is absolutely, totally clueless and hopelessly naive. They have been raised so comfortably in this nation--whether they know it or not--that they have no earthly concept of the evil and privation that fills so very much of our world. And our public education system no longer teaches anything of meaningful history. I was a history major in college and then served 26+ years in Army airborne infantry and special forces; I've been around the world and seen that of which I speak.
This movie makes you understand why in America we respected our elders .
respecting your elders was a thing way before ww2 lol
@@rileytruax766 true it’s not the only reason but it’s up there.
He’s not praying for forgiveness, because he already is forgiven. He’s praying for the ability to win in that moment.
"Earn this" was not just meant for Ryan, it was meant for the viewer, it was meant for all of us.
Great reaction! Greatest war movie of all time. Spielberg is a genius.
A solid tie between this and Schindler's list.
D-Day scene after they took the beach, the guys that were surrendering weren't even German. They were from other European countries who the Germans forced to fight for the Germans. They were using their own language (they did not know English) to try to explain to the American soldiers that they weren't even German and that they did not even fire their weapons at the Americans. Whereas the American soldiers who had just survived the bloody D-Day beach assault that so many of their friends did not, were so angry at the killers that they were in a "take no prisoners" frame of mind and they just fired on what they thought were Germans who had killed all their friends. That plus the fact that they had no way to take and hold prisoners meant that there was nothing to do but shoot. Yes, it was bad and sad. 😪
Weren’t they Austrian or something? I don’t remember what they were. But I’m pretty sure they were Austrian tho.
@@johnc5023 that’s what it was? I couldn’t recall what they were and what they said specifically. I just remembered hearing about them not being German a long time ago.
@@sinaloa1210 I looked at that part again and saw "Czech...." in the sub tt.
@@hv3926 yeah I’m just blind 😂
42:36 Wow, that reaction showed pure pain! The laughter that followed was your way to vent the frustrations after witnessing something gruesome. I hope you're doing okay. I understand you well. It was unexpected. And for its time, such graphic portrayals were not as common as they are today.
The two main objectives for the D-Day landings were the city of Caen in the British sector and the Cotentin Peninsula in the American sector. The beaches in between them had to be assaulted as well in order for the different forces to be able to support each other. This beach (Omaha beach) was in between the two main objectives so it had to be attacked. They knew beforehand that it would be very bloody but they didn't have a choice.
if ur gonna stop the movie and talk every 5 seconds how is anyone gonna watch this - horrible reaction downvote
Nowadays people hate America including Americans and don’t know the struggles people went through to make this country great. It’s crazy how people are really ungrateful and unappreciative of how they were born in this free country and will never know the sacrifice brave men and women have made for us. I will gladly die a proud American and will forever be against corruption towards it 🇺🇸 god bless everyone.
I’m an atheist but those Catholics with the cross on their helmet, they’re military pacifists. Those guys were drafted against their will but religiously opposed to killing. These guys are completely unarmed, helping people cope with their own death is kind of important to these people. You and I don’t know what that experience might be like.
That aside thank you for the video. You popped up in my recommended and it was interesting watching your video.
People who don't Like Upham missed the entire point of his character arc and are spoiled with Hollywood hero stories. He was a clerk typist, thrown in with a small group of Rangers and Airborne to fight an enemy many times their own size and strength. People who worship the military don't understand that for every 1 fighting soldier, there is 4 others behind them doing work that is just as important as fighting; they think anyone in the military becomes a John Wick type sociopath who can kill other human beings like cutting grass.
The allies landed more than two million men in Northern France and suffered more than 200,000 casualties. There were not 4 others for each of those men. the effort it took to thwart the Nazi machine called all able men to the battle field. They were told only 1 in 4 would come home and were informed of the 3 sec. life expectancy in battle on OMAHA on the day of the invasion. They knew they would probably not survive but that their effort may very really save the world. NOONE was more important than those men on that day
@@jbpoole that's not what he's referring to. He's simply stating the fact that the majority of the military was non infantry
Ksalad killing on the battlefield doesn't make one a sociopath. But it is fair to say that the majority of the armed forces are in support roles.
Your reaction is amazing, sis. You said it better than most: "I am Oppum in this." That's part of the point I guess. We're all Oppum. We're all also Ryan. Those soldiers didn't just give their lives for him. They gave their lives for us too. Because of that greatest of generations, we don't have to speak German or Japanese as our primary language. The fact is, sis, freedom isn't free. So lets remember to live lives worthy of their sacrifice. They gave everything.
Do not normalize these unethical wars.
@@DanielMazahreh It's Daniel Maxahreh, ladies and gentlemen! Professional Troll!
@@MrPhife333 Pointing out facts about these war crimes by the USA is NOT trolling.
@@DanielMazahreh Yes Daniel. We all are acutely aware that you care more about the horrors of war than the rest of us do. Thanks for the virtue signal, but we don't need your help. People the world over are already aware that war is Hell. We don't like it, we don't want it, and when it happens, people get killed, stuff gets broken, and the door is wide open for all sorts of injustices to occur. Anyone with common sense knows this; its not some great revelation. But remember, if someone breaks into your house, starts murdering members of your family and declaring that all your stuff now belongs to them, I'd bet good money you'd want someone strong and well armed to come along and sort that out for you. That's what these heroes did on a personal level. They didn't want to kill other men. They didn't want to go to war. But they did it anyway so that evil men wouldn't come along, murder your family and steal your stuff. Sure. War IS a crime! But, in the case of WWII, it was necessary to STOP a crime that was already occuring. You should speak to some veterans about this stuff, and not just believe the revisionist history being spoon fed to the masses in our current sorry excuses for schools and universities.
@@MrPhife333 There's no revisionist history here. Oliver Stone's anti-war Vietnam war films are actually accurate and reflects reality well on the root origin aggressors: the USA and their allies committing imperialism and mass killing innocent Vietnamese civilians. Unlike your ignorant @$$, please consider why people steal and kill to begin with. Where does the root origin aggression come from? Ask yourself these critical questions instead of looking at the world in black & white and good and evil. For example, consider the decades of illegal racist apartheid and military occupation the Israeli government is committing mass killing innocent Palestinian families. Expect some Palestinians to take revenge in response to their loss of families. End the cycle of violence. You are glorifying and making excuses for the USA's aggressors to commit terrorism around the world based on exaggerated propaganda and lies. Wake up!
54:57 unless you're a psychopath, everyone cries at some point in this movie
I took a group of Russian officials to a showing of SPR in 1998, when the film was released. They had been taught their whole lives that the western allies and particularly the USA did not sacrifice anything during WW2. Afterward, they asked me how many "D-Days" there were in WW2 and I answered correctly that there were scores of them in Europe and Asia. They were shocked and amazed.
That's awesome. But we must remember that...compared to the Soviets, the Allied experience in WW2 was NOTHING. They lost MILLIONS of people in the war and defeated 80 percent of the German army.
Literally MILLIONS of Americans know all the words to The Star Spangled Banner. Shameful not to know the words to your own national anthem.
Lol I don't blame her foe not knowing ☠
aircraft cannot invade. Only soldiers on the ground can do it
You have a great heart and kind soul. It is reassuring to my heavy heart. That there are still people out there in this country, who care about the warriors who have to do the fighting. Other than our own families I mean. I am thankful that you are touched enough to cry for us and those who came before us. I am one of those veterans who had to walk out of the theater the first time I saw this movie. It was not the images on the screen that triggered me. It was the sound of the rounds hitting the steel obstacles that did it. Whoever made the sound track used real weapons with real rounds because that sound is unique. And if you have ever heard it in real life you will never forget it. The way you would not condemn uppum, because he was not ready for what he encountered. That was very insightful of you. No one knows beforehand what they will do when the time comes. We trained for it. We anticipated it. We did everything we could think of to prepare for it. The first time I went into combat I was praying to God, Please don’t let me freeze up. Give me the strength to not let my friends down when they need me most. Because in the heat of the fight it is not about the flag or freedom or tyranny. It’s about the man on your right and the man on your left, and thats all. As far as shooting the surrendering soldiers, what were they doing 10 minutes before they decided to surrender. Were they cowering like the boy on the beach who didn’t even have a weapon in his hands. Or were they trying to kill me and my brother Marines. I enjoyed your reaction to this movie more than any other reaction to this movie I have ever seen. Don’t ever lose your heart of gold.
This was the first rated R movie I saw and did so with my father when i was about 14 years old in the theater. I was crying the whole time.
My brother and I are to watch this movie together soon. I have seen it about three times fully, my brother never has st all. I keep telling him it is going to be a tough film to get through. And that people always say the first battle is tough to get through but for me the worst part of the movie was the last battle.
Out of respect for the film we are not going to drink watching the movie until afterward. I kinda regret agreeing to that decision.
After seeing the movie three times fully, some other friends of mine wanted to watch the movie and then I guess I saw the movie another three or four times but always left the room during the last battle. I wont do that with my brother though. But I aint looking forward to it.
First and foremost Thank you to every vet who has served anywhere. My freedom is because of you all no words of mine could ever repay you.. Please remember honor the men who have died but thank GOD that such men lived. Gen. G Patton. Amen to every soldier who has given so much. THANK YOU
Captain Miller’s squad:
Pvt Stanley Mellish - stabbed by SS soldier
Pfc Adrian Caparzo - shot by German sniper
Tech 4 Irwin Wade - shot by German machine gun
Pvt Daniel Jackson - blown up by German tank
Sgt Mike Horvath - shot while retreating
Pfc Richard Reiben - lives (presumably)
Cpl Timothy E. Upham - lives (presumably)
Cpt John H. Miller - shot while attempting to blow up bridge
The soldier with the grenade hit ear, also in Once we were Soldiers, a fantastic movie! True story of the first battle with American soldiers, in Vietnam. It's good ur emotional. Tells me, in a person under 30, America isn't hopeless yet.
Hey girl amazing breakdown when you said I am upum that hit hard because deep down inside maybe we all are LOL
Just to explain the letter writing home, the white paper that the soldiers wrote home on was issued/given to them. They had to write between the the folds of the paper, only on ONE side as many pieces of paper they wanted. The letter was then taken to the army censors to make sure no sensitive information was in the letter. It was then put on Micro-Film (reduced in size, hundreds of letters per roll) The Micro-Film roll was flown back to the US, the letters home were then printed on a 3x5 post card and sent to where the soldiers wanted.
After making this Hanks and Spielberg teamed up to make an HBO miniseries called “Band of Brothers” it’s the true story of a company of paratroopers who jumped in behind enemy lines the night before the D Day invasion and their journey to the end of the war. It’s an amazing series and I can’t recommend it enough
Soldiers that fought, killed, and died for freedom and country...all would be livid to see what society fights and kills for now. Race, sexual orientation...boredom, fame...because someone offended someone else, because feels discriminated against or treated unfairly.
There are two movies I was able to watch again One was Saving Private Rian and the other was Schindler's List. I think everyone should see them both once and remember what they saw. They are reminders of what can happen.
The mission wasn't to save a man, it was to save what's left of a mother's heart.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There really was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.
If you want to cry, you must do another Tom Hanks movie, "The Green Mile". Stephan King.
You WILL cry. 😭
My great uncle Frank and great uncle William were in the second wave on Omaha beach. My uncle we call secret was in Vietnam. Both my grandpaws served in Korea. My dad was in the front line in desert storm. I have been in multiple operations. People don't understand what war is really like. I appreciate your reaction.
My Dad was on a submarine. One uncle was wounded parachuting into a jungle. Another uncle was captured by the Germans on a beach in Italy. A cousin was shot down in a bomber by the Germans and escaped from a POW camp traveling cross country at night dressed like a woman. I had classmates and family who served in Vietnam. Some were killed. Some of them talked about their experiences. Some cried when they did.
The Normandy landings scene alone tells you all you need to know about the phrase "War Is Hell".
At 40:44 the character upham is supposed to be the character most relatable. Most people watching the film aren’t hardened military soldiers. His reaction to his “baptism by fire” would be the typical response if the average person was taken from their cushy desk job and thrown into battle (just like how Upham was)
I remember reading when this first came out, there were a bunch of WWII vets who were completely shook based on its accuracy. I cant even imagine.
My grandfather served as a marine in Iwo Jima caring a BAR! he balled his eyes out watching this movie
When Miller says, "earn it," he was simply saying lead a good life, do something good for others without being "ordered to."
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
14:37 Momma Ryan collapsing on the porch always gets me...and 49:30 "tell me I'm a good man"...credits are a blur
Jeremy Davies who played Upham, is a great actor & the way he played Charles Manson in the movie Helter Skelter, he was fantastic.
One of my favorite reactions to this movie...
There are so many moving, heartbreaking moments in this movie.
Everyone cries watching this
I cry every time I watch. The upmost respect to our Forces and Veteran's.
We will Remember Them.
What saddens me most is the level of disrespect in your country, mine and others by people who have no idea or ignore the sacrifices made to give them their safe and comfortable lives with which they use to not only sow division but insult those who died for them and us.
Shameful.
To answer your question: @6:32. Bombers are deployed before the invasion but usually cannot penetrate bunkers as where the Germans were stationed with their high caliber machine guns. Thus the marines were forced to approach the high risk invasion.
This, according to battle veterans, is the most accurate portrayal put to film
We hit 5 beaches with 150,000 men. Each beach was 10 miles across, on a 60 mile wide beach head. Over 4,000 ships attacked, with 12,000 aircraft involved. We had bombers attack all 5 beaches. But at Omaha, they missed dropping their bombs on the beach. So no mines were set off, and no craters were made to hide in. It was then, and still is, the largest amphibious assault in history.
To answer your question about a frontal assault, there was a shore bombardment by ships in the English Channel and bombers flying out of the UK. The bombers were largely ineffective due to late drops of bombs and the overall inaccuracy of munitions at that time. I read somewhere that a destroyer essentially beached itself so that they could use their 5-inch guns to provide support for troops landing. When you take into account that the weapons of the time were very basic when compared to what is available now, the beach landing really was the only option.
Amazing film.
Slightly off topic but i only just found out, it's taught in History the Americans had it worse on D-Day because "over 2,000 men were injured or killed"... however i would say that is inaccurate and unfair in most ways, after checking the most latest information, USA had 2,500 Killed (Not including injured), the British suffered 1,500 Dead (Not including injured), whilst Canada had 400 dead (Not including Injured). After securing the beach, the British and Canadians bumped in SS troops and SS Panzer divisions (Elite well equipped Units) who were stationed nearby and came in to reinforce the local town, massively slowing down the advance inland and causing additional mass casualties.
Allies had nearly 4,500 Men killed just on the beaches of Normandy... After pushing inland... 73,000 Allies had died in the Normandy region.
Makes you truly appreciate the sacrifices our grandparents made and why many veterans didn't talk about their wartime experiences.
Who, in a civilized world, would understand this?
As to you not wanting to get attached to their characters, that's the way some veterans felt about replacements.
War is humans at their worst. The scene at 11:40 breaks my heart every time. Great reaction. A movie for the ages.
“GUILT COMPLEX, The Move” … Classic!
Most of the shoreline there is cliffs. We needed a beach landing for tanks and other equipment. They did air strikes, jumped in, used gliders, climbed the cliffs and pretty much every other tactic.
My great grandfather said it was a whole mess from the beginning, the beach waters was red for week's