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During the boot camp that the actors had to go through, they became fed up with it. They met in a motel room, discussed quitting and then voted on it. All were in favor of quitting except for one, Tom Hanks. He told them that they were part of something that was going to be great and if they quit they would regret it for the rest of their lives. The actors all decided to stay. Just as Hanks character was a leader in the film, Hanks established himself as a leader amongst the actors.
Well, if this is true then I've lost a great deal of respect for these actors. Little Hollywood men can't get through a bootcamp? Actual 18 year olds did this ish for real!!!
Vin Diesel said “It’s something I never want to do again, but something I’ll always be grateful I did.” Also, Matt Damon was excluded from the boot camp so that the actors built a resentment towards him
In the d-day scene the 2 soldiers who are killed while surrendering they weren’t speaking German, they were speaking Czech, pleading: “Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" Germany force conscripted many men across their conquered territory
@@Iiva69 Well, no, that's definitely not true. They had their moments like the Dachau Massacre of mass execution, but the Germans did things like that, too - REGULARLY. Lining up allied soldiers and machinegunning them was not abnormal. The Germans' crimes are honestly beyond anything that the allies did. One thing that the allies, to include the Soviet Union, did not do was create an entire unit made up of freed murderers and rapists from prison to turn loose on the local population. No allied soldiers stacked up bodies by the millions and burned them to hide crimes of mass killing. No allied soldiers rose to the level of Amon Goethe from the movie, Schindler's List - a character that had to have his crimes toned down in order to ensure the audience wouldn't completely disconnect from the movie. Some Nazi SS officers made lampshades and decorative ornaments out of the skin and bones of murderer Jews. That's some Hannibal Lecter sh!+ right there. Watch Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan back-to-back and then ask yourself if the shooting of two Czech soldiers in the heat of battle by a couple ignorant guys rises to the level of evil that the Nazis scarred into the psyche of humanity. Even in the Pacific, the crimes committed by allied forces against the Japanese doesn't rise to the level of atrocities committed against allied prisoners by the Imperial Japanese forces.
@@Iiva69 man u smoking something, everyone commited war crimes but in a full scale invasion and assault they were told not to take pows on d-day didn't have time or the man power to (not saying its right just what happened)
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. 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.
Can you blame the german for picking up a gun again? He ran into SS troops, they would shoot him if he said "i promised some americans to not fight them again", that stuff worked maybe during the 7 years war to an extent, not with a totalitarian regime as the enemy. Edit: Kind of hilarious, Upham sees the result of him letting that german captain go, decides to shoot him, and then lets five more soldiers go, who potentially will kill even more allied soldiers, once they get weapons...
Thank you for your service first off! Jackson was also my favorite, he was a master with his weapon. Another little thing (I think) in the movie is that Mellish died to the same German who they let go, with the Hitler Youth Knife that Caparzo gave him after capturing the bunker on D-Day (which brought him to tears when he first saw it because of his Jewish roots)
I did my 6 and my favorite character is definitely Reiben. He's good at what he does, has an attitude but gives a shit, and is undeniably both lucky and unlucky. (My division watched the movie at one point, when I was the 2nd class LPO and they said if I was anyone in the movie I'd be Reiben lol)
Important fact: During WW2 a Ranger Company consisted of about 152 men. So when Tom Hanks is reporting his casualties "35 dead, time 2 wounded), thats 105 out of the 152 he was in command of. In a situation like that and with the mission he had been tasked with to find Ryan, it wouldn't have been uncommon for the remainder of his men to be put temporarily under command of a different unit.
Not just them. My dad (Vietnam) had to run out. He was met with vets from everything from WW2 to present day at the time. Every last one was gasping & they started clasping hands not even talking. Dad said it was the first time they accurately got the sound of bullets flying & hitting flesh to him since most just did the classic "pow pow".
"Tell me I've lived a good life. Tell me I'm a good man." That gets me every time and I have seen this movie so many times. Amazing film. Great reaction, guys.
And the fact that his wife was astounded by this reveals that he never shared his story, not even with his wife. A lot of families of veterans say that their loved one refused to discuss their experiences in war. The vets say that talking about it was too painful, they felt they couldn't adequately describe it, and they didn't want to traumatize their families with what they themselves saw and experienced.
I sat and watched this with my father. I'm a peacetime veteran and he never served. But when the movie ended we both had tears in our eyes from that scene. Such a powerful moment. Everything led up to that one moment and it's done so well it hits so hard.
@@susanb4213 I had an uncle and one year at Christmas he started telling my dad and I (he was my moms brother in law) about having been in the Marines and being at the Battle of Midway and on Iwo Jima. I had no idea prior to that. I asked my dad on the way home, "How come I never heard uncle Max talk about the war before?" He answered, "because youve never seen your uncle Max drunk before." My dad was also in war and his entire unit was killed a few weeks after he was evacuated to a hospital with severe trench foot. My mom said he woke up screaming for years after the war.
@@jimmiller8687 If you knew what the Marines really did to the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and to POW's, you would understand why the veterans of WW II, especially those who fought in the Pacific, never talked about it.
17:47 I was fascinated to learn so many years after the fact that those two soldiers trying to surrender are saying they are not even German and were forced into service
A lot of the soldiers defending Normandy were in that situation, unfortunately. Normandy was considered an unlikely option for the Allied invasion, so it was a lot of foreign conscripts and reservists. Most of the "good" German troops were sent east to fight the Russians or held in reserve to rush to whatever area actually ended up as the beachhead. If we're being honest, had the Germans actually placed their good soldiers there (and a lot of other good luck not occured), it's entirely possible that the invasion actually would have failed.
I appreciate how this film doesn’t really portray was as a one-sided hero story, lots of warcrimes and needless deaths happened in this war, but the war itself should of never ever been a time in life. Tragedy on all fronts and sides
@@TheGoIsWin21 they did had an panzer division ready to support D day Normandy but Hilter was stupid or high command pulled the Panzer Division away to some place else. But yeah had Germany put their best elites on D day. We wouldn't have taken the beach. And if Germany wasn't fighting on all fronts, they could've focused all resources to the East against Soviet Union.
Hey, former combat engineer with the USMC here. Those pipes that they were pushing under the barb wire in the beginning scene are called bangalore torpedos. If you listen to the dialog you can hear Tom Hanks say, "Bangalore up!" They are basically long pipes, that can be hooked up end to end, and are packed with explosives. We use them as a path clearing device. We slide them under obstacles like barb wire and the like, and detonate. They clear out whatever is on top.
Saw this in a packed theatre on opening night, late night crowd. What struck me was how many older people were there. During the first twenty minutes all you could hear were gasps and sobs. I can only imagine how many of those seniors were war vets. It was one of the most emotional and traumatizing experiences I've had in a movie. After the film was over and the lights came, the crowd remained solemn, many of us wiped our eyes. A lot sat in our seats trying to compose ourselves till the very last credits rolled. I can't watch this and not think about the people I grew up with who served and came back, people I knew, who were in my family. Hits me every time.
I felt this way, as did my friends, when we saw Schindler’s List in the theatre. P.S. we were so late to the show that we had to sit in the front row. Extra grisly.
I’ve always appreciated that the anxious, clumsy, inexperienced soldier doesn’t just *magically* become calm and competent once he’s forced into combat. Sure, some people manage to focus and find new strength under pressure - but not everyone is wired that way. Some people freeze or panic, that’s just how their brains work. That character is a great reminder that not everyone can handle war in the same way, and it has NOTHING to do with whether or not they’re a “good person.”
I’ve always said that Upham represents the audience. Everyone gets mad at him and has this gung ho attitude that they’d be the war hero, but there’s a far better chance that they’d be Upham. He’s the sounding rod for the average person
This movie broke my heart in a million different ways. So, so good. I used to think about this movie in terms of what my grandfather saw when he went to war in WWII; he came home, thankfully. But, watching you guys watch it now, it hits different after losing a friend in Afghanistan in 2008. RIP James, and everyone who gave their lives in every war and thank you to those who served their country and made it home.
The reason for the hesitation and serious faces when Captain Miller agrees to the medic Wade's request for additional morphine is that he was asking to be euthanized, not for pain relief. It was widely known among the soldiers that two shots with such heavy blood loss would be fatal. Wade was asking to be killed to end his suffering as he knew he wasn't going to survive this. Cap Miller agrees and that's why everyone stares at him and they reluctantly give him the additional shot. Morphine administration was dangerous and very easy to overdose during WWII. Without major blood loss, 3 shots would generally be fatal. With major blood loss, 2 shots would be fatal. Medics would mark the helmet or forehead of any wounded with an "M" whenever they administered morphine to stop any additional morphine triggering an accidental overdose when the wounded person is moved off the battlefield.
And the reason Wade asked for the additional dose is he knew he'd been hit through the liver and was going to bleed out. There was nothing else they could do for him.
@@jimstanley_49 yeah, it's heartbreaking the way he screams "my liver, oh no my liver" after they check his exit wound. He is one of my favourite characters in the film and Giovanni Ribisi absolutely kills it in the role. His monologue in the church about pretending to be asleep when his mum came from work, and now as an adult, not knowing why he did that is so sad and amazingly delivered
"request for additional morphine is that he was asking to be euthanized, not for pain relief. " well I think it was for both, its just he may not have asked for more morphine if he thought he might have lived. Notice they gave him numerous other morphine injections after he asked for another as well, not just one more. Not sure two would actually do the job; however they gave him like 4 at least I think.
Band of Brothers is a true story and was done soon after Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg and Hanks were involved in that series. If you like SPR, you definitely need to react to Band of Brothers.
Every reaction channel completely misses out on why Mellish was crying at the beginning. They don’t hear what happened cause they’re star struck with Vin Diesel
Talking about the Nazi Hitler Youth knife? A perfect representation of the Nazi’s culture of indoctrination. Only someone not grasping the depth of the plot could get distracted during thig$ from that part in the movie.
One of my fav films, my dad was so lucky to be a part of the background acting crew. He was able to drive the moris minor to the Ryan’s family home and as one of the wounded airborne behind Jackson when providing food to one of the paratroopers
Tom was only giving the casualties from his group not the ones around him. That's why it seemed like a very small number compared to the actual Carnage around him
This was D-Day+3. He was giving the casualties for the most recent mission to take out the German 88s that he had just finished reporting on, NOT his unit’s casualties from the landing on D-Day.
@@MotoNomad350 I know that. Why are people so damn nitpicky on here ? Ridiculous . If people were so damn picky about all the bullshit going on in this country like they are about online BS , it wouldn't be so screwed up. Unreal.
@@davidnoel2977then say that if you know. You made it sound like it was from the landing. You even said not the ones dying around him, implying the landing scene. So what, you got corrected. Don’t cry about it dude. Just be more clear. How can one explain something without clarity?
@@johnbrown8570 once again I don't have to explain myself to you genius. When you're in a war moron people are dying around you no matter if they're in your group or not. No matter what mission he's going on there's other people dying not too far away from him that aren't in his goddamn group. The fact that I had to explain this to you says a lot. I shouldn't have to hold your hand just to explain something that I said. Grow the hell up. And Piss off
Almost 14. We were shown it on the little TVs on the coach during our school trip to France. Normandy, to be specific. They showed us the opening scenes on the way to the D-Day landing beaches and cemeteries. So yea that was.......yea....
Clarification: The Doc Wade death scene is one people miss the point of a lot. Basically, once Wade realized he was hit in the liver (thats a mortal wound.....you WILL die), he realized he was dead. Him asking for morphine was to ease the pain while he died.....thats not uncommon for soldier that are dieing, to be giving drugs to ease tue pain of it. So when Captain hears his request for more morphine, he too realizes what doc is asking him for, hence the slight hesitation from everyone in the moment.
I was a medic in the Air Force and during training they would tell us that the rules of engagement basically said that the red cross meant that we can't get shot at. I believed it too until I started watching more war movies. Now I realize that's the craziest thing ever 😅 big old red target saying "I'm saving people" to shoot at. Why would an enemy want medics saving soldiers? Lol
My dad got mad at this movie cause the medics didn't ditch their crosses. He had three paternal uncles who were at Normandy, one was a medic. He said his uncle told him the first thing the medics did was get rid of the crosses, esp the helmets. Gave the enemy a perfect target to aim for. And I'm like okay but you're missing out on this incredible scene. But that's how my dad was. One thing didn't make sense, tarnished the rest of the film for him.
.... but yeah. Shakespeare in Love was the Oscar choice for Best Picture over this generational masterpiece. It's why I don't take awards serious anymore.
"Shakespear in Love" wasn't even the best film of its genre nominated that year. "Elizabeth" was a way better film. 1998 was a stacked year in film that got sidelined because Weinstein knew how to play the game and manipulate those around him.
Besides from the opening 20 minutes, my favorite scene is the church. This is what modern movies do not understand, we do not need two hours of wall-to-wall action. The scene where the main characters are just talking, they talk about their past, they talk about their feelings. One of the most beloved characters in the film is literally asleep, and never has a line. It’s perfect.
My Dad described this exactly like this opening on Omaha beach to my Mother. She told us about it when we were older. I glad my Dad wasn't here to see this movie b/c it would have been too much for him to handle. He never talked about the war and had survivors guilt. He wouldn't even accept any of his medals. He told me once that the ocean was literally red with blood. He became an alcoholic and died at 61yrs old. It seems so long ago. I miss him.
Visceral memory for me seeing this in theaters with my boyfriend when I was 18. I cried the entire first 30 minutes, knowing soldiers really went through that and how terrifying it must be. I remember there were two old men in the theater watching this, too, and they were crying. They were old enough to have been young soldiers during WWII and I wondered if they had been there, or at the very least experienced losing their brothers in arms.
This movie is brutal. I watched it with my grandpa who served In the pacific and he was speechless for a good ten minutes after the film was over. I’ll never forget that moment.
My grandpa was in the 2nd wave on D-day. My mom said he didn’t really talk about it much, if at all. The only thing she remembers him really saying in relation to D-day though was about men pissing themselves. So the puking on the way in seems like an accurate portrayal of the fear they felt.
My great grandpa was also part of the 2nd wave on D-day. Also didn’t mention much about it other than how red the water was before even getting to the beach.
Many soldiers did get sick onnthe Higgins boats not just because of stress but sea sickness. Not only were the seas rough that morning but most of them had been on the transports for two days or so. They had been loaded aboard for the original landing date and when it was postponed, it was decided that it would take too long to unload and then reload them, and it would be a security risk, so they were left there. The transports they were on didn't ride very well in the best of times, and with the rough water, overcrowded conditions, plumbing stressed to failure and backing up, it was terrible for them. They also knew very well what they were attacking. The beaches were well mapped and details were known about the bunkers and all. They knew it was going to be bad. This is why they launched in something of a break in bad weather: the Germans wouldn't expect them. As such, many of the high command had gone on leave and the defenses were not all fully ready. In some places they were, such as the one depicted in this movie. Had they all been and a few other turns, the invasion could have failed as many expected it to. The helmets in WWII and into Vietnam were meant to protect against shell and grenade fragments, most of such fragements. Bullets might get deflected if you were very lucky, but usually they'd get through.
I always saw the soldier rose up and took his helmet off was because he was in absolute shock and took it off to determine if he was shot in the head and somehow still alive observing the damage on his helmet, he wasn't sure if he should get down severely injured or place the helmet back on after he knew he was still somehow good.
12:25 is probably my favourite attention to detail in this movie, the medic on the left gets shot in his leg through the canteen and it first spills all of the water before the blood comes out
This film was really something to behold in the theater. Words can't describe the experience. Saw it opening weekend. They should re-release this film every 10 years.
6:30 gotta remember too, those “hedgehogs” (big metal spiky things) on the beach were meant to tear up the bottoms of landing craft during an amphibious landing assault. But the Allies launched the attack during low tide so these hedgehogs were exposed. But that meant the Allied soldiers had much more open ground to cover before they made it to the sand wall.
Thank you guys, this was a beautiful reaction. As a Marine Corps veteran myself, I've pondered many times the unfathomable courage of those who came before, and the incredible selflessness of those who laid down their lives so that others could live free. Thank you for taking the time to honor them in your own way. 🤜🤛
Fantastic reaction! One subtle note is the divisions throughout the movie. Airborne guys had the camo helmets with spade on it, and Tom Hank’s unit is the Army 2nd Rangers. These guys were special forces at the time, so that’s why they were first wave at Omaha and also selected to rescue Ryan. Also at the end, the faught the “2nd SS Das Reich Panzergrenedier Division” which was the most feared German unit in WWII. They were a heavy war crime division and took zero prisoners on eastern/western front
My grandfather's brother was there on D-Day. He confirmed how accurate that scene was and couldn't finish watching it. He was hit 3 times before he made it to shore. Once in the shoulder while on the boat, once in the side as he jumped into the water, and once in the back as he was swimming. Of all the soldiers on the boat, only three made it to shore. All three were hit, his wounds were the worst. He said it's sheer luck that he survived.
The two guys who were trying to surrender with their hands up (who got shot anyway) were saying: "I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone, I am Czech!"
Helmets, even today, do not stop rifle/mg bullets. They are worn to prevent ((hopefully) shrapnel and blast damage. They also help keep the weather off your head.
I saw this the first week it was released in theaters. Imagine the intensity of watching it on the big screen with all the noise. What ripped my heart out was as we were leaving there was an very elderly man in a wheelchair, we didn't have seating for wheelchairs back then in the small theater, sitting on the end and his face was wet with tears. He was wearing a cap with his regiment's insignia and the words WWII Veteran. I was too emotional from the movie and knowing for him this all happened I couldn't say a word but I touched his shoulder as I passed him. He nodded his head and as I left I heard him talking to his family about, "I lost so many of my friends..." To this day as of right now I have tears streaming my face with the memory. Spielberg got approval from one vet at least that I saw. And many more I came across, I worked as a civilian on a Military Base for 10 years, said he got the emotions right.
When Tom Hanks told Dennis Farina "35 killed" that was NOT the D-Day invasion. That conversation takes place three days after the invasion as per the title card before the scene. In between that scene and the initial invasion they went on a short mission and those were when they had the 35 casualties.
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 13:44 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 to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured. 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.
It shows how influential this movie was cause it kind of originated the bullets in water trope that was everywhere for a while after this in every genre of movie with guns lol
@@cupofcait Even beyond that...there is the "no tanks on the beach" myth, the exploding flamethrower trope, and quite a few other things that are not quite true...or just not true...in SPR that lots of people think are real because of the movie. 👍
@@iKvetch558 Those bullets from that caliber could definitely kill you underwater. They're much faster and more powerful than the ones they tested on mythbusters.
@@langitkensahaja125 Only if they were fired at point blank range...not when fired from machine guns hundreds of feet away. And at the angles some of them were hitting, a lot of them should be ricocheting off the water back up into the air.
Saving Private Ryan is a pretty damn good war film. I don't know if you would consider a mini-series a 'war film', but Band of Brothers was even better to me. Mainly because the former is fiction, and the later covers real men, real events. They're both outstanding though, and I'm really just splitting hairs between them.
More than 35 men died on that beach. When the Captain said 35 dead, he was a Company Commander entering the battle. So when he asked how many he lost, it was 35 in his company. There was more than one company out there. When the Captain’s superiors were taken out that put him in charge of all the companies on the beach. Hence him asking “who is in charge?” “I think you are sir”
The 35 dead was later on in a different mission than the landing...they showed him reporting to Dennis Farina on D-Day +3...we never really find out how many of the company were killed or wounded during the landings. I guess it is possible that Miller is reporting in all his losses for the entire 3 days, but it seems wrong that Miller would have had no contact with his superiors in all that time. Also, Miller is a Company Commander, that is why Sizemore comments on how the Army "took his company away" after he got assigned to find Ryan with a small squad.
@@iKvetch558 No, but if he's got 35 dead, there's probably a similar number too wounded to fight, which would put his company at somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 full strength, which means it's no longer able to operate offensively. The rest of the batallion is going to be in similar shape, so until they can be reinforced or taken out of the front line, the CO would likely have had to consolidate his remaining guys into effective, full (or near enough) strength companies.
When Capt Miller (Hanks) is reporting on a mission to the Lt Colonel just after the DDay sequence, he's talking about a mission he had done in the time since the beach's capture, not the storm of the beach itself.
this may b one of the most jarring reactions ever, screaming and shouting over the whole thing, ignoring most of the dialogue and talking over it, starstruck by actors. I'm surprised you understood the film
well said.... I couldn't finish this reaction, these two were like five year olds, talking through much of it, and paying more attention to which actor was which......it's a great movie with a serious and sombre theme, and you two were like fans at a sports event.......
I dont know if anyone said it or if it specifically states it in the movie but the reason they are trying to save private ryan. Is because hes the last of his line. If he dies, unless the mom gives births again. There family tree ends with Private Ryan. So alot of times in war. If whole familys get drafted they make sure at least one person lives to continue the lineage
This reaction is very refreshing in that i can totally believe that you two, despite your vast knowledge of movies, have never watched this movie & have no clue whatsoever on the plot, based on all your guesses at the start 😂 Its a genuine first watch & i enjoyed being here for it. Thanks!
It wasn't until relatively recently that helmets were able to stop bullets, and even now a lot of modern ones can only stop glancing hits or smaller calibers. At LEAST through the Vietnam War, helmets were intended to prevent shrapnel injuries, not direct shots from a gun. It's not much, but it's something, especially considering how prolific the use of artillery and grenades were throughout the 20th century. Additionally, the "German" troops on D-Day were WILDLY outnumbered. It was considered unlikely that Normandy would be the invasion point for the allies, so a lot of the troops there were foreign conscripts or reservists, while the cream of the German military was held in reserve to react to the invasion as well as being sent east to fight the Russians. Also, screw the people who say Fury was inaccurate. The vast majority of complaints I've seen have no merit and are presented by people who don't seem to know what the hell they're talking about.
5:33 the guys were throwing up on the ride to the beach partly due to water, partly due to the nerves, but also because they were fed a heavy breakfast. Kind of like a last meal type of thing. It was known many of these guys would be dying. 48:07 the morphine scene, they’d already given him one dose of it and a second dose would kill him. The saying was “one of the pain, the second for eternity.”
"35 dead....x2 wounded" That is in HIS company. Not the entire D-day Omaha Beach landing. Plus Im pretty sure he was talking about a smaller battle that occured AFTER the D-Day landing, trying to fight their way inland.
If you haven't seen or reacted to "The Longest Day" it IS a must! The only movie that comes close to rivaling the cast is "A Bridge to Far". In Longest Day pay particular attention to the battle of Pegasus Bridge: The actor portraying the commander of the British unit actually took part in the battle and is wearing the beret he wore on the day of the battle and the insignia of the man he is portraying. There is a scene where a man hands him a piece of paper that man is the commander the actor is portraying.. in the actual battle the actor was the man handing the paper to the commander he is portraying. A scene from actual life being recreated on screen with the guys just swapping places and each is wearing the unit patches worn on that day by each other.
In Saving Private Ryan, after Wade is wounded he requests "a little more morphine". Morphine syrettes during WWII contained a very strong dose, and two for someone with blood loss as severe as his would be fatal. The rest of the unit knows this, which is why they hesitate before giving it to him. Peace out
Fun History fact: the reason why many men were puking and drowned were because there was a large breakfast buffet for the soldiers before they took off. Many soldiers indulged in the buffet and over ate as it was most likely their last meal. Which caused many to become sea sick, have a hard time swimming and run slower if they were lucky enough to make it to land
I really like that the captain yelling for Ryan is how they find him. It’s literally the first real lead they get that eventually gets to Ryan and all the Captain did was yell and ask around. So good.
@@kelkabot i’m talking about later. Not the Nathan Fillion scene. When they’re looking through the dog tags and the Captain literally starts just yelling Ryan’s name eventually talking to the guy who can’t hear that leads them to Ryan’s location.
I was kinda shocked by the guys reaction to the first few mins( have they never seen a war movie before) yes it's intense but what the hell would you expect..its f@cking war..you should expect arms and legs blown off and bullets flying non stop..the fact that these men kept moving forward through that hell is why we call them the greatest generation. I think this reaction wasnt the best, some many scenes that one needs to absorb but the guys are so uncomfortable that they talk over it with many either non relevant info or throw jokes at inappropriate times to deal with these dramatic moments.
26:18 huh? ... Wow, no... They're not talking about the initial beach assault, it's been three days it say so in big white letters, and they're explaining they went on another mission, which is where they lost 35 people... Off screen... Activate the subtitles during reactions cause you lose a lot of dialogue by talking over it and reading it helps with details.
That this lost best picture to Shakespeare in Love remains one of the greatest travesties in film history. It was the beginning of the end for me as far as caring what the academy thought about movies. 30 years later and nobody is doing reaction videos of SiL. But here we are still watching this movie, digesting it, and discussing how important it was to cinema. Make of that what you will.
Maybe if yall weren't yapping and fangirling you'd catch very obvious context clues about timing and situations. The 35 dead were not from the beach they are 3 days ahead
I was listening to a D-Day survivor from Omaha Beach and he actually openly stated that the Angels must have been working overtime that day because there is no right for any of those men to have made it off that Beach
The actual beach where the landing took place was so, SO much bigger at the tide they landed than the one they shot the movie on, having been there it's incredible these men actually made it all the way through.
Omaha beach seems like it was in and done thanks to 'Ryan but on D-Day it was: 06:30 first wave goes in. Landings are a mess, most units landed cease to function due to massive casualties or getting pinned down. 06:45- 07:30 Second wave lands on the beach. 08:25 Strong point bunkers are infiltrated 12:30 first draw open. 13:00 Omaha Beach: the Wn 72 strong point Dog Green area is captured (this is the sector in the film). 21:00 beach is finally secure. Imagining the events in Ryan going on for hours and hours really hits home the horror of that day.
Fun facts a lot soldiers that stormed Normandy were in their first battle of the war, can’t even imagine. Also, those guys they shot with their hands up after they took the beach weren’t actually German I forgot what nationality but they were prisoners of war forced to fight for the nazis. War is so ugly.
@newerakid1 ify Quite, they were Czech. On the Eastern Front the Estonians were forced to fight for the germans and after the war the Soviet Union took over their country.
The were kids pretty much 17-24 ....... Most of them volunteered back then whole neighborhoods would join up. If some people couldn't go for any type of injury ect. some of them committed suicide cause that how bad they wanted to join..... These young men and women saved the world.
Kinda dissapointed about the reaction how to handle pows. Not even were you for the imoral treatment but also the illegeal ones according to IHL and other international agreements. Also the screaming and cheering along isn´t really fitting...
It is their honest experience with it. Different people react differently when they are not around others and even with so I would not sweat it. I rather it not be fabricated.
An absolute filmmaking and production masterpiece. It holds up after 20 years. Dialogue is fantastic. Your appreciation is appreciated And John Williams delivers AS ALWAYS
Fun fact, the point of the helmets, even though they could be shot through, was to keep the head and brain together. They were often referred to as "brain buckets"
About the 2 soldiers that begged for mercy at the beginning: they said something like "we are not Germans. We didn't kill anyone". The Czech were forced, conscript by nazis to fight.
Because you guys talk about unimportant BS when you should be listening. You didn't realize that the 35 dead x2 wounded wasn't from the landing. It was from the mission to take out some guns he just returned from. You are too busy talking about actors names and other movies instead of watching this one.
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U guys gunna watch band of brothers
Flash Gordon & Mr. A.A, other war film what u shoud react eh?.....The Thin Red Line (1998) and Tears Of The Sun (2003)
During the boot camp that the actors had to go through, they became fed up with it. They met in a motel room, discussed quitting and then voted on it. All were in favor of quitting except for one, Tom Hanks. He told them that they were part of something that was going to be great and if they quit they would regret it for the rest of their lives. The actors all decided to stay. Just as Hanks character was a leader in the film, Hanks established himself as a leader amongst the actors.
Well, if this is true then I've lost a great deal of respect for these actors. Little Hollywood men can't get through a bootcamp? Actual 18 year olds did this ish for real!!!
@@Iiva69 as a Veteran I can tell you most people can’t handle the training let alone the job so try not to be too hard on civilians.
Vin Diesel said “It’s something I never want to do again, but something I’ll always be grateful I did.”
Also, Matt Damon was excluded from the boot camp so that the actors built a resentment towards him
@Iiva69 ease up..jeesh. bootcamp is hard and wanting to quit is not weak. Also, remember they did stay and finish.
Whoaaaa really??? That's incredible
FUBAR: F*** Up Beyond All Recognition
Lol I thought this was common knowledge. I guess not!
@@misshellSame. I used to say it as a kid back in the 80's.
Also "furchtbar" is german for "terrible" or "awful"
@@patrickjunio8664 Now that's some new info. Awesome.
Repair, and recognition. Used situationally
In the d-day scene the 2 soldiers who are killed while surrendering they weren’t speaking German, they were speaking Czech, pleading: “Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" Germany force conscripted many men across their conquered territory
The allied forces were animals. Way worse in war crimes then the germans.
@@Iiva69weird ass nazi apologist
@@Iiva69 Well, no, that's definitely not true. They had their moments like the Dachau Massacre of mass execution, but the Germans did things like that, too - REGULARLY. Lining up allied soldiers and machinegunning them was not abnormal. The Germans' crimes are honestly beyond anything that the allies did. One thing that the allies, to include the Soviet Union, did not do was create an entire unit made up of freed murderers and rapists from prison to turn loose on the local population. No allied soldiers stacked up bodies by the millions and burned them to hide crimes of mass killing. No allied soldiers rose to the level of Amon Goethe from the movie, Schindler's List - a character that had to have his crimes toned down in order to ensure the audience wouldn't completely disconnect from the movie. Some Nazi SS officers made lampshades and decorative ornaments out of the skin and bones of murderer Jews. That's some Hannibal Lecter sh!+ right there. Watch Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan back-to-back and then ask yourself if the shooting of two Czech soldiers in the heat of battle by a couple ignorant guys rises to the level of evil that the Nazis scarred into the psyche of humanity. Even in the Pacific, the crimes committed by allied forces against the Japanese doesn't rise to the level of atrocities committed against allied prisoners by the Imperial Japanese forces.
@@Iiva69 man u smoking something, everyone commited war crimes but in a full scale invasion and assault they were told not to take pows on d-day didn't have time or the man power to (not saying its right just what happened)
@@Iiva69 yeah no
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. 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.
Can you blame the german for picking up a gun again? He ran into SS troops, they would shoot him if he said "i promised some americans to not fight them again", that stuff worked maybe during the 7 years war to an extent, not with a totalitarian regime as the enemy. Edit: Kind of hilarious, Upham sees the result of him letting that german captain go, decides to shoot him, and then lets five more soldiers go, who potentially will kill even more allied soldiers, once they get weapons...
#1 Is just a myth. There were no walkouts from WW2 vets. There were only reports of PTSD and nightmares after watching the film.
Thank you for your service first off! Jackson was also my favorite, he was a master with his weapon. Another little thing (I think) in the movie is that Mellish died to the same German who they let go, with the Hitler Youth Knife that Caparzo gave him after capturing the bunker on D-Day (which brought him to tears when he first saw it because of his Jewish roots)
I did my 6 and my favorite character is definitely Reiben. He's good at what he does, has an attitude but gives a shit, and is undeniably both lucky and unlucky. (My division watched the movie at one point, when I was the 2nd class LPO and they said if I was anyone in the movie I'd be Reiben lol)
Important fact: During WW2 a Ranger Company consisted of about 152 men. So when Tom Hanks is reporting his casualties "35 dead, time 2 wounded), thats 105 out of the 152 he was in command of. In a situation like that and with the mission he had been tasked with to find Ryan, it wouldn't have been uncommon for the remainder of his men to be put temporarily under command of a different unit.
The fact that veterans of D-day had to be led out crying just from seeing the landing scenes speaks volumes about this film.
Not just them. My dad (Vietnam) had to run out. He was met with vets from everything from WW2 to present day at the time. Every last one was gasping & they started clasping hands not even talking.
Dad said it was the first time they accurately got the sound of bullets flying & hitting flesh to him since most just did the classic "pow pow".
"Tell me I've lived a good life. Tell me I'm a good man." That gets me every time and I have seen this movie so many times. Amazing film. Great reaction, guys.
And the fact that his wife was astounded by this reveals that he never shared his story, not even with his wife. A lot of families of veterans say that their loved one refused to discuss their experiences in war. The vets say that talking about it was too painful, they felt they couldn't adequately describe it, and they didn't want to traumatize their families with what they themselves saw and experienced.
I sat and watched this with my father. I'm a peacetime veteran and he never served. But when the movie ended we both had tears in our eyes from that scene. Such a powerful moment. Everything led up to that one moment and it's done so well it hits so hard.
I always skip the intro and ending because it's so sad
@@susanb4213 I had an uncle and one year at Christmas he started telling my dad and I (he was my moms brother in law) about having been in the Marines and being at the Battle of Midway and on Iwo Jima. I had no idea prior to that. I asked my dad on the way home, "How come I never heard uncle Max talk about the war before?" He answered, "because youve never seen your uncle Max drunk before." My dad was also in war and his entire unit was killed a few weeks after he was evacuated to a hospital with severe trench foot. My mom said he woke up screaming for years after the war.
@@jimmiller8687 If you knew what the Marines really did to the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and to POW's, you would understand why the veterans of WW II, especially those who fought in the Pacific, never talked about it.
17:47 I was fascinated to learn so many years after the fact that those two soldiers trying to surrender are saying they are not even German and were forced into service
I just learned this.
Yep, they are czech.
A lot of the soldiers defending Normandy were in that situation, unfortunately. Normandy was considered an unlikely option for the Allied invasion, so it was a lot of foreign conscripts and reservists. Most of the "good" German troops were sent east to fight the Russians or held in reserve to rush to whatever area actually ended up as the beachhead.
If we're being honest, had the Germans actually placed their good soldiers there (and a lot of other good luck not occured), it's entirely possible that the invasion actually would have failed.
I appreciate how this film doesn’t really portray was as a one-sided hero story, lots of warcrimes and needless deaths happened in this war, but the war itself should of never ever been a time in life. Tragedy on all fronts and sides
@@TheGoIsWin21 they did had an panzer division ready to support D day Normandy but Hilter was stupid or high command pulled the Panzer Division away to some place else. But yeah had Germany put their best elites on D day. We wouldn't have taken the beach.
And if Germany wasn't fighting on all fronts, they could've focused all resources to the East against Soviet Union.
Hey, former combat engineer with the USMC here. Those pipes that they were pushing under the barb wire in the beginning scene are called bangalore torpedos. If you listen to the dialog you can hear Tom Hanks say, "Bangalore up!" They are basically long pipes, that can be hooked up end to end, and are packed with explosives. We use them as a path clearing device. We slide them under obstacles like barb wire and the like, and detonate. They clear out whatever is on top.
Early version of M58 MICLIC?
Thanks for the clarification!
My dad was A USMC Combat Engineer, from 75-87.
Yall are an interesting bunch.
Thank you for your Service.
This film actually has a stacked cast when you realise who’s in it
Nathan Fillion in what is basically a glorified extra role is crazy
Now that gotta watch band of brothers! So many good actors
Yeah, a lot of actors who already had established careers or who would go on to have established careers
Saw this in a packed theatre on opening night, late night crowd. What struck me was how many older people were there. During the first twenty minutes all you could hear were gasps and sobs. I can only imagine how many of those seniors were war vets. It was one of the most emotional and traumatizing experiences I've had in a movie. After the film was over and the lights came, the crowd remained solemn, many of us wiped our eyes. A lot sat in our seats trying to compose ourselves till the very last credits rolled. I can't watch this and not think about the people I grew up with who served and came back, people I knew, who were in my family. Hits me every time.
I felt this way, as did my friends, when we saw Schindler’s List in the theatre.
P.S. we were so late to the show that we had to sit in the front row. Extra grisly.
How could this movie lose Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love?!?
Ohhhhh I remember that. My parent and I were like WTF. I was 15 when this came out.
Favoritism 😢
Harvey Weinstein is why.
Do you honestly believe that a film is good or the best because some TV awards show says so?
It doesn't matter who won.
Enjoy movies.
Never seen that movie but seen this one at least 20 or more times. So I think saving private ryan won the real award which was “LASTING Power”
Watch band of Brothers!!!!! Also done by Hanks and Spielberg and is one of the best war miniseries ever
seconding!
I’ve always appreciated that the anxious, clumsy, inexperienced soldier doesn’t just *magically* become calm and competent once he’s forced into combat. Sure, some people manage to focus and find new strength under pressure - but not everyone is wired that way. Some people freeze or panic, that’s just how their brains work.
That character is a great reminder that not everyone can handle war in the same way, and it has NOTHING to do with whether or not they’re a “good person.”
I’ve always said that Upham represents the audience. Everyone gets mad at him and has this gung ho attitude that they’d be the war hero, but there’s a far better chance that they’d be Upham. He’s the sounding rod for the average person
@@AutomaticAxe and the rest of the company are Rangers.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for:
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing.
Should've won best picture
Now it is saved in the Library of Congress. It truly is a masterpiece.
I'm glad someone finally answered the dude, he asked about a million times...
This movie broke my heart in a million different ways. So, so good.
I used to think about this movie in terms of what my grandfather saw when he went to war in WWII; he came home, thankfully.
But, watching you guys watch it now, it hits different after losing a friend in Afghanistan in 2008. RIP James, and everyone who gave their lives in every war and thank you to those who served their country and made it home.
The reason for the hesitation and serious faces when Captain Miller agrees to the medic Wade's request for additional morphine is that he was asking to be euthanized, not for pain relief.
It was widely known among the soldiers that two shots with such heavy blood loss would be fatal. Wade was asking to be killed to end his suffering as he knew he wasn't going to survive this. Cap Miller agrees and that's why everyone stares at him and they reluctantly give him the additional shot.
Morphine administration was dangerous and very easy to overdose during WWII. Without major blood loss, 3 shots would generally be fatal. With major blood loss, 2 shots would be fatal. Medics would mark the helmet or forehead of any wounded with an "M" whenever they administered morphine to stop any additional morphine triggering an accidental overdose when the wounded person is moved off the battlefield.
And the reason Wade asked for the additional dose is he knew he'd been hit through the liver and was going to bleed out. There was nothing else they could do for him.
@@jimstanley_49 yeah, it's heartbreaking the way he screams "my liver, oh no my liver" after they check his exit wound. He is one of my favourite characters in the film and Giovanni Ribisi absolutely kills it in the role. His monologue in the church about pretending to be asleep when his mum came from work, and now as an adult, not knowing why he did that is so sad and amazingly delivered
"request for additional morphine is that he was asking to be euthanized, not for pain relief. "
well I think it was for both, its just he may not have asked for more morphine if he thought he might have lived. Notice they gave him numerous other morphine injections after he asked for another as well, not just one more. Not sure two would actually do the job; however they gave him like 4 at least I think.
Band of Brothers is a true story and was done soon after Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg and Hanks were involved in that series.
If you like SPR, you definitely need to react to Band of Brothers.
This
Absolutely this.
Every reaction channel completely misses out on why Mellish was crying at the beginning. They don’t hear what happened cause they’re star struck with Vin Diesel
Yep, always frustrated
@@esdren7424 i was sitting there like "DID YOU NOT SEE/HEAR WHAT HE WAS JUST GIVEN"
Yeah it's a little annoying
Talking about the Nazi Hitler Youth knife? A perfect representation of the Nazi’s culture of indoctrination. Only someone not grasping the depth of the plot could get distracted during thig$ from that part in the movie.
Or they don't understand why the knife upsets him in particular to that degree when they don't care about Vin Diesel.
The opening D-Day scene shouldve been enough to cement this movie's Best Picture Oscar.
Steven Spielbergs message is simple. This is the sacrifice that was made. Earn it.
One of my fav films, my dad was so lucky to be a part of the background acting crew. He was able to drive the moris minor to the Ryan’s family home and as one of the wounded airborne behind Jackson when providing food to one of the paratroopers
Tom was only giving the casualties from his group not the ones around him. That's why it seemed like a very small number compared to the actual Carnage around him
This was D-Day+3. He was giving the casualties for the most recent mission to take out the German 88s that he had just finished reporting on, NOT his unit’s casualties from the landing on D-Day.
@@MotoNomad350 I know that. Why are people so damn nitpicky on here ? Ridiculous . If people were so damn picky about all the bullshit going on in this country like they are about online BS , it wouldn't be so screwed up. Unreal.
@@davidnoel2977then say that if you know. You made it sound like it was from the landing. You even said not the ones dying around him, implying the landing scene. So what, you got corrected. Don’t cry about it dude. Just be more clear. How can one explain something without clarity?
@@johnbrown8570 once again I don't have to explain myself to you genius. When you're in a war moron people are dying around you no matter if they're in your group or not. No matter what mission he's going on there's other people dying not too far away from him that aren't in his goddamn group. The fact that I had to explain this to you says a lot. I shouldn't have to hold your hand just to explain something that I said. Grow the hell up. And Piss off
@@davidnoel2977Welcome to the internet
I saw this in the theater and you could hear a pin drop when the credits rolled. Coming out was a theater full of grown men with tears in their eyes
“Tell me I’m a good man”
Gets this man every time.
How old were you when you first saw Saving Private Ryan??
I was in my dad's sack still
Young!! It was always on TV during National Holidays.
The finger biting part in the final battle really freaked me out.
I was 19 and in the military
I can’t remember
Almost 14. We were shown it on the little TVs on the coach during our school trip to France. Normandy, to be specific. They showed us the opening scenes on the way to the D-Day landing beaches and cemeteries. So yea that was.......yea....
Clarification: The Doc Wade death scene is one people miss the point of a lot.
Basically, once Wade realized he was hit in the liver (thats a mortal wound.....you WILL die), he realized he was dead.
Him asking for morphine was to ease the pain while he died.....thats not uncommon for soldier that are dieing, to be giving drugs to ease tue pain of it.
So when Captain hears his request for more morphine, he too realizes what doc is asking him for, hence the slight hesitation from everyone in the moment.
I was a medic in the Air Force and during training they would tell us that the rules of engagement basically said that the red cross meant that we can't get shot at. I believed it too until I started watching more war movies. Now I realize that's the craziest thing ever 😅 big old red target saying "I'm saving people" to shoot at. Why would an enemy want medics saving soldiers? Lol
My dad got mad at this movie cause the medics didn't ditch their crosses. He had three paternal uncles who were at Normandy, one was a medic. He said his uncle told him the first thing the medics did was get rid of the crosses, esp the helmets. Gave the enemy a perfect target to aim for. And I'm like okay but you're missing out on this incredible scene. But that's how my dad was. One thing didn't make sense, tarnished the rest of the film for him.
.... but yeah. Shakespeare in Love was the Oscar choice for Best Picture over this generational masterpiece. It's why I don't take awards serious anymore.
"Shakespear in Love" wasn't even the best film of its genre nominated that year. "Elizabeth" was a way better film. 1998 was a stacked year in film that got sidelined because Weinstein knew how to play the game and manipulate those around him.
I actually love “Shakespeare in Love”, amazing movie, but it was not the best film of that year.
For someone who don't take awards serious anymore, you seem to love to talk about awards.
And “Elizabeth,” also made that year, was better than both “Shakespeare in Love” and “Saving Private Ryan.”
Besides from the opening 20 minutes, my favorite scene is the church. This is what modern movies do not understand, we do not need two hours of wall-to-wall action. The scene where the main characters are just talking, they talk about their past, they talk about their feelings. One of the most beloved characters in the film is literally asleep, and never has a line. It’s perfect.
My Dad described this exactly like this opening on Omaha beach to my Mother. She told us about it when we were older. I glad my Dad wasn't here to see this movie b/c it would have been too much for him to handle. He never talked about the war and had survivors guilt. He wouldn't even accept any of his medals. He told me once that the ocean was literally red with blood. He became an alcoholic and died at 61yrs old. It seems so long ago. I miss him.
Visceral memory for me seeing this in theaters with my boyfriend when I was 18. I cried the entire first 30 minutes, knowing soldiers really went through that and how terrifying it must be. I remember there were two old men in the theater watching this, too, and they were crying. They were old enough to have been young soldiers during WWII and I wondered if they had been there, or at the very least experienced losing their brothers in arms.
"earn what"? Welp homeboy missed the entire point of the film. So frustrating
Nah, he understood it right after in the final cemetery scene.
This movie is brutal. I watched it with my grandpa who served In the pacific and he was speechless for a good ten minutes after the film was over. I’ll never forget that moment.
My grandpa was in the 2nd wave on D-day. My mom said he didn’t really talk about it much, if at all. The only thing she remembers him really saying in relation to D-day though was about men pissing themselves. So the puking on the way in seems like an accurate portrayal of the fear they felt.
My great grandpa was also part of the 2nd wave on D-day. Also didn’t mention much about it other than how red the water was before even getting to the beach.
Many soldiers did get sick onnthe Higgins boats not just because of stress but sea sickness. Not only were the seas rough that morning but most of them had been on the transports for two days or so. They had been loaded aboard for the original landing date and when it was postponed, it was decided that it would take too long to unload and then reload them, and it would be a security risk, so they were left there. The transports they were on didn't ride very well in the best of times, and with the rough water, overcrowded conditions, plumbing stressed to failure and backing up, it was terrible for them.
They also knew very well what they were attacking. The beaches were well mapped and details were known about the bunkers and all. They knew it was going to be bad. This is why they launched in something of a break in bad weather: the Germans wouldn't expect them. As such, many of the high command had gone on leave and the defenses were not all fully ready. In some places they were, such as the one depicted in this movie. Had they all been and a few other turns, the invasion could have failed as many expected it to.
The helmets in WWII and into Vietnam were meant to protect against shell and grenade fragments, most of such fragements. Bullets might get deflected if you were very lucky, but usually they'd get through.
I always saw the soldier rose up and took his helmet off was because he was in absolute shock and took it off to determine if he was shot in the head and somehow still alive observing the damage on his helmet, he wasn't sure if he should get down severely injured or place the helmet back on after he knew he was still somehow good.
the opening scene is so intense and Loud that you guys are actually yelling during your reaction😂😂
Americans 😉
12:25 is probably my favourite attention to detail in this movie, the medic on the left gets shot in his leg through the canteen and it first spills all of the water before the blood comes out
This film was really something to behold in the theater. Words can't describe the experience. Saw it opening weekend.
They should re-release this film every 10 years.
6:30 gotta remember too, those “hedgehogs” (big metal spiky things) on the beach were meant to tear up the bottoms of landing craft during an amphibious landing assault. But the Allies launched the attack during low tide so these hedgehogs were exposed.
But that meant the Allied soldiers had much more open ground to cover before they made it to the sand wall.
Thank you guys, this was a beautiful reaction.
As a Marine Corps veteran myself, I've pondered many times the unfathomable courage of those who came before, and the incredible selflessness of those who laid down their lives so that others could live free.
Thank you for taking the time to honor them in your own way. 🤜🤛
Fantastic reaction! One subtle note is the divisions throughout the movie. Airborne guys had the camo helmets with spade on it, and Tom Hank’s unit is the Army 2nd Rangers. These guys were special forces at the time, so that’s why they were first wave at Omaha and also selected to rescue Ryan.
Also at the end, the faught the “2nd SS Das Reich Panzergrenedier Division” which was the most feared German unit in WWII. They were a heavy war crime division and took zero prisoners on eastern/western front
"How did this lose Best Picture? to Shakespeare in love?"
Ive been asking that same question since 1999.
My grandfather's brother was there on D-Day. He confirmed how accurate that scene was and couldn't finish watching it. He was hit 3 times before he made it to shore. Once in the shoulder while on the boat, once in the side as he jumped into the water, and once in the back as he was swimming. Of all the soldiers on the boat, only three made it to shore. All three were hit, his wounds were the worst. He said it's sheer luck that he survived.
35 dead, x2 wounded is not a reference to the beach landing, but a patrol 2 days later we did not see. 2400 Americans died on Omaha Beach.
The two guys who were trying to surrender with their hands up (who got shot anyway) were saying:
"I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone, I am Czech!"
Helmets, even today, do not stop rifle/mg bullets. They are worn to prevent ((hopefully) shrapnel and blast damage. They also help keep the weather off your head.
Yes they do, modern helmets are designed to stop the equivalent of a .308 round, so basically everything in common usage
@@user-oh6sx7cp4cand even then, only hope it a ricochet
@tobeslmao no, a modern helmet will.stop a round from most sniper rifles and lmgs with no problem, except a probable concussion
You two are the very first reactors I've seen that recognized Ted Danson, let alone Nathan Fiilion! NOBODY!! AWESOME Reaction all the way through! 🤯😮❤
I saw this the first week it was released in theaters. Imagine the intensity of watching it on the big screen with all the noise. What ripped my heart out was as we were leaving there was an very elderly man in a wheelchair, we didn't have seating for wheelchairs back then in the small theater, sitting on the end and his face was wet with tears. He was wearing a cap with his regiment's insignia and the words WWII Veteran. I was too emotional from the movie and knowing for him this all happened I couldn't say a word but I touched his shoulder as I passed him. He nodded his head and as I left I heard him talking to his family about, "I lost so many of my friends..." To this day as of right now I have tears streaming my face with the memory. Spielberg got approval from one vet at least that I saw. And many more I came across, I worked as a civilian on a Military Base for 10 years, said he got the emotions right.
Man...I just want to give Andrew a hug. This might be my favorite reaction of his so far. I'm so happy Greg was able to recover this video.
FUBAR = F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition
Recognition/Recovery/Repair - All 3 get used
When Tom Hanks told Dennis Farina "35 killed" that was NOT the D-Day invasion. That conversation takes place three days after the invasion as per the title card before the scene. In between that scene and the initial invasion they went on a short mission and those were when they had the 35 casualties.
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 13:44 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 to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured.
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.
It shows how influential this movie was cause it kind of originated the bullets in water trope that was everywhere for a while after this in every genre of movie with guns lol
@@cupofcait Even beyond that...there is the "no tanks on the beach" myth, the exploding flamethrower trope, and quite a few other things that are not quite true...or just not true...in SPR that lots of people think are real because of the movie. 👍
This movie is only good for the technical aspects and in that, it’s goated.
Everything else is just americans sucking their own cock as usual
@@iKvetch558 Those bullets from that caliber could definitely kill you underwater. They're much faster and more powerful than the ones they tested on mythbusters.
@@langitkensahaja125 Only if they were fired at point blank range...not when fired from machine guns hundreds of feet away. And at the angles some of them were hitting, a lot of them should be ricocheting off the water back up into the air.
Saving Private Ryan is a pretty damn good war film. I don't know if you would consider a mini-series a 'war film', but Band of Brothers was even better to me. Mainly because the former is fiction, and the later covers real men, real events. They're both outstanding though, and I'm really just splitting hairs between them.
Someone on Reel Rejects need to do Band of Brothers! It was perfect! Tom Hanks and Spielberg also had a hand on that one if it convinces anyone 😂.
@@t42gaming28 ... Seems like they need to. Even with the mistakes, which were not intentional, BoB is my fav mini-series.
I've heard some people say they don't have time to sit through a 10-part mini-series. If they watched it they would feel differently.
It’s the best series ever
More than 35 men died on that beach. When the Captain said 35 dead, he was a Company Commander entering the battle. So when he asked how many he lost, it was 35 in his company. There was more than one company out there. When the Captain’s superiors were taken out that put him in charge of all the companies on the beach. Hence him asking “who is in charge?” “I think you are sir”
The 35 dead was later on in a different mission than the landing...they showed him reporting to Dennis Farina on D-Day +3...we never really find out how many of the company were killed or wounded during the landings. I guess it is possible that Miller is reporting in all his losses for the entire 3 days, but it seems wrong that Miller would have had no contact with his superiors in all that time. Also, Miller is a Company Commander, that is why Sizemore comments on how the Army "took his company away" after he got assigned to find Ryan with a small squad.
@@iKvetch558 No, but if he's got 35 dead, there's probably a similar number too wounded to fight, which would put his company at somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 full strength, which means it's no longer able to operate offensively. The rest of the batallion is going to be in similar shape, so until they can be reinforced or taken out of the front line, the CO would likely have had to consolidate his remaining guys into effective, full (or near enough) strength companies.
When Capt Miller (Hanks) is reporting on a mission to the Lt Colonel just after the DDay sequence, he's talking about a mission he had done in the time since the beach's capture, not the storm of the beach itself.
this may b one of the most jarring reactions ever, screaming and shouting over the whole thing, ignoring most of the dialogue and talking over it, starstruck by actors. I'm surprised you understood the film
well said.... I couldn't finish this reaction, these two were like five year olds, talking through much of it, and paying more attention to which actor was which......it's a great movie with a serious and sombre theme, and you two were like fans at a sports event.......
Any veteran knows FUBAR 😊 and of course you were talking over the explanation for it.
I dont know if anyone said it or if it specifically states it in the movie but the reason they are trying to save private ryan. Is because hes the last of his line. If he dies, unless the mom gives births again. There family tree ends with Private Ryan. So alot of times in war. If whole familys get drafted they make sure at least one person lives to continue the lineage
Where did you get that? It’s not in the movie, and it’s only loosely based on a true story.
This reaction is very refreshing in that i can totally believe that you two, despite your vast knowledge of movies, have never watched this movie & have no clue whatsoever on the plot, based on all your guesses at the start 😂 Its a genuine first watch & i enjoyed being here for it. Thanks!
It wasn't until relatively recently that helmets were able to stop bullets, and even now a lot of modern ones can only stop glancing hits or smaller calibers. At LEAST through the Vietnam War, helmets were intended to prevent shrapnel injuries, not direct shots from a gun. It's not much, but it's something, especially considering how prolific the use of artillery and grenades were throughout the 20th century.
Additionally, the "German" troops on D-Day were WILDLY outnumbered. It was considered unlikely that Normandy would be the invasion point for the allies, so a lot of the troops there were foreign conscripts or reservists, while the cream of the German military was held in reserve to react to the invasion as well as being sent east to fight the Russians.
Also, screw the people who say Fury was inaccurate. The vast majority of complaints I've seen have no merit and are presented by people who don't seem to know what the hell they're talking about.
C'mon guys! You say how awesome the dialogue is and then immediately prattle on and on over it!
I mean, it’s a reaction video. They’re reacting. Definitely watch the OG film if you want it uninterrupted .
5:33 the guys were throwing up on the ride to the beach partly due to water, partly due to the nerves, but also because they were fed a heavy breakfast. Kind of like a last meal type of thing. It was known many of these guys would be dying.
48:07 the morphine scene, they’d already given him one dose of it and a second dose would kill him. The saying was “one of the pain, the second for eternity.”
All I can say is, thank God for morphine. Put my dad out of his misery at the end.
the movie is over 25 years and still it does its job!.
"35 dead....x2 wounded" That is in HIS company. Not the entire D-day Omaha Beach landing. Plus Im pretty sure he was talking about a smaller battle that occured AFTER the D-Day landing, trying to fight their way inland.
If you haven't seen or reacted to "The Longest Day" it IS a must! The only movie that comes close to rivaling the cast is "A Bridge to Far". In Longest Day pay particular attention to the battle of Pegasus Bridge: The actor portraying the commander of the British unit actually took part in the battle and is wearing the beret he wore on the day of the battle and the insignia of the man he is portraying. There is a scene where a man hands him a piece of paper that man is the commander the actor is portraying.. in the actual battle the actor was the man handing the paper to the commander he is portraying. A scene from actual life being recreated on screen with the guys just swapping places and each is wearing the unit patches worn on that day by each other.
This movie is a classic
In Saving Private Ryan, after Wade is wounded he requests "a little more morphine". Morphine syrettes during WWII contained a very strong dose, and two for someone with blood loss as severe as his would be fatal. The rest of the unit knows this, which is why they hesitate before giving it to him. Peace out
Fun History fact: the reason why many men were puking and drowned were because there was a large breakfast buffet for the soldiers before they took off. Many soldiers indulged in the buffet and over ate as it was most likely their last meal. Which caused many to become sea sick, have a hard time swimming and run slower if they were lucky enough to make it to land
This is the best WWII movie
For me it's The Thin Red Line.
@@jxchamb This is also the best film, incredible performance by Jim Caviezel
For me it's Hacksaw Ridge, craziest true story ive ever seen.
Great Reaction Andrew and Aaron! This movie is so amazing and emotional! 👍
I really like that the captain yelling for Ryan is how they find him. It’s literally the first real lead they get that eventually gets to Ryan and all the Captain did was yell and ask around. So good.
Except that it was the wrong James Ryan, but yeah.
@@kelkabot i’m talking about later. Not the Nathan Fillion scene. When they’re looking through the dog tags and the Captain literally starts just yelling Ryan’s name eventually talking to the guy who can’t hear that leads them to Ryan’s location.
I was kinda shocked by the guys reaction to the first few mins( have they never seen a war movie before) yes it's intense but what the hell would you expect..its f@cking war..you should expect arms and legs blown off and bullets flying non stop..the fact that these men kept moving forward through that hell is why we call them the greatest generation. I think this reaction wasnt the best, some many scenes that one needs to absorb but the guys are so uncomfortable that they talk over it with many either non relevant info or throw jokes at inappropriate times to deal with these dramatic moments.
I cant bring myself to finish this video, these dudes are cringe and aren't even paying attention
"Earn what?" Are you serious?
Yeah...that one hit me the same way.💯
These guys are idiots lmao
Now THIS is how the Glory reaction shoulda went! 🤣🤣
26:18 huh? ... Wow, no... They're not talking about the initial beach assault, it's been three days it say so in big white letters, and they're explaining they went on another mission, which is where they lost 35 people... Off screen... Activate the subtitles during reactions cause you lose a lot of dialogue by talking over it and reading it helps with details.
That this lost best picture to Shakespeare in Love remains one of the greatest travesties in film history. It was the beginning of the end for me as far as caring what the academy thought about movies.
30 years later and nobody is doing reaction videos of SiL. But here we are still watching this movie, digesting it, and discussing how important it was to cinema.
Make of that what you will.
Well said.
Maybe if yall weren't yapping and fangirling you'd catch very obvious context clues about timing and situations. The 35 dead were not from the beach they are 3 days ahead
I was listening to a D-Day survivor from Omaha Beach and he actually openly stated that the Angels must have been working overtime that day because there is no right for any of those men to have made it off that Beach
The actual beach where the landing took place was so, SO much bigger at the tide they landed than the one they shot the movie on, having been there it's incredible these men actually made it all the way through.
26:20 He isn't commenting on the D-Day landing casualties. He's commenting on another mission he just finished.
You asked about FUBAR all movie but talked through the scene that finally explained it.
They aren't the only reactors to miss it. Any time the movie quiets down, they talk over it.
Please tell me this is a gateway for you guys to watch Band of Brothers. Would love to see you guys react to it!
Omaha beach seems like it was in and done thanks to 'Ryan but on D-Day it was:
06:30 first wave goes in.
Landings are a mess, most units landed cease to function due to massive casualties or getting pinned down.
06:45- 07:30 Second wave lands on the beach.
08:25 Strong point bunkers are infiltrated
12:30 first draw open.
13:00 Omaha Beach: the Wn 72 strong point Dog Green area is captured (this is the sector in the film).
21:00 beach is finally secure.
Imagining the events in Ryan going on for hours and hours really hits home the horror of that day.
24:15 THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING THE LETTER!!! So many reactions don’t include this letter. And it’s SO important and powerful!
Fun facts a lot soldiers that stormed Normandy were in their first battle of the war, can’t even imagine. Also, those guys they shot with their hands up after they took the beach weren’t actually German I forgot what nationality but they were prisoners of war forced to fight for the nazis. War is so ugly.
@newerakid1 ify Quite, they were Czech. On the Eastern Front the Estonians were forced to fight for the germans and after the war the Soviet Union took over their country.
49:03 I was so emotional and then I had to pause because I couldn't stop laughing 😂😭 Also, I'm sad the YT edit missed the FUBAR reveal.
It’s not even that funny bro it’s actually really sad so stop being funny
@@ante1881 no
Yes, you wore because you put a happy face
The were kids pretty much 17-24 ....... Most of them volunteered back then whole neighborhoods would join up. If some people couldn't go for any type of injury ect. some of them committed suicide cause that how bad they wanted to join..... These young men and women saved the world.
TROY AND PATRIOT TWO OF MY FAVORITE WAR MOVIES
Kinda dissapointed about the reaction how to handle pows. Not even were you for the imoral treatment but also the illegeal ones according to IHL and other international agreements. Also the screaming and cheering along isn´t really fitting...
It is their honest experience with it. Different people react differently when they are not around others and even with so I would not sweat it. I rather it not be fabricated.
"Would you want to live after losing a leg?" I did and do. "Dealing with PTSD." Yeah, that too.
An absolute filmmaking and production masterpiece. It holds up after 20 years.
Dialogue is fantastic.
Your appreciation is appreciated
And John Williams delivers AS ALWAYS
The helmet design was a spill over from WWI and was meant to protect from falling debris and shrapnel from above rather than direct bullets.
They didn't have the ability to make bullet proof helmets l prior to about 30 years ago
Y'all talked WAY too much during this one; it was borderline disrespectful.
How is disrespectful?
Fun fact, the point of the helmets, even though they could be shot through, was to keep the head and brain together. They were often referred to as "brain buckets"
They were designed to protect the wearer from shrapnel raining down from anti-personnel artillery shells exploding overhead.
😂😂😂🤦🏽
"Tell me I have led a good life, Tell me I am a good man." that gets me every time.
About the 2 soldiers that begged for mercy at the beginning: they said something like "we are not Germans. We didn't kill anyone". The Czech were forced, conscript by nazis to fight.
Because you guys talk about unimportant BS when you should be listening. You didn't realize that the 35 dead x2 wounded wasn't from the landing. It was from the mission to take out some guns he just returned from. You are too busy talking about actors names and other movies instead of watching this one.
watching stuff like this but having 0 integrity and still showing some bs sponsors is wiillldd. you guys are gross