At the end, when old Ryan is talking to his wife, she looks at Captain Miller's grave marker and its obvious she has never heard Miller's name before. Symbolic of the many WWII soldiers who never spoke of their war time experiences with their families. They carried that burden alone through their whole lives.

@steev11

3 күн бұрын

She is the only person I have ever seen react to this that picked that subtle point up. He never told his wife about any of it.

@dhavaram8064

Күн бұрын

My father was in World War II. He barely spoke about it, but I am grateful to have gotten to hear some of my father's experiences over there. This is just a tough movie. Its fantastic, but it's rough. The opening scene is so realistic, which makes it very disturbing and really hard to watch. I've heard people tell about when they saw it in the theater, many men who had been in the war had to leave the theater during that scene. I didn't notice that happen when I was watching in the theater, but it may have. I got out of the military in 1996, just a few years before this came out. I was really struck by that opening scene and how real it was. For one thing, up until this film, movie makers always used pyrotechnics and fire for explosions, but its not like that in real life. When you throw a grenade or artillery strikes, there's just a lot of dirt flying. When people get shot, they don't have a dramatic flailing death scene. They just collapse. This movie showed all of that, and its very hard to watch. I think that's because we have become used to seeing typical Hollywood effects with fire and people getting thrown back by getting shot, etc., but in this there's none of that and you can't dismiss it as not real, because it certainly feels real.

On D-Day+3, when Miller is reporting how many men he lost (35 dead, X2 wounded), he's not talking about the D-Day assault itself. He's just talking about a specific assignment that he led after D-Day, to take out a specific pocket of resistance. And now, they've got ANOTHER assignment for him...

@donhimmelman1736

3 күн бұрын

yea the actual figure on Omaha beach sector was around 2,400 that day.

@theairwaybat1830

3 күн бұрын

I always wondered why those numbers seemed off.

@SIickTurtIe

Күн бұрын

Yea I saw the look in her eyes too lol.

I find it incredible that this film lost the Oscar to Shakespeare in Love, a film that no one remembers to this day, and Saving Private Ryan has become a great film classic.

@mikearmstrong8483

3 күн бұрын

@@javix2013 Seems like I've covered this with you before, though it may have been someone else. The Oscar's aren't about explosions. They are about acting. You think this is a classic film because it is a subject that holds your interest more than a romcom. But although it had good acting, so did SIL. The Motion Picture Academy is made up of producers, directors, actors, and patrons of the arts. And in their professional opinions SIL had better acting, even if it didn't have the special effects to match. Which is why lots of people still remember SIL to this day; just not the military history enthusiasts so much.

@tfpp1

3 күн бұрын

@@mikearmstrong8483nah SIL is political BS propaganda. Hollywood hates America, so it’s no wonder they would snub this film.

@GillGarcia2008

3 күн бұрын

Completely agree with you. I just can't believe it

@porflepopnecker4376

3 күн бұрын

When Shakespeare In Love beat this for Best Picture, it was the last Oscars ceremony I ever watched.

@porflepopnecker4376

3 күн бұрын

@@mikearmstrong8483 The acting awards are about acting. The Best Picture award is about the best picture, which was "Saving Private Ryan" by a long shot.

He earned it... He lost three brothers, served honorably himself and he didn't want to leave his comrades but had no choice..

At the beginning, on the landing craft, the sergeant isn't telling the men to save ammo. He's telling them not to bunch up. From the German defender's perspective, 5 men to shoot at is an opportunity while 1 man is a waste of ammo. The closer the Americans are to each other, the more likely they are to get shot at.

The message, "Earn this," is for all of us .

@scottfarley3644

3 күн бұрын

Gen Z does not think so.

@mikealvarez2322

3 күн бұрын

​@@scottfarley3644 Then they will lose all the freedom their ancestors fought for. There's an old song from the 60s whose lyrics go, "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone."

My father was in WW2 and he told me that EVERY man was crying for his mother when facing death.

That's why they are called the Greatest Generation. This one today would have surrendered.

At the Academy Awards, Steven Spielberg said it best these were a bunch 18, 19 and 20 year olds and they saved the whole damn world.

@cowardlylion9947

3 күн бұрын

They helped save the world. Many nations deserve credit.

Wade wasn't concerned about scaring the guys passing as they were looking at the dog tags - they'd already been fighting, as you can tell if you look at them - he was upset because he saw how disrespectful it was, to use the IDs of their dead comrades like "poker chips", as he said.

FUBAR is an acronym, and is part of a trio of important acronyms. SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fucked Up TARFU - Things Are Really Fucked Up FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Repair The military language can be so informative...and colorful :)

@hestoceles

4 күн бұрын

I always knew FUBAR as fucked up beyond all recognition, not that it really matters

@DarthMuse

3 күн бұрын

FUBAR = F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition

@iKvetch558

3 күн бұрын

The interesting thing is that, when you think about it, Upham NOT knowing what FUBAR was really marks him as an outsider. He would have had to be a loner of epic proportions to have never heard FUBAR over the course of his Army training. I am not sure if that makes the character worse or better...but it really does not make much sense for Upham to not have heard of FUBAR unless he actively avoided talking to anyone else in the Army...and even then, it strains credulity.

It took me almost 20 years to finally understand and appreciate Upham, and now I think he's the second most important character of the story.

Speaking of Military, watch Black Hawk Down Extended Edition, Fury, Hacksaw Ridge, Lone Survivor, 13 Hours & Platoon. It's totally worth it 👌.

@user-hl8bd8sy4o

4 күн бұрын

And "The Covenant"

@TheSocratesian

4 күн бұрын

Good movies but Fury is a cartoon.

@Halcyon1861

15 сағат бұрын

Yeah watch a bunch of hollywood nonsense

I never have a barbecue or party on Memorial Day weekend. Its a time of reflection, and a time to thank those, who died for us, so we can be free. I used to go to the VA hospital, to volunteer. There were 2 gentlemen who were WW2 vets who used to come there to lend a hand, offer wisdom. The last of them passed in 2015, and it may have been the saddest day of my life, when I found out. Memorial Day is the most solemn day on the American calendar, because sacrifice, duty, honor will always mean something, as long as men walk the earth. "Earn this", was not to Ryan, it was to us in the audience. We stand on the shoulders of those giants.

Miller gave Ryan a lifetime guilt trip he didn't ask for or want

@cowardlylion9947

3 күн бұрын

That's what I always though.

When they were going thru the dog tags, they weren’t “scaring” airborne. They were treating the dog tags of their dead friends with disrespect. Like doc said “they aren’t poker chips”.

all 5 Sullivan brother died aboard the USS Juno

@donhimmelman1736

3 күн бұрын

i liked that movie too.

One of the most overlooked things in the film is the bookends on it with views over the ranks and rows of headstones of the fallen. the movie focuses on the story of a single one. The perceptive will let their minds realize that every one of those headstones tells yet another story that might be greater still... The greatest generation were amazing.

1:19 "I wish there were just peaceful ways to just get along. And share resources really." Happy Independence Day!!!!

I'm so glad you watched this!! It is one of my all-time favourite movies!! Lest we forget

Anyone who sends young men off to die in war should have to watch this movie. The scene with Mother Ryan makes me cry every time; as does the scene with Mr. Ryan at the end. This movie has some great insights into how men think, and how they deal with things.

This movie really captures the horror and sorrow with wars. Still in 2024 a good movie!

'he's begging for his life' Yeah that and praying

There is some chit chat in the middle of the second act about Upham writing a book about men at war which suggests that he may have went on to write the book that told the tale afterward and that is why the character is portrayed unsparingly. Two of the three TV mini-series that followed this -- Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air -- were based on memoirs written by the men portrayed in them. Band of Brothers, which also depicts the Invasion of Normandy, is based on a book written by a historian, but the series interviews the surviving men who fought the battles in short clips with each episode and that turns the show into a riveting history lesson.

My great grandfather served with the 1st infantry division (big red one) and was on Omaha beach that day…. I had the privilege of meeting him numerous times as a kid. However, that’s hindsight, because I never knew what he did or what division of the he was in. It wouldn’t be until my two combat tours to Iraq in the army as an infantrymen were done that I found out from grandma that I had served in the same division as him and waited to tell me until or if I too made it home safe

the reason the medic told them to stop playing around with the I.D. tags was bkz those dogs tags belonged to the Airbourne and probably belonged to people the soldiers walking by knew and fought with. Was very disrespectful.

@caoillainn

Күн бұрын

They were very stressed, and humor is a great stress releaser. But I agree they shouldn't have done it in the open like that.

@codymazza7303

Күн бұрын

@@caoillainn yea i agree with you and its more then fair to say that they had no intention of being dissrespectful

Greatest war movie of all time. Highly recommend the mini series Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air. More Hanks and Spielberg magic

Wade wasn’t upset that reading the dog tags would intimidate the other soldiers before battle, but because they were making light of dead airborne soldiers. Those marching were the fellow airborne soldiers of those on the dog tags. It could have been friends, men from the same platoon or company, completely disrespectful. On the other hand, soldiers- especially those in combat, have a gallows humor.

D-day was followed by the Battle for Normandy, which was took months to secure. Most of the crosses you see are from the Battle for Normandy.

I appreciate that you didn't edit exactly the same as all other reactors do! You left in a lot of what they take out but still managed to keep the really important dialogue 😊

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 and then got shot in the head at 3:49...that next shot would have killed him even if he had kept his helmet on. The helmets of WW2 would almost never stop a bullet, except under very very rare circumstances. The movie is not a true story, and it differs from the actual history of D-Day in many ways...but the basic plot is loosely based on the 4 Niland Brothers, one of whom served with the 101st Airborne Division. However, when 3 Nilands were reported dead, no mission was sent behind enemy lines to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured. 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. Quick additional note...there was a General that was killed in a glider crash on D-Day...but there was no "armor plate" incident...that would have been ridiculous. Brigadier General Don Pratt...2nd in command of the 101st Airborne Division...was killed when his glider slid on wet grass upon landing, and crashed into a copse of trees.

Quick Note: every time he freezes and can't hear, he's disassociating. As in PTSD disassociating. I know because I've done the same thing in different circumstances. So many people think only combat veterans can have PTSD, but in reality, anyone can get it from any type of severe trauma.

“I get it, don’t scare them before they go into battle.” Or maybe more like don’t treat their fallen comrades like poker chips

The Canadiens played an important role in D-Day. Also their role in liberating the Netherlands was nothing short of heroic. The Dutch have never forgotten it.

In my opinion, the reason nobody wanted to charge the machine gun from the left is that most people are right handed. The machine gunner would most likely be right eye dominant/right handed and be able to aquire targets easier on his right, or the attacking forces' left side. It is a matter of probability, but your chances are much better charging a fixed position from your right, or the defender's left. Running to your left, or the defender's right, is suicide.

The beach scene is exactly what those 18 to 22 year Olds went thru

Saving Private Ryan YES! THIS is the right movie!!! After Vietnam, America transformed into a country whose military became one of … professional soldiers. Drafts were discontinued … in favor of an all volunteer force. Only about 3% of Americans had ever served in the military. This may be the reason for the lack of empathy toward veterans and wars, itself.” I would call upon you, and everyone, to not just “watch” a combat-accurate movie …. but, to watch it while considering yourselves as unseen soldiers that are THERE, experiencing the occurrences along with your fellow soldiers, friends. Great every Veterans Day, Memorial Day. This movie is a fictional film of WWII’s D-Day invasion … in which three of four brothers are KIA (killed in action) and a squad / platoon (8 men) search for the remaining live brother. D-Day remains the LARGEST amphibious invasion in history … the transfer of 39 divisions (22 American), over 1 million soldiers to Normandy France. The Allies began their invasion at 6:30am and and finally repelled the Germans by days end … at a cost of more than 10,000 KIA & MIAs. That would LITERALLY BE staring at death and bloodshed EVERYWHERE …. one could look nowhere that was absent its brutality! American soldiers that survived the first day’s invasion attested to the films’, accuracy in the nature & brutality of combat. A slightly unknown factoid is that German machine gunner that was depicted firing down onto Americans landing at Dog-1 Omaha Beach … massacring them before they could even get off their LST. That machine gunner identified himself well after the war as Heinrich Severloh, an 18 year old son of a farmer, that was conscripted by the Germans. Heinrich admitted that he believed he killed more Americans in a single day than any other soldier … more than 1000, possibly over 2000 … and for the rest of his life, the nightmares would never stop! Soldiers on both sides would have to eventually unpack & deal with all of their horrors …. secreted away for later, more convenient times for reflections. Another surreal oddity was the character of the typist Upham …. his character oddly reflects the character of our nation …. America. From 1937, years before America was attacked at Pearl Harbor (and beyond) …. America sat back, failing to act as Germany began exterminating 6MILLION men, women, children, and elders because of their race, using them as reasons for German failings …. We sat back, refusing to involve ourselves in Europe’s ‘Problem’ …. while Germany invaded and overwhelmed every other country except England. We finally pulled ourselves together and entered the combat! In combat, EVERY man (boys 17-20) reacts differently …. assimilates combat differently …. but, EVERYONE is afraid! We all lock our horrors away in the recesses of our minds …. only later to have to deal with them again! Back to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, I would hope that you & EVERY American would sit down a day or two before every Memorial Day & Veterans Day and rewatch this film (or, Hacksaw Ridge). But, next time rejoin the film, mentally doing so AS AN UNSEEN MEMBER OF THE SQUAD … to mentally & emotionally connect to the other soldiers as friends, buddies … hopefully, to understand all of the veterans combat problems. America, the people (the 97% never experiencing war, are now highly insulated from soldiers / veterans … stunned into remembering the wounded, maimed & dead … but seem to never comprehend those with invisible wounds … those that returned with PTSD, the veterans that choose to be homeless because feel they don’t deserve to continue living a good life, those 22 that are committing suicides every day. This movie was produced loosely on a true story and several similar situations. I’m not seeking compassion … rather a realistic understanding of WHY we returned as we did! Even though we got back to family & loved ones. They only recognized our shell, but found strangers with in. Some of us got back … but, not really, not completely! Others couldn’t accept the peaceful life, their friends couldn’t return to … and chose life on the streets as self-punishment. Movie done, how did you make it??? How’s that ‘assimilating combat’ and ‘survival guilt’ working for you? Not so good for me and others, either!!!

One of Steven Spielberg's many masterpieces. If you haven't watched another one, Schindler's List, you really need to as it's a life changing experience. You will never look at the human race in the same way ever again.

That was great, thanks for posting it.

My great grandpa. Was in WW1. To people that dont know "The Great War" he became a drunk. He did speak on his death bed, long before i was born. Said i had to stand on my bestfriends corpse because our encapement was flooding. So im standing on my friends corpse while killing people. I lost all humanity if there is a shred of humanity left in me. I know why he became a hobo and was a drunk. I bought the house he built last year. Found a 1920 newspaper and live rounds. I know a different war. But i dont think war is different

I am so glad that I watch this movie with you Reembok Wade doesn’t want to die no solider deserves that

If you like to see more WWII dramas, the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers is pretty good. Each one hour episode depicts training camp for paratroopers to the invasion of Europe. The paratroopers fly behind the enemy lines and then cause much disruption as possible while maintaining secretive as they are a small force.

This is loosely based on the story of the Nyland brothers in World War II. After watching this movie, I sat for a moment then said to myself, Steven Spielberg is an absolute genius.

Great reaction!

Great reaction Reembok, Private Ryan is you and me and everybody else in the free world. We could never pay back to that generation and all the allied country's what they deserve.

Yes!!! We and our brethren to the north are just babies, compared to the rest of the world 🌍 😂😂😂

As you say... they're just lucky! Therefor we are just lucky to even be here then!

Really liked this reaction to the top all time war film Reem, just FYI the definitive high intensity compliment of a ww2 film similar to this one is more recent called "FURY" its also a great visually graphic introspective of the war, best TV drama series for WW2 is the iconic Band Of Brothers and you've yet to react to either of them, so I look forward to that, ill also suggest "Memphis Belle" and "Masters Of The Air" TV miniseries. Too painful? Cman Reembok, they lived it! You can bear witness to the stories! Be stronk! _Salute_

@reembokreacts

4 күн бұрын

I definitely Salute them♥️

21:13 It's not that they were scaring them. It was their dead friends being disrespected by fellow soldiers.

This movie was inspired by the four Niland brothers. When the War Dept. discovered three of them had been killed, they sent an Army Chaplain to find the fourth brother(Fritz Niland) who had parachuted into Normandy. He was found 9 days after D-Day and sent back to the states. After the war it was discovered that one of his brothers was still alive, Edward Niland was presumed dead but had survived the war in a Japanese POW camp.

@paulhewes7333

4 күн бұрын

Fritz was very good friends with a couple of the members of the 506th PIR, 2nd Battalion, Company E. "Easy" Company.

I give a like to every reactor who shows the salute at the end👍

Check out the movie The Thin Red Line from the same year(1998). It focuses on WW2 in the Pacific on the island of Guadalcanal. In many ways it is superior to Saving Private Ryan. It’s a shame people overlook it.

I've been told the most common sound on D Day was the dying and injured crying for their mothers.

@the_bee_is_me

2 күн бұрын

Who told you that? It'd be drowned out by the ambient sounds of combat unless you were right up close to someone, and even then, it's iffy. No one would know. There would be millions of bullets zipping around the beach, German artillery targeting you, naval shells flying overhead, grenades exploding, bangalores clearing, thousands of aircraft screaming above, hundreds of tanks and their loud engines, etc etc etc. I have fired my 9mm without ear protection a grand total of one time. I couldn't hear what the other people around me were saying, and my ears rang like crazy for almost 2 days. That's just a pistol cartridge, five shots in rapid succession. Most WW2 infantry didn't have access to real ear protection, and their weapons were generally much louder. And (on Omaha) troops weren't getting up the bluffs until almost 6 hours after landing (0630 -> ~1200. 6 hours of much louder stuff happening constantly around you

Just to think of all the stories, some never told.

Hope you watch Band of Brothers. Great Pick!!!

Great reaction to a great film. I know you said war films are hard for you but I hope you will follow this up with all 10 episodes of Band of Brothers. Like SPR it takes in Europe on and after D-Day, unlike SPR, which is a fictional story, BoB it is a true account and opens each episode with interviews with the actual people portrayed on screen. The series was also produced by Spielberg and Hanks. In every way the series is spectacular and well worth the time it takes to watch, even if painful at times. Just a couple of other films worth you time Schindler's List, Spielberg's Holocaust epic and The Godfather I & II, you can pass on III. Looking forward t more reactions.

Good job. 👍🏻

FUBAR means F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition. FUBAR.

35 dead ×2 wounded was casualty report for his company.

@iKvetch558

3 күн бұрын

Interesting thing about that...a Ranger company only had about 65 men in 1944. So either Miller was commanding a larger unit or group of units, or they just got that part wrong in the film. Spielberg definitely did not let historical accuracy prevent him from making the movie he wanted to make...so he may have known and not cared.

Canada and the Dieppe Raid 😢

I love this movie. Although, I can never not share my high school US history teacher sophomore year of high school. He showed this movie and kept replay the Nazi deaths. It was during a specific time when eligible students finished they're standardized testing. He was a retired vet, and did medical camps during. He was actually quite progressive in the 08 campaign for Hillary. I'm sure he's dead now. I could give interesting comments on that class.

Now time for the best vietnam war movie all time, Platoon.

If u like saving private ryan, may i suggest a korean war film, "taegukgi" AKA The brotherhood of war (real tear jerker)

Just be aware that inglorious basterds while amazing, has some brutal in your face brutality/gore moments. Also, during the opening scene, my advice is to watch and listen. Do not talk/rract for camera until it is over. Take it all in for how amazing that scene is.

I watched it on the big screen . If that movie doesnt effect you , there is something seriously wrong with you .

The actual landing at Omaha lasted about twice as long as the movie. Nearly six hours on that beach being butchered. One thing missing from these battle scenes, thank Christ, is the smell. Blood, urine, faeces, gasoline and diesel fumes, propellant, explosive residue, and BBQ pork. Burnt human flesh smells of BBQ pork. It is well that war is so horrible lest we should grow too fond of it. - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Waterloo

@waynepurcell6058

3 күн бұрын

Burnt human flesh is nothing like BBQ pork. Human flesh has a vaguely "sweet" stink that is oddly revolting and sticks in the back of your throat like an unwanted and bad tasting sugary drink does. When I was young, I was unfortunate enough to be really close to a head on car wreck involving a VW Beetle, you know, the rear engine ones with the gas tank basically over your lap? People couldn't get the guy out. The screams were horrific, but I believe that the smell was worse in a way.

@robgraham5697

3 күн бұрын

@@waynepurcell6058 Thanks for correcting me. I was told the BBQ pork smell from a Nam vet I once knew.

My father wentnin after Dday he helped push the Germans out of France and back into Germany were his division and another one discovered a deserted concentration camp he was there for a few weeks helping with the half dead prisoners 15,000were there he said you never forget the smelland he didn't he had nightmares 25 years later

FUBAR=Fu%$ed up beyond all recognition!!

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Upham wanted to write a book about brotherhood 😂 He knew nothing about Brotherhood as his chicken a$$ let a brother die 😢😢

@iKvetch558

3 күн бұрын

And...if you think about it, considering how ubiquitous FUBAR was in the US military in WW2, Upham would have had to been actively avoiding speaking to anyone around him at all times since he entered the Army. He would have had to be an antisocial and silent loner of such epic proportions, that he would have almost surely been epically hazed and taunted. Perhaps that explains his lack of action when a "brother" needed him? Or maybe it just makes him more of a little P.O.S....but I just realized just now how little sense it makes for Upham not to know what FUBAR was.

@scottdarden3091

3 күн бұрын

@@iKvetch558 not only WW II I served from 78 to 87 and FUBAR and SNAFU were used almost daily 😂

FUBAR = Fxxxxx up beyond all recognition (or repair)

Hey nice reaction! Can you please react to the movie Edmond (2005)? Its classic and underrated. Subscribed!

You didn't know what *FUBAR* means & your cut *@**31:37* didn't show where "the kid" *Upham* is smoking & told *FUBAR = (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)*

It's a okay movie. Lots of inaccuracies.

Big, fake story about WWII. Try Dunkirk. At least three of the main characters (Bolton, Dawson, Farris) are loosely based on real people.

@tonyb7615

3 күн бұрын

Found the butthurt brit. Ha. And it's not fake BTW. Irl it was 4 brothers. 1 was brought home and another was actually alive in a Japanese pow camp and did eventually make it back home. Embesllished for the big screen, yeah. But not fake. Miller's 2nd assignment was the battle of Normandy, not shown. 1st was d day, 3rd was finding Ryan. I dont remember ryan's irl name. I'm sure someone else said it tho.

@brooksboyd1959

3 күн бұрын

Are you ok limey? Inferiority complex? Low self esteem?

Gens Marshall and Eisenhower never fought in their lives all desk jockeys

Hey , snowflakes,.. this was a generation...