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Saving Private Ryan

Darkstar757

Darkstar757

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Every time I see this movie I end up balling and crying out loud.

To the Men And Women who have made the greatest sacrifice defending this Great Country I salute you.


May you Rest In Peace.



God Bless The USA.


Cheers,
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I can't watch it again. It makes me think of my 18 year old father, on the beach at Iwo Jima. Later, he was climbing the slopes as a stretcher bearer supporting corpmen, and deciding who to carry down, who lived and who died.
Here's to all you guys and gals who went and served.
 
They still had the arm scene in the opening. I had to leave for work, but my guess is that if they didn't edit that, the gore aspect should still be in. I'd also imagine the late showing may allow language.
 
If you thought Saving Private Ryan was good, you need to do yourself a favor and buy/rent the Band of Brothers series, it is epic.
 
Saving Private Ryan is one of the few movies I have a hard time watching.
We Were Soldiers is another.

So few movies do a proper job of showing the horrors of war that we see the usual tripe offered by Hollywood and think, "gee, war isn't so bad."

Then you see something like the two I listed above...even they don't truly depict the horrors of war...but they do a pretty good job.

I spent 2 years in Vietnam as a rifleman in a Marine rifle company...I've seen some shit that still wakes me up at night...35 years later.
 
Savign Private Ryan was a great movie, and very emotional. I also liked Black Hawk Down as well. Both are powerful films.
 
Wow! I was just writing a report on this movie earlier today... the paper is actually about Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers. Still.. strange coincidence...
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Saving Private Ryan is one of the few movies I have a hard time watching.
We Were Soldiers is another.

So few movies do a proper job of showing the horrors of war that we see the usual tripe offered by Hollywood and think, "gee, war isn't so bad."

Then you see something like the two I listed above...even they don't truly depict the horrors of war...but they do a pretty good job.

I spent 2 years in Vietnam as a rifleman in a Marine rifle company...I've seen some shit that still wakes me up at night...35 years later.
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My Dad was a WWII vet. He joined the Navy and was on the hospital ship Hope. He'd thought he'd pulled some pretty good duty until he found out his job was to pick up body parts after battles. What he saw haunted him the rest of his days.

My Mother said he woke up every single night screaming in terror. I just can't imagine that. He was also in the second boatload ashore after the Hiroshima blast. He had a host of really unusual diseases his whole life that he never got a true explanation for. Radiation exposure would be my guess.

My mother said he would never talk about his experiences in the war. He didn't start saying anything about it at all until about 6 months before his death.

BoomerD, I respect the sacrifices that you and others have made. But I'm not ashamed to say that I'm glad it's something I never had to experience for myself. My year of birth more or less put me between wars. I could have volunteered for Vietnam right at the end. I registered and had my number, but the draft lottery ended shortly after I graduated from High School. My folks were adamant that I not go over there.

I didn't want to either.




 
The scene that always gets me is where Ryan(as his older self) asks his wife to tell him he led a good life. That one always gets me...
 
"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of freedom."

If that scene doesn't hit you in the chest like a cannonball, you have no heart.
 
Originally posted by: enwar3
Wow! I was just writing a report on this movie earlier today... the paper is actually about Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers. Still.. strange coincidence...
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Coincidence? Could the reason for the paper have something to do with Veterans Day today? And, perhaps all these war movies might just happen to be on tv because of... Veterans Day?
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Originally posted by: LAMONTBURNS
The scene that always gets me is where Ryan(as his older self) asks his wife to tell him he led a good life. That one always gets me...
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Ditto.
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Yep, even if you make it through the bridge scene Spielberg hits you with the graveyard scene.

Same thing in Schindler's List. If you manage to get through the scene where he breaks down by the car you get the knockout punch at the grave.
 
This is one of my all time favorite movies but my wife refuses to watch it 🙁

She can't handle the gore.

For me, that's what drives home the reality of what went on there.

My (now gone) grandfather served and was part of the invasion at Normandy beach and his stories he told my brother and I are put to visualizations in this movie.

I really want to see Band of Brothers also but if the gore is as much as this movie, then it'll be hard to find the time to see on my own.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: enwar3
Wow! I was just writing a report on this movie earlier today... the paper is actually about Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers. Still.. strange coincidence...
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Coincidence? Could the reason for the paper have something to do with Veterans Day today? And, perhaps all these war movies might just happen to be on tv because of... Veterans Day?
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Well, I figured that SPR was on TV cuz of Veteran's Day. I chose my prompt though, because I liked Letters and Flags and wanted to compare them to well-known/the typical war movie. The prompt wasn't assigned to me.
 
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