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[Anti_Ship_Fella]

did you watch Saving Priv Ryan it was on last saturday
whats your opinion etc.?

[Anti_Ship_Fella]

did you watch Saving Priv Ryan it was on last saturday
whats your opinion etc.?

[ash1976]

Amazing opening, though sometimes a bit 'hollywoodesque' later, but still a great film.

Am as I type watching the 'We Stand Alone Together- The Men of Easy Company' documentary from Band of Brothers having worked through the box set this week - stunning series!

[paulhager]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Anti_Ship_Fella:
did you watch Saving Priv Ryan it was on last saturday
whats your opinion etc.? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Superb opening - movie deteriorates from there.

[klcarroll]

If you've ever been under fire, ...the opening is difficult to sit through.

klcarroll

[swdw973]

Keep in mind they toned down what it was really like in the landings because they felt people would feel it was too gory. Many thought it was still over the top because they had no ieda how bad it really was.

Spielberg wanted to do the invasion landings realistically but after talking to the actual survivors he realized people would get up and walk out if he matched the movie to their experiences. So he pushed it as far as he thought he could get away with.

[Flamewagon]

Well I thought it was good but I would never want to go through the real deal...my old landlord was a tank driver on D-day and then became a tank commander shortly afterwards (about 2 mins) when the other tank commander popped his head out of the hatch for to long.

[odjig292]

I sat next to a trooper on a flight to England in 2004 who was in the first wave on D-Day that landed at Juno Beach with the Queen's Own Rifles. He was heading back for the 60th reunion. My father's ship took in some of the Canadian second wave to the same beach so I could relate. He said that first Omaha scene from Private Ryan is the most realistic he has ever seen and was based on a true event. The first waves of Canadians going across Juno Beach lost almost the same percentage of men as on Omaha but they were able to get across the beach and over the seawall. The second waves broke through into the countryside so they avoided the problem of Omaha where the second and third waves stacked up on the beach. The Omaha terrain was worse and the German troops were better trained than at Bernieres-sur-Mer.

He said he was so seasick from the hour trip into the beach in a small landing craft that he was hoping the Germans would shoot him, until he hit the beach. He said he'd never run so fast in his life as going across that sand with MG bullets whizzing around him. He lost over 60% of the men in his company in less than an hour.
He was lucky and went from Normandy to VE Day without getting hit.

[lane2512]

Not explainable. This isn't a cocky answer, it just is what it is.

Sorta like being hit broadside by a truck. You can watch it all day on the tube, but nothing will ever give you a clue what is was like sitting inside the car. Simply not explainable.

[bubbaj0nes]

Everytime i watch that great film i think of my grandfather who stormed the beach in normandy; he was the longest living Black-Canadian to land on that beach; he died several years ago from Cancer.
As a highly decorated Gunner, Grandpa Parris never once talked about what he went through on that beach. It was obvious through his emotions when he was asked questions, that the images in his mind could not be expressed.

Watching Saving Private Ryan gives me an idea of the hell he went through and i get shivers and teary-eyed everytime i see it.

Amen to those that fought for liberty.