Saving Private Ryan (1998) Full Length Reaction
Added 2022-01-12 00:09:15 +0000 UTCFUBAR.
Holy hell this was a rough one. A total gut punch.
I thought I'd seen this movie but it turns out I was thinking of Band of Brothers 🤦 so I was glad to figure that out and to be able to react to this one with you guys.
I'm definitely glad to have seen this movie now but wow was it hard to watch, which I'm sure is the point of it. Graphic, tragic, a completely affecting and shocking movie.
I cried from the very first moments until the very last moments.
The acting was excellent, the effects were great, the music was moving. I was completely lost in the action and forgot I was recording at some parts, it just really took over my senses.
I'm very interested to know if this is based on a true story so let me know.
I've heard Hacksaw Ridge is a similar movie that may be even better than this one so let me know if you'd like to see me react to that one, I'm definitely interested in watching it. As well if there are other war movies you think I should see.
Thank you guys so much for hanging out, bearing with my tears and watching along.
⭐ Special thanks to Producers: Baldielox, Kenneth, CBonius, MattN, Ronny Boss
Comments
I you want to watch an amazing miniseries. BAND OF BROTHERS is freaking awesome. Along with From the earth to the moon . Both Tom hanks supported
John Cipolla
2023-12-14 00:34:41 +0000 UTCThanks for the reaction. Early in the movie when viewers first notice Vin Diesel, they may have missed part of what overwhelmed the Jewish guy emotionally was holding the Hitler Youth knife. Hacksaw Ridge is good but not better than Saving Private Ryan.
Clay F
2023-11-30 04:16:40 +0000 UTCYes it's really crazy this is from the 90's when I think about it. It was shocking to my senses, I have never seen war scenes like this before so very affecting. I definitely want to see more stories like this, so I'll add your suggestions to my War Movies list 👍
Jen M
2022-04-09 18:38:23 +0000 UTCThis afternoon I decided to watch SPR before I watched Hacksaw Ridge. I can not believe it's been 24 years since I first went to see this film in the cinema. It was like nothing I'd ever seen before. If this came out today, apart from the actors looking younger, I don't think it's that noticeable that this was made before the millennium. You can't say that about a lot of films honestly. I'm not sure how many times I've watched Saving Private Ryan in the last 24 years. But I'm still not in even slightly desensitised to the brutal looking realism. As I guess I shouldn't be really. I think this film came to define the modern form of this genre. •Enemy at the Gates •Windtalkers •Black Hawk Down •The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Are 4 films that immediately come to mind from the preceeding decade. •Empire of the Sun 1987 •Schindler's list 1993 Are another couple that I'll add. Now I've starting thinking about other films I've seen and most remembered.
Daryl
2022-04-09 17:39:11 +0000 UTCSo heartbreaking to think of that situation. I can't even imagine. I'm glad the military took steps to minimize those tragedies in one family from happening again. Breaks my heart to think about
Jen M
2022-02-08 15:36:46 +0000 UTCThis is a fictional story, but the principle invoked here for finding Ryan and returning him home eventually became official military policy, the Sole Survivor Policy. It was enacted after two families lost multiple sons during WWII. The Sullivan family had five sons in the Navy, who joined together on the condition they could serve together. Their ship was sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign in the South Pacific; three of the brothers went down with the ship, the fourth drowned the next day, and the fifth jumped out of his raft and let himself drown a few days later. After the story was picked up the national media, the military ordered that siblings could not serve in the same command together. (In the movie, this is mentioned in passing in the beginning, and the fictional Ryan brothers were likewise sent off to different units.) The Borgstrom family had five of six sons serving overseas (the sixth was too young) and in the space of a few months in 1944 four of the sons died; the family begged their Congressman to get their fifth son home, which he did. After the war ended, it became official policy for a last sibling to be immediately rotated out of combat duty and sent home if his or her siblings were killed. I believe this was most recently invoked for servicemen in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Patrick Flanagan
2022-02-08 08:23:47 +0000 UTC
