*Saving Private Ryan* is a Masterpiece! (First Time Watching)

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I still think it is INSANE that Shakespeare in Love won the oscar over this.

I say it again and again... the woman playing Ryan's wife in the present gives two of the best line readings, in a well written scene. When she reads the grave marker, "Captain John H. Miller"... she's never heard that name before, clearly. That tells SOOOO much of Ryan's life since WWII, 50+ years of building a family and a life, and he never shared what happened. Then, when he asks her to tell him that he's lead a good life, the pause and glance back at the stone, because she also has no idea that he's been carrying this burden and so the question is out of the blue... Great performance for someone given 2 lines, and great writing to make that clear.

When you consider the opening Omaha Beach sequence, remember that it was tamed down for the film. In the movie, it took them 15 minutes to open the exit and move up onto the bluffs over the beach. In real life, it took closer to six hours.

I remember when my husband took me to see this, I was completely speechless during the initial scenes of the Omaha beach landing, it was so realistic, it looked like a news reel. The best war movie ever made imo.

This was Vin Diesel's first major motion picture role! Steven Spielberg himself saw a student film he did and was so impressed he asked him to audition

“Earn it”, is a message to all of us. We all need to “earn it” from the sacrifices of all the men and women who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms today. Little thing I’ve noticed from seeing this movie a million times, when Ryan’s wife reads Captain Miller’s name on the tomb stone, she doesn’t recognize the name, meaning Ryan has never talked about it. Which a lot of veterans don’t talk about it because what they experienced was so brutal.

I was a Navy Corpsman, I served 10 years, 8 with Marines. I saw this on a Tuesday afternoon. There were 12 of us. Myself, and 11 others, all veterans. At the end of the movies, the house lights went up. All of us had teary eyes. One old man stated the following- "As far as war movies go, that was the most accurate depiction I've ever seen . As for the ACTUAL D-Day, it didn't come close" His hat said it all- D-Day Survivor, Purple Heart. I have always deferred to his expert advice. As bad as you think it was as shown in the movie, it was much, much worse.

It's crazy that this movie didn't win the best picture at the Oscars. I think this movie can stood his ground at any year

The part that gets me more than anything is when the mother collapses on the news of her sons' death. Grew up rural in farm country and knew so many sweet, gentle souled farm wives of that generation. Back then family was everything, losing three sons like that would have been beyond consolable and more than one could bear. Just rips your soul out.

If you aren't aware, it was and I believe still is a common practice that if in war, all sons of a family enlist and all but 1 son in a family lineage were to die in combat, the last surviving son is to be brought home to continue the family heritage. Its a matter of honor to preserve the life of the last man in the family line to continue it forward.

When my grandfather was placed on end of life care both my brothers were recalled from Iraq where they were deployed as infantry and cavalry scout respectively for the sole purpose of saying their final goodbyes . The American red cross made all the arrangements with the army. Very thankful for their work

Das Boot (The Boat) is a German film about a German sub crew in WW2. You won’t get many requests for this one, but it’s an incredible film and should be watched.

In real life five brothers in the US Navy were all stationed aboard one ship, the USS Juneau. The Juneau was sunk and all five brothers died. I believe because of that, family members are not permitted to serve in the same unit together, and if i recall correctly, that incident served as a bit of inspiration for this movie. edit: as nomad-vv1gk pointed out: that rule actually doesnt exist

I saw this movie in the theatre a couple of times. I was in my 30's. Now, I'm in my 50's, and that line, "tell me I'm a good man" brings tears to my eyes. That's what all men really want to be - a good man, and to know they are.

The troops speaking Czech gunned down at the beginning would have been conscripted troops from conquered territories. :(

So glad you did this review. I remember seeing this movie in the theater. To hear the bullets zipping past you as an audience member: I had NEVER experienced anything like that. It was so real, it engulfed the whole room. And when that tank in the end came over the mound, the whole room was shaking, it was so loud. Wonderful movie. I have watched it more times than I can count. This and Schindler's List to me are two of the best films ever made. Great review!

Band of Brothers was made because of this movie. Hanks and Spielberg were the producers of BoB, and the story of trying to pull a soldier after his brothers died, was based on the true story of a member of the 101st Airborne (Company E was in the 506th PIR of the 101st, and the real "Ryan" was I believe in the 501st PIR of the 101st and was friends with several members of Easy, namely Malarkey and Muck).

I'll never forget the first time I saw the opening scenes - it was July 2006 (I was a month off 14 years old) and me and my classmates and teachers were on a coach in France, for our school trip. We were literally driving to the very beaches depicted in the film, and the memorials, museums and cemeteries. I'd love to go back there one day, it was a wonderful experience.

My great grandpa was part of the assault force on Utah Beach on D-Day. I watched a lot of war movies with him, but the only time in my life I ever saw him cry was watching this movie. He sat there really quiet and repeated the names of his war buddies that he lost on the Beach. This movie depicted combat so realistically that there were D-Day vets who left the theater when it first came out because they couldn’t handle going back there.