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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) RUINED ME! | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction

2.4K views · Sep 4, 2026 · Entertainment

justUzzy

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@justUzzy · 3 weeks ago · pinned
Well… that definitely RUINED me! If you haven’t checked out my Hacksaw Ridge reaction, here it is: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFhBDy4pIE">https://youtu.be/cHFhBDy4pIE</a> — If you enjoyed the reaction then please also leave a like & subscribe as it helps the channel a lot!
@vickib5579 · 3 weeks ago
Such a well-made film. I find it ironic that of the original eight, the two who made it out were the reluctant Reiben and Upham. Even though I've seen the movie and reactions to it multiple times, I was crying along with you. (I'll just mention Sleepless in Seattle again.) I saw this in the theater with my sons when it came out. My younger son had already enlisted in the Army but not yet left for basic training. I remember asking him at the end of the movie before we left our seats if he still wanted to serve. Of course he said yes. I'm so proud of him.
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@JasonFazackarley · 2 weeks ago (edited)
Try reacting to Schindler's List, another Spielberg classic! Gave you a thumbs up and subscribe
@iKvetch558 · 3 weeks ago
As great as the movie is, Saving Private Ryan is not very accurate to history, but is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you that far 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 at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqkheiSoDig&t=345">5:45</a> and then got shot in the head...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. The 4th brother was found and notified by an Army Chaplain, and was sent home, but as far as the brothers none of what happened in this movie happened in real life. Just to be clear...in reality, the US would never send a mission out to find a single soldier like that...not if they did not even know if he was alive or where he was. If he had been captured and the US knew where he was, they would have perhaps considered a rescue mission, but not in these circumstances where there was no way to know where he was or if he was even alive. 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 one of the ones most worth noting. The location at the beginning with the French and US flags is the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial...located in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Most of the US servicemen killed in the 44 day long Battle of Normandy are buried in this cemetery...a total of 9388 burials. For context, a note about the losses on D-Day...the US landed about 34k troops on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944...as many as 2000 men were killed on that day to take Omaha Beach and the immediate area. Overall, the Allies landed a bit over 156k troops on D-Day including all 5 landing beaches...the total number of casualties was 10,500 including the dead, wounded, captured and missing, with the total number killed being about 4400...of that 4400 number 2501 Americans were killed in the amphibious landings on D-day. Those numbers do not include the Airborne forces that came in before the landings.
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@iKvetch558 · 3 weeks ago
A few more comments on things that came up during your reaction... Notification of next of kin was done by telegram, and they were delivered by normal channels...either by Western Union or by somebody contracted to deliver them. The military only sent an officer to give notifications of multiple deaths, so Mrs. Ryan knew something was terribly wrong when she saw that the Army had sent somebody out to her AND they had her local Priest/Minister/Pastor with them. We heard that one officer mention that she was getting "all three telegrams" that afternoon at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqkheiSoDig&t=624">10:24</a>, so that car arriving to her house was the delivery of those telegrams. The scenes where we see all those women typing letters, those are not notifications...those are letters from commanding officers, which were not always written, but were quite often. One of the main reasons that those letters are transcribed, or at least are checked, is so that sensitive information can be censored out of them...it is a little known fact that all mail that was sent home by US military people were censored for secret or sensitive information...and all the letters that people sent to the troops were checked and potentially censored as well. The German sniper was waiting for someone to go out and try and help Caparzo, so that he could shoot a 2nd person, so his waiting to shoot was basically using the dying Caparzo as bait for the rest of the group. Here's the thing about Miller choosing to attack that machine gun at the radar station...that "billboard thing" was meant to be a knocked out radar station...if we were talking about real life, it was a huge mistake to do it, and almost surely a violation of his orders. If he was really ordered by Chief of Staff of the Army General George Marshall to go and get Ryan, then his orders would have been to make that his priority...even over winning the war...and his job would have been to avoid side missions that could prevent him from saving Private Ryan. Not to mention the fact that using his medic on the attack like that...without having him remove the Red Cross markings...is also a violation of the rules of war...a minor war crime...which would have been a HUGE red flag of his decision making not being what as good as it should be. If Miller had lived and Ryan NOT been saved, Captain Miller would have been prosecuted for violating his orders and other things.