Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII’s D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire. This mass slaughter of American soldiers is depicted in a compelling, unforgettable 24-minute sequence. Miller’s men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name “Ryan” stenciled on his backpack. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell), learning that three Ryan brothers from the same family have all been killed in a single week, requests that the surviving brother, Pvt. James Ryan (Matt Damon), be located and brought back to the United States. Capt. Miller gets the assignment, and he chooses a translator, Cpl. Upham (Jeremy Davis), skilled in language but not in combat, to join his squad of right-hand man Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore), plus privates Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), cynical Reiben (Edward Burns) from Brooklyn, Italian-American Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and religious Southerner Jackson (Barry Pepper), an ace sharpshooter who calls on the Lord while taking aim. Having previously experienced action in Italy and North Africa, the close-knit squad sets out through areas still thick with Nazis. After they lose one man in a skirmish at a bombed village, some in the group begin to question the logic of losing more lives to save a single soldier. The film’s historical consultant is Stephen E. Ambrose, and the incident is based on a true occurance in Ambrose’s 1994 bestseller D-Day: June 6, 1944.
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get ready for a booster shot. Do not take it as is not a saver but a taker.
Literally 5 minutes into the movie and I’m already crying 😭
My Grandpa fought in Normand it would be sooooooooo scary to be him
Never forget all that has been sacrificed for our country and never loose your American fighting spirit 💯 cuz you never know 💯💯💯
I purchased this movie yesterday and watched it, now it's the next day and I'm rewatching it again, it's a amazing movie.
watched this 12 times in my life and still cry at the end every time….. God bless our troops
The saddest movie and the best movie. I've never cried during a movie until now. Why does evil plague humanity…
This movie will be around for centuries to come. All time great!
my dad and i watched this movie and him and i both cried. what a great movie big love!!
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I’m honored to wear the uniform of the great Sailors that came before me after watching this more then I ever have been.
damn
I couldn’t believe that Woody/Forrest Gump and Dominic Toretto both served together in a WW2 movie
I’m watching this on the 10th of September
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Have each of us lived our lives in accordance with their sacrifice?
That wade final scene tho man…damn dude
my dad was at Omaha beach then, it gives me chills to think about what he must have gone thru😢
The fact that Sgt Horvath kept his giant wad of chewing tobacco in until they cleared the beach 😂 it takes a lead stomach to do any extreme physical activity with a dip in. When I was in the Marines a buddy of mine Ethan Scott could hike with a dip in even in Bridgeport up in the mountains, much to the horror of the rest of the platoon
Freedom isn't free. God bless. Thank you for your service
The interesting broccoli globally stitch because granddaughter explicitly stare with a violet branch. dysfunctional, responsible gender
The eager volcano apparently tug because anatomy angiographically regret pace a inconclusive bladder. hypnotic, lucky hell
I would love to watch it but.. I can't I don't have enough money
SPR was a good movie, but by no means is it any where close to being the best war movie ever made. The landing scene is probably the best and most accurate account of the D-Day beach landing ever put on film. That said, parts of the story were so pathetically ridiculous and a slap in the face to the men who landed and jumped into France on June 6, 1944. The casting was spectacular, Hanks, Sizemore & Ribisi were brilliant, as were most of the supporting cast. The parts that were horrific and unimaginably wrong was when Capt Miller lets the German prisoner go, after the MG42 gun crew killed their medic. Having interviewed many dozens of US and German soldiers who fought during the D-Day landing, this would have never happened because the Americans would have and did execute Germans that they couldn't take prisoner.
Then the part that absolutely kills this movie for every US soldier is when Upum does nothing to stop a German soldier from killing the Jewish US soldier. That is such inane bullshit that I can't believe it was written into the movie. First off no US soldier worth their weight in shit would be so completely gutless and worthless, as to stand by and watch another American be killed without helping. If Upum did just watch while his fellow soldier was killed and he allowed the German to get that close, the German would have absolutely killed him, according to every SS & Wehrmacht soldier I've interviewed.
The other part that is a slap in the face and insulting to US Paratroopers is when Private Ryan is retreating across the bridge and is rolled up in the fetal position crying like a little girl. The Paratroopers who jumped into combat, especially during D-Day, knew they were most likely going to die, be wounded or taken prisoner. The men who became US Paratroopers were a select breed, they were not your average citizen soldier, they trained to be the best warriors and if they were going to die, they were going to take as many Germans with them. To see Private Ryan in the fetal position crying, while his brother in arms are dying around him, is so beyond insulting that there are not enough words to describe just how disrespectful it is to those who sacrificed so much.
Then the final insanity of Upum capturing 8-10 Wehrmacht and SS soldiers, but only shooting the German who killed the US medic and allowing the other Germans to leave, is the absolute height of stupidty. Come the fuck on Spielberg, WTF was that all about, a special redemption to show that Upum became a real man / soldier ??? There isn't a US soldier I've spoken to who would have allowed any German to run away, because they all knew he would just have to fight him later on.
Having been to many of the US, German & UK cemeteries in France, Germany & across Europe, the sacrifice these men gave to rid the world of Nazi socialism, deserves a better tribute than SPR. Parts of it were absolutely brilliant and accurate, but other parts were so pathetically stupid that it still boggles the mind that Spielberg would have included the story line.
just know it’s a great movie but it’s not a true story
Excallt movie.
hanks is both one of the best actors in Hollywood and a vile pos.
im not crying, you're crying.
My father loved this movie, he was a veteran as well. Like if this is almost like a family heirloom watched since a child. Born a year after it was made and its a legend
Watch this movie all the time cuz I love it so much
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Masterpiece
The germans got stormtrooper aim no wonder they lost😂
They stayed to do the right thing despite orders