My father, Perry Walker Sparks was in the First Infantry. He fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and then became disabled physically and mentally on Omaha Beach. He was always in and out of Army hospitals, and then permanently when I was six years old, so I grew up without my daddy. I was embarrassed for years when someone asked me about him.. but I grew up, and my family told me what he went through, and showed me his medals.. he is and always will be my hero. Love Grandma Debbie

"War is just fucking bullshit" Wise words, dude... wise words.

Every reaction to this movie has the “IS THAT VIN DIESEL??” Moment, it’s funny but honestly sad for an actor that people are shocked to see them in a serious film

Now you need to watch “Band Of Brothers”, it’s THE VERY BEST WW2 miniseries ever made.

When the Captain said, "Earn this", that is the message for All of us.

Veterans who saw this film in theaters had to leave until the Normandy sequence was over due to trauma, they said that is Exactly how it was, the only thing missing was the smell of diesel and blood.

All told, 156,000 Allied soldiers landed in Normandy, on five beaches, Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha....Gold and Sword were British, Juno mainly Canadian, and Utah and Omaha American...7,900 British and 15,500 American paratroopers were airdropped before the actual beach landings began, 24,790 British troops landed on Gold beach, 28,845 British troops on Sword beach, 21,400 Canadians on Juno Beach while 34,250 US troops landed on Omaha Beach and 23,250 US soldiers landed on Utah beach.....in addition 196,000 naval personnel manned 6,500 warships and landing craft of various types, and over 11,000 aircraft were involved... D-Day was the largest amphibious landing in military history..... on 6 June 1944, they suffered approximately 10,500 casualties, that is to say, men killed, wounded and missing in action, with the worst of the casualties being suffered on Omaha Beach, with over 2, 000 casualties.

1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic. 2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down. 3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie. 4. There was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. 5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇 6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.

FUBAR is military slang for fucked up beyond all repair ...or all recognition

"That first ten minutes" When this came out in theaters. We had local veterans of WWII, come out to see this movie in full dress. A good number of them would leave the theater during that first ten minutes. In tears and unable to finish the movie. Heard that a veteran commented that when he could smell the salt, diesel and blood. He knew he wasnt going to be able to finish watching it. A moment in time I am sure nobody would want to relive.

The opening is about 25 minutes, the actual Normandy landing lasted 6 to 7 hours...Can you imagine? My dad was on the USS Frankford who provided essential shell cover, taking out the pill boxes of the Germans so the soldiers could climb the hills.

I walked on that Graveyard in the Normandy . Its a real place and it will give u goosebumps on how many graves there actually are . and their all lined up like u see it in the movie but the actual site is way way bigger . this is one of the best war movies ever made , thank you for your reaction on this one instant sub -cheers

"When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today." ~ John Maxwell Edmonds

Bro, you're the first one, who had the same reaction like me, as Ryan gives the " I was here with the only brothers that I had left* line. And brother, as a former service men, this line gives me chills and tears in my eyes, everytime I see this film

I do wish this movie had taken the time to honor some of the men that showed so much courage on Omaha Beach. There was a unit of Black soldiers that most people don't even know about. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion was an all Black Battalion that had their own medic. Barrage balloons, you see these in the panoramic view of the beach, were used to keep fighters off the troops. Corporal Waverly Woodson was a medic with the 320th. Though he was assigned to treat the men of his battalion, he wound up treating many of the white injured soldiers even after suffering severe shrapnel wounds himself. Woodson was hit in back and legs yet went on to treat many of the wounded, bandaging wounds, poroviding plasma, removing bullets and shrapnel, and even performing an amputation. While severely wounded he rescued 3 white soldiers who would have drowned. Woodson was wounded when the landing craft he was in hit a mine. The man next to him was killed. Yet, when the ramp went down Woodson went to work doing his job. Cpl. Waverly Woodson should have earned him the Medal of Honor but bigotry led to what I think was a gross injustice. Spielberg missed the opportunity to at least give these men the recognition they deserve. In 2020 the First Army Medical Center was renamed the Waverly Woodson Medical Center. In 2023 Woodson was awarded a Bronze Star and the Combat Medical Badge which were presented to his widow. It might interest people to know that Waverley Woodson also had a brother flying P-51 Mustangs with the Tuskegee Airmen. A great and honorable family which should be held for the heroes they are to today's youth...make that for all of us.

6:25 the B.A.R. is the Browning Automatic Rifle. It’s the weapon Reiben uses. The M1918A2 BAR was the standard light machine gun for the US military. It has it’s origins in World War I, and saw combat in the last weeks of said war. By WWII, the BAR was somewhat antiquated compared to other nations LMGs, especially compared to the German MG42, but the BAR is lighter compared to other light machine guns of the era and is a reliable mechanism. In fact, the current US GPMG, the M240, is a BAR action flipped upside down and fitted with an MG42 belt fed system.

You were wondering how many men died on that beach in the beginning of the movie. On the real Omaha beach, 2500 American soldiers died on D Day just on that one beach alone.

I had those same allergies when I first watched this movie

It is estimated that 4400 Allied troops died on D-Day.

Great upload, awesome reaction! 👌

The deaf guy who knew where Ryan was, was Ryan Hurst, he played “Opie” on “Sons Of Anarchy”.

Awesome to see this new generation appreciating this amazing movie and recognizing sacrifices made in the past for the world's stability (and now there is an idiot trying to dismantle NATO, a result from the war ). Do not vote for him, or the sacrifice of these man was in vain...

Omaha was the most heavily defended beach. Second was Juno, where my Canadian family landed

My stepdad turns 94 this year. He lost 4 of his brothers in Pearl Harbor, all on the same ship. Before WW2 he had 6 brothers, after just one. Both my grand dads fought in ww2, both made it back. My dad and uncle were in Vietnam My brother was Navy, I was USMC resv. My nephew is right now underway in the Navy on a sub. Ya....my family loves this country through and through. Yes I fly an American Flag every day, even a couple of smaller ones in my flower garden (real men have gardens and flowers, we got nothing to proove.)

"Taps" is played at veteran's funeral!

Nobody ate their popcorn while watching this movie in theaters. At the end, there were full buckets of popcorn left.

"War is when the government tells you who the enemy is , revolution is when you decide that for yourself"-- Ben Franklin..

So at the end, when he's talking to Miller's headstone, his wife comes up, and it's implied that Miller is a name she's not familiar with. He never told her the story about what happened.

Saving Private Ryan is incredibly realistic in most every way, with a very few exceptions...such as bullets not being able to kill you more than a few inches 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 6:00 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 to get the last brother, and it turned out that one brother that had been thought dead had actually only been captured. 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 definitely the one most worth noting.

A B.A.R. stands for Browning Automatic Rifle. Box mag fed automatic rifle used by our boys, in caliber 30-06. She was heavy. But the boys loved her. When you needed to rain hate. She was good to go.

Dude, ck out Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge"!!! It's a war movie, but it's sooo freaking much more. The cast, and their level of acting in it, is unbelievable. But I hope to see with more comedy soon, too. You're fun. Heh heh

Great Reaction bro

Great observation about the camera angles, I never noticed that.

7:40 over 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy that day. The Germans were overwhelmed by the sheer number. So even though 4,414 Allied troops were killed (which is staggering) there were still roughly 146,000 that survived to avenge their fallen brothers.

the guy upham shoots is the guy they set free and the guy who shot/killed Miller (Hanks)

Now you need to watch Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and the recently released Masters of the Air.

It is the same German at the end who they let go. In fact, the guy they let go is the one who stabbed Mellish to death. That's why he let Upham go on the stairway.

the casualties from Antiatem for 1 day in the Civil War were twice those of D-Day

The opening scene is a cemetery in France. If I remember right.Where British, Canadian and American service members were laid to rest from the fighting in France during WWII.

We see here the finest of men....this is why they are referred to as The Greatest Generation....My parents were of that era, raising us to Love God, Family, community and country, to be grateful to the men and women who sacrificed for our freedom and the freedom of other people in other countries, that is how They were raised.

39:29 no Upham is not scared he's jumping for joy and happy as hell

Ok you legit made me laugh out loud when you said, what is it with movies risking lives to get Matt Damon home.

Good heart. Good reaction. Thanks -

8.23 guys says "We are not Germans, we are citizens of the Czech Republic, they forced us to join the German army." so they killed not only surrendered soldiers they also killed Czech

Movie got us crying Thug Tears by the end

43:01 congratulations you learned a new word and now you can't stop saying fubar

This was Vin's first role ironically

VERY Good reaction

"Furtchbar," was the German saying meaning "terrible," but FUBAR is an American anachronism. It's similar to the word "flak;" FLiegerAbwehrKanone in German, meaning, basically, anti aircraft cannons.

Bro, I loved your reaction to this. But you and me both have never been in a war. Long may that continue 🙂 It will

Shell shock is a condition with psychological and psychosomatic symptoms resulting from exposure to active warfare, which makes people too scared to fight

Yeah that was Normandy on the D-day invasion. 1941. America initially tried to stay out of it in 1939, but Japan went and blew up our ship in Hawaii (u.s.s. Arizona), then we were ok a-holes, game on here we come

Another good review. My dad was in Europe. He refused to go see this movie.

During World War 1, German soldiers wld yell "Kamerad" w/hand up (pretending to surrender). When Doughboys (nickname for American WW1 troops) exposed themselves to take them prisoner, a hidden gun wld open up. It didn't take long more many American units to just stop taking prisoners. Of course, Saving Private Ryan was WW2.

24:20 you're absolutely right they don't know what they're doing that's why they're giving him medicine and they're trying to help him so clearly they're just sitting there for thumbs up there butts

snipers injured members of a squad so others in the squad would rush to help...

6:25 Browning Automatic Rifle.

Check out the film The Thin Red Line from 1998. It’s a WW2 film set in the Pacific Theater of Operations on the island of Guadalcanal, and it is fantastic. It’s better than Saving Private Ryan in many ways, and has very few reactions to it on KZfaq. That’s a real shame too!

Caparzo cared for family too much 🚗

2500 Americans were killed on this one beach landing. More than in the 14 years of recent war in Afghanistan.

B.A.R. Browning Automatic Rifle

Ben Affleck is always trying to get matt damon home... Then he remembers Jennifer lopez is there.

I have a theory in this movie. Everyone who gets the letter is killed. Caparzo has his letter for his dad and he is killed. Wade the medic takes his letter then he is killed. Capt miller (Tom hanks) takes the letter from wade and he is killed. At the end we see Reiben take the letter from capt miller and for me as a viewer I assume he also will be killed.

Loved your reaction. You may not know what you're doing but you're doing a pretty good job. You really should consider HACKSAW RIDGE, THE PACIFIC, BAND OF BROTHERS, MASTERS OF THE AIR.

You should watch Band of Brothers, if you like this you will LOVE that. That is basically 100% real.

19:49 I'm not a genius like you but I think the med guy is doing his job and helping people

First wave on Omaha Beach had 90% casualties

Spielberg put the whole crew through a 10 day real bootcamp but purposely kept Matt Damon out of it so that the rest of the cast would have resentment for him to add to thre reality of the movie.

The beach scene was true.

Them nazis were very well organised & very well equipped & trained. Thankfully they were just a small country in Europe.

Do I have to do everything myself!?!?!

We all need to earn it

29:58 because they're soldiers they're not cowards if Ryan leaves before reinforcements comes that shorthands them when 150 or 60 Nazis can be turning the corner

Hacksaw Ridge is really close to this movie

Please do Braveheart friend, I just subbed and from Scotland.

welcome to the real world,.

Video shows actor boot camp run by Capt Dale Dye (in the movie briefly), everyone except Ryan (Matt Damon) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNqqhsqjxN_Qcok.htmlsi=XI7zVAuqgXchW4yz

Wtf!! How have you not watched Indiana Jones?? Original 3 are top tier. Also first Jurassic Park is deffo in the top 10 of all time

Is saying "Jesus Christ" the only exclamation you ever use?

25:12 No Ryan's going to stand there and be ungrateful and give them the finger and join the nazi side

The casting Director got the casting all wrong for this movie. The role of the captain should’ve gone to somebody maybe 24 or 25 years old. The role of the platoon sergeant should’ve gone to somebody in his late 20s. All of the enlisted men should’ve been 17 and 18-year-old actors. After all, those were the real ages of the men who fought World War II.

Did they not teach you about D-Day in your high school, or Great Britain's equivalent)? This was heavily pushed in our HS in Illinois (USA). If you didn't pass this test, you didn't pass the course, and had to take it all over again. Part of the Constitution test, that some schools actually required. Today's school are a joke. More important to teach about LGBT and the like....Ridiculous!!!

Just credit Spielberg, bro. Mention him! He was the amazing director. Of Saving Private Ryan!! Fuck! Give him a name check for Christ's sake!

Why is the picture so tiny??? Can't watch.

4:41 no it's not blood it's red Kool-Aid what do you think it is

My father flew his first combat mission on D Day. He was the radio operator on a B24 bomber named "Bunny" 445th bomb group 8 th US Army Air Corps. He went on to complete 36 combat missions over Germany and Nazi -occupied Europe. He recounted a story where a German round went straight through the cockpit and decapitated the pilot. The co pilot carried on with the mission with a shattered windshield and a headless corpse beside him. Leaving the formation and returning to England was not an option. People need to understand the horrors of war and it's long term affect on the survivors. Spielberg did a great job in conveying this message. I strongly urge you to watch Spielberg's other WW2 masterpiece, Schindler's List.

you're not very smart are you?

Tom Hanks definitely does not look young here.

BAR browning automatic rifle en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1918_Browning_Automatic_Rifle