Meant to say in the intro that Forrest Gump was my DAD's favorite movie, I have not seen it yet. It's not on my list anytime soon, but maybe someday in the future! Full reaction of this movie is on my patreon! The Thing reaction comes on Monday (I post movie reactions every tuesday on youtube) and the full reaction comes on tuesday ❤️ www.patreon.com/centane 🥰

The medic wade, when he was shot, was asking for another shot of morphine. One morphine syrette held 1.5 CCs, or 30 milligrams. That second dose was likely fatal. He knew what he was asking for.

There was an old saying about morphine in this situation. “One for the pain, two for eternity.” When he asked for a second shot of morphine he knew he was going to die and so did they.

“Fouled up beyond all recovery” is probably the politest definition of FUBAR I’ve ever heard lol

The medics death is so hard to watch. Especially after him discussing his mother. One of the worst things in life is dieing or having someone you love die while you are at odds and not getting the chance to apologise or tell them how you feel.

Never apologize for crying over a movie. That kind of reaction proves the storyteller did their job in making you invested in the characters and their world. Plus, it's almost impossible not to tear up at this movie.

The field medic's death is one of the most impacting I've seen in a movie.

Never apologize for crying and being real and showing your true feelings (I'm shedding tears because you are)... people love real people... that shows you are a kind and loving person

People tend to hate on Upham but fail to realize he represents the majority of the population. Shock and fear can overcome people and they will freeze up and make bad decisions or no decisions at all, which is worse. He was a typist before being thrown into Millers company and into the battlefield. He's basically a regular guy.

Apparently they showed this movie to veterans who were actually at D-Day in early screenings. When asked about that scene in particular they said “the only thing missing was the smell of gunpowder.”

"This is a tough one to get through" Schindler's List: Hold my beer

I knew a man who went there from Texas national guard a week after Dday and marched across Europe taking town after town with a mechanized infantry unit. He said this movie was so accurate and captured the spirit and sentiment so well... i believed what he told me because he often had nightmares and PTSD from the hand to hand, knife fights etc. I certainly believed what he said about the movie.

When I was young I had little interest in history, and I’m a son of a WW2 combat vet. But to appreciate the sacrifices made at Normandy and how this movie depicts it it’s vital to read about it first. The brutal sacrifices US and allied troops made to help secure victory in WW2, and our current freedom is possibly beyond anything one could realistically imagine.

Band of Brothers is a must watch/react after this. It's a miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg based on the men of Easy Company 101st Airborne division. Starts with them in basic training and goes through to the end of the war. At the beginning of each episode they show the surviving men portrayed in the series and you wont get names to faces till the final episode as to not spoil who dies and who survives. It's a life changing miniseries that the veterans themselves were even on set to depict to the actors how events played out.

The two men surrendering at the beginning are saying in Czech “We’re Czech. We didn’t kill anybody” As the nazis conquered countries they forced able bodied men to fight in the war. They were basically trying to say “we’re slaves; we don’t want to be here and we didn’t shoot” Edit: Aaaaaand that’s been said several times of course. I should read comments before commenting 😂

The remarkable absence of "Is that VIN DIESEL??!1" during a "Saving Private Ryan" reaction makes this the best reaction. It's like a unicorn xDDDD

As an Army veteran, the part where these guys are sitting together in the church telling deeply personal stories in a totally honest fashion is easily the most relatable scene. Small groups like this will know as much about each other as an old married couple.

“The water is red it’s so red”. I read that after Omaha beach the SAND was stained red for weeks.

"Jackson is the sniper, he's too important we can't lose him." *Loses the Medic* Oof.

I'm a US combat vet who spent 6 years deployed overseas. My father was a career Army soldier and died in the line of duty when I was still a boy. It really bothers me that the last 2 generations of kids in the world including the US have forgotten the sacrifices that US servicemen and their families made for the very freedom they have to put us down. When we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. I've never met a ww2 vet without thanking him and paying for a meal or drink. They are almost all gone now and it breaks my heart.

It’s hard not to cry during the initial scenes of the movie, always remembering a whole generation of young men who lost their own lives to gave us freedom...RESPECT!

This movie pulls no punches The morphine line was terrible and amazing. The medic wouldn’t ask for it if he hadn’t given up and the captain knew it and Hank’s expression shows it perfectly

My favorite character is the Medic. His character arc just tears me apart. The story about pretending to be asleep when his mom came to check on him & him crying out for his mom when he's dying. I get wrecked EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. And the lesson is tragically beautiful. Don't take for granted ANY moment you can get with your loved ones because you never know when you can't have anymore moments with them.

I served as an Army Infantry (Grunt) Sergeant. As a 19-year-old, African American Grunt Private, during the period December 1983-December 1984. I earned my Combat Infantryman Badge for my service inside the Korean DMZ. Essentially, there's no place to run or to hide while engaged in a combat mission. So, you fight to win. We (Grunts) never quit on our brothers, and we never leave our brothers behind. Your emotions and commentary touched my heart. I often wonder if my experiences and service made a difference. South Korea remains free, so I'm thankful. Unfortunately, very nice guys are hurt and are lost to war. This movie demonstrates how brutal and senseless war has always been. I would do it all again and make the same sacrifices.

War is hell, it’s not glamorous, it’s confusing and scary. If you’ve never been in combat then consider yourself blessed. You can watch a film like this and get an idea of what combat is like. What you don’t get are the sounds, losing your hearing, and the smells. What you can’t feel is the concussion of an IED going off near you or the smell of burning flesh. I hope there will be no more wars .

24:25---The irony is that John is shot and killed by the German soldier they set free (and is the same one Upham kills). What I particularly love is that it's all about survival ultimately, and as much as the soldiers try to rationalize what is right or wrong, ultimately in warfare, it all comes down to survival (whether the director intended it that way or not)

The actual history behind even some of the smallest details is quite extraordinary. You may think that soldier was vomiting because of nerves, and sure that may have been part of the reason. But they had given all the troops a hearty meal before launching. So it wouldn't have set well for many of them on the rough seas. And when the Americans shot those Germans surrendering.....they were actually Czech conscripts forced to fight for the Nazis and were glad to be free. But it shows that war can be dirty and no side is totally innocent.

What Capt. John Miller is experiencing with his hand tremors is more than likely what was called “battle fatigue” in that WWII era. It was known as “shell shock” in the WWI era. And today’s modern times it is “PTSD.”

Movies like this help people who never served in the military how hard it was, especially during a time of war. Pretty much, those who actually were there, from the beaches of Normandy on through Europe have said this movie is as real as it can get without really being there. Yes, it was bloody and emotionally drain for many, but they knew they had to overcome their emotions and fears when it came to completing their missions. For them every mission they complete and survive brings them closer to home. Unfortunately, many also sacrificed for other to be able to go home, which to me was a major theme for this movie, Ryan was the only surviving son of a mother who had all her sons go to war, which would be too much for a mother to handle. Granted it is hard for a mother who only has one son to lose him to war but to lose more than 3 is worse.

Fact : two soldiers surrender to the Allied forces but, speaking German, their pleas for mercy aren’t understood and they are executed on the spot but they weren’t speaking German, they were speaking Czech, pleading: “Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!"

I saw this movie in the cinema in the middle of a week day back in 1998, there was very few people in there, the film blew me away and as it ended I started to leave and realised as the lights came up, that all the other people there were old ladies, all hugging and crying, they'd obviously come as close as they could to understanding and seeing what the men they knew or were related to went through back then but probably never spoke about. I'll never forget that cinema visit, a powerful experience.

One of the GREATEST movies, ever!! I saw this the year it came out and can watch it twice in one day. It is up there in my top 10.

This was very good. My great grandfather on my father's side of my family was a WW2 veteran who was a survivor of the D-Day beach landings. He was part of the first wave of troops landing at Juno Beach and they took the town just past the beach, he lost all of his friends on that beach. His name and rank were Lance Corporal Henry James Gamble of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles division in the Canadian Army. He made it through the war all the way up until near the Battle of the Bulge, where his leg was blown off and machine gunned across the upper torso by a German MG42 when he sat up, so he crawled to a barn and stuffed his leg with hay to slow the bleeding down while the rest of his men took out the mortar encampment then rescued him and he was sent back home on a hospital ship, and a year later my grandfather was born.

Two things to remember when you watch this movie: (1) Things like this actually happened and (2) they happened like this. Heart wrenching and brutal.

Captin Miller was likely suffering from PTSD. It's implied that he has seen a lot of combat, and back then, this condition went largely undiagnosed/treated. They used to call it battle fatigue, or shell-shocked.

The silence in the cinema after that movie was eerie. Driving home with a full car of friends and we hardly said anything. I've heard war vets left the premiere at the cinema in the first few minutes as it was to real and gave them flashbacks. Hard to imagine this movie is over 20 years old now... One of the best war movies ever made IMO.

The shaking Cpt Miller is experiencing is a physiological manifestation of Acute Stress Disorder. He's attempting to compartmentalize the trauma he's currently experiencing but it's coming to the surface in the form of uncontrollable shaking of his hands.

I saw this movie when it opened. WWII veterans were in the audience. The left during the battle on the beach. They were crying as they left. They are truly the greatest generation. 🇺🇸

5:40 due to the enormous logistical process of setting up beachheads, the generals and admirals had all agreed, NO PRISONERS at the landings…to take prisoners would drain resources, and hinder their ability to get things sorted as soon as possible. This is one other reason the film got acclaim…unlike war films made years earlier, this film actively avoided the portrayal of the Americans and allies being free of guilt of any “evil” Yes, they were surrendering, they shot them anyway, admitting to such is something quite rare in war films

I’ve seen the movie hundreds of times I still cry at all the scenes 😭 don’t trip

“can people stop taking off their helmets”😂

WW2 veterans have always said how realistic the opening scene was, the landing on Normandy. One the best scenes to show the horrific reality of war.

“You made me cry for nothing bro” 😂 had me rollin lol Loved your reaction to this masterpiece of a movie

The scene with Wade the medic dying always makes me cry. The desperation in the team trying to help him, the slow realization that there's no saving him, the way he asks for another dose of morphine to pass away peacefully, and then, where the real waterworks start, when he cries out to his mother. Especially after he just talked about avoiding his mom, likely regretting not saying more while he was still home. And that's just one scene in this movie! This film is a masterpiece I find myself going back to consistently.

The shaking hands, what causes it? In the beginning, they gave us a hint. The little cans in the bag with different place names on them. The new can he filled with Normandy beach sand. North Africa, Scicily, Italy, Anzio etc. All battles they had been in. By this time, they're used up, burned out, and emotionally/psychologically fractured.

The story that inspired this movie was the story of the Niland brothers. The basis is the same, two brothers die in the Normandy landings, one is shot down over New Guinea and one is missing in France, but alive. They have to save the remaining brother because of the sole survivor rule implemented after all five Sullivan brothers died when their ship, USS Juneu, is sunk by the Japanese in 1942. The idea of a search party is made up, since the remaining Niland brother is sent home after his CO is notified by command once the confusion of the airborne jumps passes. One difference in the story of the Niland brothers is that the brother shot down over New Guinea survived both the crash and Japanese captivity, and returned home safe at the end of the war.

Saving Private Ryan changed the way that war movies were made. Prior to this most of them didn't show the violence in such a realistic and sustained way. And even since then there's really only a handful of war movies that can match what Saving Private Ryan did. Those are Black Hawk Down (2001), We Were Soldiers (2002), and Lone Survivor (2013) all three of which I very highly recommend

This movie contains the most realistic depiction of D-Day ever shown on the silver screen.

I was a late life child for my father. He was at Omaha beach and many years before this movie ever came out I would hear he and his friends who were also there describing the beach exactly how it was in the movie. He also talked about dead cows laying about the country side. The extremely bad smells everywhere and the cold of winter without proper gear or a place to go inside. His brother, my uncle, died there on the beach that same day. My dad lived another 60 years after he thought he was going to die and he passed away June 6th, 2004 on the 60th anniversary of D-Day. The war was hard on the survivors too. My dad would always say he came back a mean man that didn't care about much for a long time once he got back. He was gone for nearly 4 years and his first wife had a 3 and 1 year old child when he got back that weren't his. He ended up meeting my mom when he was around 50 years old and they had four kids. You're very well spoken and very good during this reaction. About to check out anything else you have on here and also subscribed. Judging by this one, if you keep it up you'll have plenty of rapid channel growth. You have the voice, looks, good editing and you make salient points throughout the movie. Good job!

I was a roommate with a WW2 war veteran and we watched the movie when it came out on HBO, he told about the horrors of the D-day, he died in 2003 at ripe old age of 85...long live our true warriors!

The opening sequence on the beach was so realistic with the images and sound that veterans that were actually there that day, walked out of the theater. True story.

Two of my favorite lines were on the beach. When Hanks asked who's in charge, and the soldier replied, "you are, sir." And the other was the soldier that screamed, "let 'em burn!" There was so much emotion with each moment, terror, rage, duty, vengeance.

I've been desensitized by watching this a few times, but I can never get past Ryan saying 'Tell me I'm a good man.' without tearing up.

Now you need to watch "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific" and "Hacksaw Ridge". All are True Stories with the real people who survived interviewed throughout the series.

i lived thru that part where mrs. ryan received the news . my brother died in the gulf war and i had to open the door for the army coming to tell my parents that their son was dead . it still haunts me .

When the medic calls out for mama is the sadest thing in the whole movie

If your liver is heavily damaged even today you are unlikely to survive. The fatality rate is something like 69%. You will need a trauma center and an incredible number of units of blood to make it through the surgery to repair the damage. In 1944 in a war zone there was no way to make it and the medic knew it.

"Schindler's List" next, maybe? I mean, if you want to be a sad puddle on the floor

closed caption switches on for me automatically, and at the end the subtitles said "i started my day with a heartbreaking baby"

I am a man who will be 50 in two weeks and I watched this again about a month ago. I still tear up at the end when he asks his wife is he's a good man. One of the greatest movies ever made.

Disturbing fact, lots of people walking out the first part of this in theaters, are actual war veterans that felt still real to them.

“My favourite movie with Tom Hanks is Forest Gump” This movie is not like Forest Gump

These brave Men were born in The Great Depression...And became THE GREATEST Generation of Americans 🇺🇸🇺🇸

They are the greatest generation. There would be no such thing as the free world without them🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇷🇮🇳🇮🇱🇲🇽🇳🇱🇳🇴🇰🇷🇪🇸🇿🇦🇹🇼🇦🇺🇫🇮

Ryan is basically all of us. Have we earned what those men sacrificed?

You are obviously a beautiful person, both inside and out. Your honest painful reaction watching this touched my heart because I felt exactly the same watching it in the movie theater when it was first released.

The opening half an hour of Saving Private Ryan is some of the best film making I've ever seen. I remember sitting in the cinema amazed at what I was watching.

Thank You for watching these. It's so important for people to know the horrors of war. I know it's just a movie. I'm not a soldier, but I believe these are a decent tribute to the real events, even being if not 100% correct. I know it's hard to watch, but we owe it to them out of respect to at least try to understand what they went through. Maybe in so doing we can stop it happening again. If we feel bad watching it, imagine how bad they felt actually being there in the middle of it.

Upham was a CLERK TYPIST among Rangers and Airborne in a town being attacked by tanks and SS, I doubt even 1% of the people who hate him could do anything if he were in their boots. Upham was the audience's surrogate and Spielberg knew exactly what he was doing with his character. He is one of the most realistic parts of the movie, a new guy who had no friends among veterans while everyone's expectations for him were through the roof.

The "airships" are barrage balloons. Supporting cables, they were intended to snag low-flying airplanes. The helmets weren't remotely bulletproof. They were mainly intended to protect the head from things falling out of the sky from nearby explosions and the like. The modern Kevlar helmets have more bullet-stopping ability. Mythbusters demonstrated the sniper shot was impossible. They couldn't get .30-06 ball ammo to go through all the heavy glass lenses in the scope without deflecting. Anyway, they noted that at that range the bullet wouldn't be travelling parallel to the scope, but would be descending in its ballistic arc. There were many f***** acronyms in WWII, the best known of which is SNAFU, Situation Normal, All F****** Up. My favorite is JANFU, Joint Army-Navy F******* Up.

Having been to that Grave Site in Normandy (a humbling thing to see and be around), and speaking with WWII Vets at 82nd conventions, this movie was spot-on accurate and makes you think of the sheer sacrifices made during WWII, and the Normandy landings.

Thank you for picking a really wonderful movie to react to. Your emotions are so real and authentic. I watch this movie on or around June 6th every year and I enjoyed re-experiencing the first time I saw it through your eyes. Thank you again.

I saw this in 1998 on Thanksgiving, I knew nothing about the movie going in. And yes, the true realization of war shocked me to the core.

I don’t hate upham because unlike the guys he was with, he was never in combat or on the front lines. Yes, they go through a few gun fights but, none of them were as intense as the final battle which was Upham’s first taste of full on war. Upham also wasn’t involved in the beach landing. Who knows how any of us would react in war. I sure as hell don’t know how I would react. Not trying to hate, just trying to give some perspective from Upham’s point of view.

Helmets were never meant to stop bullets.. still aren't, generally. Just meant to deflect shrapnel, and other hazards (falling, etc)

We appreciate your empathy.

Don’t be sorry. Your reaction is exactly how you should feel because you are human. You have a beautiful ♥️

This is my favorite movie of ALL time. I've seen it too many times to count, & yet even still, when I see Wade's death scene I ALWAYS shed some tears. His death scene, with the backstory of him & his mom he tells in a monologue, as he cries for his mama...too much, man.

I was 7 years old when I first saw this. I remember entering my parents room while my dad was watching the infamous beach scene and I never got mesmerized and shocked in a film so much. Definitely my top 10 films. Definitely a life changer.

Your crying shows you have a heart of gold for life

Spielberg has historically disliked making films featuring a lot of war but the remarkable times he does boy does he hammer home the reality of it all. Glory from the 1980s is another great war movie worth watching. It's an American Civil War film and is based on real people. Though, bring a tissue.

This was well done. It didn't glamorize war. It was so harsh that I never watched it again. Until your reaction I didn't remember quite how rough it is. When I first saw it I didn't know who Nathan Fillian was playing the wrong Private Ryan. He starred in a short-lived but good science fiction series called Firefly and its follow-up movie.

Whenever I watch this movie, when Ryan asks if he was a good man, I cry like a little baby. I'm in my 40s. This, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Green Mile. Cry cry cry.

I watched this in the theater with my dad who was a Vietnam vet. When the movie was over the entire theater was silent. Everyone sat there for a good 15 minutes in silence, like a funeral. It was surreal.

When this movie was finished, but not in theaters yet, Spielberg held a screening for many of the veterans who advised on the making of the movie. In the middle of the Omaha Beach scenes, a few of the Veterans walked out... Spielberg was concerned that they hated it. He followed them out - to find them breaking down crying in the lobby. It had been more than 70 years since they landed on the beach at Normandy, and it was too much for them - it brought it all back for these men, these grandfathers and great grandfathers. That's the story I remember about this movie.

14:50 actually the grenade was being thrown back at him so it alrdy took a few seconds. We all LOVE Mr Tom Hanks(17:15 that scene by him was really POWERFUL even without any dialogue😭 That's why he's a GREAT actor n a LEGEND) But in this movie Pvt Jackson is my favourite. He's FEARLESS! Mr Barry Pepper is my favourite actor n i LOVE him so much! The way he died was really hard for me to "digest"😢 Also im really sure that "James. Earn this. Earn it." lines pierced every viewers hearts. No apologies needed for crying😊 LOVE ur reaction as always n THNK U so much for reacting to this masterpiece Ms!🙏

She’s so pure I love it

No apology necessary for getting emotional. I'm a supposedly big strong man who has watched this movie many times and it never fails to make me spill tears. Anyone who doesn't should probably be on some sort of watch-list.

Centane When this movie came out in theaters, some of WWII veterans walked out during this scene of D-Day Invasion because it was very on point to real as possible. One vet stated only thing missing is the smell of death on that beach.

Those aren’t airships, those are balloons to deter “strafing runs” by enemy aircraft. 7:44

22:35 the Nazi who stabbed the U.S Airborne soldier said: Gib auf, du hast keine Chance. Lasst uns das beenden. Es ist einfacher für Sie, viel einfacher. Du wirst sehen, es ist gleich vorbei. This translates: Give up, you have no chance. Let us end this. It's easier for you, way easier. You will see, it's over in a moment."

The “airships” you saw were called “barrage balloons.” They’re large balloons that had strong tethers that acted as a deterrent against attacks from the luftwaffe. The tethers were strong enough to damage wings if a pilot was foolish enough to strafe or dive bomb a place protected by the balloons.

Not only were they surrending they were actually being forced to fight for the Germans. Makes their deaths even sadder.

You asked, “Why am I so emotional?” If anyone can sit through the first 16 minutes of ‘Ryan,’ and not be emotional, those are the people we need worry about. By definition, they have trouble feeling empathy, at a bare minimum and may have wondered into psychopathy. A qualified mental expert would need to make that assessment.

In 1990 I started on a Md-PhD program in Philly PA, USA. In preparation for the 1st Iraq war, many Army / National Guard medics were quietly assigned to 'training' in US East Coast cities, especially those cities with open air drug markets. This gave the front-line Amy / National Guard medics real world ER / Trauma experience with causalities from automatic weapons fire (drug gang turf wars). Nobody in the program spoke about it much, BUT they all managed to take "the worst day in the ER" and use that when they were in theater doing triage.

Just finished this movie last night. Never seen something so raw and realistic on screen before. That opening was insane. Your reaction was great!

Wade was a medic and his mother had been a doctor. He referred to her being an "intern" on the night shift. Pretty rare in those days, a woman doctor.

I've been in combat and it is hard to put into words that feeling of absolute terror. You feel the terror yet the men in your platoon are there. You can't let them down.

Of 140,000 allied soldiers to land in France on D-Day, about 10,000 became casualties by the end of the day. Most of the casualties were at Omaha Beach, where the Americans landed on top of a veteran German infantry division that nearly drove them back into the water. The other 3 landing beaches (Gold, Juno, and Sword) met less resistance. To give an idea of just how bad things were for the first wave at Omaha Beach, I recall a first-hand account of two infantry companies on D-Day. Each began with about 200 men. They began losing men in the water when German gunfire sank their landing craft. 25 to 30 men going down with each boat. One American company commander had to force the landing craft operator in the boat he was in to continue at gunpoint. When the remaining landing craft hit the beach, the officers and the sergeants led the way, and they paid for it. One company reported losing all but one of its officers killed in the first 7 minutes. The survivor had been wounded twice. Within 10 minutes, all of the sergeants were dead or wounded. That left the remaining privates to fend for themselves. At the end of D-Day, one of those two companies had only 6 men still left fighting. The other, only 2.

6:56 Kudos to the actress who played the mother. She had one small part. Just walk to the door and sit down. They don't show her face so no one will even know she was in this movie. And she killed it.