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Am I the Only One??

84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
Watching Saving Private Ryan, reduces me to tears at various points in the movie, every single time.

I can't help but watch it, every single time it comes on.

If for no other reason, to honor the memory of those who sacrificed everything.

The end, at the grave, reduces me to tears every single times.

Comments

  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He asks the question that all of us are or should be asking ourselves daily.
    Great movie.
    [:)]
  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,285 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by andrewsw16
    He asks the question that all of us are or should be asking ourselves daily.
    Great movie.
    [:)]

    Indeed.
  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Crying now. Tears rolling down my face.

    "Tell me I'm a good Man."

    Gets me every single time. Without fail.
  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never seen the movie so I can't say.
  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    When Mom, collapses on the front porch, when her Pastor and the Army representative, show uo to tell her 3 of her 4 Sons have died. Is the one that just got me.

    More to come.

    Greatest Generation indeed.
  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    Never seen the movie so I can't say.


    Ricci, you are missing out.

    One of the (withought a doubt) top 5 movies ever made.

    You need to see it.

    I've got Veteran Buddies that refuse to watch it.

    It is very realistic.

    Anyone who thinks there is Glory in War, should watch this.
  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saving Private Ryan is a classic war story. Very realistic in many ways.
    "What is truth?'
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    great great movie, in a class by itself

    ricci watch it, do not expect full metal jacket or platoon style but much better all the way around
  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw it at the theater when it came out.
    Can't bring myself to watch it again.
  • TangoSierraTangoSierra Member Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dad was a medic in the ETO and saw first hand most of what you see on the screen. He would not speak of it except on rare occasions. Many of his friends were there also and some didn't come back. Dad passed away before the movie came out. I knew most of his friends too and I can see them when I watch the movie. They were all affected terribly by the experience. I can not watch the movie any more. I see my Dad and his friends when I watch it. Too much emotion.
  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TangoSierra
    Dad was a medic in the ETO and saw first hand most of what you see on the screen. He would not speak of it except on rare occasions. Many of his friends were there also and some didn't come back. Dad passed away before the movie came out. I knew most of his friends too and I can see them when I watch the movie. They were all affected terribly by the experience. I can not watch the movie any more. I see my Dad and his friends when I watch it. Too much emotion.


    +1 my dad was medic also, in battle of bulge, and helped liberate a couple prison camps, he didn't talk about it either till the last night, we were at my uncles who was a marine in pacific, they sat and talked about the war past midnight, dad died in his sleep that night, I wish I had sat out on the porch and listened to all of the stories.
  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431
    edited November -1
    The opening is what shook me the first time I saw it. I like to think I would have what it takes but those men leaving the landing craft and heading directly into machine gun fire set the bar on the highest rung. In all honesty I don't know if my legs would have obeyed me and gotten me up that beach.
  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great movie...to me the most disturbing scene was the hand to hand combat in the building where the GI gives up as the German talks in a soothing manner as he shoves a knife in his chest.

    Absolutely disturbing..
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    Gotta remember; it's only a movie.
    The Real Thing is immeasurably, relentlessly, paralyzingly#8203; worse.
    There's an expression about seeing the Elephant, and how if you hadn't; there's a good chance that you never would, due to those that had.
    It's a shame that more personal experiences never get to be unloaded/shared with Family by the ever dwindling number of Veterans from that era; I used to golf with my Pop & his Brother, who both went Navy. One got Pacific, t'other got ETO.
    When they did talk about it, kraut & jap seemed to be interchangeable in a lot of the events. They both agreed that it was necessary, but then Korea flamed up, then another & etc.
    Two piddly old farts chasing a ball, speaking English.
  • pawnee66pawnee66 Member Posts: 223 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The part that always gets me is when the general at the Pentagon reads the letter from Pres. Lincoln.
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