>Military historian and author Stephen Ambrose, at a special screening of the film for him, had to ask for the screening to be halted 20 minutes in as he couldn't handle the intensity of the opening. After composing himself outside for a few minutes, he was able to return to the screening room and watch the film to its conclusion.
Is there a more based war movie in existence?
>>64164099
>The Omaha Beach battle was filmed in sequence over a four-week period, moving the action up the beach shot by shot and day by day. Steven Spielberg claims that none of it was storyboarded in advance.
Literally Attila the Hun- American version. Fucking savages
>In the German-dubbed version of the movie, one of the actors, himself a German veteran of the Normandy invasion, couldn't deal with emotional realism of the film and dropped out and had to be replaced.
>mfw I have no pics related
>>64164141
>literally great men - the generation
FTFY
>The Department of Veterans Affairs set up a special 800 number to help the hundreds of former soldiers who were traumatized after seeing the film.
shame the rest of the movie is generic war-genre shlock
>>64164206
maori p based
they resist british domination and don't afraid of spiders
>>64164099
First 20x minutes are good, the rest of the movie is shite. Try to watch the movie but skip the opening scene.. you wont last 10 minutes before you start yelling at the screen.
>Steven Spielberg personally held and operated the camera for many shots during the Omaha beach battle.
Can Euros even compete?
>>64164099
what a fucking shirt lifter
>>64164197
>le born in le wrong generation faec
>>64164141
butthurt nazis pls go
>>64164282
try doing this for any movie...
>>64164206
why is johan lomu's fact copy pasted them?
>Two of the landing craft used in the Omaha Beach scenes were actually in use in World War II.
Das Boot hitting the bottom of Gibraltar was way worse.
>>64164290
Are you really acting like this is impressive? There are lots of directors that do their own operating.
>>64164099
>Is there a more based war movie in existence?
Yeah TTRL
>40 barrels of fake blood were utilized in the opening battle scene.
>>64164304
Not being a part of "The Greatest Generation" is the wrong generation.
I need to see this movie. I've heard splendid things about it, but I've never taken the time to sit down and watch it.
The last war movie I sat down and watched was Fury. I enjoyed that one immensely.
>>64164282
Elaborate.
>>64164304
you grandpappy was taking the d back in 1940, huh? sorry about your loss.
>Former U.S. President George W. Bush's favorite movie.
Saw it in the theater. Feels like it was fucking 17 years ago, the fuck?
>>64164424
you could literally use this image against any Euro in an argument about US geopolitics and it works. Such a great comic
>>64164099
200 Gallons of fake blood were used in the movie.
>>64164435
>The last war movie I sat down and watched was Fury. I enjoyed that one immensely.
get the fuck out of here, nigger.
>The first independent film by DreamWorks Pictures to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
>>64164621
can't handle some grit in your war movies? need the edges sanded off for you?
>>64164414
>The two "German" soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, "Please don't shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn't kill anyone, I am Czech!" They were members of what the Germans called Ost [East] Battalions, men - mostly Czech and Polish - taken prisoner in eastern European countries invaded by Germany and forced into the German army.
Can TTRL even compete?
>Stephen Ambrose
>Military historian
>Many veterans of D-Day have congratulated director Steven Spielberg for the film's authenticity, including actor James Doohan, best known as Scotty from Star Trek (1966). Doohan lost the middle finger of his right hand and was wounded in the leg during the war. Also, he participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, at Juno Beach, where the 3rd Canadian infantry division led the attack. He commended Spielberg for not leaving out any gory details.
>>64164699
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2wL9AawlDA
>>64164753
>WE WUZ WAR HEROES N SHIT
>>64164805
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGypoXVt31k
>the city of you
>>64164435
Then you will like his one. It definitely has the typical Spielberg manipulation of your opinion and a fairly biased perspective but it's forgiven under the guise of good characters and the backdrop he creates being more impressive than the story itself.
I honestly think it's going to be one of the most timeless and undateable in history. It was made over a decade and a half ago and it looks like it could have come out this year. The camera work and direction is done in the vein of ultra-realism so it masks how ridiculously grim the effects and squibs are (just pay attention to the amount of detail put into every set piece in the bodies strewn about and the weapons going off in the background of some shots.)
It's in no way the best war movie ever made, but from a purely technical standpoint it comes damn close. Mostly because the message is quite simple and the D-Day intro is really the only part that's psychologically challenging. But it is a film that I would say is mandatory if you're going to have an opinion of cinema's depiction of war throughout history and different cultures.
>Sergeant Horvath: "That's quite a view."
>Captain Miller: "Yes it is. Quite a view."
>>64164852
That scene might as well be from some Tarantino flick
>>64164835
>I'm from a country that was cucked by either the Germans, Soviets, or Allies
hahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
jokes aside, the production of this movie alone makes it one of the most impressive in terms of scale and execution, made funnier by the fact that is an authentic, historically accurate depiction.
>The
>City
>Of
>You
>>64164852
>A sniper standing in the highest isolated point of a city
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>>64164414
this horrible meme where ttrl is a good movie needs to fucking die.
>>64164885
K den
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT3q8tba_lw
You lose already, this is one of the greatest scenes ever made , like >>64164882
said, we're coming up on this movie being 20 years old and it looks like it could've been made this year, almost no movie will ever be able to say that
how mad are you?
>>64164925
>I'm from the USA, a country that genocided 3 million Germans, funded Russian murderers and destoryed the greatest empire of all time with the help of one fat bastard prime minister. Look how arrogant I am
When will the eternal burger leave?
>>64164943
>The most realistic depiction of war on screen
>not a good movie
Check this cuck out
I read somewhere US military doesn't like the film as it shows war for what it is and not the bullshit they sell to get the idiots to recruit.
>>64165115
did you read that on 4chan?
>>64164099
I remember watching this in the theater when I was 18 and that part actually got to me - hard. To this day it's the most intense movie experience I've ever had - it's just not the same when you watch it at home on your TV though, and everyone who saw it after the home video release knew what was coming anyway. But imagine sitting in the theater, expecting a more or less run-off-the mill action movie, and getting THIS - I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it!
>>64164414
What does TTRL stand for, it can't be good if you can't use the full name.
>>64164099
Ambrose is a hack who fucked up his reporting on Easy Company, and that made it to the mini series : stuff like Blythe never recovering and dying, or the company commander (?) during Bastogne being a pussy and a coward is factually false
>>64164099
saving private ryan's opening scene is utterly masturbatory and trades in making vets cry so nobody notices that it has nothing new or interesting to say about war
>>64164206
Is that some haka
>>64164927
Its a sole survivor sniping mate
that happened all the time, in fact, it became Negro soldiers specialty to find, track, and hunt down these snipers after the allied landed, pic related shows them storming a farmhouse
>>64165008
Just because it looks good doesn't mean it is good. It's technically a very well and professionally made movie, but it has nothing interesting to say. People just think it's deep because it looks gritty. In reality it's vapid, generic. Every protagonist gets a long dramatic death scene, thousands of inept stormtrooper-like enemies are destroyed without any tension, it might as well be a John Wayne movie from the 60's.
>>64165071
May I refer you to this image for all your butthurt. This is your country during the 90s
The funny thing is I don't even need to ask where youre from and this is still relevant
>>64164424
>>64165115
you can't make a war movie that hurts recruitment
all depictions of war increase numbers of people joining up
there are people, no matter what they see on screen, decide, "that looks cool. i'm going to join the military."
>>64165213
we call them patriots
>>64165141
The Thin Red Line
Based on a real event not some made up BRING MUH BOY HOME shit Hollyjew made up for maximum shekels.
>>64165206
>butthurt
Enjoy Hilalry for President you Eternal burger BASTARD
>>64165172
>niggers "storming" a farm house
lazy fucks are walking
>some historian was a little bitch
>this proves what exactly
If only it wasn't >le nazis are evil meme, would have been a decent movie
>>64165253
they're just easily impressionable fuckwits so they're useful as boot/marine fodder
>>64165290
they're a credit to their country, unlike you
It also has the greatest peace of music John Williams has ever composed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ejg-lPcFxU
>>64165153
>Showing Americans dying indiscriminately for the first time days nothing about war
>Showing Americas with their guts out screaming for their mothers, something not done before in an American war movie set in WW2, says nothing about war.
>Showing the realities of what America commercialized and romanticized for years says nothing about war
Yep
Its Eurotrash talking
>>64164099
>Is there a more based war movie in existence?
yes, there is
>>64165146
>stuff like Blythe never recovering and dying, or the company commander (?) during Bastogne being a pussy and a coward is factually false
None of that is in the book Ambrose wrote, it was added by the TV writers for "drama".
>>64164099
> the bit where Waffen SS show up on Normandy and they aren't children and for some reason are fighting Americans on the first day and there's Tigers or something
> the Jewish character who's main trait is being Jewish and reminding us he is in fact a Jew like in some sort of Gobbels film
Bar the first 10 minutes, this entire film is hysterical.
I knew a man who stormed Sword Beach in the first wave. He had friends who he met that had fought on Omaha and he said that this opening was the most accurate retelling of the D-Day landings in film.
>The first few rows of people died straight away
>People near the back poured over the side
>Many people drowned in the water because their packs were so heavy
>Many people shot in the water
>The few people who survived ditched their packs and scrambled on the beach
>He saw people with limbs blown off
>Entrails out
>Screaming for "God and their Mothers"
He was my age too..
Really fucking intense
>>64165310
really brave soldiers killing all those bad people for not giving us there oil
really brave.
>>64164099
friendly reminder that this movie turns an actual war crime into a heroic moment
It was certainly important because it pioneered a change in the portrayal of war. Before that, especially during the cold war, war was always glorious, never dirty or a mess. This stopped working eventually. This movie made it look ugly yet retained the same glorification of the American military and the assumption that they are always fighting for a just cause. Because it's hidding beneath dirty faces and tons of fake blood it can pretend to be anti-war while in reality the message is the same as before. It set new standards in that regard.
>>64164237
I know, it's a fucking disgrace
>>64165146
The holocaust camps weren't in the first printings off the book either ....
>>64165257
>Some made up thing
>President Lincoln received a letter from the governor of Massachusetts asking him to express condolences to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a widow believed to have lost five sons during the Civil War. It would later be discovered that only two of Mrs. Bixby's five sons died in battle (Charles and Oliver). Of the other three: one deserted the army, one was honorably discharged, and another deserted or died a prisoner of war.
>The
>Dilapidated
>Shantytown
>Of
>You
>tfw no Battle of Kursk movie
Why bother living?
#1 goyim
>>64164372
That didn't actually happen though dumbass
>>64165277
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen
there were also based negro pilots
One of their sons was my math teacher in 6th grade
>>64165411
>President Lincoln
>WW2
Do you pride yourself on being mentally retarded my mane?
>>64165382
The fact that Spielberg made the extras playing Germans shave their heads betrays his true intention to dehumanize them. Considering he's a Jew that intention is understandable but it still is dirty and probably worked well enough for the idiots.
>>64165441
>posted from my iphone
>>64165388
has anyone ever made a war movie that features the characters sitting around doing nothing, being trucked various places, not seeing action, and or working in a supply depot or office? because that's what any modern war is like for the vast majority of its participants
the really sad fact about war is how boring it actually is
>>64165388
Full Metal Jacket showed the ugliness of war, Paths of Glory too. Stalingrad came out before Saving Private Ryan too. Come and See as well.
>>64165479
>I-it's a made up story! N-nothing like it ever happened da joos made it up
>haha it has to be in WW2 in order to live up to my autistic standards
Did you not like the Lion King because Hamlet was portrayed as Simba?
>>64165085
the thin red line tells nothing new that hasn't been seen spades in a good chunck of war related anything since the 80s. oh no scared soldiers, oh no officers with their head up their own ass oh no stupid orders that get people killed oh no war is bad.
honestly ttrl is below shit like hamburger hill. all the nature shots and redneck philosophey can't make up for the bloated cast of weak characters and the sleep inducing story.
>>64165469
>getting taught mathematics by a nigger
JFC I thought black teachers were a meme
>>64165382
True, this is the most infuriating scene I've ever seen in a movie
>hey I just let my friends die solely because I'm a piece of shit who should have been hung on the spot for treason
>let's correct that by murdering someone in cold blood when I'm no longer in danger
>>64165527
Jarhead, if I recall correctly.
>>64165577
He was halfu, his dad was also one of the first to marry a white women
>tfw someone on 4chan might now recognize who he is and harass him
>>64165382
I like how the message of the film is that it's okay to shoot prisoners.
>>64164099
Wow. What absolute dickless pussy.
>>64165483
the real irony is that the german upham shoots is a classic anti-semetic stereotype: alien, cowardly yet treacherous, slightly effete
>>64165542
The latter two aren't American, so they don't count, the other ones aren't about WW2, which is a topic whose established narrative is sacred to the myths of the American military.
I love SPR but one faggot acting like a bitch doesnt mean anything.
>>64165527
>>64164206
Americans get traumatised over fucking anything
>>64165618
Yeh, I'm just memeing. What did he think of the Tuskegee Airmen in Night at the Museum 2?
>>64165527
not a movie but the guys in generation kill spend 80% of the mini bored out of their minds riding around in their humvees
>>64165671
oh man i totally forgot about jarhead. what a great fuck you to all the bullshit pretend rambos vomitted up out of the last bush's shitty war
>>64165675
IDK, I didn't really talk to him after I left middle school
I know he and his dad went to both of Obamas swear in and sat behind him
>>64165527
Jarhead.
I've had so many arguments with people over why I think it's such a great movie and their retort is typically what you just described as if they've pointed out some plot hole or fault.
Needless to say, movies like American Sniper and Lone Survivor are much, much more successful and better known than it.
>the wise, experienced captain who is actually a normal man in civilian life
>the sniper with some goofy gimmick (in this case the religious quotes)
>the hothead from the ghetto
>the humanistic medic
>the wise-cracking, tough NCO with a heart of gold
>the new guy who fucks up
>a minority character
Is this cast generic as fuck or did it actually pioneer these stereotypical characters? I can't tell.
>>64165741
Were him and obama from the same pack or something
>>64165344
finally someone over the age of 16 on this board.
Has there ever been a more perfect war than WWII? Good and evil so clearly defined. The whole world in arms to defeat the greatest evil mankind has ever known.
Perfection.
>>64165553
>Battle of Guadalcanal actually happened during WW2
>Author of The Thin Red Line book, James Jones actually fought in it
>Terrence Malick makes a movie using the majority of the books events
Relevant to WW2
>You come along
>Spin some story from the Civil War
HURRRRRRRRR DURRRRRRRR IT'S RELEVANT TO WW2, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN IS SO REALSTIC
Literally wut
>>64165919
>protag has a gun with a tank killing bullet
>waits until the very end of the movie to use it
I hate stuff like this
>>64165966
he only had one bullet for it
>>64165919
>>64165574
This is the most infantile analysis of the film I've ever read. Holy shit.
>>64165172
>storming a farmhouse
LOL, what the fuck are you talking about? They are obviously rediscovering their roots.
>>64165071
>referring to Nazi Germany as the greatest empire of all time
>calling someone else arrogant
LMAO WOW
what did fucking Nazi Germany do other than annex a few countries through a combination of luck and the incompetence of others, kill a bunch of dumb Jews and gypsies, make a bunch of huge tactical errors and get cucked into oblivion?
How could the greatest empire of all time barely last a half a decade?
>>64165344
Patton is amazing, definitely one of the best war movies ever.
>>64166270
By being worshipped by children and a mix of fringe cranks?
>>64166270
>Being so braindead you don't realise I was referring to the British Empire
>>64166356
Almost as bad. The Ottomans alone held a more diverse and larger empire than the British ever did for about five times as long, and they're still nowhere near the greatest empire of all time.
>m-muh muh tea monopolies
>>64164304
Is that a bed sheet?
>>64165765
Jarhead is great, that scene when the insane guy keeps that head, and the firey oil fields.
>>64166479
Yes, yes it is!
>>64165672
Your post traumatized me so bad I'm checking myself into a state mental hospital.
>>64165439
it would be impossible to convey accurately without garbage looking CG tanks
>>64165919
This is an 18+ board
>>64164099
/k/ here. what a little pussy cuck bitch
>>64165919
>>64167026
Shouldn't you be busy eating semen laced brownies?
>>64164206
>>64164263
Axis soldiers in North Africa were actually instructed to surrender rather than engage the Maori battalion in hand to hand combat if necessary.
>>64164263
>>64165162
>>64167212
> being intimidated by shitskin spear chuckers
>>64167212
>>64167399
Rommel said the New Zealanders were the best soldiers he faced.
>>64167399
With guns, you fucktard.
>>64167562
>Rommel
Literally overrated reddit meme: the general
>>64167705
that goes to guderian m8
>The actor, who plays Sergeant Horvath, was heavily addicted to heroin prior to filming Saving Private Ryan in 1997. In order to keep the movie in line, and to force Sizemore to kick the habit, Spielberg swore to Sizemore that if the actor tested positive for drugs on-set—even on the last day of shooting—“he would fire me on the spot and shoot all 58 days that I'd worked over again with someone else.”
Most based WW 2 movie coming through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlprBGnG56U
>>64165388
>Before that, especially during the cold war, war was always glorious, never dirty or a mess. This stopped working eventually.
t. teenager
>>64167878
Based Spielberg
>Winston Churchill makes several retarded mistakes
>just plugs the shore of Turkey with ANZAC soldiers who had no place being there and gets them all killed
>he's still crowned as one of the biggest, coolest, most strategically advanced heroes during the world war
Hate this meme tbqh.
I was really impressed by Come and See.
It was like STALKER in WWII.
>>64168275
I'm pretty sure everyone knows Churchill was a massive fuck up
>>64168275
>wins WW2 despite a few mistakes
>not a hero
Fuck off.
>>64168504
I agree Churchill bears *some* responsibility for the Dardanelles disaster, but if Admiral Fisher hadn't been a pussy by staying quiet, and instead grabbed Lord Kitchener by the scruff of his neck and forced him to agree to a joint Navy-infantry operation, it might have gone a hell of a lot better.BTW, Kitchener was so fucking cheap, he refused to lend airplanes to the Navy for aerial reconnaissance.
>>64168786
>Trusting the Brits to lead the allies in WW 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
>>64165408
>>64164099
What's that? I was too busy laughing at you and your fellow Americans.
