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Saving Private Ryan is the best advertisement against war
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:08 pm
Watched it for the first time ever Saturday this past weekend.
I feel ashamed it took me so long to watch this masterpiece of a film that accurately portrays the horrors of war. It's the pinnacle of the War movie genre in my humble opinion. Can't think of anything else that tops it. The first 30 minutes on the beach is a peek past the gates of hell and looking at Satan do his thing.
May God and Jesus Christ bless those boys that died fighting for the land they love and the freedom of their families.
Before I watched this movie, I thought those men on D-Day were badasses full of testosterone that had no fear. Now? I realize those men were just as scared as it gets trying to survive and advance to breach the pillboxes, the forts, the machine gunnery and hopefully make it home.
Private Ryan lost his 3 brothers and had to live with the heavy burden of survivor's guilt of so many Rangers dying to get him home including Captain Miller who never saw his wife again and would never work on their garden again. That's the real cost of war. A cost we forced those boys to pay, however necessary it may have been at the time.
This film has firmly hardened my anti-war stance and how war must be the absolute last resort in foreign policy and we have a solemn duty to do everything we can to avoid it. It was a tragedy we had to put so many of our sons in that horrific and unimaginable hellish nightmare as that was when diplomacy failed.
You watch a movie like this and remember the bloodthirsty warmongering neocons and neoliberals in both parties today and how they lust for forever war full of horrors that's just as tragic as D-Day to pad the profits of their defense contractor donors..... They are pure evil monsters that has no place in our political system.
I feel ashamed it took me so long to watch this masterpiece of a film that accurately portrays the horrors of war. It's the pinnacle of the War movie genre in my humble opinion. Can't think of anything else that tops it. The first 30 minutes on the beach is a peek past the gates of hell and looking at Satan do his thing.
May God and Jesus Christ bless those boys that died fighting for the land they love and the freedom of their families.
Before I watched this movie, I thought those men on D-Day were badasses full of testosterone that had no fear. Now? I realize those men were just as scared as it gets trying to survive and advance to breach the pillboxes, the forts, the machine gunnery and hopefully make it home.
Private Ryan lost his 3 brothers and had to live with the heavy burden of survivor's guilt of so many Rangers dying to get him home including Captain Miller who never saw his wife again and would never work on their garden again. That's the real cost of war. A cost we forced those boys to pay, however necessary it may have been at the time.
This film has firmly hardened my anti-war stance and how war must be the absolute last resort in foreign policy and we have a solemn duty to do everything we can to avoid it. It was a tragedy we had to put so many of our sons in that horrific and unimaginable hellish nightmare as that was when diplomacy failed.
You watch a movie like this and remember the bloodthirsty warmongering neocons and neoliberals in both parties today and how they lust for forever war full of horrors that's just as tragic as D-Day to pad the profits of their defense contractor donors..... They are pure evil monsters that has no place in our political system.
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Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:10 pm to Sentrius
Too bad the most anti-war president of this generation was cheated from a second term
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:12 pm to Sentrius
frick. Thanks for spoiling the movie for me
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:13 pm to Sentrius
Too bad that Matt Damon was it. Otherwise, good movie.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:13 pm to Sentrius
Requiem for a Dream is the same but with drugs. Should be shown to middle schoolers. Dark, but could be effective.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:14 pm to udtiger
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Too bad the most anti-war president of this generation was cheated from a second term
It's the thing I admire and appreciated most about Donald Trump. He was absolutely hell bent on making sure no new wars was started under his watch and Afghanistan and Iraq were not expanded and did everything he could to shut them down.
Trump gave the military industrial complex the huge arse kicking they've needed for a long time and they will never forget it let alone forgive it.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:15 pm to Sentrius
Give Band of Brothers and The Pacific a watch if you liked Saving Private Ryan
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:19 pm to udtiger
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Too bad the most anti-war president of this generation was cheated from a second term
Yep, he reached out to our enemies. Even North Korean President Kim Jung-un. Never thought I would ever see that in my lifetime. You folks do realize the Korean War is not over, right? War is such a waste.
President Trump was nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Four times.
Fraudulent elections have grave consequences.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:34 pm to Sentrius
It's a good movie and very well filmed.
My dad fought in the Pacific during WWII. Always said no movie could come close to portraying the hell of real war. He did not like to watch them. And I agree. But I think Saving Private Ryan may have come close.
My dad fought in the Pacific during WWII. Always said no movie could come close to portraying the hell of real war. He did not like to watch them. And I agree. But I think Saving Private Ryan may have come close.
This post was edited on 4/12/21 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:37 pm to Sentrius
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a film that accurately portrays the horrors of war.
I’ve never been in the military, but I imagine that portrayal was about as accurate as possible.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:40 pm to udtiger
He should have run on his war record instead of spouting off all the insults and lies he kept saying.
I will never understand why he never used it in his campaign. It was like he would rather insult a reporter than say "I stopped fighting in the Middle East".
I will never understand why he never used it in his campaign. It was like he would rather insult a reporter than say "I stopped fighting in the Middle East".
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:44 pm to I B Freeman
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I will never understand why he never used it in his campaign. It was like he would rather insult a reporter than say "I stopped fighting in the Middle East".
At the 2 Presidential debates last year, the debate moderators made sure that foreign policy was never discussed. Can't remember a single question about the mideast, China, Korean peninsula, Europe, NATO and Latin America.
Shows you how successful Trump foreign policy was and liberals knew they had no good answer against it.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:46 pm to Revelator
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I’ve never been in the military, but I imagine that portrayal was about as accurate as possible.
World War 2 Veterans were quoted as saying the only thing missing was the smell.
The smell of things like diesel fuel, salt/thin air and burnt flesh.
Spielberg definitely earned his money and the awards with this movie.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:47 pm to udtiger
He wasn’t cheated. It was stolen. President Trump is still my president.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:47 pm to Porky
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My dad fought in the Pacific during WWII.
What islands/unit? If you don’t mind me asking that is.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:48 pm to Sentrius
You need to watch some WW1 docs...WW2 doesn't compare..the invention of the machine gun and generals acting like they were fighting with muskets in the Civil war...death and destruction was unimaginable
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:51 pm to Sentrius
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Watched it for the first time ever Saturday this past weekend.
You've been missing out. It's the Goat ww2 film.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:54 pm to Broketec
Just caught a few of band of brothers episodes on the history channel yesterday for about the fourth time. I watch that then it makes the utter disregard for freedom that I see all around just well, it’s sad. The prima donnas that disrespect our flag and make up issues to get in a twist about should be ashamed
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:54 pm to West Palm Tiger561
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You've been missing out. It's the Goat ww2 film.
Better late than never.
But I'm actually glad I watched it when I did last Saturday with the anti-war stance I have now and the fact that we are still in Afghanistan 20+ years and counting.
The film had a bigger impact that was more deeper than it would have been if I watched it like say the start of the 2010s.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 9:55 pm to hubreb
WW1 was absolutely horrible for the foot soldiers.
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