Posts from colkid60 in thread „Saving Private Ryan (1998)“

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Saving showed explicit scenes and told a story of the horrors of war. They showed a troop of soldiers searching for a person, one person without knowing where he was and knowing that he was not where he was suppose to be. Then all of a sudden, they tracked him down under terrible odds of survival, and most of the troops survived, then when they find him,
almost all of the squad gets killed. Only in Hollywood could you get results like that. "

There are stories out of Vietnam where they went in to get a guy out
and several people would die to get the one guy. I know there are also cases
where they lost nobody.

An earlier post talked about "Saving Private Ryan".
I saw it in the theater when it came out. I actually ducked once during the
landing scenes. It was so realistic with bullets flying about and ricocheting
off the obstacles to the landing.
I would go watch it in a theater just for that landing scene, that's the
closest to combat I have ever been.