6 OF THE BEST! 'Saving Private Ryan' Reactions on YouTube

[@chaseorosco9017]

The first girl was the best reaction. It’s one thing for people to get emotional about this movie, but they usually just wipe the tears and move on to the next one. To see someone actually go all the way to the Normandy memorial grounds is something else. That’s someone who was truly touched by this movie. Saving Private Ryan was my gateway into studying WWII (that and having a grandfather who was a veteran of the war). I truly hope that her curiosity doesn’t end there and that she truly took time to learn the true stories of the men who fought, and gave everything for us. It is the least any of us can do for what they did.

[@angusmcculloch6653]

The cemetery in Normandy is a powerful reminder there is nothing glorious about dying on some foreign beach or foreign field for a country or continent that's not your own. Less than 100 years later, and we see what Europe did with the second chance so many young men who did not cause Europe's problems had to die for. That should be the monument that makes us scream no more young American men taken from their own lives and loves to die for foreigners or foreign soil. Let the foreigners do their own dying. Not one European living today is an even trade for the young men who are in that cemetery. Those young men are never coming back. They don't get another life. They are victims of a grave injustice. Let us remember it and not repeat it. No more American youngsters dying for foreign politicians or foreign land or foreign peoples.

[@HaggiyoPilipinas]

Mister Tom Sizemore may your soul Rest in Peace 🙏

[@garywallace9274]

HEAT..great flick

[@shaundavenport621]

A supreme actor who,s worst enemy was himself. So sad😢

[@sollomom]

Oscar's biggest mystery is how this masterpiece didn't win best movie.

[@Michael-cf9cj]

Well, Shakespear in Love was also a very go... no, sorry, I can't write that. It was a travesty that Saving Private Ryan didn't win.

[@sollomom]

@@Michael-cf9cj Epstein's lobby is the only possible answer.

[@mattlatakas7051]

The only good thing about Shakespeare In Love was that they used it in Scary Movie...nuff said

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Weinstein

[@ultimatesunrise]

Steven Spielbergs message is simple. This is the sacrifice that was made. Have YOU earned it?..

[@JamailvanWestering]

The thing is a lot of the casualties could have been prevented if everything went according to plan and several critical errors weren’t made

[@Guildofarcanelore]

No plan survives first contact

[@robertvirtue8070]

I bought the VHS tape when they came out, I put the movie on to watch it with my Dad who served on the USS Gridley DD 380 in the Pacific. During the beach scene he turned to me and said " Now you know why I enlisted in the Navy"

[@josephm3615]

They had DVD players in 98

[@ronlackey2689]

@@josephm3615 I had a different take than you on Robert's comment. I found the insight from his Navy veteran father fascinating and his respect for the infantry and what they went through admirable. You on the other hand, wanted to make sure he knew they had DVD players in 1998. Thanks for that integral tidbit of information.

[@_lime.]

@@josephm3615 Spotify exists and they still sell CDs. There is always a transition period where a newer technology exists but people are still using the old tech because they haven't upgraded yet. There was indeed a VHS release of Saving Private Ryan. BTW the first DVD player available to US customers was in 1997 so the vast majority of people were still on VHS when this came out.

[@jakerazmataz852]

My dad enlisted in the Army Air Corps.

[@LandPirate1]

​@@josephm3615 I didn't own a dvd player until 2005. vhs was still very much alive in 1998!

[@charles7836]

This young lady at the beginning touched me.

[@angusmcculloch6653]

She's acting for the camera. Crocodile tears. If the French were honorable, they would have died for their own beaches.

[@Well_hello_there_]

​@@angusmcculloch6653Try to calm down spaz.

[@angusmcculloch6653]

@@Well_hello_there_ Generally, one refrains from taking the advice of a person in a 3-hole balaclava.

[@misterb6416]

This may be one of the greatest clips I've seen on KZbin. Bless you dear.

[@musicloverchiefsfan5410]

Stunning. This compilation is well-selected and a great tribute to the film and it's impact on the hearts of humans... and to the reactors featured!

[@jimmysmith5418]

0:18 she’s so sweet and kind.

[@ellareacts]

you are here ! hello

[@jimmysmith5418]

@@ellareacts surprise 😊

[@liamthompson9090]

Marie is a beautiful soul

[@laurogarza4953]

Well done. Much appreciated. Although this film is a fictionalized account of the true story of the Nyland brothers there is something else that I believe many viewers of this GREAT and IMPORTANT film do not recognize. Pvt. Ryan is a metaphor for all of us. We were all spared and saved. All of those Americans and allies who lived through the war and the war years all of us children and grandchildren of those. We all were spared the horrors of war and genocidal tyranny because of those who sacrificed.

[@thatguymark8381]

"Earn this" was really meant for the audience

[@dwrdwlsn5]

@@thatguymark8381 And some of us will continue to try.

[@angusmcculloch6653]

Ummm...Ryan actually fought, though. Lest you forget, there was a massive battle in that town *before* Miller & Co. got there. That's why the town looked like that and why the airborne was so depleted, and Ryan fought through that, plus who knows how many engagements after his landing. That's why the ending never made sense. Miller is saying, "Earn this," and if I were Ryan I would be like, "Uh, bruh, I don't know where you got it twisted, but I've been everywhere you've been."

[@skiptrace1888]

The reviewers were very brave themselves to subject themselves to some of the horrors of war. My thanks go out to all of them!

[@YoureMrLebowski]

Great compilation dude. I like how you gave each reactor a scene and hit some of the highlights of the movie. 👍🏼 and yes, I subscribed. ✅

[@yanyanriverachannel2099]

Great compilation.. thank you for including Ella Latina Filipina Reacts, she's the best ❤️ subscribed 👍

[@rotcivgaleano3704]

Amen to all brave souls that gave us freedom God bless

[@jimdep333]

People need to see this depiction. The price of FEEEDOM

[@hmsljj]

A wonderful tribute, thanks so much.

[@ekajeht8799]

My dad was over there,,Told me a group of Americans were taking four German soldiers back and stopped to get a drink from a well,,A German soldier took a drink from a bucket with a ladle..Swished the water around in his mouth and then spit it back in the bucket..One of the Americans pulled his pistol and put a 45 round into the chest of the German for his bad manners,,Dad never said who shot the German,,and I never asked.

[@bradwest4821]

This was well done. Thank you for the editing this.

[@Oakjet1998]

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE BEST AND MOST REALISTIC WAR FILM, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!!!!!!!!!

[@Tarzan91303]

Wow. Well edited highlights. 👏👏👏

[@ChrisVillagomez]

Maybe not so fun fact: guys who became flamethrower troops were shown that the tanks of fuel wouldn't just blow up the second they got shot. They would shoot an M1911 a few times at the tank to show that it wasn't just some tin can holding the fuel, and M1911's may not have fired the biggest rounds but they're still pretty strong compared to many handguns

[@mikem201]

many, many thanks from a disabled American veteran

[@bocephus1911]

Well done one if not best I’ve seen ,

[@dallasyap3064]

Nice compilation. Saving Private Ryan is a great movie.

[@raymondmanderville505]

The US cemetery in Normandy contains just under 10k American soldiers . 45 sets of brothers & 1 father & son , some families paid a very high price for freedom

[@thedealer777]

One reviewer got it right about feeling "immune" or numb to the constant and often horrible deaths and suffering you witness (and sometimes cause) in combat. Then one day, years or decades latter, some stupid, trivial, unrelated little thing happens, and a dam bursts, ... you cry uncontrollably, ...if you're lucky. Otherwise, you continue to be numb, or even indifferent to suffering, like some sort of zombie. It's a psychological defense, at first, ..a method of survival. You must continue on, and you're given practically no time to process it all, so you repress. But eventually those feelings MUST be released.

[@dwrdwlsn5]

Look at the grass. It never gets higher than that. Why? Because some people remember! Saving private Ryan stands as one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen in my life and probably the best war movie I will ever see.

[@mark-be9mq]

Best yet.

[@alfrede.neuman1257]

Great work on this video. Well done...

[@73funkfest]

The intro was very touching: goes to show that people from other countries appreciate our country as well as how our freedom is worth fighting for. Great work!

[@laurogarza4953]

Private Ryan could be thought of a metaphorical for all of us. Those who survived the war; the war years; the children and grandchildren of that generation. They died so we might live. That we might live in freedom.

[@NordsYT]

Brilliant film

[@karlennis3642]

Bless you Girl🇦🇺

[@edlewis4696]

Thank you

[@justinjohnson3349]

This is the greatest generation im so proud of my granthather on my dads side my grandfather William duffy in 1942 during ww2 he forged his birth certificate to say he was 18 but he was barely 16 years old. He was off on a battleship in the pacific fighting the Japanese. Your average 16 year old today could not handle working fulltime without complaining. Its just sad the sacrafice so many kids in ww2 18 was the average age of a combat soldiers in ww2. We owe them everything because of there sacrifices.

[@christopherking4932]

Awesome video.

[@planet_aldrain224]

I went to the ww2 museum in New Orleans and took my Lil Foster bro. And we came across this elderly woman trying to explain to her granddaughter who was probably 12-13 the importance of winning that war and the history and cost for us as a nation to have the freedom we have today. And she pretty much was a lil teen and ignored her and was stuck to her phone. One day she’s going to look back and wished she was present listing to her grandma and learn a lil history about how we almost lost the war but won be with it the freedom we have today.

[@candybanks8717]

Superbly made video!

[@loren1478]

Memorial Day 2023 “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” - Nathan Hale

[@cjpreach]

"I didn't even bring flowers." A beautiful conclusion. "Earn this. Earn it." Yes sir. We will try.

[@artbagley1406]

And, I believe this poignant line is from the end: "Tell me I've been a good man."

[@richg2604]

Beautiful

[@DarkWichJame31]

In Vietnam, we also have a mother who lost a loved one in the Vietnam war with 1 husband, 9 sons, 1 son-in-law, 2 grandchildren. her name is Nguyễn Thị Thứ

[@CasualApostate]

This is a really good compilation video, I would encourage you to do another if possible maybe band of brothers? Or a re-release of this maybe updated? Anyways good job.

[@TGS556]

So, we watched this intense brutality for a few hours. These were a bunch of 20-year-olds, 19- 18- ... who lived this every day for months!

[@hgbugalou]

The French girl visiting the American cemetery in Normandy made this American weep..

[@Will-fk2dk]

I cannot... honestly CANNOT watch the scene where Giovani Ribisi's character, Wade, is dying, crying for "Mama. Mama. Mama..." I skip that part anymore. Once was enough. I just...

[@OneofMyTurns]

Some of them were still under age 16 & 17 years old.

[@Jon_from_LI]

To me, it's not worth it if the reactors don't...react emotionally to the scene where the mother gets the letters about the Ryan siblings.

[@SisyphusOfSodom]

SAME! To me it is my way to know if they have the empathy level required for me to enjoy their reaction. Ariana from the channel Dienegis (or something like that) had the best reaction to this movie I ever seen. But yeah, when I find a new reactor, that's the first thing I'm looking for.

[@gawainethefirst]

That scene with Mrs. Ryan gets me every single time.

[@jakerazmataz852]

The story Ryan tells Miller about the barn makeout was ad libbed.

[@eddieobrien4394]

the scariest part for me is the first time watching someone else get hit next to you. you can literally taste blood in the air. it all just gets worse than that after you learn to grind this out and your shoulder through as they would say in boot camp. things you would never do in a million years you get used to live in day by day with it, being an animal. you'd open an MRE and you had to find a dead body to get next to so that the flies would leave you alone long enough so you can eat. then you come home to all the people that nobody's happy they're all shity ass people and you slowly learn that no one gave a f*** what you did over there except for the guy on the right and the left of you.

[@jimhsfbay]

Unfortunately, the reactor at 05:00 Tanya (Cultured Bubble) took down all her KZbin content. She was really great! Miss seeing her reactions.

[@surfk9836]

Of the 1,200 in the initial wave, 875 were killed or seriously injured.

[@Nomad-vv1gk]

Spielberg researched small details, for instance, Pvt Jackson's right thumb has a black mark on it. That's actually a bruise that many U. S. riflemen had caused from getting their thumb caught in the loading mechanism from not locking the bolt back properly when loading/reloading the M1 Garand rifle. It was called "Garand thumb". The Hitler Youth Knife is more literary liberty than fact. That knife is a hiking knife given to members of the Hitler Youth Corps, which was much like the Boy Scouts in training while being indoctrinated with the ideology of National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi). The only other group they were issued to were members of the SA. This knife was never part of a soldier of the Wehrmacht. As for the reaction of Carparzo and Mellish, it is highly unlikely an average G.I. would have known what that knife was and its symbolism. The matter of Mellish crying is also not likely as the Allies didn't find out about the fate of Jews in Europe until the first concentration camp was liberated April 4, 1945. The war in Europe ended May 7, 1945. So, following the real timeline, Mellish dies before the Allies knew anything about concentration and death camps. But, after-all, it is Hollywood. Saving Private Ryan is not based on the Sullivan brothers. Fritz Niland became the basis for Private Ryan. He was dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day and spent five days in the French countryside, eventually earning a Bronze star in combat for taking a French. Robert Rodat first came up with the plot in 1994 when he saw a monument in a cemetery in Tonawanda, New York. The monument was to the Niland Brothers - 4 young American men who fought in the Second World War. When three of the Nilands were reported killed, the surviving brother - Fritz - was sent home. This inspired Rodat to write his movie. The average age of a U. S. troops armed forces personnel during WW II was 26 years old. Selective Service draft age range was 18 years of age to 45 years. The average age in Vietnam War was 22, not 19 as any think. There are 26 military cemeteries across Normandy, but the most famous and visited site is the poignant Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer. The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. In real life with the Nilands, it actually turned out later that another of the brothers was alive - he’d been held captive in a Burmese POW camp. Attempts to point out the "discrepancies" between the stories of Fritz Niland and James Ryan are often misguided, as Ryan is only based on Niland, and is not meant to be (or claimed to be) a completely accurate representation of him. The differences in the two stories seem to stem in part from the fact that the true story of Sergeant Niland and his brothers is often reported inaccurately. The character of Private James Ryan is a mixture of fact and fiction, with some of the fictional elements coming from the erroneous stories about the Niland brothers. The German credited as "Steamboat Willie" who was released by Capt. Miller is not the German who engaged and killed Pvt Stanley "Fish Mellish during hand-to-hand combat. "Steamboat Willie" was in the Heer (Army) of the Wehrmacht and the other was in the Waffen SS which was a paramilitary organization and not part of the Wehrmacht. Originally, the SS uniform differed from the Wehrmacht uniform-whereas the regular army wore field grey, the SS wore black, head to toe (although later the SS did adopt field grey and often wore camouflage pattern uniform. American troops were brown and they didn't wear jackboots. The lightning bolt SS insignia can be seen on the right collar lapel of the German as he passes Upham and reaches the bottom of the staircase. During the Battle at Ramelle, Upham became shell shocked and was unable to save a .30 cal team from a German soldier because he was too frozen with fear to do anything about it. He carried all the .30 caliber ammo at the battle of Ramelle, but was unable to do his job because he was always either pinned down or too afraid to move. He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier. Not only did Upham represent the loss of innocence of war but he also symbolized the "Every-man". His illusion of neutrality faded when he finally had to pick and side and kill Steamboat Willie, his character revelation being how he finally understood the horrors of war. It became clear that Upham had turned into a hardened and true soldier because of the whole experience. Upham's rank was Tech 5 Corporal (E-5), that meant he was technician in a specialty area. His was maps and translator, he was not a combat infantryman and was never trained for front-line duty. Gunnery Sergent Hartman explained it this way in the movie Full Metal Jacket: "It is your killer instinct which must be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. "The way the next of kin was notified of their loved one was killed in action during WW II was by Western Union telegram delivered by a bicycle riding messenger. If you were being notified of multiple deaths as was the case in this film, notification was done in-person by a military officer, usually from the same branch of service as the deceased when possible. That's why the mother upon seeing the officer exit the car momentarily froze knowing that meant at least 2 of her boys were either KIA or MIA, as the priest exits the car, she staggers and completely collapsed. Unfortunately, you didn't include that in your video presentation. That is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The mother speaks no lines in the movie, yet her breakdown brought a flood of tears form movie goers in theaters across the nation. Another important scene is it is clear from the few lines Ryan's wife speaks that she has never heard the name of Capt. John Miller, this means John has never spoken to her about what happened that day in Ramelle. What many missed is listening to Ryan speaking at the Miller's grave of how he thought about what those 8 men did for him every day was not guilt, but commitment. There are units assigned to recover, bury and mark graves. Usually these were temporary battlefield cemeteries. As hostilities moved farther away, a more permanent site would be selected, at the family's request, whenever possible, the remains would be returned to the United States. At the Normandy Cemetery Visitors Center, you'll find the following inscription: IF EVER PROOF WERE NEEDED THAT WE FOUGHT FOR A CAUSE AND NOT FOR CONQUEST, IT COULD BE FOUND IN THESE CEMETERIES. HERE WAS OUR ONLY CONQUEST: ALL WE ASKED … WAS ENOUGH … SOIL IN WHICH TO BURY OUR GALLANT DEAD.General Mark W. Clark Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1969-1984

[@shaundavenport621]

Many friends and relatives rub soil on the names on the crosses as it makes the names stand out more.The first time i saw this i was very confused until i realised what they had done😢.

[@DaveTingwaldd]

I don't care how many times I've seen it, but that opening sequence is rough to watch. I know the story isn't true (about Ryan), but those battles sure seem pretty realistic.

[@VincentGrimmly]

How many men were in those boats? Zero. They were all kids.

[@george217]

The movie is very loosely based on the story of the Niland brothers...

[@guiguijol]

About American cimeteries in Normandy: all graves are emty. Bodies have been sent back to usa. It just symbolism.

[@ranger-1214]

Not correct and I wonder where (or why) you came up with that falsehood. There are 9,388 Americans buried in the U.S. cemetery at Normandy. Families were asked and if they wanted their loved one home then they would be disinterred and sent. The 9,388 are still there, including three Medal of Honor awardees. Also Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of the former President Theodore Roosevelt. Also another of the President's sons was killed in WW1, and he was disinterred from that cemetery and reburied next to his brother. And see the posting below from George about the Niland brothers. Two of them are also in this cemetery.

[@rhondacoles2448]

Read the book by Max Hastings Dday and the battle of Normandy. There is plenty more tragedy and carnage for you all to cringe on.

[@liotc4166]

2,06 easy target...cible facile.. tir au pigeon

[@liotc4166]

Rip Tom sizemore

[@vikeltian1982]

War is Hell on Earth....

[@brucenatelee]

Cultured Bubble is gone now. Damn...

[@kensteel9872]

Tell me Im a good Man

[@ToMPaSHKoV]

I want to thank antifa for storming the beaches of Normandy.

[@louisburke8927]

😭

[@earlduff6487]

Its just a movie see the real footage

[@ellareacts]

omg!!! great compilation and I'm greatful to be here! Thank you for including me 🥰🥰 Subscribed ☑

[@jimmysmith5418]

💕💕❤️❤️

[@Mookie70]

These people are narcissists. See them looking at the screen and themselves reacting to it

[@davewhitmore1958]

So this is the last reaction you'll be watching then?

[@acmartialarts2227]

😂😂😂

[@garyhink2015]

Did this woman ever read what war is or read a history book