>>3027440>FMJCame to post this. Saving Private Ryan was breddy gud, story time.
When I was maybe 12, my father took my brother and I out to see that film, when it had just come out. We get to the theater and the first like 3 or 4 rows of seats are all WWII vets, back when you could find that many of them in one place. Some of these guys are in uniform and have all their medals on. I wouldn't have been surprised if there were Purple Heart recipients in that room.
The first like, maybe 30 minutes of that film, was the first time I saw old men cry, some of these guys had their heads in their lap. At 12 years old I didn't quite understand what was happening it wasn't until later in life I realized what I saw. To this day I still think that is the realest 30 minutes of war cinema probably ever produced. Not in terms of accuracy with stupid shit like clothes or helmets, but in terms of what happened in the war. Enemy At The Gates comes in a close second with the Stalingrad invasion scene over the Volga in the beginning.
