Mommy wrote:Green Gecko wrote:Saving private Ryan is a notoriously Spielberg in style action movie though. It goes from the violence and massacre depicted in the opening, for which it received most the critical attention, to two or three men taking out a tank. The film largely forgets it's sense of loss and fighting against odds and remembers it's another Hollywood action flick. A ridiculous number of people die in the course of saving one person, like many other hero narratives.
Yeah, its the bit at the beginning that I was referring to. The rest of the movie is a bit far fetched. Imagine being stuck in those landing craft with your team being shot around you and still having to get up the beach head.
All that stuff in WW1 in the trenches - jesus.
Was recently replaying MoH frontline which recreates the scene, upon reflection yeah it's pretty grim playing those ww2 games. They mostly take the subject seriously but it's still a bit weird.
Fwiw I wear a poppy to remind me me of my grandparents service and nursing and the people and friends they lost, I know one was hit by a mine another suffered from shell shock until they died. I remember seeing my grandfather break down in tears while he was slowly being eaten by cancer for the only time in my life, recollecting someone in a photo we were looking at. It's one of the most desperately sad things I've ever witnessed.