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Was going to list this one also. It’s awesome, Tim Robbins is amazing in it, Bob Gunton as the warden is unreal. Such a hateable prick, perfectly cast. Freeman is good too among others. Compelling plot. But it drags at times and maybe goes in depth on more characters than they needed to. As much as I did enjoy it the rimes I’ve seen it, it’s not high on my rewatch list.
Also it made no sense how the Wardens suit would fit Tim Robbins. He's about a foot and half taller than him. He should have went into the bank with a very undersized suit for lulz
My uncle landed in Normandy and he said the Utah beach scene was bullshit as next to none even got on the beach.
I have heard similar things. I have heard the depiction of city/town combat was also either A) highly accurate or B) highly suspect with the Germans rerouting a platoon to go deal with a solitary motorbike that was an obvious decoy and the behaviour of the tanks. I wouldn’t have much of a clue though. But the scenes are a lot of fun and well shot and performed. Besides the dude picking his arm up and running away, that was retarded.
He was a lucky one that drove the landing craft. Although my Great Grandfather was in the airborne. I have the newspaper clipping when he was awarded a silver star from holding a bridge from mortar attack. He lost an eye from shrapnel.
I can still watch Saving Pvt Ryan because of two great scenes: Vin 'Nigger' Diesel getting sniped and dying slow, and the Jew Ranger getting that beautiful SS dagger put deep into his heart as he tries to haggle. Might have to fast forward through half of the movie next time though.
I saw it in the theater with my Grandpa, who was there, but drove onto Omaha after it was secured but still being shelled by the Germans. The beach landing scenes were hard for him to watch. He said the actual Omaha was a longer distance up to the bunkers, etc. than in the movie. He also said the village scenes, with all the debris and blown up houses were super accurate.
What a hardass. My great grandfather was English and fought in North Africa in some tank battles but he died a few years after the war so what I know of his tour is all second or third hand.
He was a boxer too, like most military back in those days. My grandmother told me how he would hang out at the local bar and often he would get challenged and he would lay guys out in the street.
I think they made the pants look a little short on him in that bank scene in the end. Bob Gunton is actually 6’2” so he hides his fat well.
I agree with A Bronx Tale. The “Now youse can’t leave” scene is what most people remember.
Stop it.
Does anyone rate that highly?
