This should only be viewed on a big screen with surround sound...

Well, this certainly worked as a promo for the movie- one which I wasn't going to watch, but certainly plan to now.

i saw this the weekend it came out ... i was really moved when i saw men (my grandfather's age) weeping in the audience ... that was harder to see than this movie


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Also, just to be a nitpicker: this is the 2nd five minutes of the movie. The first five minutes are set in 1997.

For film buffs, to achieve the look of Omaha beach, Steven Spielberg used Robert Capas 11 surviving shots of the D-day landing. His other shots were unfortunately destroyed by a nervous lab technician.

"His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 108 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the negatives. Only eleven frames in total were recovered."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa#World_War_II

I liked this movie, but disliked that it took certain historical liberties with the events of World War 2. Making it seem like only American was involved, when this was a world war, the D-day landings encompassed British, American, New Zealand, Canadian, Free France, Poland and numerous other commonwealth states later after the initial assault phase Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway joined. The main thrust was spread over Omaha, Utah, Sword, Juno and Gold beaches under the general codename of Operation Overlord.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Allied_Invasion_Force.jpg

Still a wonderful portray of the horrors of combat.

Thanks for the info, Farhad. Good stuff.

Still a wonderful portray of the horrors of combat.

Exactly. The fact that you only see Americans in the film is odd, yes, but then again, the movie does follow one American squad (And a larger group Americans at the beach) Its sort of logical that they didnt mix countries like that, the individual countries probably had different tasks and areas to cover, you wouldn't mix a couple of Norwegians into an American platoon etc. One of the movies strengths is its documentary-like "embedded cameraman" feeling, which probably wouldnt give you the full perspective if it was real. So in that sense its realistic. Sure there are some movie-mistake type errors, but the end feeling is what counts.

Wonderful movie, Spielberg grandeur, and Hanks at the helm. I can't think of a reason not to see it again!

The opening mission of Company of Heroes (PC Gamer's Game of the Year, 2006) had a similar scenario for the opening mission. Chilling and incredible game, much like this clip.

I'm sure the game developers no doubt had this mention on their minds when they designed the scenario!

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Dang it today is D-Day.

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