Am I the only one???

[zx150]

SO I catch the last half of Saving Private Ryan tonight after the kids and momma go to bed. I have watched that movie 9,423 times and I still get misty eyed at the end.

Thank You to all that are serving, served and gave all that they had!!!!!!

[Moveon]

I too was watching this movie tonight for the umpteenth time. I had to leave and drive back home across town but didn't want to stop watching the movie. I know this is a long movie so I finally left my parents house and drove across town and was able to see the movie in progress. I got back in time to see them putting the sticky bombs on the tank's wheels. The entire movie is fantastic. When it first came out I got it on DVD and played it on my new computer which has a great sound system. I remember the beach landing scene with the bullets whizzing over head as they huddled on the beach behind the tank trap steel X things in the sand. The sounds were so realistic it made me think I was there. I don't have that computer running anymore and the crystal sound card that hooked up to my 5 speaker sound system with big sub woofer no longer works properly these days. The sound card had wires that hooked it up to the video card and after I updated the video card and sound card in my old Dell computer the sound's have never been the same.

I still have the DVD and watch the movie from time to time when I feel like a good war movie. I'm not the type to buy many DVD movies. I only own a few DVDs and Saving Private Ryan is one of them. Top Gun is another and U238 is one more. The rest or a couple of Coyote Hunting DVDs.

[mhall]

SO I catch the last half of Saving Private Ryan tonight after the kids and momma go to bed. I have watched that movie 9,423 times and I still get misty eyed at the end.

Thank You to all that are serving, served and gave all that they had!!!!!!

Man can I ever relate to what you just said. Maybe one if not the best movies of all time. And yes like you I have watched it a ton of times but will still watch it again and again. When the last scene comes and if you have totally dry eyes you may not even be human, that or check your pulse. Gets me everytime...

[Tyme2fish]

It was released in 1998 and I took my two sons to see it. That was the last time I went to a moving picture show.

[DJD]

Nope not the only one! I weep at the end as well. I also do that on Band Of Brothers. I watch these movies every time they are on and even purchased the Band Of Brothers DVD set. Fantastic movies and Tom Hanks has proven to be one hell of an entertainer.

[Moveon]

I've liked watching Tom Hanks since he was first on TV and dressing up like a women to live in an all female building with his friend who also had to dress up like a women in order to live there. Hey it was a 1970's TV comedy show and pretty funny and had a lot of good looking women that lived in the building.

I was told once by a Doctor's Wife that I looked like Tom Hanks. That really surprised me but then the other day I was told by someone else that they too though I looked like Tom Hanks. I can't see any resemblance myself. I don't think he is handsome or anything but he is very normal looking and quite talented at acting.

But one of his movies was horrible. The Money Pit was one that I had to walk out of the theater about 20 minutes into the show starting. I hate those type of movies or TV shows where everything goes wrong and the Money Pit was one fo the worst movies I saw. To this day I can't watch it if it's shown on TV. I think I walked out when the stairs fell apart. To me that's not funny at all. It was just way too much and over done. I also didn't enjoy the one where Tom was ship wrecked and alone on the island with the soccer ball. That was a strange movie too. Now Hooch was not too bad and I watched that one OK. He's been in a number of good movies but Saving Private Ryan was one of the best. I like the part where they just attacked the German Machine gun and they are all arguing about what to do with the sole German Prisoner and Tom distracts them by asking what the Pool is up to and finally tells them that he was a High School English Teacher before the war started. Later in the movie we know that he would have been better off just shooting the German Prisoner. He gave a good speech to his men about why he was fighting the war. He said if he could earn the right to go back home to his family then he would continue to fight the war in order to earn that right. That sort of stuck with me. It hit a cord with his men too as they all stopped fighting with each other and fell back in line.


The movie got me to thinking about why men fight wars? For different reasons I sure. But most fight in order to not have to fight again IMHO. They fight to protect their way of life and their families well being.

But we always end up having to fight another war sooner or later. We fight because that is what we do. It's in our genes.

Chimpanzees also fight among themselves over food and territory. Male chimps from one tribe will get together and whoop it up and then go on the warpath looking for lone members of other Chip tribe and if they can catch them they will beat them to death. It's in our Genetic Makeup. It's in our nature. I'll stop for now.

Oh one more thing about Chimps that I found interesting the other day on another web site. Researchers have discovered that some Chimps like to eat fermented fruit and get drunk. Some of this fermented fruit has an alcohol contect of over 6% which is more than most beers. They eat this stuff and get drunk and then go on the war path before falling asleep. Funny stuff and you can't make this up.

[DJD]

I've liked watching Tom Hanks since he was first on TV and dressing up like a women to live in an all female building with his friend who also had to dress up like a women in order to live there. Hey it was a 1970's TV comedy show and pretty funny and had a lot of good looking women that lived in the building.

I was told once by a Doctor's Wife that I looked like Tom Hanks. That really surprised me but then the other day I was told by someone else that they too though I looked like Tom Hanks. I can't see any resemblance myself. I don't think he is handsome or anything but he is very normal looking and quite talented at acting.

But one of his movies was horrible. The Money Pit was one that I had to walk out of the theater about 20 minutes into the show starting. I hate those type of movies or TV shows where everything goes wrong and the Money Pit was one fo the worst movies I saw. To this day I can't watch it if it's shown on TV. I think I walked out when the stairs fell apart. To me that's not funny at all. It was just way too much and over done. I also didn't enjoy the one where Tom was ship wrecked and alone on the island with the soccer ball. That was a strange movie too. Now Hooch was not too bad and I watched that one OK. He's been in a number of good movies but Saving Private Ryan was one of the best. I like the part where they just attacked the German Machine gun and they are all arguing about what to do with the sole German Prisoner and Tom distracts them by asking what the Pool is up to and finally tells them that he was a High School English Teacher before the war started. Later in the movie we know that he would have been better off just shooting the German Prisoner. He gave a good speech to his men about why he was fighting the war. He said if he could earn the right to go back home to his family then he would continue to fight the war in order to earn that right. That sort of stuck with me. It hit a cord with his men too as they all stopped fighting with each other and fell back in line.


The movie got me to thinking about why men fight wars? For different reasons I sure. But most fight in order to not have to fight again IMHO. They fight to protect their way of life and their families well being.

But we always end up having to fight another war sooner or later. We fight because that is what we do. It's in our genes.

Chimpanzees also fight among themselves over food and territory. Male chimps from one tribe will get together and whoop it up and then go on the warpath looking for lone members of other Chip tribe and if they can catch them they will beat them to death. It's in our Genetic Makeup. It's in our nature. I'll stop for now.

Oh one more thing about Chimps that I found interesting the other day on another web site. Researchers have discovered that some Chimps like to eat fermented fruit and get drunk. Some of this fermented fruit has an alcohol contect of over 6% which is more than most beers. They eat this stuff and get drunk and then go on the war path before falling asleep. Funny stuff and you can't make this up.

Yep The money pit was terrible! Castaway was billed as awesome but it was ok to me. I know he had a hand (teleplay)in Band of Brothers which doesn't surprise me at all. Didn't he direct or write the series called "pacific" or something like that?
Forrest Gump, Green Mile and Philadelphia were all awesome movies in my book.

[kygorski]

I'll watch forest gump, and league of thier own anytime it's on. I also liked the road to someplace, that had a great cast. He also made a good chick flick,and a mermaid movie.

[Moveon]

Yep The money pit was terrible! Castaway was billed as awesome but it was ok to me. I know he had a hand (teleplay)in Band of Brothers which doesn't surprise me at all. Didn't he direct or write the series called "pacific" or something like that?
Forrest Gump, Green Mile and Philadelphia were all awesome movies in my book.

Yea the Green Mile and Philadelphia were some of his good work too. Tom Hanks is one of my favorite actors these days.