I watched Saving Private Ryan with Bailey Kuhl.
The movie starts out by showing Private Ryan as and old man with his family visiting Normandy and it showed him walking through the cemetery of all of the soldiers that died there. Then it goes back to his recollection of the D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944 at Omaha Beach in Normandy. Captain Miller struggles to save as many of his soldiers as he can, but many ore are dead than are alive. His troops that survived go back and take the weapons and ammo of the US troops that are dead. They hide behind a big rock and use a mirror to see the enemy and fire at them. Then they send the sniper out and he prays before every time he fires his gun. The sniper kills one of the main enemies. The US then makes a comeback and begins to kill a lot more of the German soldiers even though they lost so many of their own troops. But the United States took a huge hit when it came to casualties. Then the ladies that write the letters home to the families that lost a soldier were writing when one of them noticed that 3 letters were being written to the same mother. Then General George Marshall sends out a team to search for Private James Ryan and bring him back home so that his mother will at least have a single son left. Captain Miller seeks out a new interpreter since the two interpreters that US had were killed. He finds one that speaks French and German. The squad that is going out to find Private Ryan is very unhappy that they have to risk the lives of 8 men to save a single soldier. They find it difficult to understand why it's so important to save Private James Ryan. The squad enters a French village and ask the soldiers there if they had seen or heard of where Private Ryan may be. A shot is fired and hits one of the US soldiers that is played by Vin Diesel and the sniper is sent out. The sniper kills the German soldier that is up in a tower firing down at the US soldiers. The soldier that is played by Vin Diesel is killed by a German Soldier. After that, Captain Miller finds a Private James Ryan, but it was the wrong one. So, the squad sets out to find the right Private Ryan. Another soldier is rewriting a letter that the soldier that died wrote to his mom and dad since the original one had blood on it. The US troops go through the dog tags and try to find Ryan's to see if he's dead, but they don't find his tag. Captain Miller finds a half deaf man who is friends with Private Ryan and they set off to Rummelle, a town that was near where the parachuters missed their drop off zone by to find Private Ryan. Along the way, another soldier is lost, the one that rewrote the letter that got the blood on it. The guys start to get really annoyed with one another and the captain finally offers up personal information about himself, like the fact that he's a school teacher in a small town back home and all he wants is to go back to his wife. The squad then comes across a German tanker and they kill all of the German soldiers on the tanker and kill all the German soldiers on it. They find other US soldiers firing at the tanker, including Private James Ryan. Captain Miller explains to him that all of his brothers were killed in combat and that he is the only son that his mother has left. Ryan doesn't understand why he is being sent home when he doesn't deserve to go home any more than any other soldier does. Private Ryan refuses to go home. The troop decides to stay and fight in Rummelle and help Private Ryan's group on their mission of not letting the Germans gain access to the bridge. All of the soldiers are making "sticky bombs" and have to give up their socks to make the bombs and secure the bridge. The Germans come into Rummelle on tankers and US soldiers fire at them and plant lots of sticky bombs on their tankers. The super kills many men while standing in a tower before a German tanker fires at the tower and killed the sniper. The interpreter pretty much cries the whole time everyone else is fighting and is afraid to fire his gun. Captain Miller is shot and the interpreter is forced to use his gun and kills a German soldier and warns off the other German soldiers. Throughout the whole battle, they managed to keep Private James Ryan out of harms way. Captain Miller saved Ryan's life and died to keep him safe. It ends with Private Ryan as an old man speaking to Captain Miller's gravestone and thanking him, then saluting him.
I personally thought that this movie was a really good movie! I'd give it a 5/5! It was really gory in some parts and also really sad, but they accomplished their goal, saving Private Ryan! I would recommend this movie to watch for the next assigned blog if anyone hasn't watched it yet! It was good, but it's really long.
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