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Honest Trailers | Saving Private Ryan
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Associate Producer: Ryan O'Toole
Edited by: Randy Whitlock
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Post-Production Coordinator: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Assistant Editor: Rebecca Castaneda
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
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I remember seeing this movie in the theaters when I was a teenager...two minutes in, the entire audience was silent. We had no idea what we were in for
I remember a lot of old vets getting up and walking out.
@@TheRebelAEdammit Because it was VERY realistic and they were having trouble dealing with the memories.
@@TheWraith7 The entire movie is brillant
30:minutes of the good bit, then an hour of cheese, then 15 minutes of the good bit again
@@TheRebelAEdammit too real for them. Some wounds never heal.
The beginning of this movie is powerful. Spielberg deserved his oscars.
Spielberg don’t need the Oscars.
Especially over Harvey Weinstein!! I'm still mad at the fact that this masterpiece lost BP from a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow! 😤
@@bighand1530 Oscars need Spielberg.
The objective must be the dumbest in all movie history.
Yeah but this one got robbed by fucking Shakespeare in Love
Tom Hanks shooting the tank with the 1911 always defined his character for me. English teacher who stepped up when the world needed him and had a completely unbreakable spirit. Warrior poet mentality.
also dont forget that at one time after the war, he start running and keep running until the end of the movie. 😂😂😂
@@ravezon The bit when his girlfriend was a mermaid wads good.
@@jamesray5877 its a Spielberg film did you expect anything less?
@@ravezon But that was before or after he got stranded on an island?
@@mindtraveller100 before i think. 😂😂
That was impressive AF. You managed to do a fantastic honest trailer, landed some solid jokes, and somehow managed to treat the movie and subject matter with utmost respect at the same time. Job extremely well done!!
I was gonna say the same thing. They made a funny trailer without making fun of the subject matter.
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I don't know what's more impressive: the fact that you guys actually decided to do an Honest Trailer for Saving Private Ryan or the fact that you managed to land some solid jokes in it. Kudos. :)
I'll be damned if they make an Honest Trailer skit for Spielberg's two other classics: "Schindler's List" and "Lincoln".
I laughed at one of the comments requesting for this Honest trailer at the beginning which said, "Do an Honest Trailer for Saving Private Ryan. Good luck making jokes."
Yea the many goofs alone are so hillarious it is hard to joke about stupidy of the mission or classic 1:10 ratio about yankee:german death toll that always in yankee movies.
@@morammofilmsph1540 I'm sure they could pull it off. But will they try?
agreed!
The Vin Diesel family joke was genuinely good. It made me appreciate my grandfathers who were GI's so much and made me realize why they didn't discuss the war. The sniper's my favorite character, it was a bummer when he got killed by a Panzer, then again it took a Panzer to kill him, bullets would've bounced off him.
He had God's plot armor
"And more grown men sobbing then at the end of Terminator 2." When you're right, you're right.
if gi joe had spent that much time crying, you all would be speaking Canadian right now
... more man sobbing than*
So my great uncle Steve, was in WW2 and himself enjoyed war movies. But when this came out in theaters he went to go see it after the first 20 minutes he recounted having to leave the theater cause the scenes were so real (to the sounds and visuals) it was triggering his own PTSD
My grandfather said it took him back so well he could smell it.
They had to open more sections for the veteran hotlines for a time because so many people called after their PTSD was triggered by that film...
I remember reading about it actually causing heart attacks in Veterans.
More d day vets saw this movie then actually were on the beach.
nice totally true story that wasn't inspired by news reports that was published everywhere at the time of the film's release.
24 years later and the Normandy scene is still the pinnacle of cinema adapting a historical war to the big screen. I doubt anyone would disagree.
When do you think this movie came out, lol
@@stefanlazar6844 Whoops, meant 24
Band of Brothers and Pacific are excellent too:)
Pinnacle of the brutality of war, maybe.
@@nicolasjeannet1063 they are, but same producers
The movie was so descriptive and realistic of what happened with D-Day, you had reports of old WW2 veterans who couldn't even finish watching the movie just because of the beginning of the film. Some had moments of instantly remembering old smells of gasoline oil and burned flesh. I think even the VA veteran crisis hotline had an influx of veterans calling in because of the movie.
I heard that too. Also that they thanked Speilberg for not holding back.
That was all marketing ploy.
@@angusmcculloch6653 you really think advertisers needed to invent PTSD from D-Day?.......
@@ZacTaChange yes
@@fabiokaya202 Sure they invented a new clinical condition and convinced the board of psychologists to accept it just for a movie. Geez, kids these days.
My dad was on the beach at D-Day but never said much about it except to reference "rivers of blood". We took him to see this movie when it came out. I cried in the theatre when I realized what he had actually been through.
*Rivers of blood* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I can’t believe he wanted to see it and relive it..
4,414 soldiers died in the Normandy landings. 60,000+ Ukrainians casualties in their ill fated summer offensive. Puts things into perspective.
That beginning scene still troubles me knowing those men went through that at such a young age, they truly were the bravest generation and I will always be grateful for what they did
What i don't understand is why people though it was a good idea for the boats to open at the front. It's literally shooting fish in a barrel
@@popnfreshz they should have had shields honestly.
@@UhhOk.. Riot shield..against 7,92x57? :D :D Pls, go play more CoD :D
@@popnfreshz At the time, they had a short time frame to launch the invasion, and this was the best case scenario for victory possible. This was the smartest thing they could possibly do.
What makes them braver than other generations that went to war?
The amount of courage it took to get off those landing crafts and run onto the beach was astonishing. I saw this in a packed theater when it came out and I saw so many people crying during the landing scenes. Still one of my favorite movies about WW 2.
This is exactly why the average age of the U.S. landing party for it was 19. They were still green & had no idea what they were in for. The experienced guys with combat under their belts would’ve known the bloodbath they were about to walk into, and no amount of “it’ll be just fine” from the higher ups would’ve mattered.
It's not courage. It's desperation. Where else were they going to go? Always remember, Op Overlord was a giant clusterfuck and all units except one British unit failed to gain their Day 1 objectives. Or D+1 or D+10.
How many are 18-25 reading this? Go if your country needed you?
@@soisaidtogod4248 to d day? No but if it was the terrain on our soil yes
D-Day is a testament to our leaders' complete disregard for Gentile life.
Wow. You went there. That took balls. This is the only film I have gone to where the entire audience was sobbing at the end. Men, women, and children.
🤣
Who would take children to this movie??
@@OnyxIdol not just the children, but the men and the women too.
Yeah I can give props for trying to get some laughs out of this one but I thought they were all stale tbh.
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It's actually pretty cool to see Spielberg being such a good sport about the "Shaving Ryan's Privates" name
Indeed that title is just hilarious!
Jeri Ryan's privates. Oh yeah.
right 😂
True story: When I went to see Saving Private Ryan, I asked the ticket booth attendant: "Two for Shaving Ryan's Privates". He didn't even blink.
He seems like the coolest guy ever. I love hearing stories about productions of his movies.
Not just one of the greatest War films ever, but one of the greatest films ever made. The ending with Ryan at the graveyard never fails to bring the waterworks. Incredibly powerful movie and I'm impressed by how this was handled
Realy? How many soviet films about ww2 have you watched?
the first big scene is something but most of the movie is not so great.
@@andreyr3611 Come and See is incredible. Doesn't change that SPR is one of the best war films ever made. There is room for more than one film in that list.
Agreed!! Love this movie
In honor of Kevin Conroy, say "I know I made a promise, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't count on being happy."
My grandfather fought in Normandy (although not on D-Day, he arrived a few days later and fought until he took a rough shrapnel wound in Belgium). He never once spoke about the war to anyone in the family, although he did talk to some interviewers to document it with his local historical society. He even refused to see "fun" movies like Star Wars because he didn't like the violence. Hearing about (and eventually seeing) this movie made him open up to us about what his experience was. If for no other reason, I'm grateful for Spielberg and team for giving that odd sort of comfort to a generation of veterans and their families.
What unit, etc, was he in?
Sounds like my Uncle Wes' experience, too.
@@apropercuppa8612 8th Infantry of the 4th Division
My great uncle was at D-Day. Was going to be in the third wave of the landing, but his craft was sunk before he could go ashore. Would have been trapped behind the watertight doors, but he was above deck because he was too nervous to sleep and went up for a smoke. I think he got shrapnel in his back that wasn't removed until it started bothering him 50 years later. He'd NEVER talk about the war and would get a little triggered seeing us kids play with water pistols.
My grandfather died at Auschwitz, fell off a guard tower
My father landed at Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944 - the place depicted in this film. He didn’t talk much, either, and he never once mentioned his role on Operation Overlord. I only learned of it when going through his effects after his passing in 2001. There was a little packet of B&W photos with brief descriptions written on the backs. I couldn’t believe that he had kept silent all those years.
This is heavy
I’ll never forget leaving the theater after seeing this film - in tears, of course - and witnessing grown men, mostly of the age to have served in WWII, crying. I have never been able to bring myself to watch Saving Private Ryan a second time.
Honestly, you didn't fumble the bag here, which is impressive. This movie is one of the best ever made and you poked fun but kept it very close to the chest. Kudos.
"Close to the chest" means "hidden". It's a reference to preventing other players from seeing your hand of cards in a game like poker.
@@kryptonianguest1903 ok
Wow you went for the normal voice request at the end, mad props to you for that
What a crazy movie. I must have seen it at least 20+ times. Most memorable scene for me was the German soldier stabbing the guy in the chest and shushing him at the same time. It was otherworldly to watch.
Same.
Based Nazi 🤪
SAMEEE, it’s actually terrifying to think about. The he guy’s face right before the stab was heartbreaking
My dad went and saw this a few times when it came out in theaters (I was too young at the time) and said that there were two WW2 veterans in there with their wives. The dudes were both crying by the end of that opening sequence. I still can’t imagine what it would have been like to be there.
They had it easy, veteran screenings were actually discouraged after several cases of PTSD panic attacks in the audience.
@@yarpen26 my dad said both of their wives had to comfort them through it and it had been out for a while when this happened. I have to imagine that they probably had to talk themselves into going to see it. My dad also remembered both of them discussing just how much it was like the actual thing too.
You're not supposed to be able to imagine it. That's why they were fighting, so we didn't have to.
@@MajorJJH let’s hope it stays that way.
@@johnlonne7062 I bet you’re fun at parties
"Wait if this was all Ryan's flashback, how did he remember all of the stuff before the squad met him!? He wasnt at dday, he never even met Wade or Kaparzo!" Uh, mind seriously blown
That ending with Spielberg was absolutely hilarious!😂😂
I am cracking up so hard… No pun intended
@@vonniestewart4416 LOL! that's a dope playlist U got👍
@@upfront2375 lol thanks 😘
I've watched this movie lots of times already but that "Mamaaaaaa!!!" part always gets me everytime.
For me it's the guy getting knifed in the chest. That entire sequence was highly disturbing, especially because Upham was just downstairs and knew exactly what was going on the entire time and didn't/couldn't do a thing
And you know that, even though she's half a world away, and it's the middle of the night to her, she heard him.
@@adamkarnik270 His mom was magic?
@@howtoswimthebandmothers are known to somehow have a telepathic connection to their children
It hurts to hear.
2:18 Narrator: "This film was intense, can we lighten it up a bit" Steam Boat Willie: "Toot toot!" Narrator: "Heh" I absolutely lost it😂
"Look at me, I'm the Captain now" absolutely killed me
"...and witness the reason your grandpa doesn't talk very much." is so funny and soooo heavy at the same time
I have to admit, it was funny while still being very respectful. Well done sir.
My mate’s Grandad served on D-Day and when he saw this in theatres he turned to his son and said ‘I hope you never have to go through that because that is exactly what it was like’
*That scene was intense. Can we lighten it up a bit?* *Toot toot.* *Heh!*
The Normandy scene is still some of the best 40 minutes in cinema history
What's most impressive is that 40 minutes goes for 23 minutes!
@@shanequastunningbrave5376 it was just an over exaggeration…
@@mitchellcampbell9242 I'm glad you over exaggerated rather than under exaggerated then!
@@shanequastunningbrave5376 Winston Wolfe: "That's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10."
@@jp3813 9 minutes later.
Wow, the only honest trailer to hit me in the feels. This and Band of Brothers are timeless classics
An Honest Trailer for Band of Brothers would be incredible.
The thin red line is another classic. More artsy than the other 2, but no less impactful.
“When punching Nazis wasn’t controversial” my guy comin out swingin! 😂
I didn't get that one.
@@juanrebolledo8123 it means he’s got more virtue than everyone else. Also, edgy in the lamest way possible.
@@juanrebolledo8123 The other reply is why the joke exists.
@@BigBossIvan cry about it , punching Nazis is based
@@donovanlocust1106 Whoa Calm Down Jamal, Don't Pull Out The 9!
The beach landing sequence was part of the curriculum in my high school history class. This film is a masterclass of cinema.
That beginning scene is nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece
Snuff film
@@dungeonmaster6292 maybe you should look up what a snuff film is, cause it ain't this.
@@dungeonmaster6292 Someone named 'Dungeon Master' calling this a snuff film is just dripping with situational irony and projection. Pretty obvious you saw what you wanted to see there bro.
@@trollanonymously2434 it's pure shock and awe. Good storytelling doesn't need all the gore and violence. F*ck Spielberg and his fetish
@@dungeonmaster6292 How tf would you tell a story about the most ambitious amphibious assault of all time without showing it??? Go read a book if historically accurate imagery bothers you. Don't forget to leave your parents basement once in a while too, might do you some good.
That Vin Diesel master race line was the funniest thing I've ever heard in an Honest Trailer.
"Race wars, we invented it" had me in tears!
The first man I've heard who successfully attempts to do Vin Diesel's voice. I've done it too, but then I had a really soar throat.
"Look at me, I'm the captain now" caught me off guard. Brilliant pun!
Where ever vin Diesel goes, family follows 🤣🤣🤣
The part with Vin Diesel inventing AND winning the master race is pure gold! 😂
Such an iconic masterpiece of a film. I like how you honored this movie too and still kept the charm and humor of your videos.
Laughed so hard at 'I am the captain now'
The vin diesel part absolutely finished me of 🤣😂
I wasn’t born yet when Saving Private Ryan came out, but I’m glad I was able to see it for the first time in a cinema for a special event. Absolutely amazing.
There are, I think, maybe 2 or 3 dozen movies in the history of film that you just *gotta* see in a full theatre. This is top 5, if not top 3.
yeah, WWII was nothing like the Russia-Ukraine war....the casualty rate back then was off the chart. Gets even worse the further back you go in history. Makes me think that by the year 2200, itll just be some dude playing video games against the other dudes... its already getting to that point with drones.
I died at "Shaving Ryan's Privates" and Spielberg's reaction to it!
“Where an entire squad lays down their lives so that Matt Damon's mom can be 1/4 less sad" 💀
One of my top 3 favourite movies all time. One of the most powerful cinematic masterpieces that attempted to capture the horrors of war while also honouring the soldiers that gave their lives physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Let me guess: Gladiator is another one of your favorites? And maaaybe Interstellar or Lord of the Rings?
Good movie, but fury was better and more realistic in terms of human emotion in war. Idk why these films always think every kid was a naive cry baby in battle.
@@NanocDark99 great movies but none of those are in my top 10. Probably top 30 or so.
@@NanocDark99 What's wrong with Gladiator and Lord of the Rings? Both of those are also masterpieces.
That reaction from Speilberg. Shaving Ryan's Privates. Dead! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Somewhere I had read tht when ww2 veterans saw this in theaters, they left after 15 minutes, when asked why? One of them said he could literally smell the diesel.. what a remarkable generation, the world owes so much to them.. and this movie is a marvellous tribute.
I'm not gonna lie, the best bit was right at the start with the request "do saving private ryan, good luck making jokes"
I remember my grandfather telling me when I was a kid of all the stuff he saw in ww2, and then witnessing all of it in this movie's opening scene. Awesome movie
My great grandfather was a day 1 (double)volunteer for the Empire, a survivor of the landings in Dieppe & Normandy, and the campaign all the way up to the Scheldt Estuary. He absolutely loved this movie and made sure all of his descendants went to see it in the theatre, even me at 8yrs old. He hated the John Wayne type movies which glorified war and minimized the suffering. This was the closest we all got to seeing the true war. Until we each turned 16, and the local Legion would play its 4hr collection of in-war recordings.
If he got through Dieppe alive at all, that's amazing on its own. Not many did.
I came, I saw, I laughed, and I cried. The most epic review of what is potentially the most epic movie. loved it!
The fact that you managed to make so few jokes is a perfect testament to how amazing this movie is. 24 years later and the scenes still hit me like a ten ton hammer. Watched it 97 times for sure and every time I find something new that I missed
Steven nailed it with this film and deserved the oscars he got. The D-Day Scene is one of the best scenes in cinema history. Can't wait for The Fabelmans.
Spielberg deserves to be castrated and imprisoned for raping a child to death
That Vin Diesel part cracked me up. I didn't even remember he was in SPR!
Saving Private Ryan... proof that if the first reel of a film is good enough, you can pretty much coast on through the second.
My parents rented it when it 1st came out, and had to return the tape. One of my friends invited over two WWII vets to watch it. They both were crying so much during the Normandy scene that he had to shut it off. IMHO a wonderful, one-of-a-kind movie but originally there should have been a warning at the movie tape rental stores.
Should have read the back of the box, because there were warnings that it was emotionally disturbing and depicted realistic blood and gore.
Fun fact: Call of Duty isn't just inspired by this movie, it's a direct descendant. Long story short, Spielberg founded DreamWorks Interactive, a game studio that released "Medal of Honor" under his supervision. Its third release, "Allied Assault," would be developed by 2015 Games, whose members went on to make Infinity Ward, the main COD developers.
So what you're saying is Saving Private Ryan walked so that Call of Duty could run.
@@jbvader721 yes def
Saving Private Ryan reintroduced the world into WW2 in being gritty, violent and hubris
Honest trailer for Girls Gone Wild!
Yes!
The honest trailer shown entirely blurred.
Toot toot! "Heh" That part got me
"Featuring more nervous looking dudes than the waiting room at a vasectomy clinic" lol I can confirm that, spot on!
The first twenty minutes alone were worth the admission price. Phenomenal.
I saw this on the day it opened in theaters. Projector had issues at the end of the Omaha Beach opening scene and when the lights came on, the amount of veterans crying was astounding. Powerful opening, amazing movie.
I first saw Saving Private Ryan when I got out of basic training and this is the closest I’ve come to rewatching it.
2:05 😂 2:12 😢I laughed and cried so hard so fast, this dude still got it.
By far the most beautifully heart wrenching movies
This movie is so intense, I was able to watch it at 20yrs old, but now over 40 I couldn't do it again.
Same. I saw it once in the theater on the day it came out.
Parden?
so when you hit 40 you became a total snowflake? Its a good movie, i see movies i like many times...
Why couldn't you do it again? Too boring the second time around?
@@bigd7696 For regular people it is too intense, too real to take on. For people off.....maybe enjoy it, and Rob Zombie movies and Hostel. Etc.
Truly my all time favorite movie ! I lost count of how many times i rewatched it !!
My grandfather took part in the Normandy landings, and when this movie came out he refused to go anywhere near it. Can't say I blame him
His Vin Diesel impression was on POINT! 🤣 🙌
Finally they did a honest trailer for saving Private Ryan right when I requested for them to do an honest trailer when they did Dunkirk and saving Private Ryan good war movie
One of the most EPIC movies ever,just the beginning deserved his oscars,amazing!!
The scene of D-Day had me crying in my seat. It was a powerful scene that certainly did not glorify war. It made me glad my father was in Austria fighting and no where near the biggest F-kup in WWII, where the air support was given the wrong coordinates and were nowhere near where they were supposed to be.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day (a game for the N64) had a cut-scene where you stormed the beach that was mimicking this movie. Even had a squirrel picking up his missing arm. That being said, this movie is so powerful, that it caused veterans to walk out of the theater because it was so realistic and brought back memories ...
Conker's Bad Fur Day was so powerful many WW2 veterans never played a second N64 game.
I don't know why "Look at me, I'm the Captain Now" tickled me so much (I think it was mainly Jon's superb delivery), but I laughed for at least 30 seconds on that one.
This is probably the most realistic combat movie in history. The intro is so intense.
for D-day and WWII yeah, but its nothing like todays war.
The scene where Fish gets it, but slowly, was the killer for me.
I saw this movie when my family rented it about a year after it was released. Jesus Christ. To this day I cannot watch it all the way through without a fifteen minute intermission, at some point. Spielberg is probably the greatest director who ever lived, and he knows how to pick a very convincing cast.
The first of many movies where millions of dollars are spent rescuing Matt Damon 😂 I think you guys added it up one time 🤔
The one thing that Spielberg got wrong about the landings, although understandably so because of time limitations of a movie, is just how long the beach landing took. It wasn't over in a few minutes like we see in the movie. The first men landed on the beaches at 6:30, and the fighting wasn't over until noon. So imagine the chaos, death, despair, hopelessness, and sheer terror of landing on the Omaha beach, like we see in the movie, but over a period of 5 and a half hours rather than 10 minutes.
Another thing they did wrong, is the tipping ramp logs in the water. They are facing the wrong way :D Otherwise, it is pretty impressive.
This was respectfully well done!
5:42: "Shaving Ryan´s Privates" 😆 😅 😂 🤣
way before I saw this movie my history proff said that that the beginning sequence(possibly the whole film I do not know) was shown to a group of vets and some had to actually leave the theatre because it was so powerful later I saw the movie and was amazed, shocked, awed and a little horrified by the opening of this movie Spielberg deserves props
Can you guys please do an honest trailer for the movie "The Dictator"? That'd be awesome.
I heart the Jackson 3:16 reference! He was my favorite character in the movie, quoting scripture while picking off Nazi's with his scoped Springfield ought-six.
Omfg that was pure gold! You guys nailed it once again!
There is a reason this movie spawned 10 years of war movie copycats and 10 years of video game adaptations of the theme. It was a masterpiece. Nothing is perfect but this comes close.
I was working at a college when this movie came out, and a graduate of the class of 1946 was working the front desk. He had been at D Day and had seen the movie. He told me the only thing the movie was missing was the smell. I asked why he did it, knowing he could have been shot. He said "Because our sergeant told us to"
Saw this movie with my wife, my mother and father. My father being a WWII veteran 2nd Armored Division scout from north africa to berlin. At the end he just sat there People walking out just looking at him After a bit he stood up and walked out We went for ice cream Men who killed man...and just went on living Never claimed a disability Never said they're owed Dealt with it
Literally my favourite film of all time. Surprised they got the jokes they did!
For my high school senior year history class, my teacher put on the first 15 minutes for our section on WWII. I generally consider myself a history buff, but I was *not ready* for this movie. When my mom picked me up, I sat in her car for ten minutes and just cried.
Good ol' Mr. Cole did the same
"Feature more nervous-looking dudes than in the waiting room at a vasectomy clinic." That one had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video so I wouldn't miss the rest of it.
the way you were able to land some jokes while also being respectable about the story was fantastic. definitely one of the most accurate and heartbreaking war movie.
My Grandfather served in WW2 on the Gold front at Omaha beach, he didn't talk much about it but he did say Soldier Boy took out a key German machine gun which allowed their troops to advance . real hero Soldier Boy
When I first watched this film, I was like "Holy sh*tt!! That was the war? It's brutal, bloody, death happened suddenly without time to react, if the soldiers lost focus it meant the end." In this time of peace we're the fortunate ones who've never faced the horrors of such big war, unfortunately that doesn't mean that it will never happen again.
This time of peace?
I remember reading somewhere years ago that a small part of Private Ryan being told the story of what happened while they were searching for him was shot, but didn’t make the final cut.