Saving Private Ryan
 

ok, u know the scene on omaha where jackson snipes the machine gun nest and then the german falls down the hill....

how can one bullet cause all of the sandbags to fall apart and cause him to fall forward with so much ferocity???

maybe the gun fell to?
or he is just really fat

Maybe he knocked out the sandbag on the bottem, causing the others to be unstable? I dunno, its a movie lol.

Most likely what happened.

mind you, springfeilds are very very powerful, i wouldnt doubt that it could actually do that

He shot the soldier, the soldier fell forward causing the sandbags to come down

I always thought he hit the soldier, then the soldier fell through the sandbags.

Well if you watch closely he shoots and causes a big dust explosion, indicating he hit the sandbags. My theory:

The bullet somehow went through the sandbag, causing the sand explosion. It then hit the soldier, causing him to fall through the already loose sandbags (caused by the bullet).

Maybe it hit on the liitle tiny crack, causing it to burst, and go through to hit the soldier and knock him over.

Maybe Speilberg thought it looked good cinamaticly* and put it in the film.

If you watch it Hanks says 'See that impact spot, shoot that, was was a little area that was weak he shot that and the german was leaning on the sandbags with the MG, a little weight of either of them and it comes tumbling down.

huh, i thought he said impact crator... as in use that impact crator for cover. The MG couldn't get him, kind of like MOHAA. I reckon it don't matter none too much, as long as the movie kicked as much ass as it did. Still would be nice to know the truth though, almost like that whole willie conspiracy... toot toot.

there was this other movie called dirty dozen. in the moview there were people in high buildings and when theyg e thsot they fall forward.

Easy is right. If I remember correctly:

''See that impact crator? That should give you complete defilade from that Machine Gun position, get in there and give me some fire on that crew, wait for my command.''

jeez Vance...your memory is astounding!,
I would have had to replay the DVD again to be that accurate. ed:

... sux.

i watched it again the other night and noticed the gay dramatic monologues were just ... well... gay and inappropriate. tom hanks acting in some scenes is rediculous. bob is much better than this pos.

Are you kidding me? Tom Hanks is brilliant in SPR!

....The film does lack somewhat....But that is when you compare it to an epic like BOB.....It's better than any other war film in my opinion.

It's like comparing apples and oranges. Saving Private Ryan was pure fiction, it was a movie made for entertainment. BOB is semi-biographical series about a real unit, hence it was more about telling a story than entertainment. Both were good for their purpose.

[quote="Jedi Marksman":93c92]It's like comparing apples and oranges. Saving Private Ryan was pure fiction, it was a movie made for entertainment. BOB is semi-biographical series about a real unit, hence it was more about telling a story than entertainment. Both were good for their purpose.[/quote:93c92]

Yeah, I think entertainment is the wrong word to describe SPR....It had to strong a shock-factor to it....I'd call it 'Insight.'

He didn't hit the soldier, that's for sure.

If he DID hit the soldier, it wasn't for a kill. While falling, the covered guys open up on the falling German. But I always watched that and wondered how the whole bunker got blown apart.

[quote="Bazooka_Joe":136ce]He didn't hit the soldier, that's for sure.

If he DID hit the soldier, it wasn't for a kill. While falling, the covered guys open up on the falling German. But I always watched that and wondered how the whole bunker got blown apart.[/quote:136ce]

I always wondered what caused that small explosion myslelf. I always thought maybe Jackson had hit a grenade on the soldier's belt, but he was very much intact when rolled to the bottom of the hill. . .and got shot to pieces.

lets call steven and ask him, im sure he isnt busy and would take our call on his cell phone oOo:

yo i think ur perfectly right because i read the book, and in the book it says that jackson shot the f00 and then he fell and got shot like 10 more times

Or perhaps it was because, in reality, they didn't actually use live ammunition and it was just a pyrotechnic explosive set inside that bag that was triggered to explode when Jackson shot the blank round? oOo:

It's a realistic and graphic film, but it's still just a film. No point annalyzing it to the point of distraction.

Ydiss, I was about to say that exact same thing.



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I hated all the mistakes they made in SPR though, like they said "Thunder" THEN flash, when it should be the other way around. There were a ton of historical inaccuracies in that

Name them all.