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how cool was when the guys head exploded from the machine gun and then seconds later you saw a tail of brain. so gory but so good
sharelousy effect - looked like popcorn popping off, very B-rate. Cannot compare to Saving Private Ryan - the soldier hit by machine gun fire with body parts flying off and the head flying off shortly. You want to see a good shot of a head being bashed to bits go see IRREVERSIBLE
shareIndeed, you cannot compare it to Saving Private Ryan, ten years of special effects development later, plus a Spielberg-size budget. That comparison is what I call lousy, with all respect.
Nevertheless, that shot has always remained in my mind when thinking back to Hamburger Hill - maybe because I was 10 years old when I first saw it haha.
Damnit I want to see it again, I remember the score was haunting and amazing, during the scene where the Vietnam Memorial Wall was shown endlessly.
This whole thread is lousy, if you ask me, mainly because as a vet, when I see things like that in both of those movies, I cringe and wonder how it affects the vets that were actually living out that particular scene. I went to see Saving Private Ryan with my ex-girlfriend and her grandfather, who was there at Omaha. Close to the end of the beach assault, he left the theater. He couldn't watch it. We followed him out to the car, and the only thing he said the rest of the day was, "That was so real, except that the movie didn't show enough bodies. Not nearly enough bodies. . ." That was the only thing he ever said about that movie, and that was the only part of it he ever watched. After being in Iraq, I almost wish that the movies could reproduce the smell, too, to make people understand just what a sickening thing it is, but then, I guess it's a good thing that most people don't know what a mass grave smells like.
"Geez, it's like a temp agency for midget criminal minds." Do YOU know where this quote came from??
I read an interview with some Omaha veterans who watched Saving Private Ryan. One of them said that it was pretty realistic, except for the fact that most men, faced with the utter carnage and violence around them, fouled themselves, the interviewee included. Tom Hanks with poo running down his legs might have been realistic, but it's not going to make good cinema.
There's never going to be enough that the film-makers can show, in relation to making the most realistic war movie- it simply isn't possible.