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Posted: 5/4/2018 4:11:36 PM EDT

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Might be campy. I enjoy the movie though.

To be honest with you I think most war movies suck. 99 percent of them get the guns and gear way off, and that automatically kills it for me personally. Amond a lot of other cheesey ass shit that's generally in most of them.

I enjoy SPR though I think it was pretty damn well done. Its one of my favorites personally

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:13:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/4/2018 4:15:09 PM EDT

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The campiest moment is when Matt Damon was acting.

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:19:45 PM EDT

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"I forgive you"

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:21:47 PM EDT

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The Killing Fields really had me rolling.

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:27:22 PM EDT

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Fuck corporal Upham..

Fuck his character, Fuck the person who played him..

Now I’m pissed off.. every time I hear of this movie I watch that scene in my head and get totally pissed off.

Thank you OP for pissing me off.

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My bad. It was almost unbearable to watch him cower in the stairwell while Adam Goldberg's character was fighting for his life upstairs. Then he just lets the German guy walk by.

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:29:46 PM EDT

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Yeah, that scene was kind of weird and out of character.

Posted: 5/4/2018 4:38:01 PM EDT

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There is an interview with John Milius from around 2001 on the web,

he talks about SPR and how dumb a lot of the story is . I recall some of it . like " why didn't they just blow the bridge and leave? a few dozen guys going to hold a bridge against a bunch of tigers? and they blow it anyway"

He mention some guy he knew who was in vietnam telling him if he had been one of them he would have just shot tom hanks character blew the bridge and left lol

He also mentioned some of the cheap cheesey cliches the film pulled to get the audience to be invested in the story but make very little sense after you think about it

the charge on the radar dish was pretty fucking retarded for instance

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:05:15 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/4/2018 6:14:41 PM EDT

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Oh yes.
Funniest movie this side of Stalag something or other.

RU Serious Clark?

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Oh yes.
Funniest movie this side of Stalag something or other.

RU Serious Clark?

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:17:00 PM EDT

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A while back I found a clip of the Ghetto clearing scenes from Schindler's List that were sped up and put to Yakkety Sax.

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:21:15 PM EDT

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How about during the D-Day landing when the guy with the leg blown off thought one of the guys was going to help him but he just grabbed the ammo belt from around his neck and took off?

That was campy as hell.

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wha...

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:22:07 PM EDT

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Technically it was campy. I'll see myself out.

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Posted: 5/4/2018 6:23:05 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/4/2018 6:23:32 PM EDT

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The most retarded thing in that movie is when the medic joined in, unarmed, when they attacked the machine gun nest at the radar site. I would have put him back where Upham was and put Upham at the rear of the squad.

What good is a medic if he gets killed?

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:27:38 PM EDT

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How the hell have you gone 20 years without watching Saving Private Ryan?

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:32:33 PM EDT

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Ok. How would you describe it? Absolutely Hilarious?

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:35:18 PM EDT

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The most retarded thing in that movie is when the medic joined in, unarmed, when they attacked the machine gun nest at the radar site. I would have put him back where Upham was and put Upham at the rear of the squad.

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The point of the scene was to show how selfless the medics could be. He wanted to be close enough to his buddies that he could treat them as quickly as possible.
Yeah they should have split the force and let the sniper initiate contact and then killed the gun crew off. But they needed wade to die to create conflict. It's a movie.

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:39:40 PM EDT

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They had no choice but to cast Matt Damon. He matched up visually with the old guy at the end of the film.

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:47:02 PM EDT

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How about during the D-Day landing when the guy with the leg blown off thought one of the guys was going to help him but he just grabbed the ammo belt from around his neck and took off?

That was campy as hell.

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Yes.

They didn't have the medical training that our soldiers have today and they certainly didn't have the technology. They were also getting shot the fuck up...the best thing the guy could do is keep moving forward to take out the enemy.

Posted: 5/4/2018 6:59:00 PM EDT

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The point of the scene was to show how selfless the medics could be. He wanted to be close enough to his buddies that he could treat them as quickly as possible.
Yeah they should have split the force and let the sniper initiate contact and then killed the gun crew off. But they needed wade to die to create conflict. It's a movie.

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The most retarded thing in that movie is when the medic joined in, unarmed, when they attacked the machine gun nest at the radar site. I would have put him back where Upham was and put Upham at the rear of the squad.

What good is a medic if he gets killed?

The point of the scene was to show how selfless the medics could be. He wanted to be close enough to his buddies that he could treat them as quickly as possible.
Yeah they should have split the force and let the sniper initiate contact and then killed the gun crew off. But they needed wade to die to create conflict. It's a movie.

Plus it was relief since his character was annoying.

Posted: 5/4/2018 7:00:28 PM EDT

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I spent the better part of 20 years reading books on D day. I can tell you that probably 100% of the "campy" scenes came from a direct recounting from someone that was there and saw it. While watching the beach scene I remember thinking "I remember reading about that".

So although you think those things were campy, they were also things that actually happened to real people.

Posted: 5/4/2018 7:26:25 PM EDT

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I spent the better part of 20 years reading books on D day. I can tell you that probably 100% of the "campy" scenes came from a direct recounting from someone that was there and saw it. While watching the beach scene I remember thinking "I remember reading about that".

So although you think those things were campy, they were also things that actually happened to real people.

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I didn’t call the things or events campy. I am saying the movie depicted these events with campiness.

I think we are in such awe over the subject matter, and rightly so, that it clouds the way we judge the film.

Posted: 5/5/2018 12:30:18 AM EDT

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Ok. How would you describe it? Absolutely Hilarious?

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The 1960s Batman TV show with Adam West set the standard for campiness.

Posted: 5/5/2018 12:46:51 AM EDT

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More believable than Lone Survivor or American Sniper.

Posted: 5/5/2018 12:59:33 AM EDT

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Really? I must have missed those parts of it because I was making out with my date.

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For REAL comedy, watch Schindler's List.

Really? I must have missed those parts of it because I was making out with my date.

LOL, you should have finger banged her. Rookies.

Posted: 5/5/2018 5:45:12 AM EDT

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Bubba, gotta find Bubba.

Posted: 5/5/2018 5:48:01 AM EDT

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I thought 1941 was a comedy.

Posted: 5/5/2018 5:49:32 AM EDT

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How about "hey guys let's make frontal assault that mg42 nest."

Posted: 5/5/2018 5:55:59 AM EDT

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That was a real doozie, wasn't it? But hell, they only lost one of their guys going for it.

Posted: 5/5/2018 6:01:28 AM EDT

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Alexandre....dumb ass.

Posted: 5/5/2018 6:07:16 AM EDT

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OP is going to lose his camping gear when he finds out Ramelle doesn't even exist.

Posted: 5/5/2018 6:15:01 AM EDT

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Nor was it shot in France...

Campy!!!

Posted: 5/5/2018 6:36:33 AM EDT

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Just about every WW2 movie I watch, eventually I notice the actors' perfect teeth. In the 1940s, I'd bet most guys had never been to a dentist before they enlisted.

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But sugar was scarce and no HFCS!

Dentists?
My Dad said it was the first time many of them cocoulever eat all they wanted. Even if the food sucked!

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:05:20 AM EDT

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This thread makes me think that OP heard the word "campy" and was desperate to use it even though he's not quite sure what it means.

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:12:38 AM EDT

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I thought most of it was perfectly cromulent.

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:20:12 AM EDT

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Weird. Lots of veterans that were on the beaches that day thought it was realistic. Which beach did you land on?

http://oralhistoryaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/five-d-day-veterans-talkin-saving.html?m=1

https://www.uni-due.de/~lan500/movies/ryan/content/veterans.htm

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:38:15 AM EDT

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Or that campy scene where Upham commits a war crime and shoots the surrendering German.

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:51:25 AM EDT

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Steamboat Willy violated his parole.

Posted: 5/5/2018 7:57:55 AM EDT

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Not sure what this has to do with camping.

Posted: 5/5/2018 8:00:00 AM EDT

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Campy is not what I would use. The historical inaccuracies do ruin the experience.

I do scale models so when I see something like late steel rimmed tiger wheels before 1944 I notice that. When you have the abomination that was the tiger in spr, it ruins it for me.

Posted: 5/5/2018 9:28:07 AM EDT

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Campy is not what I would use. The historical inaccuracies do ruin the experience.

I do scale models so when I see something like late steel rimmed tiger wheels before 1944 I notice that. When you have the abomination that was the tiger in spr, it ruins it for me.

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I've always found it interesting how people point out inaccuracies in films depending on their specialties. I'm usually noticing gun or aviation blunders, but you could probably put an M48 tank in a WWII movie and I wouldn't even notice

Posted: 5/5/2018 9:32:54 AM EDT

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How many Jews does it take to make a jacket?

Posted: 5/5/2018 9:35:40 AM EDT

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Technically it was campy. I'll see myself out.

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For REAL comedy, watch Schindler's List.

Technically it was campy. I'll see myself out.

Sad Trombone Sound Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC75aU47GRk

Posted: 5/5/2018 9:37:42 AM EDT

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Really? I must have missed those parts of it because I was making out with my date.

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Jewish girl?

Posted: 5/6/2018 1:58:54 PM EDT

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This! Sets the guy up to live up to a standard he could never possibly achieve. Poor old guy has to get validation from his wife at the end; doesn't even know decades after the war if he's been a good enough boy to "earn" being spared.

As a Christian it flies in the face of my personal outlook on life. It's totally stupid.

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The whole "Earn this" thing ruined it for me. It instantly turned a great movie into a Hollywood cheeseball.

This! Sets the guy up to live up to a standard he could never possibly achieve. Poor old guy has to get validation from his wife at the end; doesn't even know decades after the war if he's been a good enough boy to "earn" being spared.

As a Christian it flies in the face of my personal outlook on life. It's totally stupid.

As a Christian, you should know all about trying to live up to a standard that you can never achieve, and for "earning" what you have been given. Luke 12:48

Posted: 5/6/2018 2:02:14 PM EDT

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Really? And you know this how? Ever hear of shock? People can do some pretty odd shit when having a traumatic event like that happen to them?

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How about during the D-Day landing when the guy with the leg blown off thought one of the guys was going to help him but he just grabbed the ammo belt from around his neck and took off?

That was campy as hell.

Really? And you know this how? Ever hear of shock? People can do some pretty odd shit when having a traumatic event like that happen to them?

Ever hear of sarcasm?

Posted: 5/6/2018 2:04:06 PM EDT

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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Saving-Private-Ryan-4K-Blu-ray/200172/

Steelbook.
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Posted: 5/6/2018 2:04:48 PM EDT

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Technically it was campy. I'll see myself out.

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Posted: 5/6/2018 2:06:24 PM EDT

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I don't doubt that but the way the scene was depicted seemed very campy to me. Like it was done as a subtle inside joke for those involved in the movie.

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I didn't see that at all. Sorry.

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