"Favorite D-Day Movie? Longest Day!" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 30 Jun 2025 4:52 a.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link What's your favorite D-Day movie? 64% said "Longest Day, The (1962)"
28% said "Saving Private Ryan (1998)" |
| Artilleryman | 30 Jun 2025 10:27 a.m. PST |
Interesting. For all its faults, 'Saving Private Ryan' makes 'The Longest Day' seem a bit pale. However, the latter does have the British, Canadian and French participation and more on the airborne ops (though 'Band of Brothers' does that particularly well). |
| TimePortal | 30 Jun 2025 1:36 p.m. PST |
The Longest Day is based on actual interviews. I read all of Ryan's books of WW2.
Saving Private Ryan was interesting and fun to watch. However at the end of the movie, I found myself asking if the casualty cost were worth going after one man. |
 John the OFM  | 30 Jun 2025 3:10 p.m. PST |
Exactly. The first half of Saving Private Ryan is one if the great first half's.
The second half is one if the greatest "Why?" halves. It makes no sense. |
| Demosthenes Of Athens | 30 Jun 2025 5:22 p.m. PST |
The trouble with the Longest Day is that it is a good historical war movie with a John Wayne movie stuck in the middle of it. |
| Bunkermeister | 30 Jun 2025 8:33 p.m. PST |
Demosthenes, that is not a bug, it's a feature. Mike Bunkermeister Creek |
 piper909 | 30 Jun 2025 11:15 p.m. PST |
"Ryan" never appeals to me, altho' I credit the first 20 minutes or so as being a tremendous recreation -- after that, it just seems like a war comic book run up to 11. The Longest Day deserves all the kudos, it's a classic presentation despite the predictable cameos. You could learn worse about D-Day if all you knew was from this film. |
| Artilleryman | 01 Jul 2025 4:15 a.m. PST |
'Saving Private Ryan' is based upon a real incident apparently. But in history, the padre knew where the real (non-airborne) surviving brother was, picked him up in a jeep and drove him back to Utah beach and he was packed off home. You could not really fill two hours with that. |
 miniMo | 01 Jul 2025 9:21 a.m. PST |
I'm not surprised Longest Day won in this crowd.
I find it an entertaining enough movie to rewatch while painting, but not a great movie. The star-leaden cast stumps through their dialogue.
The acting and character development in Ryan is far better.
My favourite is a more low-budget affair that didn't advance far in the voting, eh: Storming Juno. |
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