# Saving Private Ryan: what other movies "accurately" portray combat?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-private-ryan-what-other-movies-accurately-portray-combat/665387 "2013-08-05T12:52:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-private-ryan-what-other-movies-accurately-portray-combat/665387/61 "2013-08-06T16:01:38Z")

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> [@Krav\_Manga](#):
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> My old man is a Vietnam veteran. He once said that the Forrest Gump scenes were particularly well done - particularly the parts about the constant and varying types of rain.

There’s rain, and then there’s monsoon rain. The latter is truly something to see.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-private-ryan-what-other-movies-accurately-portray-combat/665387/62 "2013-08-07T00:36:55Z")

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> [@Krav\_Manga](#):
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> My old man is a Vietnam veteran. He once said that the Forrest Gump scenes were particularly well done - particularly the parts about the constant and varying types of rain.

I remember thinking how it looked like they were really in Vietnam, with the jungle and so forth. Now that I vacation in the same coastal South Carolina locations where they shot the movie… not so much.

I haven’t been in combat, but I was a paramedic for a number of years and I treated many gunshot woulds in the field. The scene where Giovanni Ribisi gets shot in SPR gave me a little bit of a PTSD episode. I remember getting the sweats and the shakes in the theater during that part.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-private-ryan-what-other-movies-accurately-portray-combat/665387/63 "2013-08-07T01:09:09Z")

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In the HBO miniseries _ **Rome** _, the battle scenes were both bloody and historically accurate. I especially loved the Battle of Philippi, when they formed a tortoise against an onslaught of arrows.

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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-private-ryan-what-other-movies-accurately-portray-combat/665387/64 "2013-08-07T07:32:18Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> There’s rain, and then there’s monsoon rain. The latter is truly something to see.

What he said.

There was a line that Gump said that i thought really rang true: “The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks is the ice cream.”

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