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

[Chefguy]

@Krav_Manga

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.

[kirk1168]

@Krav_Manga

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.

[terentii]

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.

[Ranger_Jeff]

@Chefguy

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.”