>>...but for the most harrowing, awesomely realistic, throw-you-right-in-there ... was ... Private Ryan - the beachhead assault. ...you - everything was so realistic.
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>I see you didn't heard a real gun yet. In Turkey every man should serve military for a while and I can say you rifle sounds not really impressive showed as movies included Saving Private Ryan. However it was a so good movie. Anyway my vote to Platoon with war movies...

No, I haven't really. But OTOH, these were WW II weapons - M1 rifles & m/c carbines that the US took. I don't know how many bullets YOU'VE heard whizzing just past your ears, or landing in the surf next to you, butr that must have been SOME hardcore miklitary traing you got!

Also, one could hardly hear the German m/c guns from all the way up the cliffs when one's floundering in the surf.

Loved Platoon, but here we're talking opening scenes.