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  1. sniper1946

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    The gory D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan is the most memorable battle scene in war film history.
    The opening moments of Steven Spielberg's 1998 Oscarwinning movie depiction of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, easily won the accolade in a poll.​


    Top 10: 1 Saving Pte Ryan; 2 Pearl Harbor; 3 A Bridge Too Far; 4 Apocalypse Now; 5 Gallipoli; 6 Black Hawk Down; 7 Master & Commander: Far Side of the World; 8 Platoon; 9 The Bridge on the River Kwai; 10 The Dirty Dozen.

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    Read more: Saving Private Ryan D-Day scene most memorable war film battle scene - mirror.co.uk
     
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    Interesting that a film alot of forum members panned had the best ranked scene.
     
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    I've seen better scenes and movies..
     
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    the opening scene was good, why is it panned?
     
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    I'll agree with the poll. The main thing I can remember the first time I saw the film was, "Jesus, Enough, get on with it". The scene continue too long to me until I had this thought; Those who were there were thinking the same thing. It pulled you into the LST not just the theater seats.
    I cannot think of any other movie that brought out the emotions like Saving Private Ryan did. And still does.
     
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    I'm not so sure, in my opinion at least I would say that the "bridge battles" in a Bridge too far, or the opening scene of Tali-Ihantala should be in somewhat parity.
     
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    To see it the first time in the movie with Dolby suround was amazing it sounded like the stuff i have seen by myself. Not the badest scene in my opinion.
     
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    The opening scene was indeed eye opening when I first saw it at age 18. The DDay scene was the biggest reason I wanted to see the movie. The rest of the movie I find fair, but by no means nothing to get excited about IMO.
     
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    Right you are Darren! The movie itself tended to drag along but the opening scene and the last ten or so minutes are what I remember. Kind of like "Apocalypse Now". One long movie but a few good scenes. Who doesn't know and repeat, "God, I love the smell of napalm in the morning" and the scene with "The Flight of the Valkyrie" blaring on the oversize speakers as the 1st Cav. launches an attack.
     
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    It was the first time I had ever seen so many people sit in quiet as the credits ran. No one moved for a good 5 minutes. Nor did we look at each other. My Daughter took me for my Birthday and neither one of us wanted to make eye contact. She, because she didn't want me to see her tears and I for her to not see mine.
     
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    I don't agree with Pearl Harbour being the second best, what an all round terrible movie.
     
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    As much as I can't stand Ben Affleck or the Pearl Harbor movie as a whole, the scene with those sailors drowining and sticking their hands up through the torn hullplates of the Okalahoma still haunts me. No blood or guts. Just men dying under an inch of steel.
     
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    Strangely enough, I think I agree.

    Good call on putting Master and Commander on the list.
     
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    SPR opening is truely powerefull, but the scene in Shindler's list of the little girl in the red coat at the ghetto being lead off realy kicks me in the gut like nothing else I have seen.
     
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    One of the most powerful scenes I have seen in a long tome was on Band of Brothers when Easy finds the camp, and Winters, Nixson, and Liebgott are talking to that one prisoner. The look of horror in that prisoners eyes, and the breakdown into sobbing he had when he told them that the womens camp was down the road.

    That was beyond the belief of watching an actor. Truly a teary moment.
     
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