028 Saving Private Ryan (1998)

#HANX for the Memories: The Tom Hanks Podcast

What better way to follow-up the poppy joy of the Oneders on That Thing You Do than with the gritty brutality of war in Saving Private Ryan? (Get your neckbrace ready for even more tonal whiplash between episodes, too, as we're heading to You've Got Mail next episode.) To talk about all the tactical maneuvers of Saving Private Ryan, we're bringing in our Year 2000 Action Movie Expert, Dan Hayden, and we ask you to forgive us for jumping the gun and bringing him on two years early. In this episode, we talk about our favorite moments, the film's wonderful ensemble casting, and all of its little human moments in between the spectacles of war. We also try to find any flaws in this movie, since that's a segment on our show, even though it's wildly difficult to do here.