Thread by @pptsapper

Chinese takeout and The Longest Day. Haven't watched it in years, should be entertaining.

I forgot that literally everyone is in this movie.

I love that you don't see a single American for the first ten minutes. Everything is in French or German.

And then you spend the next five minutes watching everyone be miserable in the rain. An accurate picture of England at war

John Wayne turns around and goes from LTC Vandervoort to John Wayne in .01 seconds

It's a remarkable skill

I want Robert Mitchum's zip up sweater he's wearing as Norm Cota. Add it to the AGSU.

Not my rules, history dictates it.

Damn, Gavin must've been pleased as hell to have Robert Ryan playing him

This is the most heroic meteorologists have ever looked

Jackets unbuttoned, ties loose

God knows how we managed to win a war looking like that!

Holy crap does Henry Grace look like Ike

That's actually uncanny

This whole movie is actually an advert for the durability of the coffee cup that John Wayne throws when he finds out the invasion is on, because that thing doesn't shatter

Dad and I would watch this movie about twice a year growing up.

I'm finding myself muttering the things that he would always say during the movie, because, well, you know, it's part of the experience

Why does Red Buttons look like George W Bush

Or conversely

Why does George W Bush look like Red Buttons

That scene with Irina Demick and the French Resistance fighter taught me... quite a lot as a young boy...

Paul Anka and Rod Steiger are both in this, I totally forgot

What a crazy assortment of actors

And then there's Richard Todd, playing Maj Howard, who was HIS own commander when he was an enlisted dude at Pegasus Bridge. Wild

British glider troops performing a perfect example of a body breach for that barbed wire, well done

The Ox and Bucks on Pegasus Bridge scene had me wanting to be in the British Army for longer than I'd care to admit

This movie excels at a minimal use of music. It just allows scenes to happen

It also has accurate weapons and equipment, unlike the travesty that is "Patton" with its stocks of Cold War tanks

Honestly, the biggest stretch in this movie is Henry Fonda playing Teddy Roosevelt Jr.

TR Jr was an UGLY SOB, and not at ALL soft spoken. He swore and quoted classical literature all the time, bless him

Really happy that Pluskat's dog gets the hell outta the area before the bombardment begins

Dogs always know best

*Sean Connery has entered the chat*

By falling into the Channel behind Peter Lawford

"The sooner you get off this beach, the sooner they'll stop this blasted shelling. It's very bad for the dog" is also one of the greatest lines in movie history

Fabian appearing as an Army ranger in this is hilarious to me

That would be like BTS being in a war movie, modern-day

This one single running shot of the French commandos in Ouistreham, panning all around it is incredible

Hate to think how many takes it took to get that thing just right

Everyone makes fun of the engineers until there's a big ass obstacle in the way

That's when everyone suddenly needs us. God, what a helluva breach

Man, little details, like the air field matting used to create roads along the beach, goes a long way.

Huh, that movie held up a lot better than expected. Pretty sanitized, but coulda been way worse