It shouldn't, but this may be one of the few times that the intent of a film is so completely fulfilled that it keeps audiences away. Since Cranky was once a soundman, let's begin with the work of Sound Designer Gary Rydstrom . As your POV panics and jumps over the side of the Higgins Landing Craft at Omaha Beach, all sound vanishes because you are underwater. When what you hear is muted and muffled, there's a strange kind of beauty in the visual of a machine gun bullet displacing air through water as it hits the soldier next to you. The blood mushrooms, cloudlike, out of his chest as you break surface for air.
Bodies litter the beach.
The noise is so intense you can't hear battle orders you see coming from the moving lips of your captain. A soldier next to you makes the mistake of taking off his helmet, to see where the bullet ricocheted off of it. Bodies pop open like overripe melons, and this is just the beginning. When your ears have cleared the water, the explosions all around you make you deaf. What is left of Captain Miller's unit is divided up.