Immediately we are treated to a barrage of gore, blood, and violence. This movie should win the Academy Award for sound, hands down. I've seen hundreds of movies where people get shot, but never like this. The bullets sound different here. They sound more menacing, more metallic.
Blood sprays out of open wounds.
We see raw flesh, guts of all kinds, and rivers of blood mixed and flowing with sea water. Explosions send dust and rocks hurtling down upon us. And people really seem to die. But, this sequence is just to get us acquainted with the kind of war and the kind of characters we're going to be dealing with. Against impossible odds, Miller takes the beach, losing 35 men in the process.