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Offline Eagler

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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2008, 04:25:49 PM »
PS3 and the blu ray set of BOB was my Xmas gift.
Looks outstanding in HD with surround sound
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Re: Band of Brothers
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2008, 04:49:19 PM »
I'm watching it right now. :lol For about the 10th time  :rock
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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2008, 06:04:21 PM »
Watched it many, many times.  Have also read all the books by Winters, Compton, Malarkey, etc...waiting to get the one written by Guarnere & Heffron.

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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2008, 06:45:17 PM »
Since the DA is all messed up that's all i've been doing all day..... :O.... :rock
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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2008, 07:29:45 PM »
I was with the 101st when it first came out.  We got to see it in the base theater a couple months before it aired with some of the true soldiers from the series.  Really neat experience.  It's weird seeing them so old and frail (yet still proud as hell).
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Re: Band of Brothers
« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2008, 08:20:44 PM »
Quote from: Banshee7 on December 27, 2008, 12:28:43 PM
I know...the TV is right above my computer.  So I'm watching it, playing AH, and on the boards at the same time  :D
great minds think alike :aok and history channel is doing a marathon!
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« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2008, 08:24:02 PM »
Quote from: trax1 on December 27, 2008, 01:11:51 PM
They are doing another WW2 show, this time it takes place in the Pacific theater, it's gonna be on HBO, It's called "The Pacific".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/

That's gonna be a good one... Eugene Sledge, John Basilone...

It'll be sad towards the end, as I know John Basilone was killed on Iwo Jima (Read "Edsons' Raiders" if you dont know too much on this, it may help for you to understand a lot more about it when it comes out)
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« Reply #22 on: December 27, 2008, 08:34:35 PM »
Quote from: crazyivan on December 27, 2008, 08:20:44 PM
great minds think alike :aok and history channel is doing a marathon!

Even better, the computer is in my bedroom!  Lock the door so no one can bother me and turn the tv
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« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2008, 09:30:36 PM »
I watch it every time I see it back on the tube.

I do have the book and have read it. It's one I'll keep. There is more detail in the book about the things that were glossed over in the movie. The movie focused on the combat ops to the detriment of the rest of the story. To me they complement each other.
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Re: Band of Brothers
« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2008, 09:32:34 PM »
Quote from: CAVPFCDD on December 27, 2008, 01:04:04 PM
spielberg and hanks know their stuff when it comes to WWII, I wish they would make more movies/shows

anyone read the book? It definatly wasn't as interesting as the mini series.

The book was very good.  And as good as the mini-series was, the book was better.  

If there was a fault to the mini-series it was that it made E-506 appear to have won the war single handedly.
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« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2008, 11:17:36 PM »
just dvred it all on hist channel, watchin the attack on the dyke, good fun, love the serries
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« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2008, 03:19:06 AM »
I love Band of Brothers.

The documentary on the bonus features disc is a good watch too.

"We go to bed on a real cold night, and my wife'll tell you first thing I say is I'm glad I'm not in Bastonge."

Makes me teary just thinking about those guys, and what they did for us.
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« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2008, 01:52:36 PM »
Quote from: DiabloTX on December 27, 2008, 06:04:21 PM
Watched it many, many times.  Have also read all the books by Winters, Compton, Malarkey, etc...waiting to get the one written by Guarnere & Heffron.



I was unaware of those books. Could you post the titles that are done by each one? I'd live to see what those guys perspectives were in their own words.
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« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2008, 02:23:05 PM »
The sad thing is that there are hundreds of thousands of stories just like what went on in BoB that needed to be told and never was.

Stop and think how many vets and how many units, US, Brit, Soviet, German, Italian, Jap, Romanian, etc, etc. that all had a very dynamic story to tell and no one will ever know what they did or the Hell they went through.
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« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2008, 02:24:39 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on December 28, 2008, 01:52:36 PM
I was unaware of those books. Could you post the titles that are done by each one? I'd live to see what those guys perspectives were in their own words.

From Amazon.com:

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don Malarkey and Bob Welch
Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers by Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton, Marcus Brotherton, and John McCain
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Edward "Babe" Heffron, and Robyn Post

Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander




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