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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Eagler on August 13, 2001, 08:14:00 AM
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Saw trailer last night, had read about it before. Tom Hanks & Steven Speilberg production. Based on Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment parachuted behind enemy lines, getting spread over the region northwest of Carentan.
http://www.hbo.com/band/episode1_landing/index_flash.html (http://www.hbo.com/band/episode1_landing/index_flash.html)
http://www.spielberg-dreamworks.com/bandofbrothers/Plot.php (http://www.spielberg-dreamworks.com/bandofbrothers/Plot.php)
Ten episodes...
mark your calendars 9/9/2001
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They've been replaying From the Earth to the Moon this summer too, speaking of Tom Hanks and good series.
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Thx for posting that Eagler, Very nice website they made for Band of Brothers.
Their preview was well written.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose tells the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the nonpareil combat paratroopers on earth circa 1941-45. Ambrose takes us along on Easy Company's trip from grueling basic training to Utah Beach on D-day, where a dozen of them turned German cannons into dynamited ruins resembling "half-peeled bananas," on to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of part of the Dachau concentration camp, and a large party at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," where they drank the madman's (surprisingly inferior) champagne. Of Ambrose's main sources, three soldiers became rich civilians; at least eight became teachers; one became Albert Speer's jailer; one prosecuted Bobby Kennedy's assassin; another became a mountain recluse; the despised, sadistic C.O. who first trained Easy Company (and to whose strictness many soldiers attributed their survival of the war) wound up a suicidal loner whose own sons skipped his funeral.
The Easy Company survivors describe the hell and confusion of any war: the senseless death of the nicest kid in the company when a souvenir Luger goes off in his pocket; the execution of a G.I. by his C.O. for disobeying an order not to get drunk. Despite the gratuitous horrors it relates, Band of Brothers illustrates what one of Ambrose's sources calls "the secret attractions of war ... the delight in comradeship, the delight in destruction ... war as spectacle." --Tim Appelo
Fatty, I got "From the Earth to the Moon" on DVD for Christmas :).. Gave me goose bumbs when Armstrong and them landed the first time. Best ep was Apollo 12 Capt. Bean.
10Bears
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bump 4 XNachoX :)
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didnt see this sorry :p
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Tom Hanks..
How come a guy can make such painful chick-flicks; yet so many great man movies at the same time?
The guy sure is a genious!! :mad:
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I got this off there site.
PREMIERE DATES
Sun., Sept. 9, 9-11 p.m; Sun. Sept 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 9-10 p.m., HBO & TMN
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it was pretty good for those that missed it. had a saving private ryan flair in the battle scenes, but to be expected. sounded neat on surround sound. Ross <-"Friends" played a good kooky CO. Not sure when repeat showing is, but worth the view. Part 1 & 2 showed last night with short interviews from the real deals before each part..
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Looks like it's gonna be replayed tonight on one of the HBO channels too.
SOB
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ya it's on tonight at 8:00
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too bad it's on HBO... :(
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It is too bad it's not on HBO but not surprising since the main stream media (Except Tom Brokaw) might have to actually present just exactly how magnificent the accomplishments of that generation actually were.