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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: trax1 on December 27, 2008, 12:22:21 PM
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Anyone ever get tired of watching this, I know I don't, I swear every time I see it on I'll sit there and watch the whole thing, just an awesome show, can't wait until the new one comes out about the pacific.
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I've got the whole thing on DVD. Whenever some of my friends that are WW2 junky wannabes come over we watch the whole thing in one sitting
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I got the whole DVD as well. Its on as we speak.
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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
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I got the DVD set for Christmas. :D
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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.
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spielberg and hanks know their stuff when it comes to WWII, I wish they would make more movies/shows
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/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/)
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Definitely one of all my time favorite movies!! The Pacific will have big shoes to fill!! Looking forward to seeing it!!
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I will be getting it on BlueRay soon. It was filmed in HD. I look forward to seeing it in its full widescreen high def glory.
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Band of Brothers is my favorite mini series next to Generation Kill :rock
My favorite line is when George Luz says:
"hey paul this guy here says the GERMANS... are BAD!!" in the "why we fight" episode.
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watching it as I type this.
Gota be @ my 6th time i've watched it.
My ALL TIME fav. bit is the way Stephen Ambrose ended it. Major Dick Winters is talking about a letter Sergeant Mike Ranney wrote him.
I cherish the memories of a question my Grandson asked me the other day when he said... "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"
Grandpa said "No, but I served in a company of heroes."
One of the most powerfull things I have ever viewed.
I don't think it will matter HOW many times I watch the Band of Brothers, I will tear up on that scene.
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watching it as I type this.
Gota be @ my 6th time i've watched it.
My ALL TIME fav. bit is the way Stephen Ambrose ended it. Major Dick Winters is talking about a letter Sergeant Mike Ranney wrote him.
One of the most powerfull things I have ever viewed.
I don't think it will matter HOW many times I watch the Band of Brothers, I will tear up on that scene.
Ditto, I tear up because I asked my Grandpa the same thing when I was about 10 years old. His reply? "Jay, the heroes don't come home."
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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/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/)
ahhhh awesome, knowing what speilberg and hanks have done its sure to be fantastic, they sure set the bar high with band of brothers
this is from hbo.com
THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009.
The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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I've had the DVD set for a couple of years now and have watched it at least 5 or 6 times. In a couple of them I get one of those big tears setup in the corner that just will not go away.
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WWII History Magazine had a write up on Buck Compton in the December issue. Bought right before we left in November to go to California.
I'd look into subscribing to this magazine. Damn good stories and not much "fluff."
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PS3 and the blu ray set of BOB was my Xmas gift.
Looks outstanding in HD with surround sound
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I'm watching it right now. :lol For about the 10th time :rock
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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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Since the DA is all messed up that's all i've been doing all day..... :O.... :rock
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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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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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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/ (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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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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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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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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just dvred it all on hist channel, watchin the attack on the dyke, good fun, love the serries
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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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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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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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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
wrongway
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Wrongway left out one, and probably the best written one:
Parachute Infantry - David Kenyon Webster
Malarkey is particularly hard on Webster and he doesn't have a lot of good things to say about Nixon either. All in all the books are a must read if your a BOB fan.
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Even in the tightest "families" brothers feud and sometimes dislike each other. It doesn't mean they don't have a bond. I salute them all for having been there and done what they did. We owe them for their sacrifices.
:salute
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I have never seen it, but it looks like an amazing series.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNGOmxkL4I&feature=channel_page This is a VERY well done montage for the series... makes me want to watch it even more.
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I have never seen it, but it looks like an amazing series.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNGOmxkL4I&feature=channel_page This is a VERY well done montage for the series... makes me want to watch it even more.
Wow, you've never seen BOB? I suggest renting or wait until History channel runs it again, they run the whole series a couple times a year, best war movie or show ever made, your guaranteed to love it, and best part it's about 12 hours long.
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Band of Brothers is my favorite mini series next to Generation Kill :rock
My favorite line is when George Luz says:
"hey paul this guy here says the GERMANS... are BAD!!" in the "why we fight" episode.
Eh, I perfer, "Gory gory what a helluva way to die, gory gory what a helluva way to die, gory gory what a helluva way to die, we ain't gonna jump no more."
Or, "She's taking the dog... She doesn't even like that damn dog!!"
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Even in the tightest "families" brothers feud and sometimes dislike each other. It doesn't mean they don't have a bond. I salute them all for having been there and done what they did. We owe them for their sacrifices.
:salute
In one passage Malark writes at one reunion Nixon, who apparently had a bit too much hooch, was calling out Compton and generally belittling him. Malark stood up, got Nix's attention, and yelled, "How many silver star's you got, Nix?" Nixon quickly shut up.
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I read Parachute Infantry at least a half dozen times in high school. I was very pleased when Webster had an episode featuring him. He made no attempts to conceal that he was in company of what I'd call better soldiers. I can see where the way he thought and his outlook on experiencing the war wouldn't gel with those of a typical parachute infantryman.
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Ambrose describes Webster as a "keen observer". Talk about restrained understatement. Webster was a journalist first and foremost, which makes his book all that much more extraordinary. It definitely has a different perspective on the experiences and he really pulls no punch. Like you I thoroughly enjoyed his book.