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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: jimson on November 03, 2010, 11:21:35 AM
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Boxed set arrived in mail yesterday. WooHoo!!
Hours in front of the big screen plasma with surround sound blasting are about to ensue.
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Woo!
Going to have to go pick that one up. :)
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Found it at Best by for about $42.00 on DVD
Gonna be on my Xmas list :aok
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Yeah, it was just released in the last week or two on DVD. On my list too. :salute
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Found it at Best by for about $42.00 on DVD
Don't remember what I paid for it pre-release through HBO, but I think it was a lot more than that.
Oh well, it was a special deal where they sent me the first episode right away so I got a chance to see that this summer.
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I wish they would hurry up and put it up on the History chanel like they did with B of B.
:pray
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This WILL be purchased very soon especially since they've decided to delay releasing Gran Turismo 5 AGAIN, that I pre-ordered and was all excited about getting yesterday. :mad:
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Found it at Best by for about $42.00 on DVD
Gonna be on my Xmas list :aok
Seriously!?!? :O :huh You don't want to even know what HBO was charging for Band of Brothers when that came out on DvD.
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I paid over 50 for BOB 7 years ago
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I paid over 50 for BOB 7 years ago
When BoB was first released, my fiance got it from Amazon for a little over $100 but then it did come in a metal tin with an "authentic" steel WW2 canteen that was stamped "Hecho en Mexico". lol
ack-ack
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This WILL be purchased very soon especially since they've decided to delay releasing Gran Turismo 5 AGAIN, that I pre-ordered and was all excited about getting yesterday. :mad:
Well take it with a grain of salt but Kaz said yesterday at SEMA "The discs are being stamped as we speak." I've pretty much stopped paying attention to any thing Kaz and Sony say but for him to say that and not be true would the end of any credibility he has left.
-discs-are-being-stamped-as-we-speak]http://jalopnik.com/5679823/kazunori-the-[gt5]-discs-are-being-stamped-as-we-speak (http://jalopnik.com/5679823/kazunori-the-[gt5)
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I paid over 50 for BOB 7 years ago
Not even close, thing bigger...
When BoB was first released, my fiance got it from Amazon for a little over $100 but then it did come in a metal tin with an "authentic" steel WW2 canteen that was stamped "Hecho en Mexico". lol
ack-ack
Ding ding ding, close enough. I think after shipping and handling, the original DvD release of BoB was pushing $140 (which did come in a nice metal tin, but I didn't get the collectors with the canteen). I think it was one of the first TV series to DvD releases and they were pricing it based on the fact it had like 6-7 DvDs in it. The next two years after that it was in the $100-120, before it finaly kept dropping lower and lower to where it is today (on par with the rest of the multi-dvd TV specials released on DvD).
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Just added the whole set to my Netflix BlueRay queue. :rock
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I just watched the first three parts in a row for the first time. I cried my heart out.
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It's on my Xmas list aswell
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We DVR'd the entire series but unfortunately 2 weeks ago my eSATA HDD that was hooked up to the DirecTV receiver bit the dust!!! We lost a Terabyte (3 years worth) of good movies and such that we didn't have time to watch.
I can't wait to see it and perhaps Santa will bring it this year!!!
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Is it worth it?
I watched the first episode on the internet and somehow it just didn't grab me the way BoB did.
The actors just didn't seem to have the same maturity and "gravitas" that Winters and others did.
Maybe it got better.
1-10 scale compared to BoB?
Regards,
Wab
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so far I would give it a 10/10. The actors seems more believable that BoB to me. The thing that got me feeling emotional was the sense of belonging. The love between men who could die together at any moment. The pride and bravery. The contrast from action to R&R. The unspoken words, told in a look, between father a son. It's a shame that one day this will all be forgotten. I wish to be part of something so desperate and powerfull, yet I thank the powers that be that I did not have to do it.
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so far I would give it a 10/10.
Really?
So if I rated BoB a 10/10 you would say it ranks as good?
I may have to give it another try.
:salute,
Wab
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I know how you feel batfink. I want to be part of something bigger than myself. I've given some serious thought to joining the military for a few years once I turn 18.
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I have it (BoB & Generation Kill) saved on DVR, but I'd love to have a BluRay set of each.
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Really?
So if I rated BoB a 10/10 you would say it ranks as good?
I may have to give it another try.
:salute,
Wab
Its strange. I enjoyed BoB but it never struck a nerve. I enjoyed the action and fighting but never really got a sense of the psychological side from BoB. This one so far seems to really reach my soul. I would probably rate them both 10/10 but for different reasons. I'm up to episode 6 now.
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Yeah, I was going to say I paid $130 for BoB a few years back. I've seen all 702 minutes of it multiple times, but I have yet to see the Pacific. I totally forgot about adding it to my Christmas list.
#S#
Banshee7
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We got BoB when it was released in the box set years ago. I am ashamed to admit it, but we never got around to watching it. Perhaps in the coming weeks over the holiday we will do a BoB marathon. When the Pacific came out and we DVR'd it, I remembered that we had never seen BoB..... :huh
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Is it worth it?
I watched the first episode on the internet and somehow it just didn't grab me the way BoB did.
The actors just didn't seem to have the same maturity and "gravitas" that Winters and others did.
Maybe it got better.
1-10 scale compared to BoB?
Regards,
Wab
It's difficult to say. Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. I believe I preferred The Pacific but I think I am just more captivated by the pacific experience than the ETO.
The brutality is difficult to watch at times. I didn't have as much of that experience watching BOB. This one seemed to do a better job of capturing the trauma of war to the body and especially the soul.
It's definitely worth watching, just do it without comparing the two.
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I saw Th Pacific when it was on HBO. I liked it :aok :rock ,i still like BoB better though :rock :rock :rock :rock :rock :banana:
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I have it (BoB & Generation Kill) saved on DVR, but I'd love to have a BluRay set of each.
Got both sets on Blu Ray for my birthday back in september...awesome shows
Tronsky
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Really?
So if I rated BoB a 10/10 you would say it ranks as good?
I may have to give it another try.
:salute,
Wab
I'd give BoB a 9.5/10, but The Pacific is a firm 10/10 and begging for there to be more than "10/10ths" to accomplish.
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Its strange. I enjoyed BoB but it never struck a nerve. I enjoyed the action and fighting but never really got a sense of the psychological side from BoB. This one so far seems to really reach my soul. I would probably rate them both 10/10 but for different reasons. I'm up to episode 6 now.
It seems to be the other way round for me Batty. Pacific didnt grab me in the way BoB did. BoB I could relate to as ROTC (Air Training Corps for you and me, ROTC for Americans), the way you see these guys all the time, you eat, sleep, run, work and in war time fight and die together. I dont do the fighting and dying obviously as Im too young, but all the other factors I could relate to instantly. The way you know this person for about a year or two, but it feels like a lifetime is true, living in some hole with a bit of canvas over your head with two other people and a warm stove with food on it is something no one else but military people do and it makes that person next to you way more real than anywhere else.
Pacific however, was more like a romantic drama to me, it was a mini series US version of that film "Atonement". Little Johnny goes to war and either gets cheated on or killed. The fighting scenes were brilliant and it really did capture the brutality of the pacific war. But they did not cover the war and soliders themselves, more their home lives and their own personal feelings, not the unit's activities and role and how it affected their group as a whole. I dont want to see how some Italian American falls in love in Melbourne and then run around the city for a whole episode. I want to see him and his fellow soldiers in the jungles of Okinowa or the ash of Iwo Juma, and how they reacted and coped with it.
but that said, I still love the Pacific because its made by the same guys as BoB, so while its a bit off, I still give it 8/10
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Yep I did TA over here for a few years when I was a teenager. I can't help thinking the real feeling of brotherhood doesnt quite happen untill you are actualy fighting and dying together.
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it does, but takes longer
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If you haven't seen The Pacific yet I would suggest reading the books. I had much more appreciation for the series after I did. Looking forward to being able to re-watch it after having read them.
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If you haven't seen The Pacific yet I would suggest reading the books. I had much more appreciation for the series after I did. Looking forward to being able to re-watch it after having read them.
I've seen The Pacific through episode 6 I believe and enjoyed it every bit as much as Band of Brothers, on the book side I haven't read any of the Ambrose or related material but I did go out and pick up Leckie's book "Helmet For My Pillow" and really enjoyed it. Leckie had a career as a writer after the war and it shows, I thought he actually writes quite well and had many very evocative passages in his book.
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I'm looking forward to watching The Pacific hopefuly after xmass :pray , but as I understand it, the two fundamental differences between The Pacific and Band of Brothers (besides the theatre of operations and the enemy) is that BoB followed a specific signle unit throughout the cource of the entire campaign, and even a bit before and after it. With The Pacific, they're following different individuals in different units througout their various campaigns and strugles in the Pacific theatre.
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It arrived in the mail a few days ago ( don't tell my parents that. I have to act suprised when i get it come XMas) looking foreward to watching it Christmas evening with a stomach full of food!