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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: lasse on December 30, 2002, 04:54:12 PM
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Got the "Band of brothers" DVD box for chrismas, so I invited 3 of my friends over today and we saw the whole series in one sitting. 10.5 hours of 1st class war movie non stop :D
(We consumed a considerable amount of Pizzas and Coca-Cola;))
There where not som many planes in it, but I didn`t expect that either. (A couple of P51, P47 and some B26`s and a LOT of C47`s :D)
But I just have to say it was an awesome movie, perhaps the best one I ever have seen, and I have seen alot of movies.
Just wanna say to all of you who has not seen the movie, go buy it, you wont regret it, ever!
Lasse
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Just ordered it... wont be here till the 8th :mad:
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Got the DVD complete series for christmas too. A great movie! A must see! The Rabbit family gives it two wabbits feet up!
Tactical Officer
99TH ASTAG Swift to Avenge
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Wow WTG Lasse!
My dad was a Screaming Eagle and I bought it for him for his birthday. He sure liked it. :)
PS
"Never get out of the boat. Absolutely whoopee right. Unless you were going all the way."
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was the best series on tv by miles when it was on, first class war movie type stuff if you haven't seen it you should . :)
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I've really enjoyed band of brothers. I still haven't seen the last DVD. Freekin video store only stocks one of em and it's always rented out....
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I made it a prority,
when it came out on HBO to watch we canceld are cable before I could finish..man didnt realizie ive gone without cable that long..
*Turns around to go watch his parts 1 2 and 3 and 4... sniffling as he goes*
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I bought it for my Father for his birthday... Mom rolled her eyes. She called me the next week to tell me they both watched the series that week... every night after work. I knew Dad would love it, but Mom's reaction took me by suprise.
I bought the set for myself the next paycheck and my wife and I watched it in 3 nights. After the first episode, my wife said "you aren't going to watch any of these without me are you?"
Its simply the best WW2 series/movie/whatever I have ever seen.
AKDejaVu
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I agree, I got it for christmas best war movie ever
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I saw it on video, taped from HBO.
Now, I own the DVD version thanks to my wife and Christmas.
It is about as good as it gets.
dago
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Originally posted by funkedup
Wow WTG Lasse!
My dad was a Screaming Eagle and I bought it for him for his birthday. He sure liked it. :)
I was stationed in Baumholder Germany during the 50th aniversery of the seige of Bastone and my unit (1/12 Infantry) participated in the parade through Bastone with the actual vets of the 101st and 82nd Airborne. These guys were treated like Royalty by all the residents. I have rarely seen Americans treated so well in Europe. The people of that town really went all out for them. Was your dad able to attend? I hope so. The event was extreamly moving for all who attended. Even for the few German Vets that attended to honor their courage.
"Nuts"
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If females like this show/movie, it must be some sort of sappy emotional thing.
J_A_B
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Originally posted by J_A_B
If females like this show/movie, it must be some sort of sappy emotional thing.
J_A_B
It has its moments. But rarely are men faced with the hardships that these Genuine Heroes faced.
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Important to note that its not just a war movie but a 110% true story.
Liked the movie? READ the book. One of the few times a movie has followed the book so closely. the movie of course is compressed quite a bit and some things were left out or compressed in timeframe due to the time constraints a movie presents. But I only counted one deviation, and that was how Garneir found out about his brother. In real life he read the letter while sitting on the can rather then during a movie.
A bit silly I know but all in all very very accurate.
Drediock
Originally posted by lasse
Got the "Band of brothers" DVD box for chrismas, so I invited 3 of my friends over today and we saw the whole series in one sitting. 10.5 hours of 1st class war movie non stop :D
(We consumed a considerable amount of Pizzas and Coca-Cola;))
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Important to note that its not just a war movie but a 110% true story.
Liked the movie? READ the book. One of the few times a movie has followed the book so closely. the movie of course is compressed quite a bit and some things were left out or compressed in timeframe due to the time constraints a movie presents. But I only counted one deviation, and that was how Garneir found out about his brother. In real life he read the letter while sitting on the can rather then during a movie.
A bit silly I know but all in all very very accurate.
Drediock
so that dude actually ran thru a bunch of Germans to the other side of the town/village/field.......AND BACK!?!??!?!
(srry its been a while since I saw it and dont remember his name..but its when the leader (I forgot which rank) was always dissapearing then he gets hit because he freeses up)
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Great series, and aye, these guys faced terrible hardships. It's one of the best deipictions of WWII I've seen. The artillery attack in the woods in one of the epsiodes is the best damned war sequence I've ever seen, methinks - I felt like I was there. Gave me a whole new respect for artillery.
I just feel sorry for the 12-16 year old Germans who really didn't like Hitler that much, but who was forced to fight against insurmountable odds or be shot. That'd be even worse than what the Americans were facing. Of course, these guys were fighting for the wrong cause. Still, there had to be some people in the Werhmacht who really dinnae like Hitler very much but were forced to fight on. Anyone know of such examples, beyond the failed assassination attempt on hitler?
Oh, maybe I should start another thread...don't mean to hijack.
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Originally posted by J_A_B
If females like this show/movie, it must be some sort of sappy emotional thing.
J_A_B
This is not a sappy emotional movie, not at all, but still in the end I had tears in my eyes, when I saw how hard it was for the real vets to talk about it, even after 50 years had gone...
As I said, have you not seen this series, then you should, I think it is the best movie I ever have seen.
It is kind like Saving private Ryan for 10 hours++ , only this is better, and a 100% true story.
Lasse
Edit: The combat scenes was at least as realistic at those in private Ryan, but here it was way more of them.
I have a digital souroundset in my livingroom and a movie projector, so when the fighting was on I found my self duckin in the chair I was sitting in, amazing piece of filming.
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Originally posted by Mw007
so that dude actually ran thru a bunch of Germans to the other side of the town/village/field.......AND BACK!?!??!?!
(srry its been a while since I saw it and dont remember his name..but its when the leader (I forgot which rank) was always dissapearing then he gets hit because he freeses up)
You are referring to lt. Speirs, it's in part 7 of the series, after Bastogne, when lt. Dike (what's in a name?) freaks out. Then Speirs, a platoon leader in Dog Comapany takes over Easy company by orders of Capt. Winters. Don't know whether this was also in the book and if and how it happened in real life????
But don't forget, he also shot all those german POW's on D-day! ;)
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I recieved the DVD set for Christmas and hadn't watched it yet, but I read the book in one sitting this year and was a very good book... Buit after reading the comments I am stoked!!!
Now I have a New Years day Agenda
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"You are referring to lt. Speirs, it's in part 7 of the series, after Bastogne, when lt. Dike (what's in a name?) freaks out. Then Speirs, a platoon leader in Dog Comapany takes over Easy company by orders of Capt. Winters. Don't know whether this was also in the book and if and how it happened in real life???? "
That guy (if I recall correctly) went on to be the govenor of Spandau prison, thus he was Hess's jailor.
Fate's a funny thing.
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That guys rocks~!
I love how the rumors about him killing prisoners grows, and how everytime they start talking about it he shows up!
One time even offering a cigerette!
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Excellent mini-series. Best I've seen. Watched and taped 'almost' all of them on HBO. Hoped to get the CDs for Christmas but didn't. Might buy them soon or buy them myself for my birthday in April. Do still have a gift certificate to Best Buy for $100...hmmmm.... :D
If you've never seen it you DON'T know what you are missing. Like I say I've seen them all a couple of times and I'm still going to buy the DVDs. It's that good.
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I might be beating a dead horse, but I'll agree with everyone. BoB was an outstanding series. I just finished the book and it is outstanding also. I liked the part at the end where they went to their reunion and you got to see the real guys. The part that really got to me was when they showed the cemetary at Normandy. It really choked me up. The first and last scenes in SPR also choked me up when Ryan was in the same cemetary.
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