Band of brothers is absolutely the best...
 

It's probably been said before but goddamn this is a good series. It's the third time i've seen it. Been watchin it back to back from my Blockbuster delivery shit. Highly recommended watching...

Nick... it's my alltime favorite form of entertainment. So well done, and the acting is superb. I try to watch it as spread out as possible because I don't want to saturate myself with it too bad.

I LOVE IT

It's just unreal how good it is. I mean, it happened so maybe that adds to it but goddamn. The sets are perfect, the acting is top shelf, I just can't stop watching it. I always cry at the end when the actual vets talk. I know....I'm a big baby but I can't help it.

Yeah, it moves me every time I watch it. Great stuff.

It really was the "greatest generation".

I can't make it through the "death camp" scene without breaking down. I just can't imagine it...

I mean it's the same with the soldiers in Iraq now. How do you go from being some kid out of high school, to a foreign country where you are seeing on a day to day basis, people being burned, shot, exploded, murdered, raped, tortured... You lose your best friends, you hold some of them while they die, you watch them bleed out in your lap. You get used to a life of barbaric proportions where death and destruction are the norm...

...then you come back to run a convenience store, or manage an office or whatever...

...how the fuck do you do that? It's amazing to me.

My wife's grandfather was one of Darby's Rangers in Italy. Stepped on a landmine and layed in the snow for 3 days dying. Had a german soldier come up to him while he lay there and put a gun to his head, but opted to let him suffer in the snow instead. They found him and he came home. He's 80 and everytime I look at him, I just can't imagine what his eyes have seen and what his mind must go through every day. Nice as hell old man and you'd never think to yourself, "he used to kill as many men as he could get his sights on..."

I agree wholeheartedly. Best mini-series ever put to film hands down. I tear up at the end also. I had surgery 2 years ago and I was housebound I watched the entire run back to back one day and my wife comes in and im crying at the end.

Another cool thing is the actors actually went through a very real bootcamp and learned all the basics of being an actual paratrooper, they have footage of it on the extra material.

The end where Maj. Winters MAKES Capt. Sobel salute him is a riot :1orglaugh I laugh so hard at that and the look on Nixon's face.

Captain Sobel...CAPTAIN SOBEL...we salute the rank, not the man.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Never even heard about it.

I just watched it about 3-4 weeks ago, could not stop myself
agree to everything said above, amazing movie

http://images.derstandard.at/20050324/bandob1.jpg

excellent series

Its also good to see that something good came out of "New Kids on the Block".
Donnie Wahlberg did an excellent job as Carwood Lipton. One of my favorite scenes was when they were in bastogne in the chow line and Wild Bill ask how his nuts are (referring to a previous shrapnel injury that was inches from being an instant sex change). "How are them nuts sarge!?.....Doing fine Bill, thanks for asking". :1orglaugh

I agree totally brilliant. Got the DVD box set for my birthday and trying to ration myself. You can get the book it's based on too. The old vet. soldier at the end is the one who wrote it I think.

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It was written by Stephen E. Ambrose, the old vet you are referring to is Richard "Dick" Winters, He was not the author of the book.ambrose was born only years before ww2 so he had no way of being a participant. He captured the heart of the lives that these men lived (and died) beautifully though.

and the game sucks

great and realistic

It is ok. Nothing to write home to mom about.

I caught it the last couple of times on the history channel as well. Good stuff.

I thought the series was amazing. As good as anything done on the subject. I have to get the DVDs.

I have only seen it one time, so I am looking forward to see it again!!! And you cant say that about every show on tv!

Very great series. Well worth buying the whole dvd set.

We dont watch tv, and had no idea about the show until we found it in BB. So we decided to rent one and see. It was great, and rented them all.


We also found that we like the show 24. Have seen season 1, and 3, but the smart ass that owns the BB did not get season 2

One of the best... :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

best mini-serious shown of TV. highly recommended

:smokin

BoB is top notch, watched the entire series at least 7 times now. I'm a huge WWII buff and collector, everything about the series is amazingly accurate.

There is also a new series from the creators of BoB called the www.the-pacific-war.com which im looking forward to.

I bought it for my dad as a father's day gift last year and he has yet to possess it. :winkwink:

I have watched it Marathon-style 4 times and it is a GREAT series! Col. Winters is the man! :thumbsup

They nailed Capt. Sobel too. Here's his real pic.
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/506...sobel_506e.jpg

Excellent series, loved it!

Three time marathoner over here! Absolute best way to watch it imo. BOB is the best there is. :thumbsup

If you did'nt know it was true, you would'nt believe it.

whats more unbelievable is thousands of other ordinary soldiers have similar stories.
I also think the speach by the german general was good, it showed not all of them were nazis and some were just normal men just trying to look after each other.

It show that when the very worst people do terrible things, it takes just a normal man to become the very best of people and stand up to them.

Awesome series, i have read that the second part is begin shoot, this time about soldiers in the pacific front:

THE PACIFIC (DATE UNKNOWN)

Inspired with the success of "Band of Brothers," executive-producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Hanks' Playtone producing partner Gary Goetzman are in early stages developing a new 10 part miniseries in the vein of "Band of Brothers" that will be set in the Pacific Theater.

The property will be an original work and not based on existing material (beyond historical fact, obviously) as "Band of Brothers" was. "Band of Brothers" screenwriter Bruce McKenna is already in talks with Spielberg and Goetzman as they work toward developing the series.

The potential series is "being finalized for HBO to partner in the miniseries, which is expected to require a "Brothers"-type budget of more than $100 million," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

I would agree that this movie is the best. Aside from the story, the cast and crew are 100% perfect for the film. It is really worth collecting those dvds.