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re: So i just finished band of brothers
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:42 am to WestCoastAg
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:42 am to WestCoastAg
BoB and Lonesome Dove are the 2 best mini series I have seen.
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Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:45 am to Jim Rockford
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The Pacific was an amalgam of stories.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:47 am to NS Who Dat Nation
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Well put. To this day, Bob is the best thing i've ever seen on TV.
It may very well be the best show or movie I've seen. The crazy thing is: it's one of the most rewatchable shows I can think of.
Every time they have a BoB marathon on Spike or History, I'm watching it.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:53 am to TheCaterpillar
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Spears might be the biggest bad arse in world history.
FIFY
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:55 am to TheCaterpillar
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Spears might be the biggest bad arse in television history.
And he was real. Dude is the definition of a fricking boss. He might have been certifiable, but he was awesome.
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Winters assessed Speirs as being one of the finest combat officers in the battalion. He wrote in his memoirs that Speirs had worked hard to earn a reputation as a killer and had often killed for shock value.[8] Winters stated that Speirs was alleged on one occasion to have killed six German prisoners of war and that the battalion leadership must have been aware of the allegations, but chose to ignore the charges because of the pressing need to retain qualified combat leaders. Winters concluded that in today's army, Speirs would have been court-martialed and charged with atrocities, but officers like Speirs were too valuable because they were not afraid to engage the enemy.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 10:10 am to etm512
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He might have been certifiable, but he was awesome.
Sounds borderline sociopathic.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 10:40 am to WestCoastAg
I really need to get around to watching this. It's been sitting with the rest of my dvd collection for about a year & yet I have yet to give it a viewing.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 10:43 am to StealthCalais11
BoB was incredible, so was Generation Kill. However, I was very meh on the Pacific. Thought it was too much touchy feely and not enough actual fighting/history
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:06 am to Damn Good Dawg
quote:ive seen that. band of brothers was the series that i just hadnt gotten around to until this past week. and then i watched all 10 episodes in like 3 days
now you just need to watch generation kill.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:15 am to WestCoastAg
"Currahee"
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:21 am to LSUlefty
Makes when they find the concentration camp even more intense knowing what they had all been thru and what they were fighting for
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:25 am to TheCaterpillar
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Oh and the annoying kid from Jurassic Park was so annoying and whiny. Just wanted him to die.
Wow he is based on a real war hero and you wanted him dead???
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:28 am to WestCoastAg
My absolute favorite mini-series. I remember watching this in high school and being absolutely mesmerized. I love the interviews before the episode starts.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:30 am to TheCaterpillar
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Spears might be the biggest bad arse in television history.
by far my favorite dialouge of the series
spears: you want to ask me dont you?
lipton: ask you what, sir?
spears: you want to know if the stories about me are true....you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. and then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. its nothing new really. i bet if you went back 2000 years youd hear a couple centurions standing around yacking about how tertius lopped off the heads of some carthaginian prisoners
lipton: maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard tertius deny it
spears: maybe thats because tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest, son of a bitch in the whole legion
This post was edited on 5/22/13 at 11:31 am
Posted on 5/22/13 at 11:33 am to WestCoastAg
Be careful showing it to a US History class full of teenagers. Episode 9 will sneak up on you.
Not that I'm speaking from experience.
Not that I'm speaking from experience.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 12:29 pm to ShoeBang
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have the dvd set still in the plastic. Haven't opened it and I got it for xmas
you ought to give it a shot. i was leery at first but it ended up entrancing me. i watched the whole series in like a week right before finals
ETA: westcoastag, ahhh nice. if i picked of BoB when they were all out like i did GK then i probably would have done the same thing
and Spears was unreal. that scene where he runs through the town, good god. and i love the scene in the chapel after with lipton where he talks about tersius (sp?)
This post was edited on 5/22/13 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 5/22/13 at 12:38 pm to Damn Good Dawg
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you ought to give it a shot.
You really ought to. GK is the most accurate portrayal of the modern military. BoB was better but GK is awesome too.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 1:06 pm to Tackle74
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Oh and the annoying kid from Jurassic Park was so annoying and whiny. Just wanted him to die.
Wow he is based on a real war hero and you wanted him dead???
First of all, I don't want the real guy to die. Second of all I knew he didn't. Thirdly, you suck.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 1:41 pm to WestCoastAg
I'm trying to remember, didn't it come out on or like the day before the 911 attacks?
Posted on 5/22/13 at 1:52 pm to WestCoastAg
It's really been 12 years?
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