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Band of Brothers
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:42 pm
Only good thing come out of this terrible situation is I had nine free hours to watch Band of Brothers this weekend. Gets better every time I see it.
10
Posted on 4/5/20 at 9:49 pm to Sharp85
Been rewatching during this. Just past Bastogne and as great as ever 
Posted on 4/6/20 at 7:31 am to Sharp85
Just finished it last night and started on The Pacific.
I think these two series should be required viewing for all high-school/college aged kids in this country. The sheer terror and carnage of the Bastogne and Guadalcanal/Leckie episodes are heartstopping.
I think these two series should be required viewing for all high-school/college aged kids in this country. The sheer terror and carnage of the Bastogne and Guadalcanal/Leckie episodes are heartstopping.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 7:58 am to Sharp85
I watched it all again this past weekend. Probably for the 20th time in my life.
What’s y’all’s favorite episode?
For me it’s Episode 7 - “The Breaking Point” by far. Helps that Lipton is my favorite member of Easy.
What’s y’all’s favorite episode?
For me it’s Episode 7 - “The Breaking Point” by far. Helps that Lipton is my favorite member of Easy.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 8:56 am to Sharp85
Its an amazing series. Its fun to watch it now and see how many popular actors were in the series; James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy. All these guys played bit parts in BoB, and are now top name actors.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:24 am to boxcarbarney
Holy frick. I never knew that was Tom Hardy ...
Wow.
Wow.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:24 am to Sharp85
I like BoB, but The Pacific resonates more for me. I had a grandfather in the navy during that time, and it dovetails with many of his stories. Plus, there was a humanity between the Americans and Germans that existed, which BoB shows. That didnt exist between the Americans and Japanese. sheer hatred there.
Both are excellent
Both are excellent
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:40 am to Sharp85
I've been showing these to my 14 year old son after his younger sisters go to bed. he's enthralled.
I'm thinking I'll need to wait a couple of years before we watch the Pacific, even though he's already read With the Old Breed and Helmet For My Pillow.
I'm thinking I'll need to wait a couple of years before we watch the Pacific, even though he's already read With the Old Breed and Helmet For My Pillow.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:41 am to Manzielathon
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What’s y’all’s favorite episode?
"At first the Germans didn't shoot at him. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was, that after he hooked up with I Company... he came back."
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:44 am to Sharp85
Been re-watching it over the past week as well. Probably do The Pacific when I'm done. Both are great it's hard to pick one over the other, but I lean The Pacific mostly because I find that theater more interesting.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:37 am to RoyalAir
The Pacific gets wrongfully compared to BoB. BoB drawing mostly from Ambrose and some material from the Sgts and Webster's memoirs. It all laser focuses for the ensemble.
Pacific was three books stapled together, and stapled well but lost the cohesion as they tried to get parts in for ironic tragedy. And then of course is the completely different application of war that they depicted from the Western Front and while both were mostly accurate, Pacific got panned for its depiction.
Pacific was three books stapled together, and stapled well but lost the cohesion as they tried to get parts in for ironic tragedy. And then of course is the completely different application of war that they depicted from the Western Front and while both were mostly accurate, Pacific got panned for its depiction.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 2:35 pm to RoyalAir
Both are fantastic in their own ways.
Band of Brothers is inherently more cohesive because it's essentially the story of one unit (Easy) and its timeline past the first episode largely takes place over the course of less than a year. The Pacific takes place over the course of the entirety of the war and has to bounce from island to island and unit to unit in the PTO.
BoB is a moving story about brotherhood and leadership, whereas The Pacific is about the horrors of war eating away at the characters' humanity. The transformation of Sledge from gawky Alabama rich kid to stone cold killer is pretty shocking.
The Pacific does a good job of expanding into the return home and touching on the impact the war had on these guys and how they were haunted by their time in combat, which is mostly told through the eyes of Sledge. I found that extremely moving since my great uncle fought in the Pacific and slept on a cot next to his mother's bed for 3 years when he got back so she could hold his hand through his nightmares.
Band of Brothers is inherently more cohesive because it's essentially the story of one unit (Easy) and its timeline past the first episode largely takes place over the course of less than a year. The Pacific takes place over the course of the entirety of the war and has to bounce from island to island and unit to unit in the PTO.
BoB is a moving story about brotherhood and leadership, whereas The Pacific is about the horrors of war eating away at the characters' humanity. The transformation of Sledge from gawky Alabama rich kid to stone cold killer is pretty shocking.
The Pacific does a good job of expanding into the return home and touching on the impact the war had on these guys and how they were haunted by their time in combat, which is mostly told through the eyes of Sledge. I found that extremely moving since my great uncle fought in the Pacific and slept on a cot next to his mother's bed for 3 years when he got back so she could hold his hand through his nightmares.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 3:30 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:
"At first the Germans didn't shoot at him. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was, that after he hooked up with I Company... he came back."
Ambrose goes into detail in the book. Every account of that he found all backed it up. Speirs was a hell of a soldier.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 4:45 pm to Sharp85
Just rewatched Generation Kill. Forgot how good it was.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 5:15 pm to upgrayedd
BoB is one of my all time favorites. I am a vet (not WW2) and my son and I did the 11 day tour last summer. It was incredible.
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:16 pm to msap9020
Did the tour take you to all the locations from the show? Even the stops later in Germany?
Posted on 4/6/20 at 9:53 pm to Sharp85
i'm on episode two for the first time
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:06 pm to Sharp85
Love it, I do a rewatch every year around the anniversary of D-Day
Posted on 4/7/20 at 12:08 am to elprez00
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Ambrose goes into detail in the book. Every account of that he found all backed it up. Speirs was a hell of a soldier.
Loved the book. I read it slowly and carefully making sure to follow every single footnote.
Hell of a book.
Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:35 am to Sharp85
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Did the tour take you to all the locations from the show? Even the stops later in Germany?
Started in Normandy
Omaha Beach
Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sue-Mer
Pointe du Hoc
Utah Beach
Brecourt Manor
Saint-Mere-Eglise
Dead Mans Corner
Longues-sur-Mer German Battery (all original guns still in place)
Gold Beach
Mulberry Harbor
Juno Beach
Sword Beach
Pegasus Bridge
On to Belgium
Battle of the Bulge
Mardasson Monumnet
Easy foxholes at Foy
Foxholes at Bois Jacques
Bastogne War Museum
Northern Arc of Bulge (Dragons Teeth)
Malmady and La Gleize (The bastard Peiper)
Luxembourg American Cemetery
Pattons grave
Munich
Dachau Concentration Camp
Third Reich Tour of Munich
Berchtesgarden
Eagles Nest
Dokumentation Obersazberg (Nazis last stand)
We were at Normandy about 2 weeks after the 75th anniversary. Still had a few old timers around. Talked to a few. Sort of surreal.
United lost our luggage - washed stuff in the sink the first 3 days in Normandy until our luggage caught up.
It was wild standing in some of those places.
Our guide in Munich was a Texan native grad from Marshall. Went to Munich on exchange, met a fraulein, you know the rest of the story.....
Incredible once in a lifetime trip.
Sorry for the overlap with Travel board but relevant to the conversation.
This post was edited on 4/7/20 at 10:43 am
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