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Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 03:31:25 pm
This gets played on tv over the pond every so often, I'm about to buy the dvd having just watched through some of them again. As it is an America producion I was wondering if it gets a lot of merit over in the US, how critically acclaimed it is and if it is that popular or well-known. It's such an amazing series, and the episode where they find the concentration camp is in my eyes one of the most stirring and powerful scenes in cinematography ever.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 03:47:50 pm
I feel priviledged to tell you it gets great acclaim here in America. It is now being repeated on the History Channel, as it IS history.   Band of Brothers is awesome! I missed only 1 episode of the original playing. I'm know with Spielburg and Tom Hanks making the miniseries, it would be great. I think it's really cool the way interviews with the real members of Easy Co are intersperced in the series. this is a real YOU ARE THERE type of show.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 03:51:21 pm
Liek firstborn said, it was well accepted over here in the states and won quite a few awards in fact. I didn't have HBO when it originally aired, but last spring I caught all the episodes when The History Channel broadcast them over a two week period. It really was one of the best WWII "movies," or whatever you might want to call it, I've ever seen
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 03:52:23 pm
Cool, I'm glad it gets the credit it deserves :)
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 04:00:56 pm
crap...
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 04:12:05 pm
I love that show.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 04:54:04 pm
well then ya must like crap...
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 04:54:45 pm
Quote from: "Zink"
well then ya must like crap...


Can I slap you?
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 04:55:07 pm
only if i can hit u
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 05:16:57 pm
Why don't you like it Zink? (Yer bastard!)
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 05:53:43 pm
thought it was stupid, came out with all the thin red line, saving private ryan, blackhawk down....just a show of the times, i didn't like it :)
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 09:09:13 pm
Don't hate them because they're good. Hate them because they took your idea.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 09:46:20 pm
Dont hate, discriminate.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on September 30, 2004, 11:23:20 pm
hahahahaha
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on October 01, 2004, 07:39:01 am
did you watch the show Zink? I know I had the same opinion about Equilibrium when it came out, because it looked like a matrix knockoff but I finally saw it last month and it's AWESOME.

As for Band of Brothers, I watched the whole series when they played it on the History channel, and it's one of the best shows i've ever seen.  They played every episode over a full day, it was great to see it in its entirety (regardless of how much my ass hurt from sitting and watching it all day)
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on October 01, 2004, 12:44:10 pm
Lol 10 hour tv watching session, that must have almost killed you, that's not even including adverts. Oh, I mean commericals.
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on October 01, 2004, 02:07:44 pm
Unfortunately, I've never even heard of it.  I live a sheltered life.  My kids own the TV, I just pay the bill.  If it's not animated, I don't see it...
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on October 01, 2004, 03:46:28 pm
I haven't seen all of them, but the few I did see I enjoyed
Title: Band of Brothers
Post by: Anonymous on October 01, 2004, 04:05:09 pm
I unfortunately have not seen any of them.  My inital reaction to the series was similar to Zink's, you know, the whole "it's just another WWII production."      Anyway, if I ever come across someone that has a few I might watch em.  I just never really put forth an effort to track them down.  You guys all seem to think they are fantastic, and I very much did enjoy Saving Private Ryan and movies of that genre, so who knows, I'll just have to take a look at em.
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