Band of Brothers

[GreatGranny]

Didn't know it was being repeated until came across it Mon night while having a scan. Away with work at the moment in Norwich so staying in a lovely Premier Lodge. Trouble is I'm working until 7.30 every day and up again at 6.30, watching BoB until after 12 means I'm knackered today. Well worth it though. My favourite TV series.

[Jimbeaux]

Here are some video clips of Winters and other members of Easy Company. The first is them at the Hollywood awards for the BOB series; awesome!

It is the humble heroes that make me feel so small, at least IMO. :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdXrrjR90A&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GUZR0MGQMw&fea...

[R1_NUR]

Worked part time on the set for over a year - great fun and very interesting.

[Horse_Apple]

I'd forgotten just what a brilliant bit of TV this show was and have been enjoying thse recent re-runs.

Last night's was particularly poignent and it does remind you just how repellent and truly dangerous 'deniers' are to our modern society.

[trumpet600]

bks

I managed to stay awake last night to watch it. I think I saw the first 5 mins before dropping off.

I woke up just as the credits started rolling.


Don't you just hate it when that happens?

[Horse_Apple]

trumpet600 said:

bks

I managed to stay awake last night to watch it. I think I saw the first 5 mins before dropping off.

I woke up just as the credits started rolling.


Don't you just hate it when that happens?

Unless it's a Grand Prix, then it's normal.

[B.J.W]

The DVD box set is now at £20 in HMW. Was dropped to £30 from £60 a while back.

Works out at about £2.50 per episode (exclusive of the extras). Pretty good value for what has to be one of the outstanding TV series of the past 30 years

[Lefty Guns]

Shameful thread resurrection...

I'm watching this for the first time (and on blu-ray.) Just finished the 9th and penultimate episode and was blubbering like a little girl into my whisky.

fk me, this is good television. One of the most powerful things I've even watched. Schindlers List gave me a bit of a throat-lump, it has nothing compared to "Why We Fight".

If anyone has an interest in WW2 or humanity in general, you can't miss this series. It's incredible.

[Sheets Tabuer]

There are some fantastic documents on the net about them, wiki for a change is fecking awesome, you really have to read them.

[bouffy]

I phoned up Damien Lewis (Major Winters) years and years ago to ask him to play for my old boys team, and he said he couldn't...he was "busy".

It turned out he was busy having lunch in LA with Stephen Spielberg in his final audition for BOB. Quite a good excuse then.

Damien got totally spangled the night before and met Spielberg with an epic hangover.

[Eric Mc]

How did you know him?

[durbster]

Band of Brothers is currently on NowTV so I've been watching it through again over the last couple of weeks. I see it's almost exactly ten years to the day since the last post in this thread so I thought it worth digging up for a new generation of Pistonheaders that perhaps haven't seen it.

It's still an utterly brilliant series. So well crafted and holds up perfectly.

The needless snarky comments about the British still make me wince but nonetheless, it is still well worth watching or re-watching. If you haven't seen it, switch off the lights, turn up the sound and get stuck in.

[stuarthat]

Really enjoyed it when it came out ,then watched the Pacific after that, was very good .

[Celtic Dragon]

Pick are starting to screen it as of 11th April at 9pm.

[deltaevo16]

An absolute must watch series,

Bastogne epsiode was harrowing," there are no athiests in foxholes" A line I heard from
On any Given Sunday, fits the narrative superbly well.

[Munter]

deltaevo16 said:

An absolute must watch series,

Bastogne epsiode was harrowing," there are no athiests in foxholes" A line I heard from
On any Given Sunday, fits the narrative superbly well.

For me the episode "Carentan" (Working from memory could be titled different), stood out.

The whole thing was excellent though. It had me reading all the books from the same historian. Citizen Soldier etc.

[deltaevo16]

Munter said:

For me the episode "Carentan" (Working from memory could be titled different), stood out.

The whole thing was excellent though. It had me reading all the books from the same historian. Citizen Soldier etc.

Yes I agree Carentan was gripping, the realism involved in filming just brillian., A poignant reminder about war and loss, was the scene where the laundry of the boys who weren’t coming back lay on the shelves.

[The Surveyor]

Celtic Dragon said:

Pick are starting to screen it as of 11th April at 9pm.

I watched the repeated first episode last night, I'd forgotten just how good this really is.

[g3org3y]

Munter said:

The whole thing was excellent though. It had me reading all the books from the same historian. Citizen Soldier etc.

Likewise. Also bought books by Major Dick Winters and David Webster (and Eugene Sledge re The Pacific). They are all worth a read (esp Dick Winters' book) and give a insight only a soldier who has experienced these events can give.

I've been meaning to visit Normandy and other important sights (I bought Major and Mrs Holt's Definitive Guide to D Day Normand Landing Beaches in preparation) but unfortunately to date it remains on my 'to do' list.

[NuckyThompson]

g3org3y said:

Likewise. Also bought books by Major Dick Winters and David Webster (and Eugene Sledge re The Pacific). They are all worth a read (esp Dick Winters' book) and give a insight only a soldier who has experienced these events can give.

I've been meaning to visit Normandy and other important sights (I bought Major and Mrs Holt's Definitive Guide to D Day Normand Landing Beaches in preparation) but unfortunately to date it remains on my 'to do' list.

Webster’s book is very good as it was written much earlier than the other books and I believe he took notes throughout the war.

There’s quite a few books from the characters out there now, I’ve read babe and guarneres, don malarkeys, shifty powers and buck comptons who had a pretty interesting life post war too. There’s also a compilation one called ‘we who are alive and remain’

Need to rewatch all the extras for the box set too some fantastic insight to the men and the men who played them too. The real babe guanere sounded quite a man