Band of Brothers
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funkyrobot said:
Back to BOB, what made it more interesting was at the end of the series when you found out that the chaps talking at the beginning of the show were the soldiers the series was based on. Amazing!
Hmm I think it was a given that the guys talking were the guys from Easy company, it was far more interesting to see who was who though!
Fantastic series.
I've watched it many a time - interesting that the thread has come up. Just got the missus watching it as of last week.
It's interesting to see her reaction to the violence. It's amazing that when you know it is something that does really happens/happened and how brutal it can be (I think the series and SPR is about as graphic as your going to get on the telly) compared to the rubbish you get in horror movies - it certainly brings it home. She was quite distressed at the sheer waste of life and destruction. i'm still convinced that every 15yr old in the world should watch SPR and BoB. Might give them some perspective - perhaps a few politicians should pay attention as well.
I'm ex Army and served operationaly and I can remember during the first part of SPR that it was the sounds of battle that got me, really got me. First time I'd ever heard it as it actually sounds.
Shame that most people, luckily - obviously, will never get to hear, or rather feel, what artillery is like - hits you in the gut with such a deep bass sound and power. Scary and awesome at the same time.
I've watched it many a time - interesting that the thread has come up. Just got the missus watching it as of last week.
It's interesting to see her reaction to the violence. It's amazing that when you know it is something that does really happens/happened and how brutal it can be (I think the series and SPR is about as graphic as your going to get on the telly) compared to the rubbish you get in horror movies - it certainly brings it home. She was quite distressed at the sheer waste of life and destruction. i'm still convinced that every 15yr old in the world should watch SPR and BoB. Might give them some perspective - perhaps a few politicians should pay attention as well.
I'm ex Army and served operationaly and I can remember during the first part of SPR that it was the sounds of battle that got me, really got me. First time I'd ever heard it as it actually sounds.
Shame that most people, luckily - obviously, will never get to hear, or rather feel, what artillery is like - hits you in the gut with such a deep bass sound and power. Scary and awesome at the same time.
Absolutely fantastic series, Ambrose's idea and lessons learnt in writing Pegasus Bridge were put to good use. (imho Pegasus is good, but BoB is a class above)
Strange how these things happen, I decided to read the book and then watch an apisode, therefore keeping one tied in with the other, then this thread comes along, and the BBC are showing it.
You realise that Sobel may have been a vindictive person, but without him, Easy wouldn't have been as effective a unit. Also, have seen little filler scenes that i haven't noticed before, or perhaps they haven't previously registered.
Strange how these things happen, I decided to read the book and then watch an apisode, therefore keeping one tied in with the other, then this thread comes along, and the BBC are showing it.
You realise that Sobel may have been a vindictive person, but without him, Easy wouldn't have been as effective a unit. Also, have seen little filler scenes that i haven't noticed before, or perhaps they haven't previously registered.
On a hijack, I've got the BoB boxset, and today in the paper there was an advert for the BluRay version in full 1080p.
Anybody got this yet? I know HiDef is good, but is it worth replacing my original BoB set with the HiDef version? I noticed there was some new extras included too.
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Mike
Anybody got this yet? I know HiDef is good, but is it worth replacing my original BoB set with the HiDef version? I noticed there was some new extras included too.
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Mike
ninja-lewis said:
Dunk76 said:
There was rumour of HBO doing a British Airborne series to accompany Band of Brothers...
Now that would be magnificent!
They are, however, producing a Pacific series to be shown next year.Now that would be magnificent!
Also is Band of Brothers not due out on Blu-Ray soon?
I loved the BoB series and SPR...though I think BoB is the slightly less Hollywooded production. Nothing before them had come even remotely as close to being that realistic IMO.
I know some people that have watched BoB and it wasnt until you explain that its REAL and all the people in it and their deaths are REAL that they really 'get it.'
There are still groups now campainging to get Major Winters awarded te congressional medal of honour for his action at Brecourt Manor.
Sadly there are not many of the old blokes left now so its important as many people as possible remember EVERYONES war stories including those from the home front.
Last year we did a trip to France and toured around the Normandy region. The evidence left from the war is just incredible and its very moving to imagine all those young men sweeping across the countryside.
I can thoroughly reccomend getting to Bayeux and picking up a Battlebus tour...they do a BoB tour that lasts a day and is the only company that has access to Brecourt Manor.
A damn fine series, some of the battle scenes certainly tested the ol' surround sound! For those of you who want more it looks like you'll get your wish:
April 25, 2007 | HBO Films Announces 'The Pacific'--An Epic Ten-Hour Miniseries Event
Filming will begin this summer on THE PACIFIC, it was announced today by Colin Callender, president, HBO Films. To be shot in Australia, the epic ten-hour miniseries will be executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."
"We're proud to be reuniting with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to complete the story of the American combat experience of World War II," said Callender. "This epic miniseries is based on the true stories of three marines whose experiences in the Pacific embodied the unique nature of that theater of war, and dramatize how it profoundly differed from the European front. This was a different sort of war fighting a different sort of enemy."
A companion piece to "Band of Brothers," THE PACIFIC will be produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production will be based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming to take place in Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and Far North Queensland. The HBO Films production has collaborated with Film Victoria, the Pacific Film & Television Commission, Ausfilm and the New South Wales Film & TV Office. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project.
THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers and Hugh Ambrose. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.
The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford; production designer, Anthony Pratt; WWII consultant, Hugh Ambrose; military advisor, Capt. Dale Dye; U.S. casting, Meg Liberman; Australian casting, Christine King. Directors and cast to be announced.
Can't wait for that one : )
April 25, 2007 | HBO Films Announces 'The Pacific'--An Epic Ten-Hour Miniseries Event
Filming will begin this summer on THE PACIFIC, it was announced today by Colin Callender, president, HBO Films. To be shot in Australia, the epic ten-hour miniseries will be executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy®-winning 2001 HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers."
"We're proud to be reuniting with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to complete the story of the American combat experience of World War II," said Callender. "This epic miniseries is based on the true stories of three marines whose experiences in the Pacific embodied the unique nature of that theater of war, and dramatize how it profoundly differed from the European front. This was a different sort of war fighting a different sort of enemy."
A companion piece to "Band of Brothers," THE PACIFIC will be produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production will be based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming to take place in Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and Far North Queensland. The HBO Films production has collaborated with Film Victoria, the Pacific Film & Television Commission, Ausfilm and the New South Wales Film & TV Office. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project.
THE PACIFIC is based on the books "With the Old Breed," by Eugene Sledge, which was hailed by historian Paul Fussell as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war," and "Helmet for My Pillow," by Robert Leckie (recipient of the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Annual Award), as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers and Hugh Ambrose. Continuing the World War II oral history work begun by his father Stephen E. Ambrose (author of the book "Band of Brothers"), Hugh Ambrose serves as a consultant on the miniseries.
The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television; executive producers, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Gary Goetzman; co-executive producers, Tony To, Graham Yost; supervising producer, Bruce McKenna; co-producers, Robert Schenkkan, George P. Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford; production designer, Anthony Pratt; WWII consultant, Hugh Ambrose; military advisor, Capt. Dale Dye; U.S. casting, Meg Liberman; Australian casting, Christine King. Directors and cast to be announced.
Can't wait for that one : )
A couple of the many many pics I took...
This is the field at Brecourt Manor. This edge of the field is where the guns were positioned, they pointed off to the right towards the beaches. Easy approached from the far corner...Liptons tree is up there somewhere to.
There is a museum called 'Dead mans corner Museum.' It contains lots of Easy artifacts donated by the guys themselves.
Winters jacket
This is the field at Brecourt Manor. This edge of the field is where the guns were positioned, they pointed off to the right towards the beaches. Easy approached from the far corner...Liptons tree is up there somewhere to.
There is a museum called 'Dead mans corner Museum.' It contains lots of Easy artifacts donated by the guys themselves.
Winters jacket
tank slapper said:
Just a heads up, I noticed that this series is being repeated on BBC 2 starting on Monday at 11:20.
If you haven't seen it before and have an interest in WW2, it is well worth watching.
Also, episode 2 is on Tuesday at 2320, Beeb 2. Episode 3 on the following Monday. Wouldn't want anyone to miss episode 2 by assuming it was on next week.If you haven't seen it before and have an interest in WW2, it is well worth watching.
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