the one of the best war mini series out there! not only it had chareters that you fell in love with what there fighting for . plus that mini series my and my grandpa love to watch together so on my advice it’s not sci fi but its good base on actully accounts from people that were there check it out it’s on demand right now:p
I’ve been meaning to watch this for some time. Just added to my Netflix queue.
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Long Wait! Ugh!
Band of Brothers is incredible.
My favoriate moment/scene in the entire series is in “The Breaking Point”.
Lt. Norman Dike, the Company’s commander, is useless and flakes in the middle of an attacked. 1st Lt. Ronald Speirs takes over in the middle of the battle and fearlessly wins the day. Meanwhile, 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton, before all that, keeps the men’s morale up while asshat Dike is uselessly never around.
And meanhwile, you can feel the frustration of Major Winters (former Easy Company commander)—he’d like so badly to take over Easy Company—especially during the battle—but he has to stay back because he’s got bigger responsilities now.
Among the most vivid representation of leadership in all it’s aspects.
I’ve only seen one episode, and coincidently that was the one. It is indeed very compelling television.
I think I listened to the full audiobook first, which gave me a good foundation for knowing what was gonna on throughout the mini-series.
1st Lt. Ronald Speirs takes over in the middle of the battle and fearlessly wins the day.
And then he runs from one end of Foy to the other in order to link up the two companies, and the Germans are so in shock that they don’t even shoot at him. Amazing.
“Currahee!” I’ve seen every episode at least 3 or 4 times. Even though my dad has the box set, I still watch it every time there’s a holiday marathon on the History Channel or somewhere. By the time you get through the miniseries, you really feel as if you’ve served with these guys. I especially like the pre-episode interviews with the real men, and then afterward you learn who they are (Winters, Lipton, Guarnere, Malarkey, Shifty). Also very impressed by how many British actors are there with totally believable American accents.
The Bastogne episodes are the hardest to get through. Especially the one that centers on Doc Roe.
Some things never change : Lt Dike reminds me of Captain America from the other military biopic, Generation Kill
Band of Brothers (BoB) is one of those haunting shows - like the series finale of BSG - which leaves one thinking and reminicesing about the events told therein, long after the storytelling has gone stale (which I doubt it will).
This tv series is rightfully a showcase of America’s Greatest generation. It’s a must-see at every Christmas family gathering, right after watching Lord of the Rings every Thanksgiving… heheh…
There should be a Band of Brothers channel, with the series on a constant loop. Problem would be: it would slow national productivity to a standstill. Everyone would get sucked into watching it and lose at least ten hours at a clip.
PM me if you want to know how the war ends.
Love that. Even in “modern” times, leading from the front is important.
Including Jamie Bamber with a very small bit part. (If memory serves)
Yep, Apollo was there. Along with James McAvoy as a Replacement and Simon Pegg as Sobel’s right-hand man.
“But there’s no fence on the map!”
“We could…climb over it, sir.” Hehe.
The extra disc in the box set has a video diary that Ron “Nixon” Livingston kept while the actors were in boot camp, and it impressed me that they were all using American accents even then. Plus they were all doing impressions of military consultant Dale Dye, who played Colonel Sink.
love watching part 1 and 10 becase they it’s the start and the end becase they final get to go home for some of the solders.
i loved the seires… and i love the theme song. everytime i hear the intro music, i am moved.
i love the DDay episode, the Market Garden episode and the Bastogne episode.
by the way, i read about Lt. Sobel on Wiki, and learned that you can shoot through your head and still not die…
I just rented this on Netflix. I’m on Disc 2.
The planes dropping troopers over Nomandy was sick.
there a sequal to band of brothers called the paific on HBO on sunday
Oh man it’s on sunday! OOOOOOOOOOOSSIM
Best mini series ever. I some how watched the entire frackin thing a while ago. Oh Apollo, your life before bsg
captain winters is sooo hot
Don’t know about hot, but he was the reason I watched ‘Life’ on NBC before they cancelled it for Jay Leno.
What a frakkin’ waste.
life was a good show it had real good premise. that show southland that nbc cancelled got moved to another network tnt hopefully they could get moved to.