'Band of Brothers' is just astonishing

DrToffnar · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:04

It's no doubt been said a thousand times here, but this show really does deserve all the love.

I must have re-watched it 5-6 times now and it never looses it's shine. The performances are incredible and the sense of pace throughout the series is truly magnificent. That last monologue from the vets... ball my eyes out each and every time.

Cleisthenes · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:06

Still trying to get my folks to watch it, it is a must see if you even remotely like war films.

SixTwoSix · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:09

Actually re-watching at the moment, only up to episode 2 but it's my 3rd/4th watch through.

Echo the end speech by Winters, makes me cry like a newborn.

Vonhelmet · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:13

The last episode, where they talk about what they wasn't home to, is amazing. Battle across France, Belgium, Germany for years then go home to be a postman. How do you do that.

Cleisthenes · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:21

Oh man, I'm going to have to re-watch it!

Josh · 1 Feb 2017 at 09:22

Yeah still rates in my all time top 3 shows.

Breaking Bad
Band of Brothers
The Wire

I heard a rumour some years ago now that they were making a similar series based on the 8th Air Force in WW2, the group who did the daylight bombing raids across Europe but I can't seem to find anymore information on it which is a shame.

enigma27 · 1 Feb 2017 at 10:55

was there only ever one season of this?

DrToffnar · 1 Feb 2017 at 10:57

enigma27 said:
was there only ever one season of this?

Indeed. Though there is technically a second season in 'The Pacific', which follows new characters as they're deployed into the wider Pacific war. It's not quite as good, but still enjoyable.

Cleisthenes · 1 Feb 2017 at 10:57

enigma27 said:
was there only ever one season of this?

Yes, but there was The Pacific which was in the same sort of series.

e: beaten...!

Noakesy85 · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:03

CURRAHHEEEEEEE!!

I've lost count of the times I've watched this now, it never gets old. I watched 'The Pacific' when it first aired but never really got into it.

SC0TTRS · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:07

One of the best shows ever made.

Read the book and watched the 10 part series many times.

Ep09 Liberation of the Concentration camp, if that doesn't move you in some way your not human, very powerful.

Not many of them still alive now...think Malarkey's still with us.

Always wanted to meet them, modern day hero's!

DrToffnar · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:25

SC0TTRS said:
Not many of them still alive now...think Malarkey's still with us.

Always wanted to meet them, modern day hero's!

Too true!

gord · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:44

Who's cutting onions!?!?!!

Simply the best bit, what a man, what a hero. I rewatch it every year.

dannyjo22 · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:50

Not unusual, but the book is even better than the series. I recently re-watched then did the book out of curiousity, amazing book.

TheMightyTen · 1 Feb 2017 at 11:59

enigma27 said:
was there only ever one season of this?

No no series 2 follows the gang as they fight their way across Mexico in World War 3..................

JOSH86 said:
I heard a rumour some years ago now that they were making a similar series based on the 8th Air Force in WW2, the group who did the daylight bombing raids across Europe but I can't seem to find anymore information on it which is a shame.

The project has been dogged by issues becasue of the scale of the special effects required but I have two very good friends who supply uniforms, equipment and military vehicles to film projects and they were very busy with this during last year as apparently some stuff was being refilmed (They had to effectively film Fury twice because the sets turned into a quagmire after unseasonally heavy rains and it destroyed continuity so it's not unheard of to revisit earlier filmed material and change it).

physichull · 1 Feb 2017 at 12:25

Not long finished watching Generation War on Netflix. Its not 100% soldier focussed like BoB is, but its brilliant nonetheless, telling the German side of the war on the Russian Front. Grim beyond belief.

ShortWarning · 1 Feb 2017 at 12:48

I've only watched it through once and it was a few years ago but it is absolutely brilliant. It's about time I watched it through again.

Josh · 1 Feb 2017 at 12:53

TheMightyTen said:
The project has been dogged by issues becasue of the scale of the special effects required but I have two very good friends who supply uniforms, equipment and military vehicles to film projects and they were very busy with this during last year as apparently some stuff was being refilmed (They had to effectively film Fury twice because the sets turned into a quagmire after unseasonally heavy rains and it destroyed continuity so it's not unheard of to revisit earlier filmed material and change it).

Excellent news - thanks for that little tit bit. Will keep me happy for a while.

ttaskmaster · 1 Feb 2017 at 13:03

I preferred The Pacific, myself.
I'd read a couple of the source books by Sledge and Leckie, so I picked up on a lot of the more subtle details they included in the show.
BoB was a bit too 'herioc' in the presentation.

I'm also a former mortar gunner, so there was some affinity with the guys there anyway.

TheMightyTen said:
The project has been dogged by issues becasue of the scale of the special effects required but I have two very good friends who supply uniforms, equipment and military vehicles to film projects and they were very busy with this during last year as apparently some stuff was being refilmed

Mallen, Skillman or Almond, by any chance?

tedmaul · 1 Feb 2017 at 13:03

I watch it every year over Christmas. Up there with The Wire for me. Shows i can just watch over and over.

I'd also recommend Generation Kill - follows a US marine unit during the 2003 Iraq invasion and is made by the same guys that did The Wire. It's pretty light on action and very dialogue driven, but it's fantastic.