'Band of Brothers' is just astonishing

Stu999 · 11 Jan 2023 at 18:27

Subzero85 said:
Grandpa were you a hero during the war ? No, but i served in a company of heroes !!!

That interview was the bit that had me welling up last time I watched it.

Gredawarha · 11 Jan 2023 at 21:31

Rewatched The Pacific fairly recently and still felt that it did not flow well. I also wonder if it would have worked better by telling the story of each character in sequence as I found the bouncing around their stories disjointed. It's a shame as towards the end it is very good.

One More Solo · 12 Jan 2023 at 08:07

Stu999 said:
That interview was the bit that had me welling up last time I watched it.

I’m not a huge military head or fan of war films in general but was totally engrossed by BoB, and this scene is the only bit of TV/film that has ever moved me to tears. It’s an incredible series.

Droolinggimp · 12 Jan 2023 at 12:49

Looking back on the series, I think my favourite scenes are the ones in Austria, purely because they deserved a break in a nice place. Nice and warm, the men seemed relaxed. Winters swimming, the guys playing baseball at the foot of the rolling hills nestled below the mountains. Night and day compared to Bastogne.

gettothechopper · 12 Jan 2023 at 13:11

ah yes also recently there was a Band of Brothers Podcast on HBO youtube channel

Band of Brothers Podcast | Episode 1 with Ron Livingston | HBO Max

Ron Livingston, who plays Capt. Lewis Nixon, joins host Roger Bennett to reflect on Band of Brothers' first episode. Ron reveals his research process to port...

www.youtube.com

whole series with actors, writers etc

JamesH85 · 12 Jan 2023 at 13:24

gettothechopper said:
ah yes also recently there was a Band of Brothers Podcast on HBO youtube channel

Band of Brothers Podcast | Episode 1 with Ron Livingston | HBO Max

Ron Livingston, who plays Capt. Lewis Nixon, joins host Roger Bennett to reflect on Band of Brothers' first episode. Ron reveals his research process to port...

www.youtube.com

whole series with actors, writers etc

Love this. Can't wait for Masters of the Air, hope Hanks and Spielberg can pull it off again.

Colonel_Klinck · 12 Jan 2023 at 20:08

A master piece of film making.

ttaskmaster · 13 Jan 2023 at 13:01

Huxton said:
This is what I like about The Pacific too. BoB was brilliantly executed though.

The part that got me, and which is explained further in the books, is where the Marines are stuck in their shell scrapes and unable to retrieve the wounded and dead. One thing the US Marines are taught is that you never EVER leave someone behind... so being forced to do exactly that was a horror unimaginable to them. It messed up quite a few of them.