Band of Brothers

[OVERWATCH]

Simply the best TV show ever.

This might be old news to many, but I've never had cable TV, and just got it a couple of months ago.

Out of ignorance I figured it was just some kind of propaganda organ, but I was surprised that they showed things like allied occupiers committing war crimes and such.

Plus, the battlescenes are the best I've ever seen.

Just thought I might share the love :D

[zenero]

Simply the best TV show ever.

This might be old news to many, but I've never had cable TV, and just got it a couple of months ago.


Just thought I might share the love :DMy wife and kids have cable-tv, i dont watch it tho, i buyed the DVD. But I have to agree that BOB is THE best tv-show ever made by Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

Out of ignorance I figured it was just some kind of propaganda organ, but I was surprised that they showed things like allied occupiers committing war crimes and such.I gotta disagree on the part of Allies commiting warcrimes, that occurred of course when they were heading to the farm to link up with the rest of Easy Company. But it was never displayed that Lt. Spears(a real warmachine) killed those German prisoners.

Btw, that scene with Malarky and that German American POW was kind of funny huh?

Malarky: Eugene, Oregon??? You gotta be kidding me, im from Astoria:D


Did you watched all the series?

[Banat]

Simply the best TV show ever.

I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to.

A friend of mine is a great fan and has the series on DVDs, I just can't force myself to go to his place, borrow it, buy some beer and sit down and watch.

[Sinclair]

It's a good show. Far superior to Saving Private Ryan.

[OVERWATCH]

I haven't seen the whole series yet. I've seen the first, part of the second, the second to last, and the last episode.

The battle scenes are just brutal! The characters are very believable, I wish they would do something like this with regards to the Marines in the Pacific Theatre.

From what I've seen so far it appears that the German soldiers are portrayed fairly well, and not the stupid incompetent dolts that were in Saving Private Ryan.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

Everything is nice and then they reach that concentration camp in the second to last episode. I noticed censorship from the US version to the European one (More political correctness). Also its not very faithful to the book it was based on.

[Felix the Cat]

Censorship, really? What did they cut out?

[Hakluyt]

I saw the concentration camp episode this week, wasn't too bad actually, didn't seem to lay it on too thick (relatively).

[DeathtoPrejudice]

I love it, and for the record saving private ryan is a piece of trash, PERIOD.

I especially love the Operation Market Garden episodes, and I haven't found much of anything to really complain about except a few things...


1-If that one guy REALLY did kill all those POWs, or if it's just a story. And if he did, why?

2-In one of the late Battle of the Ardennes Episodes, the Americans fall in a German foxhole... and the German pops out and starts shooting at them as they're running, and he didn't hit them once. That just seemed unrealistic.

[zenero]

I love it, and for the record saving private ryan is a piece of trash, PERIOD.Rep comin your way.:)

I especially love the Operation Market Garden episodes, and I haven't found much of anything to really complain about except a few things...Yep, the landings in southern-Holland. It was a great episode, and it was portrayed real marvellous that the Germans kicked the asses of the 506th-regiment that day with all those German Panzer III Tanks coming out of nowhere and destroying the Sherman tanks with British crews inside it, one by one. And not mentioning the fight between Sergeant Bull and a Wehrmacht soldier inside a barn, before Bull was getting rescued.


1-If that one guy REALLY did kill all those POWs, or if it's just a story. And if he did, why?I think Ronald Spears (RIP) really killed them Germans. Look; Para-troopers are part of a light-infantry division but then specialized. They couldn't have German POW's in their mids when they have a objective, Spears was already a roughnecked bastard and trigger happy (as the whole Dog company was, very notorious of their crimes). The guy (like i said) was a real warmachine.

And why he did that, you ask? Go ask Joachim Piper and his team of Waffen-SS during the stage of Bastogne.

2-In one of the late Battle of the Ardennes Episodes, the Americans fall in a German foxhole... and the German pops out and starts shooting at them as they're running, and he didn't hit them once. That just seemed unrealistic.That happened to.

Private Babe and the Medic were really searching for Batallion headquarters, till ''Hinkel'' showed up out of his foxhole and started to notice his buddy Fritz wasnt there.:D

[Sinclair]

SPR is crummy. To paraphrase (mangle really) Paul Fussell (Awesome writer and WWII vet) the first 30 minutes are basically why being a draftable male was NOT a good thing, then it just becomes an adventure buddy flick.

I honestly myself think that the battle scene in the end has the Germans acting like stereotypical Western "Dumb Injuns", y'know, running like morons in a straight line, each guy keeping on running even though the guy in front of him just got shot.

[DeathtoPrejudice]

I honestly myself think that the battle scene in the end has the Germans acting like stereotypical Western "Dumb Injuns", y'know, running like morons in a straight line, each guy keeping on running even though the guy in front of him just got shot.

Maybe they were russians in German cloths charging germans with american cloths on the eastern front...

Hey, it makes more sense then what SPR portrayed!

[OVERWATCH]

Zenero: I saw your post in the shoutbox about Eastwood making a film about Okinawa, I was unaware of this. Sounds like something to look forward to, definitely.

The war crimes I was referring to was the part where Free French were executing German POWs outside the barn, and the one guy who murdered the random Austrian guy during their peacekeeping duties.

[zenero]

Zenero: I saw your post in the shoutbox about Eastwood making a film about Okinawa, I was unaware of this. Sounds like something to look forward to, definitely.''Flags of our father'' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418689/) is the movie line. Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change; some data could be removed completely.

I've got lots of confidence in Eastwood and his skills in directing after seeing Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River.

Also, the new BOB series are coming out. This time in the Pacific (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/). Cant wait.:cool:

The war crimes I was referring to was the part where Free French were executing German POWs outside the barn, and the one guy who murdered the random Austrian guy during their peacekeeping duties.Ay, the part when the American convoys were heading to berchtesgaden and seeing 3 Gerries being executed 'mafia' style.

[OVERWATCH]

EXCELLENT! :)

Thanks for this information, Zenero.