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is on the History Channel this week @ 8:00-10:30 central

Best miniseries ever...watch it if you haven't seen it

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is on the History Channel this week @ 8:00-10:30 central

Best miniseries ever...watch it if you haven't seen it

Almost unbelievable how fucking good this is.

I heard a rumor that Hanks/Spielberg were going to do the same treatment for "Flags of Our Fathers" about Iwo, but now I have heard that eastwood is going to make a movie out of this, which I am sure will win Oscars, and be unbearable, like Million Dollar Baby.

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this d-day epsiode is intense...not quite as intense as Saving Private Ryan, but a different perspective

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this d-day epsiode is intense...not quite as intense as Saving Private Ryan, but a different perspective


I also think, that because of the format, they are able to show so much more of what they al went through, AND the cultural change that the country went through to go through all ofthis.

It is amazing, but you notice how most of these dudes have never met anyone from outside of where they are fromm, and how young so many of them are, and how they have to come to together to get shit done?

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Best miniseries ever.


agreed. no question.

i took the dvd set over to my fathers house last year, and we sat there and watched every episode. beautifully shot, painfully realistic, and incredibly emotional.


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Battle of the Buldge is my favorite episode.

I've been meaning to buy this for some time.


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Whoa... I've been () close a bunch of times to renting these at the library a bunch of times.

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Best miniseries ever.


agreed. no question.

i took the dvd set over to my fathers house last year, and we sat there and watched every episode. beautifully shot, painfully realistic, and incredibly emotional.


how long is it, start to finish?

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Best miniseries ever.


agreed. no question.

i took the dvd set over to my fathers house last year, and we sat there and watched every episode. beautifully shot, painfully realistic, and incredibly emotional.


how long is it, start to finish?


i think it's 10 hours.

i bought the box set after seeing most of the episodes on hbo. i need to watch it again.

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Dalen Wrote:
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Best miniseries ever.


agreed. no question.

i took the dvd set over to my fathers house last year, and we sat there and watched every episode. beautifully shot, painfully realistic, and incredibly emotional.


how long is it, start to finish?


can't remember the exact time, but it did take the entire day. we ended up going to lunch and then coming back and finishing it. the next week we watched the documentary "We Stand Alone Together", and it was one of the most emotional times i've ever spent with my father. the dvd set price is worth that alone.


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yeah this is really great.

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My lady got me this for Xmas a while back. Well worth owning. My favorite episodes shift around a lot. I used to think the episode about the medic at Bastogne was weak, but it's become a favorite. 'Points' is the best one for me right now. Ron Livingston's character getting access to a high ranking nazi's booze stash is fantastic to me.

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I use a lot of excerpts in my European History classes, including the "Easy Company stumbles onto a Concentration Camp" episode. It is so powerful, and so spot-on that I wish I had time to show the whole thing. I watched it when it first aired on HBO, and I've never forgotten its power. I highly reccomend it.


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For me the most emotional part was when they had to order the concentration camp survivors back into the prison for the night... I can't imagine, if it were me, having to give an order like that - I don't think I could have done it.


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Best miniseries ever...watch it if you haven't seen it


No question.


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I know one of the actors from the miniseries and was hearing about it from him long before it was actually broadcast. He doesn't have one of the larger roles, but if you've seen it you'll know who I'm talking about.

He's the wisecracking, very short, Italian guy. The role was not a stretch for him. Haha.

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Whoa... I've been () close a bunch of times to renting these at the library a bunch of times.



I think you know what you have to do. It is some of the best shit I have EVER seen.


Bastogne is a great episode but it's all about Lt. Spears. A BAD ASS.

One of my favorite scenes is where he runs through the German lines to get somthing (can't remeber what) and then runs back.


Their time at the end of the series makes me want to go to Austria.


I have heard that Speilberg and Hanks are teaming up again for a series about the westward exploration. Anyone confirm this?


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Whoa... I've been () close a bunch of times to renting these at the library a bunch of times.


One of my favorite scenes is where he runs through the German lines to get somthing (can't remeber what) and then runs back.


He runs right across the battlefield to co-ordinate the attack plan with a different unit, if I remember correctly.


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Whoa... I've been () close a bunch of times to renting these at the library a bunch of times.



I think you know what you have to do. It is some of the best shit I have EVER seen.


Bastogne is a great episode but it's all about Lt. Spears. A BAD ASS.

One of my favorite scenes is where he runs through the German lines to get somthing (can't remeber what) and then runs back.


Their time at the end of the series makes me want to go to Austria.


I have heard that Speilberg and Hanks are teaming up again for a series about the westward exploration. Anyone confirm this?


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Hi, Ben!

I heard a rumor that Hanks/Spielberg were going to do the same treatment for "Flags of Our Fathers" about Iwo, but now I have heard that eastwood is going to make a movie out of this, which I am sure will win Oscars, and be unbearable, like Million Dollar Baby.

I have been to The Eagle's Nest and it really is that fucking cool. It's been almost 20 years since I lived over there and would love to go back.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Edit: I guess I can't read, sorry Ben.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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fucking loved this series, and normall this suff bores me to tears.


notice the small role played by Simon Pegg (Shaun from Shaun of the Dead as a British corporal. I think it was the corporal. Anyway he's noticable.

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Anybody read the book, because it's damn good too.

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Great miniseries.

You know what's odd? My dad was in the Navy during WW2. He used to be fanatic about reading books and seeing movies about it, but now that he's 79, he doesn't pursue it anymore. I tried to get him to watch Saving Private Ryan, and he refused because he thought he would get too emotional.

I've heard similar stories from friends who had dads in Vietnam, and their not being able to watch movies like Platoon.


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Great miniseries.

You know what's odd? My dad was in the Navy during WW2. He used to be fanatic about reading books and seeing movies about it, but now that he's 79, he doesn't pursue it anymore. I tried to get him to watch Saving Private Ryan, and he refused because he thought he would get too emotional.

I've heard similar stories from friends who had dads in Vietnam, and their not being able to watch movies like Platoon.


My dad usually finds Vietnam movies tedious and wrongheaded. He actually told me that Forrest Gump was the closest to what Nam was really like. And he was a Platoon leader.

He did say that Band of Brothers was really close to what actually happened, as his father was in another company in another battalion in the same brigade, and had told him a bit about it.

Apparently the fucking jumps over France were totally shitty, and a ton of folks got shot the fuck up, including my grandpa who took one above the knee that went out through his ass. (He put on a field dressing over both holes and didn't tell anyone until he got to a place to get it cleaned and dressed properly. Got one of *ahem* 5 purple hearts that he would earn over his career.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Got one of *ahem* 5 purple hearts that he would earn over his career.



Damn dude. Props to Grandpaw.


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