Band of Odious Male Siblings

But failing that, no, not really.

it's been on History Channel in exhausting marathon runs, and as far as i can tell, unedited apart from the s--ts and the occasional f--k.

anyway, i like it! first, i really like the attention paid to representing logistics and tactics, and by that i mean staging the firefights in a way that dramatizes the momentary crucial importance of a hedge or a tree or dead cow or broken window, keeping one's head down, moving quickly, keeping quiet, all that. too many movies (gladiator comes to mind) call a bunch of slo mo and some shaky camera work "aestheticized violence" as a cover for not really showing (or knowing) what the hell is going on. but one of the fawning "lessons" of BoB is Having Your Shit Together, and the combat set pieces really do, I think.

ok, the score is horrible (michael kamen). and yes, it is the piece de resistance of that whole greatest generation spielberg boomer reverse oedipal fellatiathon. and steven ambrose was a plagiarist, and kind of an asshole, i hear. but so what! however truncated a history is that priviledges and sanctifies this small group of men, i mean fuck! it's hard to not be impressed by the combination of luck and pluck that it took to get thru. Ned (singling u out as pricipal hata on thread) i wonder if you've read Sam Fuller's autobio and if you would be similarly dismissive of it?

there is some egregious stunt casting ie jimmy fallon as a truck driver coming out of the ardennes.

at this point i'm willing to say it's better than the Thin Red Line, insofar as it has the same thematic core: group of men upon whom we spend small bits of individual attention apiece attain some kind of "group soul" via their experience -- yeah it's def. more middlebrow, but BoB doesn't bother making this group soul that of a Lyric Poet.

also, Ron Livingston.

But failing that, no, not really.

-- Nitsuh (nt...) (webmail), September 7th, 2001 7:00 PM. (link)

nitsuh IS alex in nyc total shocka!!!!!!!!!!!

it will make nabiscohalex happy to note that schwimmer's character is a spineless lieutenant initially in charge of easy co. during training. all the officers under him sign resignation letters, resolute (RESOLUTE I TELL YOU) to not go into the shit under him. they're all busted back to privates, but the general knows their deal, and Ross is sent to some other training camp and never sees war. later he turns up as a big party pooper when 2 of the men gank a motorcycle and go joyriding in england. he's the closest thing the series has to a recurring villain. besides nazis.

the onion headline from 1946 is coming to mind: LET US NOW FORGET OUR WARTIME HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCES.

i wonder if you've read Sam Fuller's autobio and if you would be similarly dismissive of it?

I wouldn't mind reading that at all!

Ron Livingston is great

I thought this thread was going to be about the Kings of Leon.

So did I!

i don't get why the boomers getting a conscience is a bad thing :/

I thought it was going to be about Darjeeling Limited

this thing rules

and as a fan of actors it's cool to see dudes from it popping up here and there

i love love love band of brothers.

was ILX breastfed on Spielberg hate?

Better that than sucking down Spielberg's brand of formula.

I can see THIS is going to go somewhere good.

[cocks a snook for good measure]

I thought this was going to be the thread where Ned renounced his one-time Oasis worship.

Has amateurist told us the story about his teacher and WW2 as key moment of gay liberation?

I thought this was going to be the thread where Ned renounced his one-time Oasis worship.

Nah, I just let that slide away. *hides*

this will be prime sap that finally nails the coffin down on the baby-boomers-exhibit-embarassing-'we are so not as cool as you were! forgive us!'

when do we get to do this for the boomers

who's going to search for the Winters/Nixon slash?

find & replace

http://www.bostonsucks.net/wp-content/050407-1532-bostonbeing1.jpg

Wild Bill, Buck and Bull pull a train.

lolol xpost

gk darby: saving private ryan's penis

hey this is so great!!! this is like really amazingly terrific this series!!!!

i mean jesus!!! sometimes its as good as the thin red line!!!

the battle scenes are so gripping--and they look so well planned and orchestrated, like you have some sense of whats going on (though not a great one obviously) vs. just sort of... thrown together. and the acting is across the board great. whoever the dialect coach is did an amazing job--half of the actors are british and youd swear theyd never left the states in their lives.

i sort of wish theyd save the interviews for a separate piece instead of having them before every episode. and the title credits are really long and the irritating score undermines all the good stuff. but mostly... yeah. great.

Yeah I never get tired of watching it. The Bastogne (?) episode in the forest is my favorite... All the exploding dirt & snow, just relentless shelling, it really puts you right in there

I love this series SO much. SO much, I swear I think I watch it at least once or twice a year.

Dunno if there's a thread for it but I will now rep for The Pacific. I gave up on it the first time around bc it felt so draggy at the start. But once the Peleliu storyline starts up, goddamn there is some seriously devastating stuff tucked away in that series. (Also the shoreleave episode was shot on location in Melbourne, including at the Railway Hotel in South Melbourne yay)

I am fail though, I forgot to rewatch it yesterday.

I thought this thread was going to be about the Kings of Leon.

― Laurel, Monday, October 8, 2007 12:54 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(i really hate this thread title, curse you Raggett)

HBO has released a 20th anniversary podcast for the Band of Brothers series
First 2 eps went up today & they are vv good
hosted by Rog Bennett (Men in Blazers)
prologue - w Tom Hanks
curahee ep 1 - Ron Livingston

lots of great tidbits that i hadnt heard:

Schwimmer’s character Sobel irl tried to commit suicide after the war, and his son showed up at an Easy Company reunion demanding to know why they treated his Dad like that (!)

Livingston became good friends with irl Mrs Nix. He said when she first met him she made him order a cocktail, he thinks bc she wanted to see how he handled his liquor lol

Hanks said the real Buck Compston told Neal McDonough that he had had a nervous breakdown at Bastogne - until then it wasn’t part of the narrative. Ambrose had included it in the original draft of the book but to a man, none of the surviving members of Easy Company would let Ambrose keep it in, they felt that strongly about it. Buck was the one who said to McDonough he was ok with it being in the movie.

HIGHLY recommended listen if you are a fan of the series (Five out of Five Lugers)

link here https://www.hbo.com/band-of-brothers/podcast

Band of Bruvs Innit

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