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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 17, 2024 21:56:01 GMT
This is a bonus for Sunday, some of the best TV ever.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 17, 2024 21:57:15 GMT
God I used to love it as a teenager. Keep meaning to watch again
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Post by sticky on Mar 17, 2024 22:10:49 GMT
Brilliant series, need to watched the pacific yet, try start that this week
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Post by orfyboothen on Mar 17, 2024 22:20:36 GMT
This is a bonus for Sunday, some of the best TV ever. The 10-part podcast, on YouTube, is also magnificent... |
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Post by cvillestokie on Mar 18, 2024 0:29:43 GMT
Brilliant series, need to watched the pacific yet, try start that this week I started it. Didn’t enjoy it that much and turned it off. It feels bad to say but it felt like a “spin off”. Band of Brothers was a unique retelling. Using the same formula again just felt less original. |
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Post by staffordstokiemad1 on Mar 18, 2024 11:42:49 GMT
I have watched it about 20 times, it’s bloody brilliant. Didn’t like the Pacific, tried to get through it a few times but couldn’t make it.
Has anyone watched the new series Masters Of The Air, The series serves as a companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
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Post by jimmygscfc1234 on Mar 18, 2024 11:46:49 GMT
Masters of the Air is a bit how the Yanks won the war though! Granted we'd have been stuffed without them, but even the tiny bit with the English officers in it made them look like twerps. It's well made but pretty jingoistic.
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Post by gawa on Mar 18, 2024 22:04:58 GMT
Brilliant series.
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Post by iancransonsknees on Mar 18, 2024 22:09:31 GMT
I watched it again this year for about the fourth time, still magnificent.
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Post by napperwainwright on Mar 18, 2024 22:25:54 GMT
Brilliant series.
I've watched it several times and I know that I'll watch it again.
I tried to watch The Pacific, but couldn't get into that.
I was intrigued by the hype surrounding Masters of the Air, but I was put off by the trailers. That all seemed a bit too "Hollywood" to me.
I must get around to reading the book by Stephen Ambrose that Band of Brother's was based on.
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Post by lordb on Mar 18, 2024 22:27:17 GMT
Other than the chap from Friends are all the other actors British and Irish?
Great telly
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Post by xchpotter on Mar 18, 2024 23:35:44 GMT
Masters of the Air is a bit how the Yanks won the war though! Granted we'd have been stuffed without them, but even the tiny bit with the English officers in it made them look like twerps. It's well made but pretty jingoistic. Yep, the usual Hollywood let’s have a pop at the English. That bit where they landed in Scotland and turned it into a Scottish anti English scene. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 19, 2024 5:42:47 GMT
I watched it again this year for about the fourth time, still magnificent. When Spielberg and Hanks do telly, great collaboration. |
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Post by iancransonsknees on Mar 19, 2024 5:45:51 GMT
I watched it again this year for about the fourth time, still magnificent. When Spielberg and Hanks do telly, great collaboration. Similar with anything by The Wire alumnus, writers and actors. |
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Post by backintheday on Mar 19, 2024 12:26:27 GMT
Brilliant series. I've watched it several times and I know that I'll watch it again. I tried to watch The Pacific, but couldn't get into that. I was intrigued by the hype surrounding Masters of the Air, but I was put off by the trailers. That all seemed a bit too "Hollywood" to me. I must get around to reading the book by Stephen Ambrose that Band of Brother's was based on. We’ll worth the read. all his books are pretty good actually |
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Post by noustie on Mar 19, 2024 13:21:05 GMT
I remember before this coming out reading a review where their biggest gripe was the number of characters introduced and there wasn't sufficient time for character development - talk about missing the fucking point!
The German series 'Generation War' was worth a look too.
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Mar 19, 2024 15:40:54 GMT
I’ve watched a few episodes of Masters of the Air and found the special effects to be too off-putting. Band of Brothers you can watch time and time again for sure.
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Post by LDE76 on Mar 19, 2024 18:01:40 GMT
I did a Battle of The Bulge tour a few years ago. We visited the remains of the Bois Jacques just outside Bastogne and the foxholes occupied by Easy Company are still there. I also took a photo of the window in Foy where Shifty Powers killed the German sniper - the bullet impacts are still visible in the surrounding masonry.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 19, 2024 18:47:44 GMT
I did a Battle of The Bulge tour a few years ago. We visited the remains of the Bois Jacques just outside Bastogne and the foxholes occupied by Easy Company are still there. I also took a photo of the window in Foy where Shifty Powers killed the German sniper - the bullet impacts are still visible in the surrounding masonry. That's just rocketed up my to do list, must have been pretty special. |
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Post by LDE76 on Mar 19, 2024 21:08:02 GMT
I did a Battle of The Bulge tour a few years ago. We visited the remains of the Bois Jacques just outside Bastogne and the foxholes occupied by Easy Company are still there. I also took a photo of the window in Foy where Shifty Powers killed the German sniper - the bullet impacts are still visible in the surrounding masonry. That's just rocketed up my to do list, must have been pretty special. Yeah, absolutely fascinating. The tour was basically two days, not including travel to and from Belgium. If I remember correctly, day one started with a trip to the American cemetery at Henri Chapelle. Then we followed the route taken by Kampfgruppe Peiper, which included a stop at the site of the Malmedy massacre and finished in La Gleize, where there's an excellent small museum and a restored King Tiger parked up close to the spot where it was knocked out in 1944. Day two focused on the Bastogne area (the town itself, the Bois Jacques, the Bastogne War Museum, the 101st Airborne Museum and the German cemetery at Recogne). We also managed to fit in brief stops in Houffalize and Grandmenil, each of which boasts its own preserved Panther. |
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Post by napperwainwright on Mar 19, 2024 21:57:52 GMT
Other than the chap from Friends are all the other actors British and Irish? Great telly There are a heck of a lot of British actors in the mini series. I noticed a young Stephen Graham in one of the earlier episodes. Damian Lewis plays Richard Winters and Tom Hardy has a shagging scene in one of the later episodes. I saw a very interesting documentary on the making of the series. All of the actors were put through a boot camp prior to filming and they had to be in character for the duration of the camp. So the actors who played Lipton and Lutz etc were called Lipton and Lutz or whoever. Dale Dye (Colonel Sink) was originally only meant to be a technical advisor for the filming, but he ended up landing the role of Sink. |
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Post by lordb on Mar 19, 2024 22:03:30 GMT
Other than the chap from Friends are all the other actors British and Irish? Great telly There are a heck of a lot of British actors in the mini series. I noticed a young Stephen Graham in one of the earlier episodes. Damian Lewis plays Richard Winters and Tom Hardy has a shagging scene in one of the later episodes. I saw a very interesting documentary on the making of the series. All of the actors were put through a boot camp prior to filming and they had to be in character for the duration of the camp. So the actors who played Lipton and Lutz etc were called Lipton and Lutz or whoever. Dale Dye (Colonel Sink) was originally only meant to be a technical advisor for the filming, but he ended up landing the role of Sink. Echoes of Full Metal Jacket there |
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Post by Dutchpeter on Mar 19, 2024 22:37:04 GMT
When I read Band of Brothers by Stephen E Ambrose, he quotes extensively from the letters and writings of the eloquent David Kenyon Webster. I subsequently read Websters Parachute Infantry book because of this (it’s excellent). I’d love to read his out of print book about Sharks, which I believe was an influence on the film Jaws. Very pricey to buy online (or anywhere).
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 19, 2024 22:59:09 GMT
I did a Battle of The Bulge tour a few years ago. We visited the remains of the Bois Jacques just outside Bastogne and the foxholes occupied by Easy Company are still there. I also took a photo of the window in Foy where Shifty Powers killed the German sniper - the bullet impacts are still visible in the surrounding masonry. That's just rocketed up my to do list, must have been pretty special. Seconded. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 24, 2024 20:52:02 GMT
Part two on at 9 tonight.
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Post by sticky on Mar 27, 2024 11:50:44 GMT
Seen this morning, where the actors are parachuting into Normandy to honour the veterans they played for the 80th anniversary of D Day, a lovely touch that. Going out there myself end of May to take my boys, look around all the war beaches and memorials. Should be a compulsory school trip imo but that’s another debate
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