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Mini-series review: “Band of Brothers” (2001)

Started by Mike Olbinski · 10 months ago

It took me long enough to get to Band of Brothers and it was well worth the wait.

Somehow I missed this mini-series despite watching it win awards all over the place and hearing people talk about how amazing it was. The fact that it premiered two days before September 11th, 2001, migh ... Continue reading »

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  • Robert

    1 year ago

    The book is also quite good, but the mini-series tracks fairly well with it. You'd probably like a couple of Ambrose' other books on the same theme, though one is kind of a re-hash and summary of the others.
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  • Cap'n Schwartz

    1 year ago

    Wow, never knew you hadnt seen this series, very good stuff for sure!!! Great write up!
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  • Rob O.

    1 year ago

    Damien Lewis makes me think of Steve McQueen in a big way. In fact, I'd heartily nominate him to take the starring role should the remake of Bullit ever materialize.

    I also really liked Ron Livingston's performance in this. And it's always a treat to see Dale Dye, who is often featured in cameos on movies where he's served as a technical combat advisor.

    This was indeed an excellent miniseries! I really felt connected with these guys and was kinda sad when it was over.

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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    @ Robert - Yeah, I think I'd like to read the book this was based off for sure.

    @ Cap'n - Sadly, yeah, never saw it until now. But glad I finally did!

    @ Rob - Nice comparison...I agree with you...he was born for that role and could really take McQueen's place in a lot of those films. He was mostly serious in this film, but he also has that humorous wit about him that we see in Life that could really help him be McQueen in like The Great Escape or something.
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  • Robert

    1 year ago

    You'll want "D-Day", "Band of Brothers", and probably "Pegasus Bridge" by Stephen Ambrose then.
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  • The Trousered Ape

    1 year ago

    Glad you got to finally see it Mike - definitely one of my all-time favorites. I loved this series. Really great all the way around.
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  • Frank C

    1 year ago

    One of the things that they did with the casting as much as possible was to select actors that looked like the actual people. For example, if you have the book take a look at the picture of Captain Lewis Nixon drunk in the bed at Berchtesgaden and then at Ron Livingston in the same scene in the movie.

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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    I actually thought that Frank...I mean, the Gonorrhea nicknamed guy had the same accent and demeanor as the old man they talked to afterwards.

    That's pretty cool.
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  • DadofIanI

    1 year ago

    This was one of the reasons we kept HBO at the time.

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  • Kory

    1 year ago

    I absolutely need to add this to my "to watch" list.
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  • Scotty Dub

    1 year ago

    Glad you liked it Mike, now I can get the DVD's from you. ;-)

    With summer coming, it'll be the perfect time to catch up on this one.

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  • KV

    1 year ago

    I think Band of Brothers is the best TV ever produced; the entire cast are terrific but Damian Lewis is a standout as Major Winters. You might also be interested in his first major television role, a BBC production called Warriors. It won the BAFTA (the British Emmy or Oscar) for the Best Drama or mini-series. It is very different from BOB; it is about UN humanitarian forces stationed in Bosnia and the impact on the soldiers who had to witness the barbarism without the ability to act or interfere. In addition to Damian Lewis it stars several other excellent British actors - Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew MacFadyen, Jodhi May and others. You can see a clip from the program on YouTube that features Damian Lewis at the url below:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=cILcSLKKZUk
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  • Jason

    1 year ago

    Dude, you just now saw Band Of Brothers!? Sometimes it's like I don't know you at all...

    Seriously, though, I think watching it on DVD for the first time was a far superior experience to watching it on HBO and having to wait a week in between episodes. I saw the whole series over the course of about three nights and it's something that stayed with me for a long time. The book was incredible as well.
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    I was sure we had all talked about it before, but maybe I'd only done it with a few friends off the web, so who knows.

    But yeah, I think you are right...seeing it all at once would have to be a better experience.

    I'm trying to watch some of the special features too before I return the DVDs.
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