Band of Brothers

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Summary: If you haven't already, read the book.
Review: I can't wait for this to come out on DVD. I had my parent's buy a new VCR and we ordered HBO just so we could watch this series.

I had read the book twice before the series came out and read it again after. It's simply an amazing story that really deserved to be told.

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Summary: Heros
Review: As i first saw this show my gaw dropped like 2 feet. At the very beginning they were interviewing one of the veterans. The Americans knew they were going to go to war with the Nazis. A military officer was yelling out rangers, navy, air force and paratroopers. No one knew what that was because it was a new "idea" towards fighting a war. Personally i believe that was the best fighting tool to break down the German war machine. There training they went though was intense. Especially with the company commander.
When they were jumping into Normandy on June 6, 1944 the was unfathomable. I don't want to give the whole story away but this is A MUST SEE MOVIE/MINI SERIES.

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Summary: WOW
Review: Easily one of the greatest TV mini-series of all time...simple as that.

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Summary: Amazing - a must see
Review: This series was such an eye opener to me as to what war is really about. Now I understand a little better why my grandpa doesn't talk about serving in WWII. Watching this, and thinking about the men and women who are serving our country right now, made it all seem even more real to me. I think I shed a tear or two (or more), every episode. Thanks HBO, I will always be grateful for what I learned and felt while watching Band of Brothers.

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Summary: Band Of Brothers - DVD Box Set
Review: Many people thought that not many war films could reach the brutally realistic environments created in Saving Private Ryan, how they were so wrong!
Even though not a film but virtually a continuing 10 hour one, Band Of Brothers has to be one of the most shouted about DVD collection coming out November 2 2002. The series is based upon an American C Company in world war II. They train at home and then find themselves in volved in one of the biggest human assaults in a single day. The Company have been trained as para-troopers who can parachute behind enemy lines and then function as a soldier.
The series carries on from there with some very graphic scenes similar to that of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece. Each episode has a kind of sole meaning throughout each, differing from episode to episode. In my opinion it has to be one of the best series on tv and now coming to DVD wil allow us all to view behind the scenes footage of the silming and actors comments.
Forget Friends, this series will simply blow you away. And for a measly (Money) for 6 discs who could argue with that, Bargain as David Dickinson would say! BUY IT!

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Summary: Must Own!!
Review: This is definately one of the best Mini Series events ever to grace the TV screen. There are a lot of elements, characters and action that everyone would enjoy. The show is very reminiscent to Saving Private Ryan, and this is a good thing. I didn't like the story as much in Ryan as I did here, I mainly loved how the show was captured. The grittiness really helps in making it seem more realistic and interesting. I myself am really looking forward to this release, everyone has to view this. I have to thank HBO, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg for making such a great collaboration on such a great series.

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Summary: A great book successfully ported to the screen
Review: Hanks and Spielberg have produced an amazing adaptation of Ambrose's book. The mini series' depiction of Easy Company's ride through the war is about as honest and realistic as it can get. The 10 episodes are tough going, especially the depiction of a concentration camp in episode nine. The usage of interviews with veterans is a reminder that the events really happened, and that war is a horrible thing.

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Summary: Flaws in the book are magnified
Review: Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose's book on E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, is an interesting and engrossing read for those who already have some background on WWII. But, sadly, it's not history - more of a reminiscience by a few select members of the company. Ambrose uses appallingly few other sources to back up the narratives, tends to focus on the stories that are convenient, and generally takes the stories of the veterans without skepticism. Nontheless, in book format, that's OK, the book has merits to make up for it, and Band of Brothers (the book) succeeds.

Band of Brothers (the miniseries), though, is shorn of its "fireside chat" style and is throwing you into the midst of this narrative and tries to convince you it is fact, that it can convey what it was like to be there; but it can't. It can't both because the underlying history is too sugar-coated and unreliable in general (there are exceptions, of course), and because the characters have no emotional resonance. They got the blow-up sequences down (leftover effects from Saving Private Ryan, presumably - the looks is almost identical), but the writing is uneven, being unable to make the transition for the storytelling style of Ambrose to real drama with any elan. You never really get to know more than a few of the characters the way the title might suggest, and there is no sense of jeapordy since we always have an instinctive sense that the characters we get to know are those that will survive, since they told their stories and contributed primarily to Ambrose's book.

Despite my generally negative feelings, there are some good spots; the one episode that stood head and shoulders above the others was the Bastogne episode; even its calculated and gimmicky ending couldn't damage an otherwise excellent narrative, one where all the exposions complimented the excellent character work instead of being the main attraction (this episode was not in Ambrose's book).

To boil it down, I supose, impressive explosions do not make good drama in and of themselves and neither do they convince you of the nature of war; the miniseries has lost the sense of its title. While good in spots, overall this does not have enough to recommend it.

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Summary: A group of Heroes....
Review: Saw the series an danish television, and this dvd has been one of the few movies i have actually cried over at the end of the last episode. The acting are first class - the storry as weel, and the actors are mostly unknown, which also is a big plus - Tom Hanks never belonged in Saving Private Ryan - but he can sure direct and along with Steven Spielberg this fine peace of art has touched/is going to touch our soules.
A must have dvd for war movie fans....*****

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Summary: This has to be some of the greatest TV I've ever seen
Review: This mini-series is excellent! I read the book after i watched the show, and it was amazing how Stephen E. Ambrose's words got translated into a picture so well. I don't know what else to say other than when this comes out, get it, or rent it, you won't be dissapointed at all. There were 246 reviews on here, 241 of them gave perfect scores, that says alot right there.