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Summary: The Best War Movie Ever!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie was, sad, thrilling, scary,funny, adventurous, and 24/7 action. This was the best movie i have ever seen. I would recommend keeping this dvd in your collection. I learned all about World War 2 from wacthing this movie. By the way you can see this movie on History Channel too.
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Summary: Words cannot express
Review: I was thrilled to receive this movie. I have been full of shame since I saw this series for the first time. Shame, because I never quite understood what these men did for me and my country. If I can live my life with half of their courage, only then will I have lived my life at all.
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Summary: Incredible series, even better than Saving Private Ryan...
Review: Regardless of your political viewpoint, World War II is considered the last just war. We went into that war because we had to, had we stuck to our isolationist policy, Britain would have fallen and Hitler would be coming for America next. When Hitler came to power, he was not considered a threat, he was little more than a poor author and political idealist who had dropped out of art school. He was not elected, per se, so no one thought that he'd be able to push his political agenda to the point where war was unavoidable. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to get you to buy their book on the subject.Hanks and Spielberg went to great lengths to ensure that the series was done accurately. The script was sent out to both Ambrose and the remaining men of Easy company, the actors spent time with the men they played to make sure they knew the type of person they were portraying. The transition is practically flawless, and no matter what your view on the war, it was a true accomplishment in filmmaking.
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Summary: Band Of Brothers
Review: This is the best WWII movie that I have ever seen. Spielberg and Hanks have done an amazing job with a very tough subject. The German army was shown, in several instances, as a band of brothers too. Maybe the reviewer below who only gave it one star didn't watch the entire thing. I got it. The vast majority of the german army was only following orders. But it was the german army who was giving the orders. This is an American movie, about American heroes. Masterfully done.
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Summary: Awesome depiction of human sacrifice by a band of brothers
Review: I've seen this series three times already. Each time I watch it is more compelling that the last. Regardless of what your views of any war are, this amazing and true story focuses on a "band of brothers", a group of men who are lumped together as paratroopers in the US Army in WWII. This series does a great job of capturing the futility of war and the fragile nature of man, capitalizing on the ability of men to grow together and fourish despite overwhelming obstacles and a bleak and dismal life that comes in times of war. The casting in the movie was awesome. Each actor captures the character he is portraying, including Donnie Wahlberg, who plays a very convincing 1SG (later 2LT) Lipton. The same can be said for each of the actors, including David Schwimmer, who plays the part of an incompetent and much-hated company commander. The combat scenes couldn't have been better and are completely opposite of the kind of pyrotechnics and stage magic you'd see in an action film. Instead, the series captures the fast-paced tempo of live combat along with the edge-of-your-seat feel that something bad could happen at any moment. I have to warn you now that this movie (very convincingly) glorifies the American soldier for his heroic actions and sacrifices in Europe during WWII (using documented factual events), so if you're one of those who think America can only do wrong, you'd better leave this one on the shelf and get something else...
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Summary: Please let's be serious...
Review: This is one of the best series about WWII that I have seen. Just the story, the visuals, the acting, excellent! I watched in one sitting practically, it was that riveting. It's too bad that these American "patriots", who without European help would not even have a country to be a "patriot" of have to go and spoil everything.
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Summary: Band of Brothers is a superb emotional ride to hell and back
Review: WoW , Thats what i said after watching each and every episode of this harrowing insite into the lives of Easy company throughout their WW2 experiences.
Well made and acted, it doesnt play like a TV mini-series but more like a 10 hr movie Blockbuster. If u loved "Saving Private Ryan" Bye this .....its like 10hrs of that.
Must have for your war collection
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Summary: Quickest way to be absorbed away for ten+ hours!
Review: I've always been one for historically-based nonfiction dramas, along with documentaries with a total hour running length that reached into the double digits. In the early 1990's, I was completetly absorbed into Ken Burn's "Civil War" when it first aired on PBS. A few years later, I purchased that series on VHS. Last year, I was thrilled to see it being re-released on DVD and pre-ordered it. I've been very pleased with the DVD set. In many ways, "Band of Brothers" follows the same pattern as the "Civil War". I was absorbed into "Band of Brothers" when it aired on HBO and anxiously awaited the DVD release. I found "Band of Brothers" to be even more absorbing than the "Civil War" for several reasons. First, I have always had an interest in WW2 -- especially the European theater. My girlfriend keeps telling me that the "H" logo (continuously on the screen while tuned to the "History Channel") is going to be rasta burned into our televisions since I'm always watching it. My obsession with the "History Channel", "A&E", and the other channels she refers to as the "Hitler Channels" have been the topic of many discussions between her and I. :-) Secondly, I served as an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne for four years during the early 1990's. Now, of course, peacetime service can not be even remotetly compared to wartime service, however during this time I had the opportunity to meet the WW2 veterans of our unit during our annual brigade picnics. The actions, endurances, and sacrifices of these men during WW2 are beyond description. My favorite "Band of Brothers" episode? No, it wouldn't be episode two (Normandy jump) but episode seven (Breakthrough).
Episode seven seem to truely capture the heart, spirit, and will of these extraordinary soldiers. It takes total perfection for me to warrant five stars. I can only give Ken Burn's "Civil War" four stars as I felt that it didn't include enough of the western campaign. This DVD set, however, truely is perfection. If you enjoyed the episodes, you should read the book. The book is even more absorbing. Stephen Ambrose's writing style makes for very easy reading and he is an excellent story teller. I consider him the "Shelby Foote" (Civil War novelist) for WW2.
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Summary: Very Dangerous Message Not To Accept
Review: Some people unfortunately just don't understand that sometimes war is inevitable and, dare I say it, right. The message that you take away from Band of Brothers is that every single soldier would rather be somewhere else doing anything else, but that it is the duty of freedom-loving citizens to confront evil and sometimes that means making war against those that are evil. I would say that there's a painful but outstanding message for future generations in this movie: If you allow evil to fester (and that's what it did in Europe before America's involvement in that theatre) the consequences may indeed be greater than had it been put down sooner, when it would have been more easily achieved. It is very clear that the reviewer from LA actually didn't watch Band of Brothers but is rather a knee-jerk goofball pacifist that probably can't make it through the day because they're always contorted into not making "moral judgments" about others. In the real world there is right and wrong, good and evil and good people that overlook others doing evil deeds (the German people during WWII) and the sooner you figure that out the better we'll all be. War does solve things when there is complete and utter victory on one side. These people that say it never solved anything are ignorant of the facts. I liked that as the story unfolded that the soldiers were not ever held up as role models in that they were spotless in their personal lives and that they suffered from the same human flaws that we all do and how terrible the consequences of those shortcomings could be. Band of Brothers was an extraordinary piece of work by Spielberg and Hanks and I applaud them for the attention to detail that made it a special experience. I enjoyed the interviews with the men of Easy Company almost as much as the story that the producers laid out. These men are/were truly remarkable for what they did to save Europe from itself and to cement our close relationship with the UK. I know that I am grateful for the sacrifices they made and those who survived just think of it as doing their duty when America called on them. They were so selfless in the ways that matter.
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Summary: Very dangerous message for future generations.
Review: Spielberg likes World War II. He used to play with toy soldiers as a child, the heroic americans always beating the very bad germans.
The problem is that war involves human beings on both sides of the conflict. The German army had a lot of kids that fell into the crazy hands of Hitler's madness and they did not have a choice, they had to fight. Not all of them were ugly, mean spirited people, as Spielberg thinks.
So I bet there were many "bands of brothers" on the German side too.
It is a shame that war becomes gloryfied in a miniseries in this way when it is really the worst thing that man has created.
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