Title: Band Of Brothers
Dan Brown - July 14, 2005 04:19 PM (GMT)
I bought this myself recently for £35 in a nice metal tin, but haven't got around to watching it yet. I got it because I saw it was by Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks so I thought it might be like one of my favourite films Saving Private Ryan.
There is one question because I only just found out it was a mini-series and it doesn't seem good value for money. So as I haven't opened it out of the cellofane I would like to ask anyone who has seen it is it worth watching? Becasue I can still return it.....
Crichton Kicks - July 14, 2005 04:33 PM (GMT)
Dan, I swear to God if you take it back you're mad !! ;)
It's quite similar in tone to Saving Private Ryan, but IMO infinitely better. The scope is also much broader than Private Ryan. Whereas the movie focuses on one mission, Band of Brothers follows Easy Company from the day they hit the beach through to the end of war. It's a fantastic mini series, and again, IMO the best one that HBO have done to date.
There was talk a little while ago of doing a sequal of sorts, set in the Pacific.
Dan Brown - July 14, 2005 04:54 PM (GMT)
Thanks I'll definitely be watching it then...it looks good but needed a second opinion. The boxset also looks very good on my shelf I must add. Its a nice tin.
melian - July 15, 2005 10:11 AM (GMT)
BoB was fantastic, I didn't think it was my sort of thing but a friend persuaded me to watch and it quickly became essential viewing :thumbsup:
prophecy girl - July 15, 2005 10:15 AM (GMT)
band of brother is definitly worth to keep :thumbsup:
willowroolz - July 15, 2005 10:35 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Jul 14 2005, 05:33 PM) |
| It's quite similar in tone to Saving Private Ryan, but IMO infinitely better. |
Spot on, James. It's a fantastic mini-series, brilliantly put together, absolutely essential, imo. The episode Why We Fight will stay with me forever, I think :tear:
The last watcher - July 17, 2005 01:51 PM (GMT)
I bought my brother the 'tin set' for Xmas the year it came out.......he raved about it for ages.....still havnt had the chance to borrow it, so have only seen the eps I managed to catch off TV. Saw one of the first eps and thought it was a bit slow, so didnt watch the next couple.......saw the one where they actually landed in France....incredible :o and two of the later ones.....
From what I saw it was much better than SPR....imho :)
Ghostmachine - July 17, 2005 11:28 PM (GMT)
It's a keeper. Superb mini-series, extremely well done and with a great cast to boot.
Olicana - July 20, 2005 07:32 AM (GMT)
It's great. I must admit I wasn't keen when the OH brought it home and agreed to watch an hour a night (the first couple I was being polite as we'd watched an awful lot of War films in the weeks preceeding the box set) then suddenly I was hooked and we were watchign as many episodes a night as we could!!
I might start watching it again come to think of it.
(we lent it to my dad and he watched every episode twice before giving them back as he was borrowing disk by disk as we were still watching it!)
TKO - October 17, 2005 10:13 PM (GMT)
All thats been said above and more - seen it through 5 or 6 times now and it just does not get old.
I think its my favourite all time TV series and a reat DVD purchase.
The books are supposed to be excellent too. I get a couple for my old man every xmas. Stephen Ambrose writes about other subjects in American history too such as Geronimo and they are apparently all a good read. Not that my dad would say anything else I suppose... :ponder:
Anyhoo - everything about it reeks of class.