A new Band of Brothers series

[The Ruptured Duck]

The filmography of Band of Brothers is definately superb.

The series is true to the book and the story.  I haven't found the storylines to be boring, and I think that the series explores some aspects of leadership, both good and bad

[Craig.]

[quote]I don't understand the shclepping of BOB in with the rest of the Hollywood movies.

[Woodlouse2002]

What Charlie says is true.

All the scenes in the "Ardenne" were filmed in a hanger with a forest planted in it with computer animated snow falling. Anyone notice that the snow never actually settled on anyone/thing?

[C]

...and half the cast was British...

Craig mentioned "633 Squadron" - a good film in that its (fictitious) story was quite accurate to how an operation could have worked (it actually took several ideas from several real raids). However, the special effects dpartment were no more than vandals IMO, destroying no less than three DH Mosquitos during filming...

[Woodlouse2002]

...and half the cast was British...

I did always like the bit where all the americans were crouching on a riverbank looking out for the British paratroops, and first the commander steps out then gives a signal then a great long line of men step out of the hedge right in front of them.

[C]

The scene I remember most is probably the Bastogne bombing scene as I was only a mile or so away when they filmed it. It really did sound like an air raid going on at 10 at night!

[cspyro21]

Classical british war movies or documentations.  
Both treat the enemy with respect and don't kick him with feet, like in Hollywood productions.

Like Dambusters?

*PHILOSOPHICAL TIME*

Yea Bjorn, sure, us Brits fought against the Germans in WWII, but in the end, we are all people, living on one world, so it's nice to show a bit of respect to one another.

Cheers

[ATI_7500]

Have you guys actually watched it? (addressing Craig and Bjorn here)  

Only one episode. And I've had to throw up as they showed another stupid full-front-storm-everything-without-thinking-attack by the germans which was repelled by five hero-like american soldiers.

Hollywood is completely dead for me since then. Started right with "Saving Pvt. Ryan".

[Hagar]

[quote]I don't understand the shclepping of BOB in with the rest of the Hollywood movies.

[Craig.]

Have you guys actually watched it? (addressing Craig and Bjorn here)  

Yup and like I said, I just couldn't get into it.

[dcunning30]

Only one episode. And I've had to throw up as they showed another stupid full-front-storm-everything-without-thinking-attack by the germans which was repelled by five hero-like american soldiers.

Unfortunately, that has happened.  Usually by conscript soldiers.  I was watching Firefight on History Channel, and a vet said he was in an engagement during the "D-Day breakout" where he encountered just such a scenario.  He was amazed that the Germans did just such a full-on frontal attack where his unit mowed them down.  Then he added after that attack, a different and appearantly, more experienced unit mounted a more intellegent assault on his unit.

[Hagar]

another stupid full-front-storm-everything-without-thinking-attack

This was a common occurence during the trench warfare of WWI. It was more often the British soldiers who suffered the most, mown down by a few well-placed German machine guns. Literally thousands of them died on these assaults, often in a matter of minutes. Knowing how history repeats itself it wouldn't surprise me if the same mistakes were repeated in WWII.

[ATI_7500]

Knowing how history repeats itself it wouldn't surprise me if the same mistakes were repeated in WWII.

Maybe by the Russians. But Germans... :-/

[Hagar]

Maybe by the Russians. But Germans... :-/

You can include the British in that. The RAF never learned anything from years of air combat in WWI & had to start all over again.

[dcunning30]

Also, according to my readings, the American Civil War saw many, many ocassions where old tactics of line-em-up-stand-there-and-shoot met new technology of rifled weapons, and you had carnage on a mass-scale.  Stupid commanders ordering stupid tactics is not isolated by any individual country.