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Good series overall.
Read all of the reviews up from the least helpful, the lowest rated, the most helpful to the highest rated. I think everyone has a point about it being good and bad. It was too patriotic, but it wasn't that horrible. In fact, I really enjoyed. The acting and casting were okay, the script a bit shaky and the fact that it didn't have subtitles kinda sucked, but beyond that, it was good. Worth buying, gives you some bonus stuff, not the kind of movie to watch for historical facts.

BEAUTIFUL, HORRIFIC, FRIGHTENING, TOUCHING. WAR.
Simply the BEST "television" show ever produced. No questions. This is flawless, a real masterpiece. Thank you Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg for bringing "Saving Private Ryan" to our television sets. Actually, I believe this should have been a movie. I dont care how long it would have run, people would have sat through it. But with todays televisions and surround sound systems, ones home theater if often just as impressive as the local mega-cinema. Anyway.....on to the review. I cannot stress enough how well done this show is. With interviews with the REAL men featured in this epic, it really gives the viewer a sense that they're watching a moving, bleeding, crying, biography. What these men went through!!! The series begins in the U.S. military boot camp, where recruits are preparing, both mentally and physically, for the rigors of combat (if one can actually PREPARE for such a thing). Although the first couple of episodes are a little slow at times, they are important to understand the cohesion of the military units and how this cohesion was obtained. But once D-Day arrives......the action REALLY heats up. Being dropped over Normandy on the night before D-Day so they can take important bridges and roadways from the Germans, as well as knocking out big artillary guns that can reign hot metallic death upon the troops landing on the Normandy beaches from MILES away, the boys (and they are just boys) of the 101st Airborne, Easy Company are loaded into gliders and troop transport aircraft for what they were TOLD would be an easy parachute drop into occupied France. As soon as these terrified, shivering, airsick men cross the coast onto coastal Normandy.....all hell breaks loose. Antiaircraft fire literally paints the sky from one end of the horizon to the other. Many planes are blown out of the sky and drop, in flames, to a fiery death below. Others are shredded by shrapnel, tearing apart the young men who are experiencing the horror of combat for the first time, sending them tumbling to the ground below. The pilots panic, they know they're gonna get killed if the dont get out of there ASAP, so they unload their cargo and,in 99% of the cases, they were WELL short of their planned landing sites. Easy Company bails out, hot shrapnel exploding in the air around them, the smell of cordite and gun powder burning their nostrils and seeping into their clothes. They're breathing hard, often hyperventilating. Their eyes are huge with fright. Some wet their pants. Some are shot to pieces by German ground troops as they float lazily through the hell that's surrounding them. When they land, they are lost. They are lost in a foreign country where almost everyone they encounter is going to try to kill them. And they dont speak the language. They ditch their parachutes and head out in an attempt to hook up with their buddies.......with ANYONE who looks familiar, any American will do. Little by little they begin to find other Americans. One or two here, another couple of guys there. The men they're running into (sometimes literally) are often from other divisions, but who cares, they're still friendly faces. They begin to form little units and attempt to find their way to a meeting point or to where they were SUPPOSED to be originally. Often times, they encounter German soldiers. They hide in mud and flooded fields, they duck behind trees and hide in farm houses. Some are killed. They're as quiet as they can be. Their breath coming in short, frightened bursts. These ragtag groups of "brothers" band together and set out to do what they were THERE to do. By morning, many of the stragglers had met up at a local Norman town, waiting for their buddies and for their commanders, many of whom NEVER arrive. "Band of Brothers" is a war story, but first and foremost, its a story of friendship, dedication and commmitment. The series follows Easy Company from this horrific landing, through Operation Market Garden in Holland to the Battle of the Bulge and finally, to V-E day. Its a fabulous story, filmed in the same fashion as "Saving Private Ryan" giving the viewer the feeling that they are actually THERE with the troops, ducking as the bullets scream by, the shells explode, the blood runs and the men cry. The camera men run along with the actors. Everything is filmed from the same level as the troops. As they run, the camera moves up and down, when shells explode, the camera shakes and quivers. It's really the most realistic way to film war. Anyone who's seen "Saving Private Ryan" knows exactly what I'm talking about. And the sound effects are equally as wonderful. Bullets actually whiz by overhead, ping off metal and rip into trees around you. Often you can see the trail of the bullets as they tear by at murderously close range. You'd jump into a bush and hide, cover your head from the branches falling around you if you could. It's extremely graphic, but its war. When someone is shot, its horrifying. They dont pause in mid step, grab their stomach, wince and fall to the ground. Their flesh is torn to pieces, bone blown out of the body, organs fall out. Blood pours freely and paints a ghastly picture on anyone in range of the spray. They scream in pain, they scream for their mothers. They die. Their buddies sob, they hold onto their bleeding, dying, disemboweled, friends and loose their minds. War is NOT pretty. Anyone who votes to go to war has never BEEN to war. At the end of this epic, I was in tears. What these innocent young boys were thrown into was enough to break even the hardest soul. But they did their job (proudly!!!!!) and some of them returned home. MANY didnt. This movie, as well as "Saving Private Ryan" should be mandatory viewing for all American High School students. Maybe then our future leaders wouldn't be so fast to vote for war. The actors do a wonderful job. Many faces I had seen in other movies or television shows, many I had never seen before. Nobody super famous, but it's better that way, it's the WAR that's famous here and that gets all the attention. The emotion that these actors show was amazing, its almost (and this is gonna sound super corny) like they channeled the spirits of these fine young soldiers, portraying them with the zeal, determination and pride that they deserve. I recommend this movie to anyone. Its reality brought to the big screen. Watch it (preferably in surround sound....loud). And next time you see an old man wearing a basball hat with his batallions insignia on it, remembering something that he experienced 60 years ago, THANK HIM, for what he sacrified for you (yes YOU) is astounding. And remember those who didnt return from this war, for what THEY sacrificed........was everything.

Life changing
Thank you to our veterans! Watching this film was a personally transforming experience. My appreciation and grattitude to our veterans was deepened, my emotions were profoundly touched, and my love for our nation was inspired!

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