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  Are you recommending I watch Band of Brothers? I've been meaning to... : MrBig0
  • get on that shit : EvilDolemite
  • As a war movie nerd, a World War 2 nerd, and someone who just loves good film, Band of Brothers is among ... : tomservo
  • Probably the best thing ever on television. : Lightzout
  • You are not a man until you watch it. : NFXFSX
  • YES : sanchez
  • You must see Band of Brothers as soon as possible! : Link.
  • Yes. : stuka
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    Yes, if you only watch one HBO mini-series, make it this. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Generation Kill is pretty damned good too. : ArcKnight
      • I've watched the first 3 episodes of Generation Kill and while I plan on finishing the series - it's not ... : dedgecko
  • Stop what you are doing, go to the nearest store that would sell it, buy a few copies to make up for this... : scottythejock
  • yes... the series is awesome. I picked it up on BluRay last year, I've been meaning to watch it again ... : Shadowdane
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    Yes, it's pretty good. The first one or two are a bit clichéd (tough training with a quasi-sadist foll... : jcupitt
    • Because that's how it happened??? : saunders45
• As a new PS3 sucker owner, I'll grab this on blue ray as well assuming I can find it to rent. Not a ton ... : devi| dog
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  Y'all know HBO & Tall Tom Hanks are working on Pacific, right? The other half of WWII. : cerealSAM2
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    Also the other half of my post. : tomservo
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      But did you know about Band of Brothers? : Reeves
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        Hey have you heard of the band Depeche Mode : tomservo
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          Why yes I have! They aren't too bad! : Reeves
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            But did you ever see Band of the Hand? : cerealSAM2
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              Erm, no? : Reeves
              • ever see Paul McCartney and Wings perform Band on the Run? : Old_Fart
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  Yea I plan to subscribe to HBO for however long to just watch "The Pacific" in HD next year. : ant_hillbilly
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    I'm debating. I might wait and just not see any of it until it's out on blu-ray. That would be a pretty g... : tomservo
    • that's like a no fap pact. totally pointless! : skinlab133
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      You know it will be 1hr before it first airs and you will be on that phone calling the cable company smac... : ant_hillbilly
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        Hahaha. I probably won't be able to resist. But I was able to wait for all of Generation Kill! Time will ... : tomservo
        • I was just happy that I convinced myself to wait for Generation Kill to come out on Blu Ray - stupid six ... : umcpwintermute
• I just rewatched on BR as well. It really was worth the price, especially since I sold my old copy for mo... : afrochops
• I see the ads on HBO every week, when in 2010 is this coming? : Ender.Wiggin
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  i know I'll probably catch flak for this but I really dislike how WW2 and its participants have an almost... : sirsteven
  • well they did save the world : filthysock
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    May I ask your age? : DM7
    • Old enough to be out of college. : Sapiens
  • *record scratch* : kill9
  • Obvious troll is obvious. : Arctic Fox
  • Why do you dislike it? Do you think they don't deserve to be recognised? Or do you disagree with the poli... : marmite
  • they are truly the "Greatest Generation" : bipolar
  • If they hadn't fought and died in droves, the world would probably be a worse place for it. : Ride-My-Rocket
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    We should really shun veterans more, amirite? : jimmy_legs
    • That's not what he's saying. : Lone Swordsman
  • Would you sacrifice your life for your country? : Reeves
  • you're just mad people don't do more positive films about the Nazis, aren't you : dirge23
  • * D R I V E B Y ' D : zebosausamite
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    well it was pretty much the last just war we fought in. : Dschinghis Khan
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      wat : Lunatic Angelic
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        For once I'm with LA here, since one could make arguments for Korea and Afghanistan. Iraq, Vietnam, the ... : Lone Swordsman
        • yeah, i agree too, i was a bit hasty and forgot about those since i lterally just woke up 20 minutes ago. : Dschinghis Khan
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      afghanistan is just. the problem with that war isn't that it's unjust, it's that it's strategically a... : dirge23
      • true. : Dschinghis Khan
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        Afghanistan should've been a huge success. Amazing how we managed to fuck it up so badly. : hawkeye
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          it didn't get the nickname "The Graveyard of Empires" for no reason

          Sep 02, 2009 6:41am PDT
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          it didn't get the nickname "The Graveyard of Empires" for no reason : dirge23
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            Yep, unforgiving terrain, very tribal and untrusting locals, history of insurgency - what could go wrong?... : umcpwintermute
            • no but seriously, we'll do just fine where they failed. seriously. no problem. because we're the US of A. : dirge23
  • You are right, they should actually have that status in Europe. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    It's pretty rare that you're delivered an enemy with so few redeeming qualities as the Nazi's. Usually t : hawkeye
    • the weird thing is that some of the really horrible Nazi ideas were fairly widespread at the time (eugeni... : dirge23
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    You probably deserve to be banned for this comment. Better yet, be thrown into any major War. : freakynipples69
    • I kind of agree with sirsteven, it can go over the top. Perhaps because quite a few wars since have been ... : jcupitt
  • Yeah, most of it was pretty much the same bullshit as every other war. It was a good opportunity for nati... : theghostofsmdever
• servo, the wife just got me a bluray drive and my pick of a couple of blurays. How would you say the t... : stgdz
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  What was the episode that affected you the most? Why We Fight still haunts me : Dave-A
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    Fuck that episode was hardcore. I mean, I've read about all the atrocities done in the concentration camp : Arctic Fox
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      People should watch the 'The World at War' episode on this. Way, way more disturbing but I did feel the l... : dooberzoo
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        Do you mean Genocide, or some other episode of WaW? : Lone Swordsman
        • been a little while, I think that one. The one with the bulldozers but the interviews with survivors and ... : dooberzoo
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  what bothered me about the blu-ray is that i noticed alot of DNR. everything looked very soft and mushy.... : vassili_zaitsev
  • Mine looked quite grainy, I think. Did you turn off the player and TV DNR? : jcupitt