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To: Saije
"Ryan" is good. "Patton", IMHO, was better. "Band of Brothers", was the best.

All my opinion, of course.

All three stand pretty much head and shoulders above some of the other wartime dreck Hollyland has turned out of late. "The Thin Red Line" was completely unwatchable, ditto "Jarhead". "Black Hawk Down" and "We were soldiers" were OK, not great but OK.

There was a Gulf War-based miniseries on HBO not too long ago...made such a lasting impression on me that I can't remember its name. All I remember was that it desperately wanted to be Band of Brothers, and failed miserably.

55 posted on 11/11/2009 6:22:15 AM PST by wbill
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To: wbill
"Gulf War-based miniseries on HBO"

Generation Kill
56 posted on 11/11/2009 6:23:41 AM PST by The Louiswu (001100101000101011100101000100111110001010100001010101 if you can read that you are a computer)
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To: wbill
"The Thin Red Line" was completely unwatchable

Different strokes. I think it's one of the finest films of any genre ever made.

68 posted on 11/11/2009 6:44:18 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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