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#3998584 - 08/20/14 07:38 PM Band of Brothers  
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I watched this again recently and I was looking through the entire cast list and I was amazed to see how many actors were in it that were relatively unknown at the time but later on made it big in Hollywood,


James McAvoy
Michael Fassbender
Jamie Bamber
Simon Pegg
Tom Hardy


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#3998587 - 08/20/14 07:47 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Yep. It's fun to look for the actors that were unknowns at the time and compare it to where they are today.

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#3998659 - 08/20/14 11:06 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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It is trippy Panzer..the amount i times i have seen even the people who had smaller parts in BoB since then, i keep on expecting them to fall into character, the series was that good.


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#3998669 - 08/20/14 11:25 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Beautiful series no doubt. I haven't kept track of the actor, might have to watch it again. I was very pleased to see David Schwimmer in a serious roll, I had to remember he was not Ross from time to time, though. smile

The Pacific on the other hand... meh. I couldn't relate to any character or their personal stories. If asked mid-show I wouldn't know the name of any of those men.


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#3998679 - 08/20/14 11:44 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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"Black Hawk Down" is similar. Here are some of the names from that movie:

Ty Burrell
Orlando Bloom
Tom Hardy
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Jason Isaacs
Ioan Gruffudd
Eric Bana
Ewan McGregor


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#3998700 - 08/21/14 01:25 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Tom Hardy was in BHD?


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#3998701 - 08/21/14 01:38 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#3998720 - 08/21/14 03:33 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The first film I really noticed Tom Hardy was in Star Trek Nemesis.


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#3998770 - 08/21/14 09:39 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I am still of the opinion the BoB is still the best TV series ever.
From the moving title score and credits through to the end; faultless.

The liberation of the KZ was one of the most moving depictions of the horror and hopelessness of camp life I have seen.



#3998817 - 08/21/14 12:41 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: Arthonon]  
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Originally Posted By: Arthonon
"Black Hawk Down" is similar. Here are some of the names from that movie:


Nikolaj Coster-Waldau



Wow, I totally didn't recall seeing him before GoT.



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#3998822 - 08/21/14 12:49 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: Jedi Master]  
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Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Originally Posted By: Arthonon
"Black Hawk Down" is similar. Here are some of the names from that movie:


Nikolaj Coster-Waldau



Wow, I totally didn't recall seeing him before GoT.



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I thought you never saw Blackhawk Down?


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#3998824 - 08/21/14 12:51 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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And it looks stunning in BluRay, the first "wowsa lookit that" TV series - heck, movie - that makes one believe one is right there watching the action.

Their photography director deserved whatever he was paid and then some, with a healthy kickback to the lighting guy.


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#3998825 - 08/21/14 12:51 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Not the whole thing.




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#3998845 - 08/21/14 01:35 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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What an amazing thread. I am going to bore people at work (okay, the only other English speaker at work) for weeeeeeeks with this thread.

#3998850 - 08/21/14 01:44 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: FlatSpinMan]  
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Originally Posted By: FlatSpinMan
What an amazing thread. I am going to bore people at work (okay, the only other English speaker at work) for weeeeeeeks with this thread.
Huh? I don't quite get what you're saying.


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#3998879 - 08/21/14 02:30 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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He's going to play "guess who was in Band of Brothers, you know that old show?"



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#3999087 - 08/21/14 11:52 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: BD-123]  
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Originally Posted By: BD-123


The liberation of the KZ was one of the most moving depictions of the horror and hopelessness of camp life I have seen.


Someone did a brilliant job pairing Rush's song "Red Sector A" with scenes from that episode.



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#3999146 - 08/22/14 02:19 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: WileECoyote]  
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Originally Posted By: WileECoyote
I was very pleased to see David Schwimmer in a serious roll, I had to remember he was not Ross from time to time, though. smile



I love how they purposely excluded him from the training the other actors did to make them really resent him for their roles!


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#3999703 - 08/23/14 05:54 AM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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There was also Jimmy Fallon's brief appearance, which I totally overlooked until a friend noticed it.

#3999994 - 08/23/14 10:26 PM Re: Band of Brothers [Re: WileECoyote]  
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Originally Posted By: WileECoyote
Beautiful series no doubt. I haven't kept track of the actor, might have to watch it again. I was very pleased to see David Schwimmer in a serious roll, I had to remember he was not Ross from time to time, though. smile

The Pacific on the other hand... meh. I couldn't relate to any character or their personal stories. If asked mid-show I wouldn't know the name of any of those men.


Agreed. The Pacific suffered from trying to tell the whole story of the 1st Marine Div in the PTO, nearly three years of combat, in 10 episodes and from the viewpoint of multiple characters in different units, whereas BoB followed only one unit across 11 months of fighting. There was no way The Pacific could have kept the "intimate" feel BoB had. The end result was lackluster character development and frantic pacing. I personally think they would have been better off solely using Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed for the series; follow K/3/5 from the time Sledge joins them in mid '44 through the end of the war. The timespan covered would be roughly the same amount as BoB, and it would have allowed for more detailed storytelling and character development. Still can't believe they only did one episode to cover Okinawa.

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