Band Of Brothers Reviews

2001

Rated:
80
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This 10-part HBO television miniseries focuses on Easy Company, a group of American soldiers in World War II, tracking their experiences from the beginning of boot camp to the end of the war. Anchored by actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, the series gives detailed attention to their experiences as a group, as well as the .. Read more

Starring	Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Matthew Settle, Ron Livingston
Director	Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael
Genres	Drama, Television

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72 out of 76 people found this review helpful

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!

This series makes for superb viewing. It comes up with the trumps in every area: acting, characterisation, direction, production, cinematography, music, make-up, storyline, sound, props, the whole thing. This is a class production from beginning to end and I thoroughly recommend it. It will be remembered for many years to come as the series that, like 24, changed televsion for ever.
- - James Waddell from London, UK
  - Posted 16 Sep 2004 19:15
24 out of 31 people found this review helpful

THE ULTIMATE TV SERIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS DEFINATELY THE GREATEST TELEVISION SERIES EVER.

TO ALL THOSE WHO SAY IT GLORIFIES WAR YOU EITHER DIDN'T WATCH IT OR MUST BE SOME STUPID WAR MONGERING AMERICAN FOOL!!

IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK AS I HAVE YOU WILL ALSO REALISE HOW VERY WELL IT WAS MADE.

FANTASTIC,AWESOME,BRILLIANT-EVER Y SUPERLATIVE YOU CAN THINK OF
- - J J from DERBY, ENGLAND
  - Posted 24 Jul 2004 17:04
20 out of 26 people found this review helpful

BAND OF BROTHERS PART 1

EXCELLENT!
- - A customer
  - Posted 22 Jun 2005 19:55
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Superb.

The person above ('unrealistic' etc etc) must be taking the piss. Or, is beyond stupid. Please disregard their idiotic comments; this is not supposed to be a Hollywood 'action' film.

Anyway. Band of Brothers is the most realistic dramatization of WW2 that you will come across. It was made in conjunction with the actual veterans who served in the company portrayed, and includes short interviews with them interspersed with the drama. It is extremely well-acted and quite moving.

Give it try - you will not be disappointed.
- - A customer from Essex, UK
  - Posted 18 Mar 2007 20:52
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Outstanding

If you liked Saving Private Ryan you'll love this. It's a bit biased in favour of the Americans but that doesn't really matter, as it could just as easily be about non-American soldiers. The series gives you a great insight into the hell that the soldiers had to endure. Not only are the battle scenes visually fantastic (with all the expected gore) but they rightly deglamourize war, which is rare in a feature. In addition, the brutal conditions that the soldiers had to exist in are conveyed brilliantly. Overall, first class.
- - A customer from London, England
  - Posted 13 Dec 2004 22:29

72 out of 76 people found this review helpful

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!

This series makes for superb viewing. It comes up with the trumps in every area: acting, characterisation, direction, production, cinematography, music, make-up, storyline, sound, props, the whole thing. This is a class production from beginning to end and I thoroughly recommend it. It will be remembered for many years to come as the series that, like 24, changed televsion for ever.
- - James Waddell from London, UK
  - Posted 16 Sep 2004 19:15
24 out of 31 people found this review helpful

THE ULTIMATE TV SERIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS DEFINATELY THE GREATEST TELEVISION SERIES EVER.

TO ALL THOSE WHO SAY IT GLORIFIES WAR YOU EITHER DIDN'T WATCH IT OR MUST BE SOME STUPID WAR MONGERING AMERICAN FOOL!!

IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK AS I HAVE YOU WILL ALSO REALISE HOW VERY WELL IT WAS MADE.

FANTASTIC,AWESOME,BRILLIANT-EVER Y SUPERLATIVE YOU CAN THINK OF
- - J J from DERBY, ENGLAND
  - Posted 24 Jul 2004 17:04
20 out of 26 people found this review helpful

BAND OF BROTHERS PART 1

EXCELLENT!
- - A customer
  - Posted 22 Jun 2005 19:55
16 out of 16 people found this review helpful

The best TV series ever made. Absolute perfection.

I only saw a couple of the episodes of this when they were first aired really late in the evening on BBC 2 on a Wednesday night. Weird considering its the most expensive TV series ever made! I could tell it was good though and I was bought the box set of DVDs for Christmas.

But now, after watching all of the episodes, I honestly cannot recommend this highly enough.

The performances from the cast are outstanding, with Damien Lewis deserving a special mention as Dick Winters. Also the number recognisable actors who crop up in the show (Burger from Sex in the City, Lee from The Office, Simon Pegg from Spaced, Ross from Friends etc...) is unbelievable.

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were the executive producers (with Hanks also directing one of the episodes) and their influence shows. I have never seen a TV series with such a cinematic feel to it. The atmosphere throughout the whole series is awesome and really makes you feel a part of the action. The special effects are also brilliantly executed. They lend a real sense of what it must have been like. Some of the scenes in Austria are amazing and its impossible to tell if they were actually there or if was blue screened in afterwards.

Often after watching a film or TV series you realise how much more exciting they had to make it appear for the screen compared with the book. This just isn't the case with Band Of Brothers. Steven Ambrose's book is beautifully translated and the chosen actors fill their roles perfectly.

The way each show starts and finishes with short interviews with the surviving members is a really nice touch. You never find out who the interviewees are until the last episode, but you'll come away with nothing but respect and admiration for those men. Everyone one of them is a hero, but they all just say they were doing what they had to do.

The only negative thing I can find to say about Band Of Brothers is that if you rent it you'd better have a spare ?50 lying around. You'll buy the box set for yourself within days!
- - A customer from Oxford
  - Posted 20 Jul 2004 16:42
15 out of 17 people found this review helpful

best of the rest

most probably the best war series i have ever seen
- - A customer from sussex
  - Posted 22 Jan 2004 22:26
13 out of 14 people found this review helpful

Thumbs Up

Although a glorifide Hollywood make up of WWII making America look as if they single handedly took on the whole world! (again!)

It was actualy very good, showing a good portrail of what it was like in WWII. Saving private ryan with more realism. Thumbs Up :)
- - David Powles from Liverpool,England
  - Posted 04 Mar 2005 23:45
20 out of 36 people found this review helpful

JiggaWhat?!

This film was...

wierd

not that war films are my peice of cake...

i found it disturbing in some places and pointless in the others...
- - A customer from London
  - Posted 12 Jun 2007 20:11
11 out of 12 people found this review helpful

Good and bad memories

Being 80 years old and a Normandy veteran, Band of Brothers lets me safely watch actions that I went through, but with the British Army, without even getting hurt.

I landed on the Normandy beaches at a seaside town called Lion-sur-mer. That then is when my experiences commenced.

The filming is so real and I would rate it at 10 marks out of ten. Any film by Spielberg has always been first class. I thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes.
- - Philip80 from East Sussex
  - Posted 20 Oct 2003 19:23
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Superb!

Simply the best war series I have ever watched.

You are led through an interesting yet sometimes heart breaking story of one company's part they played from the start to the end of the war.

Can't recommend enough, I'd give it 10 stars if I could!
- - A customer from Kent
  - Posted 12 Jul 2004 19:54
8 out of 9 people found this review helpful

WW2 seen through the eyes of Easy Company

Saving Private Ryan gave me my first realistic glimpse of what it must have been like fighting in WW2....

Similarly, this series, based on real people follows the tale of a squad of American paratroopers through their training in America to the defeat of Nazi Germany. For me it relates how real heroes are forged in the carnage of war and serves to remind just how much is owed to guys like this. The Spielberg/Hanks partnership brings the story to you like only they can.

Superb.
- - YDL13 from Mid Glamorgan
  - Posted 11 Jun 2004 07:49

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