Posted on 10/01/2007 5:59:05 PM PDT by american_ranger
You got THAT right....Band of Brothers is the best.
I was holding off on seeing Burn’s interpretation of our efforts in WWII.
I’ll pass on his version, and stick with real heros.
I would recommend getting them - I have watched all of the episodes and though there are lots of liberal views, the combat coverage and the sensitivity to the sacrifices of the American fighting men more than make up for it.
Just finished this episode and its coverage of Iwo - I doubt that anyone has put together a more poignant illustration of the costs of that fight.
Yeah, at first I was like what, ANOTHER WWII documentary? Now I think we can’t have too many. When these guys are gone, they’re gone.
(1) He learned how to do multi-media slide/video/film/stills presentations on the Show-Pro 5, back in the seventies by semi-animating still photographs and "pin-registering" them for multi-projectors. That laughably primitive tech very soon hooked up with computers to enable even total nincompoops to make archival materials look hip and new, especially when combined with music.
(2) think back to folk singers of the late '50's and early '60s, like Joan Baez. They somehow managed to make even lively folk tunes sound like haunting dirges. This is of course a time-honored tradition : v. Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" "Holden Caulfield," etc. ad nauseam.
Ken has taken advantage of the abysmal cultural illiteracy of Americans to revive these hackneyed traditions. Fukrisakes, this Burns guy even managed to make frikkin' baseball sad! But who are we to demur, the SOB has picked up millions of our tax-bucks from NPR & T, sort of like that despicable SOB Bill Moyers anus (and his son)!
O, it's all so sad, our saving the world from Hitler ... but not Stalin! If only you ordinary people understood! Unfortunately, for the POV represented on this site, which is a slowly shrinking minority of Americans, very few of whom can still read and write, or figure beyond short division, Ken Burns has got it and the Ferderal grants system right.
WTF, nowhere in our Constitution does it say we last forever. Ken and his left wing pals are just applying the accelerator.
Now what does that mean?
I've learned to feed through the crappy anti-American stuff in everything I watch, these days. And there's alot of it going on in this series. Yes, I do agree with helping to understand our country during those dark war years.
It kinda helps me to understand my little grandmother that went through WWII. She always lived in a very small central Texas town and would come and visit us especially during Christmas. We were in a mall one day, and she started saying very loudly JAPS JAPS JAPS...I tried to calm her down...but she would not have any of it. She was greatly offended by those Asians that she saw in that mall.
I like the series and I think it tells it like it was. 55 years ago, my uncle, who was with the 1st MarDiv on Guadalcanal, told me about taking no Jap prisoners after finding two of his company that had been horribly mutilated. He said, after seeing the mutilated bodies of his two friends, “Never let anyone tell you that a 19-year-old American kid can’t be as mean as anyone else in the world ... because I was.” I think detractors of the mini-series probably have never been in combat.
Burns hit a new low tonight. His use of counting off of cities firebombed in the same fashion we have all heard before
If your minds need a bit prodding: Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Monthausen...
The moral equivalency statement without “saying it”
Burns hit a new low tonight. His use of counting off of cities firebombed in the same fashion we have all heard before
If your minds need a bit prodding: Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Monthausen...
The moral equivalency statement without “saying it”
Burns hit a new low tonight. His use of counting off of cities firebombed in the same fashion we have all heard before
If your minds need a bit prodding: Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Monthausen...
The moral equivalency statement without “saying it”
“Yeah, at first I was like what, ANOTHER WWII documentary? Now I think we can’t have too many. When these guys are gone, they’re gone.”
My thoughts exactly. I am watching The War and I will watch the rest of the episodes. It fills me with pride. My eldest brother was an enlisted Marine in WW II and reenlisted in the Army as a Second Lieutenant for Korea, where he died.
The reason God created the remote control device was so that those that don’t like what’s on can change the channel or turn the tv off and read a good book. My tv stays on and tuned to PBS.
I mean that despite the enormous and grotesque sacrifices required of our parents, your grandparents, the darkness (evil) seems to be closing in around us anyway.
“The thing I don’t like about the documentary is that they never really explain why we eventually won a particular battle”
But how did it affect race relations in America? Let’s go to Sammy Ito, whose family was imprisoned in an American concentration camp.
You sound surprised. This pissant should stick to baseball and other insignificant stupidities. If he was any good he wouldn’t be on welfare television.
If Ken Burns is anything, he is redundent. Could cut a third out of the thing by cutting the repetition.
The Left in the US and UK LIKED Stalin. There was no will to go right into another war. We fought a Cold War with the Soviets for nearly 50 years and it took 40 years for some hard core American Commies to agree that Stalin did bad things to people.
“Yeah, at first I was like what, ANOTHER WWII documentary? Now I think we can’t have too many. When these guys are gone, they’re gone.”
One of my wife’s uncles is “Shifty” in Band of Brothers. He never said a word about the war until folks came to him about the book that led to the movie. He’s since been to France and the N.O. D-Day Museum. Ironically for a sniper, he’s now nearly blind. And he probably doesn’t have much longer.
This is spooky. I turned it off at the same time for the same reason. for some reason I thought Burns was older, when I saw hip my first thought was hippie.
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
My mom is 86 and a WAC vet of WWII 5th Army Headquarters, Forward Echelon. She's been watching it religiously, mostly for memory's sake, but I stopped watching it.
I agree with your assessment. I saw the first three episodes and I got real tired real fast everytime they went back over the race issue.
What part of that was "The Wah"?
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