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Darthchaffinch
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anyone who loved Band of Brothers will look forward to this, 2nd trailer looks amazing. :cool:
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March 14th, on HBO in the States. The UK get it via Sky Movies in the `spring' (April/May).
Sky have already said it will be shown without commercial breaks (technically it is a mini-series).
The trailer is more a teaser, doesn't show you anything much. There is a making of on the 7th March on HBO though, and they're reshowing Band of Brothers starting next week.
really getting excited about this.
I wish we had a British version of HBO over here that can do compelling and powerful drama with a grand budget to boot.
Europeans often don't understand that Americans have a very different view of World War II than they do because the attack on Pearl Harbor had nothing to do with Nazi Germany and only 40% of US casualties in WWII were suffered in the fight against Hitler. The Japanese were responsible for 60% of US World War II casualties. It has also been noted by many scholars in America that if Germany had not already been defeated by the time America's nuclear bombs were ready to be used America would never have contemplated using the bombs on Germans. Only the Japanese were hated enough to be thought to deserve the Hell-on-earth the nuclear bombs would unleash.
Not really fair on the thousands of commonwealth and non American soldiers who lost their lives in battle especially in the Burma campaign or in the Japanese prisoner camps.
Hitler was definately planning to nuke the US though. Truman might have had to rethink his position.
I chose my words carefully. I didn't say non-Americans didn't fight the Japanese, or get killed by them. The actual DEFEAT of the Japanese -- that really was an America-only affair. The US actually asked the Soviets for help against the Japanese, but of course Stalin couldn't have cared less about the Pacific war.
Hitler dreamed a lot of things that weren't realistic. The Nazis didn't have "nukes," nor a way of delivering even conventional bombs against targets in America.
I think The Japanese sent some explosive-filled balloons over the Pacific, technically attacking California. Not much came of it but it got people worried.
But then the Japanese hadn't thought much of Americans since their 19th century gunboat diplomacy, they were probably bound to have a go at them sooner or later. So that's another perspective. I wonder what Japanese WWII films are like?
I'm sure the only homeland US civilian casualties of WW2 were caused by one of those balloons. Was 3 or 4 people. Can't remember exactly so would have to look it up.
One would have thought so . . but with the TV POll tax they can get way with crap like SCD, Eastenders, etc
I assume you didn't know that Band of Brothers was an HBO/BBC production then. Filmed largely in Britain.
I've heard so much good about but never seen it, and I'd like to see it before "The Pacific" comes on.
It's being shown on TCM at the moment, every Sunday and repeated Wednesday. Episodes 3 and 4 are repeated tomorrow from 21:00.
Uunfortunately not, for starters the BBC doesn't have anything like the budget that HBO does. The pilot episode for the upcoming "Boardwalk Empire" cost $35 million and had Martin Scorsese as director. Also I could never imagine the BBC producing a series such as Generation Kill which was highly critical of the US military, there would be outrage if they done a show like that about "our boys".
I'd be amazed if "The Pacific" was shown on Sky Movies with adverts as none of there movies are and as it's HBO it will be broadcast in the US without adverts too.
What with "The Pacific" "Treme" and "Boardwalk Empire" all due this year HBO are really spoiling us and will hopefully fill the massive void left since "The Sopranos" and "The Wire" finished.
You seem to have forgotten the people who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - Hawaii is in the homeland surely as a US state
It's only about £10 on DVD!!! Go and ruddy buy it!
can we keep on topic pls...?
I know mate. Thought I wouldn't disappoint you by being outraged
Nope, the heroes of the Telemark put an end to any German nuclear capability.