Generation Kill (new series from the Wire writers)

[Pieface]

Shit - I was trying to remember that one on the bus tonight! I'd suck so badly at being a marine.

 

[likesfish]

There reconnaissance marines if not exactly elite better trained than the average US marine The US marine corps is bigger than the British army.
So they tend to suffer as British soldiers tend to compare them to Royal marines which isn't really fair. US marines are expected to read 12 books a year and the USMC produces a recommended reading list
http://www.usna.edu/Library/Marineread.html

 

[subversplat]

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

Now, I'm never one to doubt the robustness of Japanese auto manufacture, but my money is on the tree on this one....

 

[kyser_soze]

There reconnaissance marines if not exactly elite better trained than the average US marine The US marine corps is bigger than the British army.
So they tend to suffer as British soldiers tend to compare them to Royal marines which isn't really fair. US marines are expected to read 12 books a year and the USMC produces a recommended reading list
http://www.usna.edu/Library/Marineread.html

As Iceman and several others point out repeatedly, their unit is Force Recon and they are endlessly pissed off at the Army for blowing stuff up that they've been observing for hours and doesn't have any actual military value and/or is packed full of cilvilians.

 

[DotCommunist]

As Iceman and several others point out repeatedly, their unit is Force Recon and they are endlessly pissed off at the Army for blowing stuff up that they've been observing for hours and doesn't have any actual military value and/or is packed full of cilvilians.

and for putting them in those shitty vehicles

 

[kyser_soze]

And not having any batteries for stuff like their night sights...all on the basis that 'You're force recon, you should be picking this stuff up as you go along'

But yeah, they really fucking hated those humvees

 

[STFC]

The book is excellent. I found the series a bit of a let down - it's very good, but doesn't quite live up to the book. If I could go back in time I'd watch the series first.

 

[Badgers]

Bumped thread as going to rewatch this.

Got The Deuce S1/S2 to finish rewatching before starting S3. Then Generation Kill for the second time.

 

[Steel Icarus]

What's it on?

 

[Badgers]

What's it on?

Not sure. I picked up the dvd boxset a few years back for 50p at a carboot.

HBO I think? They are a bit tighter with showing on Netflix or Amazon

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'll investigate

 

[DotCommunist]

Bumped thread as going to rewatch this.

Got The Deuce S1/S2 to finish rewatching before starting S3. Then Generation Kill for the second time.

Dug out my old 2005 mac to toy with last month and its got lots of old stuff I d/l'd on there, including GK so I watched 3 eps. Interspersing it with all the Spartacus Blood and Sand series (1-4)

 

[Badgers]

Just started this again.

Rotating my watching. One night The Wire, then the West Wing and this.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I've been alternating watching the wire again with that gangs of london, only three episodes of each so far, and the quality of the wire really shows gangs of london up for the dreadful shit it is

 

[Elpenor]

I watched this (via NowTV) last month. I’d never even heard of it until I scrolled through the drama stuff.

It’s been said already on the thread over a decade ago but for me it’s one of the best miniseries ever. Superb in every way. I was pausing it and going on Reddit every 2 minutes to understand what the slang was.

Stay frosty

 

[Steel Icarus]

Still haven't watched it but read the book three times

 

[rubbershoes]

Still haven't watched it but read the book three times

It's a good watch. There's loads more in the book of course but it's worth a look if you get a chance

 

[DaveCinzano]

Dug out my old 2005 mac to toy with last month and its got lots of old stuff I d/l'd on there, including GK so I watched 3 eps. Interspersing it with all the Spartacus Blood and Sand series (1-4)

You and bloody Spartacus: B & S

 

[DotCommunist]

You and bloody Spartacus: B & S

Its great tv! Not just Andy Whitfield, but Jon Hannah's brilliant Batiatus role. By jupiters cock.

 

[trabuquera]

Spartacus Blood & Sand is a stone classic. The heavy metal guitars get more grating in retrospect but it really holds up.

 

[extra dry]

Spartacus Blood & Sand is a stone classic. The heavy metal guitars get more grating in retrospect but it really holds up.

Each season the amount blood spilt is rather over the top

 

[trabuquera]

Absolutely true - and that's it's cheeky point - it's tacky goresploitation, with brilliant suspense, enviable physiques and lethal plotting. It makes the modern audience into a bloodthirsty pagans glorying in the spectacle of violent death and seduced by explicit rumpy pumpy, which more 'respectable' efforts at making drama about Classical Rome do not dare to do so openly. This is a great postmodern gag in itself - it makes you, the viewer, complicit with all those evil batiatus types (batiatii?) of yore.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Evan Wright has died

 

[Elpenor]

Stay Frosty, Reporter