Generation Kill

[enemybrick]

is anyone looking forward to this HBO series? I read the book and loved it, and with a couple close family members still over there, I guess I am more interested in it than most.

[tsmith15]

Give me some info please. Just the fact that it's HBO is promising though.

[enemybrick]

Its a series based on a reporter from the Rolling Stone's trip with a battallion during the Iraq invasion in 2003.

http://www.hbo.com/events/generationkill/

[dragonbladev]

wow never heard of it till now, im all for HBO, they put out some good series, cant wait for this one to come out.

the pajama comment in the trailer made me smile :D

[enemybrick]

done by the creator of The Wire, Ive been very excited about it for quite a while, I mean, Band of Brothers was so damn good, Im waiting for another good war mini-series

[krypt]

I saw the trailer today and I'm really excited for it.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9_wtekt8c

[apswesthome]

I read the article about the film. Ed Burns, The Wire is gonna direct it. It looks like he is gonna use a mix of actors and more or less 'real people'

...Im pretty excited to check this out.

(also check out Frontline's special -- "We Go to War" or something. It's docu - news peace about these young reporters in Afghanistan after 9/11 before the Iraq War)

[optimus187prime]

I think this looks to be a great miniseries. HBO has a wonderful track record and The Wire is my favorite TV series of all time. I cant wait, got the DVR set, cocked and locked :p

[dolson]

done by the creator of The Wire

Wow. You can totally tell! I did not really enjoy watching Generation Kill... It jumped around too much, or something. I don't know, I can't really explain what I didn't like about it. I did keep thinking "man, this is like The Wire" and now I know why...

Does anyone know what it is that I'm not liking about it, given my weak explanation? Like, what is the proper terminology for what I don't like..?

Weird thing is that I like The Wire more, just it bugs me too.

Meh, I dunno.

Band of Brothers was awesome, though.

[tsmith15]

I watched the first episode so far, and I loved it. It was really funny, but I've once again got the problem of "which white guy is which?" like I had in Band of Brothers.

[dolson]

I watched the first episode so far, and I loved it. It was really funny, but I've once again got the problem of "which white guy is which?" like I had in Band of Brothers.

That doesn't really change by the end of the 7th episode either.

Especially those two guys who look like twins... I still don't know anyone's name except Ray and Nate.. I think Rudy too, since I was specifically looking for him, as he plays himself.

The scatter-brain presentation of the show doesn't help keep track of people either. Though, I don't recall having that issue with Band of Brothers. At least not past the first part or so.

[ike6116]

I loved this mini-series, it felt very authentic to me.

It's a real eye opener and you've really gotta respect the writer who put himself in the shit like that.