So real it's uncanny...

[Kimmers]

Originally Posted by TomcatMVD

BTW, speaking about WWII genre... I just got my hands into Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway... it seems like a truly recommendable game for the buck.

speaking of the WW2 genre AND brothers, ever watched band of brothers? best ww2 (mini?)series ever made imo.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Kimmers

speaking of the WW2 genre AND brothers, ever watched band of brothers? best ww2 (mini?)series ever made imo.

You got that right.

I got the DVDs for Christmas a couple of years back - don't have HBO so I was catching what I could when the History Channel would rerun the series. Finally got to see the whole thing beginning to end and was just as knocked out as I thought I would be.

Spike TV has rights to it now and seems to run marathons on or around various holidays... they just ran the whole thing again last Saturday. Came home from the dojo, flipped on the TV, checked the channel guide - it was just coming on at the top of the hour. So, you know, there went my Saturday.

Although having the DVDs on hand does give me the luxury of just leaving the marathon on and wandering around the place still getting things done - doesn't matter if I miss a bit here and there.

Speaking of BIA I got the first (I think) one for Christmas this year, Road to Hill 30. Yeah I'm always a latecomer when it comes to games, lol, always running a version or so behind it seems. But it was cheap and easily obtainable from Amazon and looked like it might be worth a try. I figure there's probably something about it in the appropriate forum hereabouts so I'll have to go do a looksee once I get around to playing it.

[TomcatMVD]

Originally Posted by Kimmers

speaking of the WW2 genre AND brothers, ever watched band of brothers? best ww2 (mini?)series ever made imo.

You bet I did! Watched the entire series more than four times. It honestly sends shivers down my spine everytime the music goes loud and I see dozens of C-47 in formation. Is a wonderful, beautiful and amazingly well filmed story. I bought the book too, it's everything you would expect.
HBO is now running "The Pacific", though I haven't had the chance to watch it.

[nodlew]

Hey Steve. I was homeless for a time as well. Maybe we could trade war stories. You haven't lived until you've been shaken down by the cops simply because you don't have a picket fence to hide behind. And there are many little things to be grateful for that people without that experience may never appreciate. What luxury to plop down on the couch with a cup of coffee and watch Regis and Kelly (or anything equally mindless) after a hot shower in a fresh change of clothes. Ah. Cleanliness. Comfort. Privacy.

Band of Brothers was great. Used to have the 5? dvd set. Or, rather, my sister did, until it was stolen by her ex-husband in the inevitable 20yr marriage dissolution snafu. Now he lives in Texas in an attempt to escape his child support obligations. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "So it goes."

[Kimmers]

Originally Posted by TomcatMVD

You bet I did! Watched the entire series more than four times.

good to know im among believers

[sergei]

I'm a believer too.
Truly outstanding series.
Must have watched it 4 or 5 times so far.
The one box set I have in my collection that I don't think I'll ever tire of.

[Kimmers]

haha yeah, i also quite enjoyed the letters from iwo jima/band of brothers movies, they were complementary to each other right? letters from iwo jima for me though, there's just something magical about foreign war films, yeah.

[TomcatMVD]

Originally Posted by Kimmers

haha yeah, i also quite enjoyed the letters from iwo jima/band of brothers movies, they were complementary to each other right? letters from iwo jima for me though, there's just something magical about foreign war films, yeah.

"Letters from Iwo Jima" was filmed by Clint Eastwood along with "The Flags of our Fathers". "Band of Brothers" was a mini-series broadcasted by HBO and produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

[Kimmers]

OH i knew i was getting something wrong back there
they're well good though, no doubting that :P

[TomcatMVD]

Originally Posted by Kimmers

OH i knew i was getting something wrong back there
they're well good though, no doubting that :P

Indeed they are!

[nodlew]

How about "The Thin, Red, Line"? A different sort of war movie. Very anti-war, or perhaps, just very realistic in its depiction of combat and the soldiers' mindsets and reactions to it. Has a surreal quality. Much of the dialogue is stream of consciousness. I had to watch it a couple of times before I "got" it.

Hard to derive a message from the film other than, perhaps: War is unnatural at best, and at wost insane. Or perhaps just this: War is an insane undertaking which requires its participants to become insane in order to carry it out.

[Kimmers]

ay, also a classic, any war film is my thing, actually, except for stuff like pearl harbor, that was pretty lolsome

[coasterdigi]

Originally Posted by TomcatMVD

I'm a student pilot myself! Although talking about a "powered down" cockpit sounds more like you're talking about your commercial certification. (?)

Cheers!

Nah, I've only got my private, but I got it when I was going to school at Embry Riddle, where they strive to do all that they can to turn a 172 cockpit into the flight deck of an A320.

I didn't realize that this wasn't normal until I rented at an FBO for the first time. When I was going up for my checkout flight, I just ran through off the checklists and procedures that I was taught (leaning on the ground, verbally identifying things like the flap lever before moving it, etc). The instructor (a guy wearing flip-flops, Bermuda shorts, and some ridiculous hat) just looked at me like I'd sprouted 2 additional heads.

It was the shortest checkout flight I ever had.

But that was years ago. My last logbook entry is from 2003!