Bill J
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Anyway, please tell me he's gone from BOB for good,......puleeese.Actually, he makes another brief appearance, and so does Jimmy Fallon.
Anyway, please tell me he's gone from BOB for good,......puleeese.Actually, he makes another brief appearance, and so does Jimmy Fallon.
Easy Company was an elite parachute regiment formed just prior to the US entering the second world war.The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated on July 20, 1942, seven months after we entered the war.
I rented the first 5 episodes and my wife and I didn't like it at all. Every episode was almost identical. We found it slow to the point of being boring. I was expecting to rent just the first three episodes as a test drive and then buy it. Glad I didn't buy it.WOW! All I can say is WOW!
No, I can say something else! You are absolutely THE first person I have heard on the Internet or in person who has said anything so negative about this series! The numerous posts around the Internet DVD forums about this series on DVD is 100% filled with high praise for this incredible series! I will say that you do yourself a HUGE disservice not watching the rest of this series because only watching half of it will have you losing much of the impact of what these guys reallt went through in WWII.
But, I've already watched my CVDs enough where I'm not sure if I want to spend the $62 so I can see the extras...
I cringed when David Schwimmer made his appearance in the first episode 'cause I just can't picture him as anything other than the "weenie, whiney, loser Ross" from Friends. Anyway, please tell me he's gone from BOB for good,......puleeese.I had always wondered about these (admittedly relatively few) 'complaints' about Schwimmer in BOB. Sure, I can sympathize if you can't stomach the man. Though in this case, wouldn't you say it's a masterstroke of casting? You hate Schwimmer, Easy Company hates the man he portrays- what's the problem?
It's not like he was cast as Winters.
Sven,
Actually, to be fair, the first episode is training... it's pretty general, and if you wanted non-stop action (that the series later provided) then you'd get bored. The second episode is one of the best, showing how things could go perfectly. The episodes in the forest, in the winter, really are repetative.
If you read my post completely I do say that he did himself a diservice by not watching it all the way through. Of course the first episode was a lot slower, it was a setup to get to know most of the characters.