Generation Kill
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Maybe controversial opinion, but I actually like this better than Band of Brothers. BoB is amazing, obviously, and probably objectively better, just preference.. But it's dated and suffers from more than a little hero worship. Not that it isn't deserved, especially for guys like Winters. but idk.
My favorite scene of the two comes from BoB, the scene where MAJ Winters has to assault that town and he puts numbnuts in charge of assaulting some position and he fucks it up, and then Winters almost goes in but his COL starts lecturing him and he just ignores him and sends in Spiers, fucking AMAZING scene.
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My favorite scene of the two comes from BoB, the scene where MAJ Winters has to assault that town and he puts numbnuts in charge of assaulting some position and he fucks it up, and then Winters almost goes in but his COL starts lecturing him and he just ignores him and sends in Spiers, fucking AMAZING scene.
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I agree, I think BoB and WWII media in general gets to coast on the black and white nature of that war. The Axis was pure evil and needed to be stopped at all costs, total war.
The difficult nature of Iraq 2 and the idea of invading followed by nation building is so much more nuanced. The soldiers who were trained as bad asses to win total war and are now struggling to deal with collateral damage and an enemy with no uniform I find much more interesting. It's also much more applicable to our position in the world from Vietnam onwords, both good and bad.
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I'd never seen this, thanks for making the thread - what a fantastic mini-series. My favorite moment was in the last episode (great episode) where they get turned away by the rank and file jarheads in that office building and scale the walls to get in. The only time they got to use their RECON skills was at the very end of the "war" fucking around. Pretty damning reflection of our military in some ways, but the writer of that article has been extremely complimentary towards the rank and file guys since the story broke. Not so much the leadership.