All things considered is this still worth a watch?

Yes

>>211882816 (OP)
It's not like the content has suddenly changed

>>211882816 (OP)
It's worth watching 2 times for all the things you'll miss the first time and then another time for the commentary tracks

>>211882816 (OP)
I didn't care for it first time. Years later I tried again and it's good. It's up there with all the others. Certainly at least as good as The Pacific which while flawed was also entertaining. So yes.

>>211882929
They're so far above most that's getting made today it's not even funny.

Though Rogue Heroes was pretty good.

>>211882816 (OP)
Some were livin'
Some were dyin'
Some were laughin'
Some were cryin'
Its alpha and omega kingdom come

Should have sued his parents for putting him up in the wall of heroes

>>211882816 (OP)
absolute kino, I am assured of this.

>>211882929
I couldn't really stand the pacific
>DUDE I PEE MY PANTS! AIN'T WAR HELL!

Is it one of those "le Americans are the real victims" slop?

>Nate became a multi millionaire CEO after leaving the marines

Damn I thought they played up his intelligence in the series but he's legit

>>211885061
I mean all officers have degrees

>>211884995
no its a roadtrip show

>>211884995
absolutely not. you should watch it

>>211885969
it's a musical

>>211882929
It's better than the Pacific

November Juliet

>>211882929
GK mogs the everliving shit out of pacific

>>211887226
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>we never found out if JLo was dead or not
massive plot hole

>>211886938
What's it about then?

>>211887782
she's in limbo, just like iraq

>>211887838
It's about going to war during the invasion of Iraq

>reporter killed himself a few months ago

You can leisurely breeze through it in a weekend. Or all at once it’s only like 7 episodes.

>>211887226
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>>211884995
It gets the Simon treatment where he presents reporters story and leaves it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Even giving a guy like Godfather a monologue at the very end where he explains the rationale for his controversial decisions.

>>211887838
a huge part of it is how dysfunctional the US military is due to incompetent senior officers, poor command and control, shoddy logistics - and how the lower ranks deal with all that

>>211888242
Nope. That is Lee Tergesen he is very much alive.

>>211888554
>Wright died by suicide via firearm at his home in Los Angeles on July 12, 2024, at the age of 59.[5][8][9]

>>211888651
Yeah Wright an hero'd, but that is not a pic of Wright you dingus.

>>211887838
When the invasion of iraq happened they wanted it to be front and center (because it was an advertisement for weapons systems) so they embedded a shitload of reporters.
A writer for rolling stone gets embedded with marine 1st recon, a group of marines specifically trained to be deep behind enemy lines operating on their own to get deep recon and intelligence. But the invasion of iraq was such a hastily slapped together shitshow that these super elite operators get stuck in an armored convoy, and instead of being the tip of the spear they just experience this fucking farce where you've got officers who were just supposed to be paper pushers now in charge and they have no idea what the fuck they're doing, there are dipshits in charge more interested in getting some glory and inadvertently put everyone in trouble, and the people trying to avoid the mistakes get ignored or punished.
What I didn't realize going in was how funny it is.
Its a show about the US Marine Corps first recon, so expect a lot of "Oorah!" jarheads. Its like if in band of brothers Easy Company ended up getting stuck at the back and just kind of seethed about it.

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>>211888715
>that's not Evan Wright, it's the actor playing his character
The only person who played themselves was Fruity Rudy

best Avril Lavigne musical out there

>>211888822
Eric Kocher was the real guy as well but he plays a fictitious character and an actor plays his role

>>211888892
>tfw they sing king of the road without you

>>211889046
I was like good gracious, check out my tracers
So dangerous trying to show patience
Looking for the right time to shoot my steez
Catch em when they’re runnin hit the back of the knees
I’m leaving, please believe me, ohhh me and the rest of my heathens

>>211888892
>rolling through Iraq in thinly armored humvees
>no ass to cover
>assaulting enemy strongpoints to create confusion
>tip of the spear
>America’s shock troops
>Skater Boi starts playing acapella

>>211888715
Anon clearly was referring to Evan Wright you pedantic fucktard.

>>211889394
No he didn't

>>211889466
Right, I just so happened to post an image of the actor playing his character while referencing his suicide.

You should be more Trombley.

>>211888715
He should have been more like trombley.

>>211889519
The post wasn't clear on that, I made the call

>>211889553
WHOPPER JUNIOR
WHOPPER JUNIOR
WHOPPER JUNIOR

>>211888343
I've never been able to watch just an episode. It always turns into a binge. And even if I fall asleep I wake up for johnny cash.

>>211882816 (OP)
PO-LEECE YER MOOSTASH

>>211885166
having a degree doesn't mean a thing

>>211887838
War is retarded and everyone on the ground knows it.

>>211889708
Doing that thing where you can’t bring yourself to watch the last episode because you don’t want the kino to end?
Garza pulls Saddam out of his spider hole and calls him dawg.

Yes it’s in the 2nd tier of golden age tv shows alongside stuff like Rome , it’s also like 7 episodes and boom you’re done

>>211887838
Its a very grounded and realistic take on a military campaign. Theres no real Hollywood dramatics in the form of either liberal slop "America is bad" or conservative slop "They are all American heros!"

Its just a very blunt depiction of how these people are and how they handle the situation of fighting a war. Its also very engaging and entertaining because it doesnt really fall into a lot of war movie tropes/conventions.

>>211889769
THE FBI
IS HWATCHIN
CHRIS HANSEN
IS HWATCHIN

>>211887226
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>>211890173
YALL STARTIN TAE LUKE LAAK ELVEESES

>>211890086
IS THAT HAIR ON YOUR CUNNY!?!?

>>211890086
PO-LICE THAT HARD DRIVE
Y’all nuttin like a buncha Elvises

Semper Gumby

>>211884820
you're a jew

>>211887838
A testament to thuh groomin standurds

>>211884820
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>>211887495
Amazazing so like I thought it's better then The Pacific at least. Thanks for all the @'s you fucking retards.

>>211888502
While at the same time running circles around the iraqis and at the same time fucking up
>first contact with the enemy and we wave at them like bitches

>>211890645
It just felt really cheaply made, and I didn't like the main cast nearly as much.
Its a distant third between BoB and GK, and that's not a controversial opinion. Hell I'd recommend the tuskegee airmen.

>>211892413
Ironically The Pacific was way over budget and almost a complete flop. Its appreciation grows with time. The Pacifics biggest problem was overambition. BoB and GK followed 1 group for like a year. The pacific had too many charecters over too many years. It’s not as tightly written and kind of meanders.

>>211892600
>way over budget
What the fuck did they spend the money on? I'm not a pleb that demands action scenes every second, but half the fucking show is them hanging out on a tropical beach.

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>>211882816 (OP)
pussy infrastructure has never been more important

>>211895183
the economy is all out whack nowadays though. he had a point there, but it no longer applies.

No matter if you prefer BoB, The Pacific or GK, we can all afrer Masters of the Air was a complete letdown that will never be REDEEMED

>>211896248
What about SAS Rogue Heroes?

>>211890086
he had to keep up the grooming standards

>>211892600
The Pacifics biggest flaw was the Australian leave episode. Its boring as fuck, it feels very cliche with love story during war time plot, and it just ruins the entire momentum of the series.

>>211889715
The master!

>>211882816 (OP)
Well it might be relevant again soon.

>>211888715
This anon is a proud marine. I am assured of this.

>>211884995
No oddly. It's got more in common with Office Space than Black Hawk Down.

>>211887838
Marines invading Iraq. Realising very quickly they are wagies and their managers are retards and they only get to shoot some kids and an old man.

>>211882816 (OP)
Loved every scene with based, pussy-slayer Encino Man.

>>211887226
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>>211888651
That's so fucking awful.

I was going to say how he could be sad but he went through a rough teenage rehabilitation thing. He tweeted the day he shot himself; he tweeted days earlier about how much he loved his mom and dad, Christ that is sad. He tweeted so fucking much before he killed himself.

He seemed to have to fight for credit:
https://www.thewrap.com/who-really-wrote-generation-kill-636/

>>211897631
>You fire an AK one more time and I’ll fuck you up.
Real or bravo sierra? Captain America seems like he’d narc hard of you hinted at fragging him.

>>211897696
>to shoot some kids and an old man.
And a dog

Best road trip show ever made

>>211896248
I'm so mad about Masters of the Air. Dropped it like a ton of bombs from a B-17 after 3 episodes. Such a fucking letdown.

>>211898901
The joke Cocher makes to someone who makes the same threat "you had your chance and you still haven't done it". I don't remember if this is before or after but Cocher actually giving a warning is more real than merely saying you would do it.

I'm listening to the commentary right now and the way they describe Cocher is that he is a complete professional training the actors but he slipped once and showed how brutal and harsh he could be. Cocher definitely seems like the sort of person who would fuck Captain America up and mean it. I know people who sober fight randoms in parking lots - Cocher definitely sounds like those people.

I LOVE YOU FRUITY OP

>>211882816 (OP)

Watch this first

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092468/

>>211899386
Wae truly unites all the races of the United States

>>211896604
oh shit

>>211899386
I think Tia Carrera from waynes world played a teenage VC in one of the episodes.

>>211899386
I used to watch this with my Dad when I was a kid.

Seemingly unintelligible psycho babble over comms is just too kino

Some fucking retard emptied his fucking social media and nobody archived his original recordings of the actual fucking marines.
https://www.youtube.com/@evanscribe

>>211900166
fucked up to think that came out only like 10 years after the war ended and vietnam vets were just starting to be appreciated, or to some people forgiven. The media was still largely portraying them as crazy loners and shell shocked psychos. I saw police academy recently and tackleberry was the crazy ex army guy of the vietnam era.

>>211887226
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>>211890086
mirrin that neck game

>>211887226
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>>211901300
>shell shocked psychos
Because we were still not acknowledging shellshock as an actual psychological condition brought on by non-stop exposure to adrenaline filled situations. Even PTSD doesn't really express how fucked up people were coming back from war.

Did you know we only JUST started acknowledging that repeated exposure to firing artillery and grenade training caused brain trauma in people equivalent to football head injuries? That only maybe a year or two ago the army finally fucking started admitting that the people who manned the artillery during Iraq and Afghanistan for like 16 hours at a time were all killing themselves for what was likely a common reason?

It is STILL fucked up. But definitely not as fucked up as Vietnam because we just set a universal standard for reducing civilian harm across all the armed forces and will likely force allies to follow the same rules.

I love this show, but outside of the main 10 or so characters I never remember who is who in the team. Next rewatch I need a chart matching names to faces.

>>211901913
That's the case for like every war movie/show. When the helmets are on I usually can't tell who is who.

>>211889810
>T. Dropout

>>211902036
With Band of Brothers I feel like I recognize much more of the cast, I can probably remember 30 of the guys from that, but GK has a smaller margin for me. Maybe that unlike BoB a lot of the guys in GK are just there and don't get a specific big moment and stuff.

>>211896606
I always watch the Basilone parts of the Australia episode because I'm not dishonoring the guy by missing his Medal of Honor moment but good god, the Greek subplot is fucking bleak. I don't even care about seeing her titties.

>>211884995
Yes. It's inherently dishonest about how millennial soldiers talked and acted, and goes out of its way to portray them as being smarter than they are. The majority of soldiers then now and forever are Trombley, not Colbert or Person. And the show is rife with faux edginess while steadfastly ignoring the the rampant racism and pedotalk infantry soldiers have.

>>211887226
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>>211883946
I came to post something like this. Good one, anon.

The Bastogne episode of BoB is probably the best war media ever made

>>211902885
The snow really does give it a lonely, desolate atmosphere. Doc is also pure kino. It's my favorite too.

>>211902374
>It's inherently dishonest about how millennial soldiers talked and acted
how so? many of the actors were real marines and Rudy Reyes plays himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvWl67Icn8

ravioli, ravioli, get on the machine gunoli

>>211903042
Ray eating Chef Boyardee out of the can and getting it all over his face is probably more disturbing than all the dead children in GK. It's so fucking gross.

>>211888502
It's more about how many of the officers serving in the invasion of Iraq were not cut out for the job because the invasion was rushed and officers like Cpt. McGraw (Captain America) were not used to leading operations on a large scale from the front, having served as intel officers at HQ previously, the scene where they are refused permission to detain men hanging around a weapons cache, the fact 1st recon were being used as shock troops instead of an actual recon unit as well as the fact they only have one interpreter serves to reinforce this narrative.

>>211888715
Guy on the left is Wright

>>211882816 (OP)
It's cliched in a way that will appeal to a room full of frat bros. If you're of similar mind to that you'll enjoy it.

>>211903405
nice try sowing discord among the ranks

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>>211903405
at least my mom took me to NASCAR

>>211883946
zoomers will appreciate it, I am assured of this

>>211882816 (OP)
If you're a veteran that's deployed, yes. It's mandatory.

>>211882816 (OP)
How much of this long movie is Catch 22 Desert Storm 2?

>>211905739
0.00%

>>211905786
But they avoid combat at every chance.
They don't blase the trail

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>>211902109
Because it was a spielberg production, and it was basically every single male actor that wasn't cast in saving private ryan. I mean jimmy fucking fallon shows up, post SNL pre tonight show. They were also dealing with other units and having replacements coming through in band of brothers.
In GK the whole point is the only casualty was a guy who got shot in the toe just enough to be declared unfit for duty.

>>211905936
Most of those guys were in the verge of becoming stars and some were already famous. All the fucking tension of the intro to Bastogne is killed my fallons terrible acting and it feels like he will break charecter and look at the camera or giggle at any fucking moment.