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Band of Brothers (2001)
10+ years on, and STILL SPECTACULAR
Over 10 years now since "Band of Brothers" premiered, and it's still just as spectacular and enduring as the first time I saw it! Unless you were just a babe in 2001, you've probably seen BoB already, but if not...please - stop waiting! Even now it remains utterly amazing. This is the third or fourth time i've watched the entire miniseries since it debuted, and it's lost none of its magic appeal. Truly phenomenal and if ever a title deserved 10/10...I even bought the DVD box set! I was trying to remember why I hadn't reviewed this before, and now I remember it was the silly 10-line minimum rule. What could I say that others haven't said already - except buy this and own it and treasure it! Even if Ambrose fabricated his "interviews" with Ike, he still hit a home-run with Band of Brothers. I feel privileged to be able to watch and enjoy this and will always look with awe upon the men and women who served with such honor and distinction during World War 2!!
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Overall = EXCELLENT + AMAZING, but Apollo 1 coverage = inadequate
Overall, I thought "When We Left Earth" was a fantastic, excellent and amazing mini-series that I would be delighted to own on Blu-Ray DVD, if it weren't for those Swedish buccaneers. Nevertheless, the inclusion of so much color-footage shot by the astronauts themselves was clever and made for breathtaking viewing, and that's the selling point that will probably get me to fork out for the gen. discs. It wasn't all peaches- and-cream, however, and I was genuinely disappointed with the cursory treatment given to Apollo 1, which only received approximately four minutes of very bland, formulaic coverage.
There was no imagery from any of the three Apollo 1 crew-members' funerals or memorials or anything heroic, and I believe the producers dropped the ball and missed the chance to jerk a bit of genuine contrived emotion out of us. Their decision not to was difficult to accept and is the only sore point for me in an otherwise-excellent miniseries.
If it was the case that there simply was no video footage available from the funeral and interment of Gus Grissom, for example, my apologies. But if ever there was an appropriate forum in which to display such coverage/footage, it would've been here.