Band of Brothers (2001)

Amateur movie with Big budget

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Till date the best show I have seen! This show changed something in me. What were these men made of? It leaves you wondering! The whole team deserves a salute! Respect Guys! The show is simply astounding!

Band Of Brothers4 Out Of 5Band Of Brothers is a character driven mini-series that is at best, precisely and probably an almost documentary but with a taste of theatrical that might easily leaves the viewers' pallet shook. First and foremost the credit does and should go to the research team that offers an unforgettable experience to the viewers of the field work on an ongoing battle; you are more exhausted than the characters. Despite of having such a wider range and scale the makers wisely makes a choice on narrowing down the priorities to the theme of "nature" where each part of it (there are 10 chapters), plays and projects a vital side of it. The adaptation of Ambrose's novel is smart, exquisite and brimming with writhing emotions where the rest of the work is left up to execution which is undeniably excellent; the quality surpasses one's usual feature. The series is also emotionally fueled where the manipulated audience finds itself on the melted side of the aisle with a cathartic energy that pumps up the heartbeat. If the camera work is beautiful with some appealing live locations then it also has some brutal and inedible sequences where the art designers have done a tremendous work. It is rich on technical aspects like metaphorical cinematography, stunning and cringe-worthy visuals, sharp sound effects, behemoth production designs, accurate costume designs and again the choreography of each battle sequences; all blends in and rains on the audience leaving them breathless. The cast too have invested all their chips in which pays well, especially Lewis and Levingston. The chemistry among the characters, makers' non-biased world and the awareness of each and every details are the high points of this mini-series. Band Of Brothers is a brief anthology of the horrendous symphony that nature is along with the repercussions that it ought not but inevitably breeds.

Incredible, "real" series of the Americans joining WWII. I in particularly loved the first part, where they are in training. It comes full circle over the course of all the episodes. Brilliant sceneries, and great title song.

Television Review: "Band of Brothers" (2001)When an heart-bursting opening montage underlined with emotional peaks of a memorable score by composer Michael Kamen (1948-2003) and overlayering credits exposing Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as the driving force since their highly-acclaimed collaboration in the production of "Saving Private Ryan" to further exhibitions on international movie screens in season 1998/1999 comes this inofficial successor in shape of a 10-part mini-series distributed by high-end quality entertainment-providing television broadcaster HBO (Home Box Office), picking up storywise in the decisive D-day momentums of World War II in season 1944/1945, when trained and motivated "Easy Company" of the U.S. military airborne division must jump and parachute into hostile region of Northern France to push through Eastern frontier toward Nazi-occupied Netherlands, when already Episode 3 named after the French city of "Carentan" directed by Mikael Salomon, known for photographing "The Abyss" (1989) for director James Cameron, mounts up suspense-levels to the maximum in undeniable ultra-realistic war-combat bullet-shooting as grenade-throwing action scenes, which are fulfilled with an sufficiently-rated 12.5 Million U.S. Dollar production costs per episode.The mini-series "Band of Brothers" that marks still an ultimate high-pitch of combining historical education, motion-picture thriller moments with stage-theater-class drama in order to become a television show for the ages, which must be seen in retrospective to share for future generations of human beings, who will mainly receive their daily dosage of knowledge through digitized screens of an self-fulfilled internal empire of unlimited mental compositions. This exceptional television show maintains its values over the years in any exhibition format due to an fluent story-arc of feavor-pitching "Easy Company", recommended to be watched within a day; starting from being trained in boot camp labors of another abuse instructor, here portrayed by slightly miscasted, yet drama-triggering actor David Schwimmer as drill sergeant H.B Sobel, over Platoon-leading, focus-pushing through territories of war sergeants Richard D. Winters and Lewis Nixon, performed by unmasking actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, whos portrayals make any spectator witness emotional states of war-motivated stormtrooping into battle of hornet-nest-spreading bullets and their ricochets in a rural village landscape of Center-European small towns to frozen besieged hide-outs between pine-wood-trees in an 2nd peak at Episode 6 "Bastogne" directed by David Leland, known for co-writing "Mona Lisa" (1986) directed by Neil Jordan; to entire annihilated personal visions by main-character-witnessing working camps in haunting WW2-horror-exposures; desaturated piles of white-powdered corpses confront audience with means of war, when cinematography by Remi Adefarasin captures constant motion-picture-quality; indulging on immersive shot-outs in shutter-angle-switching in-camera visual effects in favor for mainly hand-held states of full-contact camera operation.The Ten, fully-interweaved, Episodes of "Band of Brothers", which are based on an historical-accurate book by historian and U.S. Presidents Eisenhower as Nixon biographing author Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), lives from its diversive episode structure, where each episode delivers with arresting tones of emotional deprivations as combat-action-portrayals of last in differing directorial visions ranging from Richard Loncraine (Episode 2) over Tom Hanks (Episode 5) to David Frankel (Episode 7 to Episode 9) in order to feel the pleasure of living through another day in a Post-War-World by the end of revisiting "Band of Brothers" on another watch in a row, when the world premiere date of Episode 1 and Episode 2 on a casual U.S. sunday of September 9th, 2001, recalls close-by New York days of contemporary horrors in international terrorism for improving life conditions in a globalized world.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)