![]() ![]() My favourite generation kill moments are actually the radio chatter and mini interviews that play during the credits. The show ends up being less about the actual war and more about the people. The actual war scenes are few and far between and the character development in between makes them more tense than a typical "good guys vs bad guys" war story. I wasn't in Iraq or anything but something tells me that this was a far more accurate take of what happens in a modern American war. I highly recommend this miniseries (7h) to anyone who enjoys war movies, and even moreso to people who don't like typical war movies. What the guys at the tip of the spear see and what the commanders tell them to do are perfect illustrations of the disconnect that exists in any large group with a rigid command structure and "chain of command". ![]() Other than that the display of ineffective management and bureaucracy ring very true to anyone who has been in a large origination, not just the military. Where the guys are driving in the Humvee for days on end throughout the series are my favorite moments. The whole series is like a strange take on a Road Trip movie. By perfect I mean Offensive, personal insults. The writing here is great all around, but the throwaway comments from the peanut gallery are perfectly done. Once you get past the niceties, and you have heard everyone's stories once too many, all that is left is relentless verbal abuse.Ī great example in the first episode on what I'm talking about: 21 minutes in, the Reporter From Rolling Stone (that wrote the book that the series was based on) meets the company in their barracks. My favorite part of this show is the accurate portrayal of the shit talking that happens any time you put young men alongside each other for a long time. I am doing a bunch of boring computer work today and decided to let it play through again (I try to find things I have seen more than once IE: The Wire so I'm not too distracted.) I have seen Generation Kill (2008) on HBO a few times all the way through.
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