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hackthis_archive) wrote2008-09-07 02:41 pm
hackthis_archive) wrote2008-09-07 02:41 pm
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It's raining men, hallelujah
I love new school military movies. Really. Like, I know a lot of people are all "gore, oh noes!" Or "Military, que boring" or "Violence is bad." To which I'm like, uh, maybe you are not paying attention to the breeding ground of hotass that military movies are, for example:
Two seconds of channel surfing When Were Soldiers produces both Sean McNamara from Nip/Tuck and Don Draper from Mad Men.
The HBO magnum opus Band of Brothers not only provided Damien Lewis of Life and Ron Livingston from Office Space, but also, Jamie Bamber (BSG), James McAvoy, Marc Warren (of every Beeb show ever), Donnie Walhberg, Dexter Fletcher, Kirk Acevedo (Alvarez from Oz), Malarky is now on ER, and Liebgott is going to marry Jennifer Love Hewitt, although, you know, that's not a real recommendation.ETA: And I forgot about Spiers! Holy shit, dude, Lt. Dan Spiers is like, Rambo does Batman! And he's played by Rufus on Gossip Girl. I know that seems weird, but way before he was Rufus he was Spiers, and damn, was he the man.
Saving Private Ryan brought you who? Matt Damon! And like, a lot of other people.
I don't even like Black Hawk Down, but it had Ewan Bremmer (Trainspotting), Eric Bana, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gyrffund, fucking Jeremy Piven and Ewan McGregor.
The Thin Red Line had Adrian Brody, Jim Caveziel, GEORGE, it had GEORGE, Thomas Jane, Ben Chaplin and Alvarez from Oz again (Kirk was totally getting around, where is he now anyway?)
So, you know, the next time I shriek that the entire world must watch Generation Kill just remember its pedigree, not only is it whip-smart, horrifying and sickingly inappropriately with the laughs, but it's a military movie/series. I promise you, the guys are dead hot. Do you really need much else?
*This is not brought to you by the fact that sometimes I watch the Military Channel hungover. No. Not even.
ETA: It is very hard for me to detox from the Olympics when Michael fucking Phelps is every fucking where, because then I just feel compelled to watch and read when he's fondling strippers and making bets with supremely hot football players. Stupid boy! I do not want to write some story where Michael goes to Cleveland to visit Braylon and Ryan has a hissy fit, least of all because Ryan is so not the hissy fit type. He's very laidback about everything, but there might be some snarky blowback later on.
Two seconds of channel surfing When Were Soldiers produces both Sean McNamara from Nip/Tuck and Don Draper from Mad Men.
The HBO magnum opus Band of Brothers not only provided Damien Lewis of Life and Ron Livingston from Office Space, but also, Jamie Bamber (BSG), James McAvoy, Marc Warren (of every Beeb show ever), Donnie Walhberg, Dexter Fletcher, Kirk Acevedo (Alvarez from Oz), Malarky is now on ER, and Liebgott is going to marry Jennifer Love Hewitt, although, you know, that's not a real recommendation.ETA: And I forgot about Spiers! Holy shit, dude, Lt. Dan Spiers is like, Rambo does Batman! And he's played by Rufus on Gossip Girl. I know that seems weird, but way before he was Rufus he was Spiers, and damn, was he the man.
Saving Private Ryan brought you who? Matt Damon! And like, a lot of other people.
I don't even like Black Hawk Down, but it had Ewan Bremmer (Trainspotting), Eric Bana, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gyrffund, fucking Jeremy Piven and Ewan McGregor.
The Thin Red Line had Adrian Brody, Jim Caveziel, GEORGE, it had GEORGE, Thomas Jane, Ben Chaplin and Alvarez from Oz again (Kirk was totally getting around, where is he now anyway?)
So, you know, the next time I shriek that the entire world must watch Generation Kill just remember its pedigree, not only is it whip-smart, horrifying and sickingly inappropriately with the laughs, but it's a military movie/series. I promise you, the guys are dead hot. Do you really need much else?
*This is not brought to you by the fact that sometimes I watch the Military Channel hungover. No. Not even.
ETA: It is very hard for me to detox from the Olympics when Michael fucking Phelps is every fucking where, because then I just feel compelled to watch and read when he's fondling strippers and making bets with supremely hot football players. Stupid boy! I do not want to write some story where Michael goes to Cleveland to visit Braylon and Ryan has a hissy fit, least of all because Ryan is so not the hissy fit type. He's very laidback about everything, but there might be some snarky blowback later on.
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Because I'm a chickenshit?
Like, somebody would have to sit me down, with pictures, and tell me who gets killed and who doesn't. Because otherwise, I CAN'T TAKE IT. The only reason I can sit and watch Generation Kill is because I've seen Brad and Nate and Josh Ray and Rudy and Kocher all sitting around shooting the shit in flip-flops and blue jeans five years later. Otherwise, I'd be a BASKET CASE watching.
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I need a minute.
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Okay, so, wait, seriously. Like, never, never? I don't even know what to say to that. Okay, you see how vehemently I insist everybody see GK? When I first saw BoB it was the only thing I watched for two weeks straight.
And as for telling you who survives and who doesn't, I could, but like, it's a long list, and in a way it detracts if you know what's going to happen before it happens. It won't stop you falling in love with every last one of them, nothing does. It really is the kind of thing you need to experience as it happens. It's not pretty though, you are totally going to be broken when it's over, but all the awesomeness you see in GK? The attention to detail, the production values, everything that says someone put time and heart and attention into making that series the best thing it could ever be? HBO perfected that technique with Band of Brothers.
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I'm there, I'm ready, I'll watch it.
But I still want to know going in who dies. Hell, I had to brace myself for Pappy. The anxiety would totally overshadow my enjoyment. It's weird, I know, but I've learned what I can put myself through and what I can't.
My dad fought in WW2 in the European theater (England, Wales, France and Belgium). I have NO DISTANCE from it, you know?
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The anxiety would totally overshadow my enjoyment. It's weird, I know, but I've learned what I can put myself through and what I can't.
If you want to know who dies, check out the character and cast listing from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_brothers#Cast_and_characters). It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that after a while you start to lose count and then it's just another one and another one and people leave for injury but not death and it's --- it's complicated. And very draining.
I think, when you see BoB, you're going to see a lot of similarities to GK, the introduction of the boys, the way they bond, the way they suffer, the way they put each other first, but BoB will make you even more invested. It's kind of mind-boggling.
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