It's raining men, hallelujah

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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.

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Is J. Lo really dead, sir?

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Dude!

His little face....

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Wait until you get the full-on Ray experience. And the Brad experience. And the Nate experience. And Pope. And Walt. And Garza... and Shady B... and Rudy... and Pappy. The love I have for this series is immensely profound.

Also, you are my second convert this week. I beem with pride.

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You may beam indeed. I am loving this, and I've barely started (and I strongly suspect that for a not-terribly slasher girl like me, the porn opportunities are limited, to say the least. Sigh. At least there is a lot of hunky manflesh to ogle)!

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Well the thing is, first and foremost, GK is a series about guys. It's about how they live together and relate and deal and support each other. It's not 'romantically inclined' as it were. You can slash them if you want (which, you know, hey, hotass), but that is not the primary purpose or even the primary draw. It's almost like an after thought in a way. When I first put together my GK pimp post I really just wanted to talk about how I wanted to climb Brad and ... yeah, okay, you get the point there. Or how I think Nate is perfect and idealistic and I want to put him in a bubble of protection...

I could talk about this a VERY long time.

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I can get on board the Brad-climbing, yes.

And ITA about the guys vs the romance, yes.

A small thing. Looking at the guys (and bear in mind I'm in the first half of the first episode), the Marines look very white - I mean, obvie, not entirely, but a vast majority. Is the Marine Corps notoriously less integrated than the Army (because correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the US military recruited an awful lot of ethnic minorities).

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Wait until you see Brad shirtless... holy cow.

With regards to the series seeming more white than anything else, I do agree. I don't know a lot about the military's track record here, but I do know that Recon boys aren't regular Marines, they're specialized like NAVY Seals, which probably changes up the ethnic make-up, and you're only dealing with the people the author met, so you have Garza and Pope, who are Mexican, and Baptista, who is Portugese and one black guy, so you know, I'm not surprised.

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Yeah, I can see how that might work. Didn't realise that Recon were a Marine elite (although now you mention it, and seeing as they are spearheading the assault on Baghdad, it makes an awful lot of sense), but I can see the logic. And yes, the author would be the filter.

Makes me want to read the book now.

Damn, as if I needed more distraction...

I can see Band of Brothers on the horizon...

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Read the book. Just go ahead and order it now, don't deny yourself something you're going to want more every second you watch the show. You'll probably want Nate's book too. And yes, Band of Brothers. MAAAAAAAAAAAN, Band of Brothers. thisisbone and I were talking about this quite a bit yesterday. I had many things to say about her not having seen it, because if you have one, you need the other. BoB is going to hurt though. Like a lot.

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I think I;m developing a serious kink for men in uniforms. And guns. I blame BSG and Jamie Bamber. And you. ;)

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Did I mention that Jamie Bamber is in Band of Brothers? And James McAvoy. And like, oh just, you know, like hotass men everywhere. HBO really knows how to pick'em [/shameless pimping].

What can I say, I like my men to be manly. I'm not about that androgeny confusing business.

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Yes, I know about Bamber being in BoB. It's a miracle I held out for so long. I think it's time I recognised I WANT it.

And word to the manly men. Which is why I'm less inclined to go for bandom and the eyeliner wearing slim-hipped girly boys... I like testosterone, dammit.

That Skarsgard boy is definitely pinging my radar, btw. Shirtless, you say? Can't wait!

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If I wanted my men to be womanly, I'd just get a woman, you know?

That Skarsgard boy is definitely pinging my radar, btw. Shirtless, you say? Can't wait!

Let me tell you when it finally happens, it is a glorious thing. They're always so buttoned up that when they're not it's like somebody slapped you in the face with sex. Okay, that made me laugh.