Comments on: The Wire Creators Bring Iraq War Mini-Series to HBO

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:09:25 +0000

Nothing against the soldiers who are doing their job, but if this is painted as some sort of honour, then I’ll be a bit miffed.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:22:14 +0000

One might argue certain minutia of the show, but there’s no denying the show is brilliant …gut wrenching …heart breaking. We’ve linked to this image for our article at http://www.spunkybean.com and our review of the mini-series will be up at Noon, Tuesday (July 22). Thanks for the image and I’m thrilled people are catching onto this show so quickly.

By: rot

rot — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:02:10 +0000

Anything the Wire crew do I am 100% in for, but I am wondering if the Wire was a one-off because the creators were from Baltimore and the story was so much about that city… I guess storytelling is storytelling.

By: Inthe Know

Inthe Know — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:15:07 +0000

Sean, you don’t know what you’re talking about:

“…the background of the soldiers, many of whom come from broken homes and had little expectations from life.”

With the exception of Espera, who is not a Recon Marine, every 0321 Marine in that unit, despite their often humorous self-degradation, are absolute professionals who were successful before, during, and after this little ’story’. The majority are well-educated and/or competitive atheletes from middle to upper-middle class homes. A number of enlisted men have bachelor’s degrees or higher.

And, Marines are not soldiers. Other than all that, great job buddy.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:07:03 +0000

Now, I liked Band of Brothers (who didn’t?) but I thought it was by far strongest in the first three episodes and the last three episodes. The stuff in between, I thought they got carried away with the ’spectacle’ and all the war stuff. There was this one episode where they were in the forest and basicly were bombarded for 70 minutes or so, which got pretty boring to say the least.

So if they’re aiming to make it like band of brothers in terms of the spectacle I don’t care about this, but if they’re aiming for that sort of quality in terms of actors and actually taking their time with it (the band of brothers episodes were quite long if I recall correctly, and I liked that) then I am definitely excited. Even if I am sick of hearing the true story of this war.