Generation Kill

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anyone planning on watching this? Looks good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLDZe9hKb0



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I am definately. I loved loved LOVED The Wire.



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i can't watch that, army shit doesn't work for me.

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it looks good. If I remember I'll give it a shot.

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I plan on Tivo'ing every episode.  Like someone else mentioned, I loved The Wire and just about everything else HBO puts out.



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so.....what de ya thinks? I just watched the pilot today. So far so good.

 

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I think it was pretty good. Although i kinda hope it turns out to be more a miniseries like Band of Brothers was, rather than turning into a regular series like the Wire was.

 



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I think it's only seven episodes long.



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Ritt wrote:

I think it's only seven episodes long.

This is correct.



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I stopped watching after the stereotypical ethnic Sarge says, "Man has been fighting over this land since ancient times, dawg".

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Of all the edgy things on that show, the black guy saying "dog" bothered you?



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 I'll admit that i probably wouldn't be interested if it wasn't from the creator of the wire. But man, now i'm interested. Bah!



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tom i love you

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oh geez, not this shit again.



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I really like this show. And I really like Morey.

 

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Ritt wrote:

Of all the edgy things on that show, the black guy saying "dog" bothered you?

It's not that the show is "edgy" it's that it's not edgy. It's dull lame, and nothing I haven't seen/experienced before.

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I've only seen one episode and haven't read the book yet. I'm not running to anybody and telling them they need to see it. Frankly, like most other war/battlefield movies or series, you get pretty much everything but character development from the trailer. All that's left for me to understand is the characters themselves. These types of shows are seemingly typecast identical to a reality television show, and that's the only interesting element left. Who is closet gay? Who is the rasict? Who is the smart guy who finds out too late that he doesn't belong there? Who is the ass-kissing Niedermeyer wanna-be? Most all of those questions have already been answered, now all we have left is the obligatory carnage that gives the neanderthal marines hard-ons and the rest of us nausea. If anything, that one episode has made me more liberal than I was before. By the end of the series, I will be starting my own commune.