Generation Kill

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Actor: Alexander Skarsgard, David Barrera, Kyle Siebert, Langley Kirkwood, Rudy Reyes
Brand: Generations
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 470 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO

DVD Reviews of Generation Kill

DVD Review: Best DVD Set since Band of Brothers
Summary: 5 Stars

If you own Band of Brothers Band of Brothersor Saving Private Ryan,Saving Private Ryan this is a "must add" to the collection. The series shows the non PC version of the modern warrior in Iraq. Highly recommended!

DVD Review: To Real Hitman
Summary: 5 Stars

Hopefully, no boring comments about my experiences; blah, blah, blah...
The characters are wonderfully pieced together, the dialogue is what you would expect and the emotions and insights which are represented are truly real.
In one scene there is a close up of the "reporters" face as they are about to get ambushed... priceless........... no words, merely expressions.

This is what boots on the ground truly looks like, not that glamourous.

Out.

DVD Review: Vietnam Rhetoric in the Desert
Summary: 2 Stars

I loved the characters, the relationships between the guys, the acting, the special effects--you really come to love these guys.

What kills the whole thing is half way through the movie the Political Agenda starts to creep in--complete with "Why are we here? What's it all for? We're baby killers!" reminiscent of bad Vietnam movies.

The end of the film depicts our heroes watching a "home movie" that shows dead bodies as the song "When the Man Comes Around" plays, and the heroes slowly walk off in self-loathing and disgust.

I walked away from this film in disgust, as well.

DVD Review: Su-perb!
Summary: 5 Stars

Lyrical, believable and grand-story-telling writing, stellar performances, realistic settings, true-life props. I loved it so much when I saw it broadcast on HBO that I told every I know about it and had to buy a copy of the dvds for myself to watch over & over again. I've been screening it for friends this weekend and still just as excited about this mini-series as the first time. A MUST buy for fans of this genre!

DVD Review: A behind the scenes look at America's Heroes.
Summary: 5 Stars

The book caught my eye when I first saw it. I read it almost overnight. If you haven't read the book, I highly advise doing so before you watch the series. I served in the army infantry and there's nothing that truly captures the spirit and grit of the American soldier or marine of today as this series does. Ask any infantryman from the army or the marines and they will be the first to tell you that the infantry is nothing like the rest of the military. It's a hard, dirty, back-breaking, infuriating, and insane way of life, but it's an experience you would never trade for anything else in the world.

I think this series more than anything else captures all of the elements of life as an infantryman. Everything from the absurd conversations you will have dozens of times over, to the constant wise-cracking you will endure and dish out w/ your platoon, the art of the use of profanity, to the insanity of actual combat. And more than anything else, it captures the spirit of what the infantry is all about. I was especially pleased by the use of many military acronyms I had not heard in quite awhile, so it was abundantly clear that the filmmakers had done their homework.

If you're curious about the modern military or want to have a glimpse of life as an infantryman, or if nothing else, simply want to be entertained, I highly recommend this series.

Description of Generation Kill

Based on the national best-selling book by Evan Wright, Generation Kill is an authentic and vividly detailed 7 part HBO mini-series event that presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion - a new breed of American soldiers.

The mini-series tells the story of these young Marines physical and emotional journey into the heart of Baghdad in those initial weeks, and how the war reveals to be much more complicated, problematic and tragic than anyone had contemplated. Many of the complications and problems that arise are due to the unwieldy military bureaucracy which the Marines confront in the midst of the war, the challenges of over-zealous and incompetent commanding officers, ever-changing rules of engagement, a non-existent strategy, severe deficiencies in necessary armor and supplies, and an enemy they don't understand.

Generation Kill is a humorous and frightening first hand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the brutality, camaraderie and bureaucracy of a new American war. It is a profoundly insightful and realistic look at the risk, costs and ultimately, the failures of the war.

Written and produced by Emmy-award winner David Simon (the Wire), and also produced by the award-winning George Faber (Elizabeth I).

There's macho, there's military macho, and then there's the over-the-top machismo of the Marines. In the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, one character--a Marine--describes his branch of the military as "America's pitbull." The seven episodes of Generation Kill follow a battalion of Marines as they lead the invasion of Iraq, ultimately rolling into Baghdad itself by the last show. The language is dense with obscenities and military jargon, but it's surprisingly easy to follow, even if you don't study the glossary that comes in a booklet with the box set. What isn't so easy to distinguish are the characters themselves, except by surface details: This guy has a hoarse voice, this guy is an embedded journalist (a stand-in for Evan Wright, the Rolling Stone reporter who wrote the book the series is based on), this guy is a white supremacist, this guy has a mustache, this guy is an officer obsessed with the other guy's mustache. The problem is that people are ultimately defined by what they do, and soldiers in war are all doing pretty much the same thing: Shooting, swearing, and sitting around as they wait to shoot and swear some more. But Generation Kill isn't aiming for personal identification; the creators of the series (David Simon and Ed Burns, producers of the critically-adored The Wire) aim to immerse the viewer in the texture of the experience--which, in this case, is mostly chaos and confusion. Sandstorms are as great a threat as mortar fire; pizza trucks arrive out of nowhere on the brink of a mission (conveniently providing a bit of product placement); and the rules of engagement keep changing as the goals of the higher-ups grow increasing out-of-synch with the war on the ground. Generation Kill captures the frustration and increasing cynicism of the grunt troops with vivid skill, as their simplistic morality--kill the bad guys!--grows more and more hollow. Extras include some brief interviews with real Marines; the usual making-of documentary, mildly interesting but justly deleted scenes, and audio commentaries; and entertaining video diaries from Eric Ladin, the actor who plays the white supremacist. --Bret Fetzer

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