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Netflix recommendations?
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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Netflix has a new series out called WWII: From the Frontlines." It doesnt seem to present anything new from a historical perspective but holy crap it has some really spectacularly restored combat footage, among the best ever I think, from the war. I have only watched one episode but there is footage from onboard planes dogfighting Japanese fighters, footage from a ship shooting down Japanese planes, and an artillery combat scene of the British in North Africa. Some of them look like watching a good movie or HBO special except it's the real thing, which I suppose shows how well the filmmakers have portrayed a lot. Regarding other episodes, the opinion I've seen around the Internet is the same, amazing footage but nothing new history-wise.
I haven't watched any episodes yet, but the review I read of the series portends a bigger issue that matches what you describe. The characters just aren't fleshed out as well as they were in BoB. The result is they're more players in a scene than portraying a story that really grabs the viewer, again, like BoB.
I re-watched episodes 1 & 2 last night before the new ep drops tomorrow. On re-watch it’s a little easier to follow who’s who. Other than Buck, Bucky, and Crosby the Airsick Nav, I still couldn’t tell you any of the characters’ names, though.
On the other hand, so many secondary/background characters from Band of Brothers wound up being A-listers or nearly so (Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, Simon Pegg, Stephen Graham, Jimmy Fallon, James McAvoy) it’d be cool if something like that happened with this show.
Every time I watch the series, I find a new one. I'm about 3/4 through BoB right now and finally noticed McAvoy this time. You also forgot Jamie Bamber (BSG and the British Law&Order) and Marc Warren (Hustle...a British show that started strong but kind of petered out, later to be remade on TNT under a different name with American actors).
I have to argue with Jimmy Fallon though. He was already pretty hot then. I have to believe that was done as a favor from one of the 326th times Hanks hosted SNL.
A separate thought...One thing that I've been a little more disappointed in BoB this time is how many factual errors keep popping up, many from Ambrose not ever fact-checking things members of Easy told him in their recollections. Still a great story told really well, but a lot of the errors were things that were negative towards individuals.
Like Blithes' death.
I'll never understand how the credits in that show have not been updated. In the age of DVDs and Blu-Ray, sure, I don't really expect them to reissue the show (but it would be nice). But in the age of streaming? C'mon.
And Dyke's.
Was he? I couldn't swear one way or another but back when the show first came out I just remember going, oh was that guy in the jeep that guy that does Weekend Update?
Yeah, I think the factual errors and omissions are mostly on Ambrose. Unfortunately over the last few years some dirt has come up about his integrity and research ability. Great writer, maybe not so great a historian as many people (including me) believed.
One thing I've seen mentioned many times in connection with the show was that it's rather unfair to Herbert Sobel. He apparently was indeed a colossal prick, but not the jittery, incompetent putz he's depicted as. He didn't sit out D-Day like the show implies, he jumped with the rest of the regiment and got a Bronze Star for leading an attack on a German machine-gun nest. Didn't have the best time of it after the war, eventually spent nearly 20 years living in a VA nursing home after a botched suicide attempt before finally dying in 1987. The show kinda pissing on the poor bastard's grave made good drama but maybe wasn't deserved.
I wonder how much of this has come to light since so many people have focused on Easy company in the wake of BoB's popularity. Hindsight is 20/20, and it's been literally decades at this point.
Not saying Ambrose deserves to be let off the hook for inaccuracies or inconsistencies, but without his writing and the ensuing screen play, many of us (likely myself) might never have heard of Easy company.
I enjoyed episode 3 of Masters of the Air. And thought it was good. The raid on Regensburg was accurately portrayed as a running aerial gun fight. In fact, the 100th got chewed up on that raid. Still, I think some timelines are a bit off but so far I’m fine with the Hollywood magic. I particularly liked the slow motion moment during the fight.
Ambrose caught a lot of flak for something back in the late '90's or early aughts. I can't remember what it was about or which book it was, but his methods were questioned quite some time ago and not just "internet recent."
I remember there being a bunch of news stories on the news about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Grizz or Flash can drop a link on us in about 10 seconds.
Here you go…please note it was 7 seconds but only timed from my reading, not actual posting time.
Why Stephen Ambrose's plagiarism matters.
Stephen Ambrose handled his first plagiarism scandal of the week with the graceful humility you'd expect from America's Uncle History. Over the...
In a way it is quaint to read this again in the current climate where Harvard presidents and senior scholars are racking up hundreds of citation “missteps.” In my opinion Ambrose’s greatest sin was his abuse of work done by his graduate students…professionally that hurts.