having only just recently got round to watching Band of Brothers....
I would say my heroes are anyone who fights for this country and for peace throughout the world. (even though it's ironic that you have to fight for peace).

My Villains, however, would be anyone from S*nderland.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 9:51, 19 replies)

So no one since 1945, then.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 9:55, closed)

give or take...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 9:56, closed)

We haven't had to defend our shores since then, and our adventures in the Middle East sure as hell ain't about spreading peace and love.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:01, closed)

i like the term 'adventures'.
I think wars should be rated on the films they inspire.
Also, it says here, the Second World War didn't officially end until the Berlin Wall was ripped down. Germany never signed for the peace treaty. They were out when it was delivered I guess?
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:05, closed)

Reminds me of a letter in an old Viz:
"Why is the First World War referred to as the 'Great' war, when World War Two, with it's much higher death toll and use of nuclear weapons was clearly far better?"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:07, closed)

Ha! Brilliant.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:14, closed)

good show and well said

(jennymnemonic, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 13:10, closed)

Check out The Pacific (sort of part 2). Not quite as good but still very watchable.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:20, closed)

oddly...
I'd watched that when it was first on sky, but now with Band of Brothers freshly in my head, I think I need to re-watch.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:25, closed)

its..
nowhere NEAR as good but yeah it is very watchable...and pwoper horrible in places
( bigmeuprudeboy is using powerpoint or paint...have MERCY, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:27, closed)

it's be interesting to see a series about the 1st world war...
but as America didn't really have as much of a say in it and they seem to be the ones that document these things, I doubt it'll happen anytime soon...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:30, closed)

hang on...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0426688/

this might be worth a go...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 10:38, closed)

movie instead of series, but The Lost Battalion is a cracking film - www.imdb.com/title/tt0287535/
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 11:15, closed)

Blackadder Goes Forth?

(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 11:32, closed)

There is a problem there though...
You'd get your full first episode covering the training, and the beginning of friendships and all that, then you'd get half a second episode where they deploy, then at the end of that they'd go into action for the first time, 98 percent of them would be gunned down in 15 seconds and of the two survivors one will get shot for cowardice and the other will be invalided back home.

It would be a very brief series...
(Woodlouse say it with flowers. Send her a Triffid, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 14:16, closed)

Bollocks
Will you be going to public outpourings of grief to make yourself more British than other British people.

Our lads, queen mum, hang 'em all.

Peep Peep
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 12:35, closed)

Fighting for this country?
You mean the national sport of getting lagered up and kicking the crap out of someone?

ENGERLUND, ENGERLUND!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 15:47, closed)

well....
a wins a win right?
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 8:57, closed)

2 WORLD WARS AND 1 WORLD CUP
and so on, ad nauseam.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 12:07, closed)