Generation Kill (David Simon) starts this Sunday

http://www.slate.com/id/2195145/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/tv/5881886.html
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20210425,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/reviews/tv/la-et-generationkill11-2008jul11,0,2716952.story

There is no one I trust more in entertainment than David Simon.

I'm really fucking excited for this.

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Nicely put!

if you got demand you can check out lil breif introductions to the main characters...from the clips on demand it looks like it could be pretty good

he's my favorite so far.

Cause after the Wire was over. I canceled that shit. I owe it to Burns and Simon, and it looks like its getting good reviews.

...is it gonna be On Demand?

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i thought it was great... then again, i can't think of something on hbo/showtime i haven't enjoyed.

I LOL'ed hard @ Ziggy singing Skater Boy.

Interesting episode. Well acted and you can tell it's building towards something. The pacing on the "realistic" war series/movies always seems weird to me, but I guess it's always important to show how fucking boring it can be to be a soldier sometimes.

I think it's gonna take another episode to figure out who all the character's are. Aside from Garza and the reporter, most of them look like square-jawed white guys to me. And I still think of them as "Ziggy" or "Beecher" or whatever roll I associate them with.

By the way, did Officier Bad Hair from The Wire have a brief appearance in this epsiode? I thought I saw him in one of the Godfather's meetings.

He was in all of Godfather's meetings.

he seems too inoocent

he looks like he aint afraid 2 speak his mind

"you beat it, mistreat it, and every now and then you let it out to attack someone"

good shit. so far, so good. gotta watch it again to get into specifics.

especially with them having to spend all their own money. I know he dropped around 2 G's on extra body armor. Fucking unreal.

the show looks very good so far. Zig is killing me.

I did have a little problem keeping up with who everyone was but I'll rewatch this episode before the next one.

So what was up with that dude driving the Humvee in the beginning. Did he just pass out from heat exhaustion? He wasn't shot.

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V.

i'm about a quarter of the way through. so far it seems to be pretty faithful to the text. i think if i hadn't read any of it, i'd think a lot of the stuff was over-acting, or sensationalized, especially person (the driver of colbert's humvee). all-in-all, i'm really liking the series so far. though there are some parts that need some explaining unless you're familiar with marine lingo or have read some of the book.

I'ma have to peep it again just to catch the chunks of stuff that I missed...

Also, I'd like to do a post-per-episode, like we did for The Wire and The Sopranos... so this is the post for episode 1, "Get Some"...
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sounding like don corleone was pretty cool.

ziggy is just as annoying as he was in the wire season 2. hopefully he will grow on me like he did then.

you wrote for hustler? lmao.



I'm gonna rewatch sometime this week, but this looks very promising.

So that part with the idiot from Season 2 of The Wire blacking out on the kids was hilarious to me.

It's got good dramatic scenes, but man, the widely messed-up humor makes the show required watching.

The whole episode was golden. The hype is well-deserved.

you can already tell everyone wont make it, and a few characters will come to the forefront as the series progresses.

looks like this is gonna be real good after watching the first episode.



PEACE

between january and may i watched the whole of the sopranos and then the wire on dvds and online for the first time. so waiting each week for a new episode of this is going to seem like hell.

like when they were talking bout J-lo being killed. You could hear someone saying she was mexican then someone said mexicans are tropical puerto ricans. I fell the fuck out. So many funny moments thrown in the background.

To catch some of the background stuff - some of it is pretty funny. But I mainly wanted to see what the mustache Nazi was saying during a few of his lines. Haha it didn't even help seeing what he was saying something about unfucking yourself. I like the way that character pluralizes every word and says Americee.

When that one dude was in the background marching across like a Nazi, I almost fell out

http://fuck-your.blogspot.com (MUSIC)
http://eatmybigfat.blogspot.com (FOOD)
http://www.myspace.com/insightclopediabrown
http://www.myspace.com/dumhi
http://www.youtube.com/group/okayplayer
http://www.last.fm/user/Dawgeatah

i even felt like i caught a few of the same lines
might be because they're both based on marines

I just watched this and I'm about to watch ep. 2, but this definitely is working on the right tone for me. You can really tell the Wire influence. It was a great setup episode and the main point is already perfectly clear: This war was mismanaged from the top (ya of course) but what's great is that in typical Simon fashion this point isn't shoved in your face. The people grab our attention and then you leave thinking about the institutional criticism, I can't wait for more.

pretty elaborate but ehh so far

-Generation Kill: A Conversation with the 1st Recon Marines
-Making Generation Kill
-Eric Ladin's video diaries
-Deleted dialogues
-Audio commentaries

Just started the book, would love to get this on DVD