"Masters of The Air" Official Trailer Reaction
Added 2023-12-11 03:37:37 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!!! Checking out this Trailer and it looks so awesome! I got a little chatty about - well what I kinda feel like watching next - but we will figure out together! I feel like this one is a must though!
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Everyone's different - I've been addicted to science fiction since I was in eighth grade (more than fifty years ago), and into military history for just as long. For me, Band of Brothers and The Pacific would both be on my top ten of all time movie & TV list - as would Dune Part One, Arrival, and Serenity - and Masters of the Air looks every bit as good. Next they need to do a series about people in the Navy in that war! Preferably including submarine and aircraft carrier crews. My stepfather served in the Navy in the Atlantic and then the western Pacific in that war - went through the whole war, and he was still only 22 when it ended. My grandfather, in his mid-30s, got drafted into the Army despite being married with a couple of children, and because he was an insurance adjuster with a lot of experience at that, when he got to Europe they made him a war crimes investigator. I don't know what he saw; Mom said he would never talk about it. But once he mailed her a pressed dried flower from a planter at Berchtesgaden. By the way, with your having found Band of Brothers so interesting, I think you would be fascinated and and absorbed by Ken Burns' seven-episode docuseries on World War II, The War. Ken Burns is as masterful as Hanks and Spielberg. He chose four typical American communities in different parts of the country - the upper Great Plains, New England, the Deep South, and California - and followed the stories of military people, their families, and civilians there through the war. He also covered Japanese-American soldiers fighting in Europe while their families in America were locked up in internment camps, an American family taken prisoner by the Japanese and held in a prison camp for the rest of the war, African-American soldiers dealing with segregation and discrimination while fighting for their country, and an American soldier captured by the Japanese who survived the Bataan Death March and captivity in a POW camp for the rest of the war. He even interviewed a Marine who figured prominently in The Pacific in depth, as well as his sister; they were close friends of another Marine, one of the three primary figures in The Pacific, and talked about him at length, although he had died by the time Burns started filming. It's at least as good as his series on the American Civil War and the series he filmed on the Vietnam War, as well as the ones he did on cancer (The Emperor of All Maladies) and the Dust Bowl of the Great Depression era.
Jim Finley
2023-12-19 10:20:25 +0000 UTCYeah the once a week watching will definitely help manage this series with others, looking forward to it. Also, I'm due for a Firefly re-watch so hopefully that makes the schedule sometime.
JaySpotTx
2023-12-12 15:33:08 +0000 UTC
