{"id":9339,"date":"2005-08-13T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/13\/band-of-brothers\/"},"modified":"2005-08-13T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T18:00:55","slug":"band-of-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/13\/band-of-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0185906 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0185906.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Band of Brothers (2001)\" \/>Olga and I finally finished watching &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0185906\">Band of Brothers<\/a>&#8221; series.  We partially saw it before on TV and it was so good that I bought the DVD set and we watched all of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> David Frankel, Tom Hanks<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> War, Drama<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Matthew Settle, Rick Warden, Frank John Hughes, Scott Grimes, Neal McDonough, Rick Gomez, Eion Bailey, James Madio, Kirk Acevedo, Michael Cudlitz, Richard Speight Jr., Dexter Fletcher<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 9.6<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 10.0 [rate 10.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much that I can say about it though.  You have to watch it.  It is an outstanding set of movies about Second World War II.  They are also pretty accurate historically from what I can say.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I want to do after we&#8217;ve finished watching these, is to start watching them again.  It&#8217;s like a 10-hour &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120815\/\">Saving Private Ryan<\/a>&#8220;.  Even better.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Olga and I finally finished watching &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; series. We partially saw it before on TV and it was so good that I bought the DVD set and we watched all of them. Directed by: David Frankel, Tom Hanks Genres: War, Drama Cast: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Matthew Settle, Rick Warden, Frank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/13\/band-of-brothers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Band of Brothers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[286,1399,2407],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-history","tag-tom-hanks","tag-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12487,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/22\/do-movie-actors-exist-in-the-worlds-of-the-movies-they-star-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":9339,"position":0},"title":"Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Kottke.org links to an interesting question (and discussion in the comments to the original post) - Do movie actors exist in the worlds of the movies they star in? 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