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(From Saving Pvt Ryan) What's a good fire fight scene without the soldier who recites scripture before squeezing off a round?
During the 49 minutes of episode #3, I found at least four instances of material purloined from other war movies. She's snatched the crown away from Oliver Stone. This time Martha Radditz does her dissing of our American military by portraying them as demoralized, bumbling idiots (Where oh where are my flares? I must have dropped them!).
#The long road home 2017 release date movie#
It's just another war movie with a not-so-subtle liberal slant that's flavored with a good healthy helping of righteous shame. Today I watched episode #3 of The Long Road Home. Overall, a good series, just dont give up in the first few episodes it gets a whole lot better. Makes the effects of war very realistic and stark. The final episode is very poignant, with a great emotionally-manipulative twist. the action got grittier, more intense and more compelling. These all lifted the engagement level significantly.
The dialogue and interactions became more plausible.
#The long road home 2017 release date series#
The soldiers backstories went from mundane meet-the-family stuff to interesting series of events, linking in with their current situation and revealing their characters. However, from a point, the series clicked into gear. Comparing it with Generation Kill is obviously a very high standard to emulate, as Generation Kill is one of the best military mini-series of all time (only Band of Brothers is better), so maybe disappointment was inevitable. The first 2-3 episodes were all like this, to the point where I was thinking of giving up on the series. The unit brotherhood also seemed quite artificial, with forced, unnatural-feeling dialogue and interactions. Scenes showing soldiers with their family seemed token, padded and superficially sentimental. However, the series immediately failed on the engagement front. based on a true military story, follow a unit and are engaged by the camaraderie, gritty action scenes. I was initially expecting a Generation Kill-like series, i.e. Pretty good, but requires some patience to get there. What follows is a life-and-death struggle against overwhelming odds. However, the relief column is itself ambushed, the main aim of the initial ambush.
The platoon holes up in a house and reinforcements are sent to extract them. Everything seems peaceful until one day a platoon is ambushed in the city while on patrol. The US 1st Cavalry Division has recently relieved the 1st Armored Division in its occupation of Sadr City, Baghdad.
#The long road home 2017 release date tv#
The large ensemble cast on stage spent a lot of time talking about the close rest-of-their lives relationship they forged with the people they portrayed in the project, to TV critics who could be forgiven for being just the teensiest bit cynical, given the many times they’d heard that claim, and seen it not born out, over the years.Requires some patience but well worth it in the end.Īpril 2004. “That’s what happens when you get older you think ‘Hey, I better be current’,” Medavoy joked. “I thought it was time I told a story set in Iraq since it’s more current.” “This is the fourth, maybe the fifth, war movie I have been involved with,” Mike Medavoy said, listing Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Coming Home and Thin Red Line, among his credits. The project revisits the fight during the Iraq War when the First Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, was ambushed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Baghdad, on a day that came to be known as “Black Sunday.” “Television is a great medium today, especially in light of what’s happening to the movies.” “There’s no better way to tell this story, with the number of hours we got, than National Geographic,” he responded. “Do you think television now is the cutting edge arena?” TV critics asked Mike Medavoy during the TCA panel for his National Geographic Channel eight-episode limited series The Long Road Home.
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