[Apple+ Series] Masters of the Air (Spielberg & Hanks)

Droppped today and it is AMAZING !

DD

 

Looks good, is there anything woke in it?

 

looking forward to this

Band of Brothers might be the best TV/movie ever.

 

Looks cool.

 

Watched the first two episodes. Great stuff... the actors are likeable, they balance story development and action, and geez... anyone that went up in the Fortresses must have had balls of steel.

 

I only saw Band of Brothers all the way through for the first time just recently within the last month and saw The Pacific when it aired. This seems worthy of a reactivation of my Apple+ account ever since Ted Lasso ended.

I see that Dale Dye is serving as senior military advisor again on this one- he played Colonel Sink in BoB and played bit parts in Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, and many other projects. But it is his role as military advisor on the sets of these projects that brings the authenticity.

I know that during the “boot camp” for the actors involved during The Pacific, they did things such as piping in sounds from the enemy from deep in the jungles where they were training to simulate the psychological element of warfare and they separated the Japanese actors from the actors portraying the American soldiers until it was time to film the combat scenes, etc.

 

Okay, but is it spongeworthy?

 

watched the first two last night after the game. Agree, the military history aspect of flying is well done. I don't think the character development is as good as Band of Brothers or the Pacific. Also it is a bit more of a CGI-fest (for obvious reasons) than either of the other two. Still worth watching--hoping they flesh out some of the characters and story lines over the full run.

 

Being that this series is about the B-17 runs, theyll have to flesh out some characters, as there wont be many left.

 

the whole bro's being bros vibe isn't really working for me. Maybe that's how pilots are, but the Band of Brothers characters were more believable.

Butler and Turner are not believable as leaders of men. They look like children compared to Lts. Winters/Compton/Speirs, and they are majors!

 

There will be plently of flesh out of the characters once they are flying over Germany. Flesh out on the floors. Flesh out on the walls. Flesh out all over the place.

 

Uh yea…. This is good.

 

Enjoyed the first two episodes. Cannot imagine flying in one of those under heavy fire. My wife’s grandfather was a gunner in the bottom. Seems like the worst spot.

 

It was. Mortality was like 2× as high as the rest of the crew. I want to say it was the most dangerous job in the air, statistically, maybe most dangerous job period in all of the military? Google just came back with 60% chance of death as the ball gunner. If not the absolute most dangerous job it was one of the handful of most dangerous.

 

You have the weirdest complaints, "leaders of men" my ass.

Those 2 actors are 31ish. So was Damian Lewis when he played a 23 yo Dick Winters (he made Major at the age of 27ish) at the start of Band of Brothers. Compton was about 22, Spiers was about 24 when D-Day happened.

The average age of a bomber pilot in the 8th Air Force in 1942 was about 27.

 

First 3 episodes are great, all of these shows by them are amazing.

DD

 

While it's not quite on par with Band of Brothers or The Pacific, it's pretty close. And I only say that because the previous 2 shows, especially BoB, set an impossibly high bar. Much like The Pacific, it carries a slightly different tone than Bob because it depicts a different aspect of the war, so it takes a few episodes to settle into the story as well as the use of the CG. Masterful filmmaking all the same though, and it's putting me in a war movie mood.

 

They're saying that Hanks' "Greyhound" was the naval equivalent of these shows.

It was a great movie, but a proper series about the naval war in the Pacific (sorry, Pearl Harbor and Midway) would be the natural next thing to do, and I hope they do it.