Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Ha... here comes more reviews from my favorite series " Band of brothers"

BAND OF BROTHERS

BASTOGNE *****(I think this is the best part in BOB)

In this part Easy Company fights in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium. Easy Company digs foxholes in the snow around the Belgian town of Bastogne. But the problem is that they are woefully under-manned and under-supplied to hold the line against the inevitable Easy Company digs foxholes in the snow around the Belgian town of Bastogne. They are woefully under-manned and under-supplied to hold the line against the inevitable. The hero in this part is a medic EUGENE ROE (Shane Taylor). This part actually takes u through the experiences of medics. Roe scrounges morphine and other much-needed medical supplies to treat the various ailments and wounds of the men, who are bitterly cold and, in many cases, stricken with trench foot. For the supplieshe hag to go to a cut-off Aid Station in the surrounded, besieged town of Bastogne. There he meets a beautiful Belgian nurse named RENEE LEMAIRE (Lucie Jeanne) ministering to the horrible suffering of wounded American soldiers. My best scene was when Roe was in the hospital and a soilder wounded in the stomach with a hole comes. Roe puts his hand inside his stomach to stop the arteries. It was Damn gud and it was really painful to see such things. I donno how the medics wuld have faced these those days. Easy loses two men on an ill-fated patrol. One of them gets shot at the neck. No body could go and take him to medic because of heavy firing. That guy couldnt even cry as he got hit on his neck and his pain is unexplainable. My God!! i donno how these guys really faced these things. With no sign of relief in sight, the men celebrate a miserable holiday together in their foxholes. Then at last Germans bomb Bastogne and it hits the Aid Station and kills Renee, whose body Roe discovers.

The Breaking Point ***** (This is again a great part)

Having held off the German attempts to overrun Bastogne, Easy Comapny is now faced with the task of taking the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Company First Sergeant CARWOOD LIPTON (Donnie Wahlberg) tries to hold the company together as they withstand several fierce artillery bombardments, during which several Easy veterans are killed and maimed. There is one scene where due to an artillery Joe loses his leg. Bill tries to bring him back to his fox hole and damn he gets a damn hole in his leg. U dont believe but the hole just shows us the otherside of the leg. Sgts. JOE TOYE (Kirk Acevedo) and BILL GUARNERE (Frank John Hughes) each lose a leg. This results in an emotional breakdown by Lt. COMPTON, who has to leave the line. Morale of the company is further dampened by the incompetence of their commander, Lt. NORMAN DIKE. Lipton warns Capt. WINTERS about Dike, but Winters is well aware of the problem and can do nothing about it. Then comes a cruicial atck on Foy. But there Dike freezes up during the crucial attack on Foy and it results in many deaths and casualities. Then Winters sends Dog Company's Lt. SPEIRS to relieve him. Speirs successfully leads the taking of the town, and Lipton is happy that Easy finally has a true combat leader again. My favorite scene in this part is the one where Lt. speirs runs to the other side of the town between the germans and germans get surprised and intially donot even try to shoot him. The best part is that he even comes back to his hideout in the same way. That was really superb.

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