What is there left to say, really?
PFFFFFFFFFTT?
"Television Review: In for the 'Kill'; A new HBO miniseries puts viewers on the ground with the troops in the early days of the Iraq invasion" by Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | July 11, 2008
.... As viewers, we are at times left to feel confused and poorly led, like the American soldiers with whom we travel. We yearn for a clearer narrative arc, just as the soldiers hunger for a solid idea of where they are going, and why. But in the first five episodes, all we get is an awesome and troubling accumulation of vignettes and moral challenges, including the shooting of peasant farmers and the destruction of a grammar school.
Like "The Wire," "Generation Kill" also gives us no formal introduction to the men - played by little-known actors - or what each one is responsible for. But slowly, and quite surely, the significant characters grow distinct and vivid, and the performances deepen.
Billy Lush is suitably irritating as a newbie desperate to do some shooting.
"He's a psycho," Corporal Ray Person says about the kid. "At least he's our psycho."
Yup, GLORIFY the whole damn thing!
Guess you wouldn't mind serving a hitch yourself then, would ya, Matty?
There is nothing mythic about this trip into war by Simon, Burns, and Wright, no thick "Band of Brothers" nobility or "Apocalypse Now" polemics. The miniseries is a gathering of rich little moments on the road to nowhere - Person recalling that his grandmother pinned his photo on a
WTF?!?!
Laser-lit and sand-blasted, "Generation Kill" defines a new kind of hell.
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That's not what I heard about war.
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