mrwhite000

I didn't know much about 7/7 as I was relatively young when it happened and I didn't care much about the world beyond my neighborhood. Also 9/11 takes most of the attention when it comes to stories about terrorism for obvious reasons, so other terrible events like the London, Boston and Madrid attacks get a distant second spot. So it's good to hear the story of the 7/7 victims and survivors as well as the first responders. I wish the documentary didn't resort to so many production cliches that are so predictable and distracting like interviewing amputees with a closed up shot to later give you a wide shot of his missing legs, the digital clocks counting down and the Minority Report style geo locators with their silly "computer sound". With so much access to material and stories the director could have done something much more interesting and powerful, instead of just copy and paste all the same tricks and artifacts we have seen hundreds of times.

Band of Brothers is an amazing story, impecably directed and acted.

Some of the actors are a lot older than the veterans they play, which IMO takes away some perspective about how unbelievably brave and talented these guys where.

We are talking about 26 years old commanders parachuting in the middle of Normandy, middle of the night, anti aircraft artillery everywhere, no communications, no support, few weapons and a team of 20 years old well trained but inexperienced soldiers, and still these "men" manage to pull out some crazy, totally improvised tactical assaults that still today are studied and taught at military academies in the US and Europe.

NUTS!