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Old January 7th, 2008, 12:05 AM   #21
 
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agreed clarkson's really good at that. imo richard seems better at presenting entertaining shows. then again i don't think i've seen richard present such a thing so who knows he could be good at it.
I've just seen it absolutely incredible and very moving. The story of Omaha beach was never taught at my School - Hammond did an excellent job presenting BTW.
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Just saw this and it was a fantastic and moving story. Omaha was something i had also not been taught about at school but this seemed to me to give a great description of what happened. The descriptions given by those involved were just horrifying though and i would hate to be there. Hammond did a great job and personally im glad he did this documentary instead of Clarkson as i feel Hammonds presentation style was more suited to this documentary (a bit quieter and less emphasis on particular events while Clarkson will concentrate more on a particular event or individual for a period of time and shouts more). A lot of research obviously went into this and the use of computer graphics was brilliant, bringing the battle to life almost.

Personally i think this was i great tribute to the bravery shown by these solders who were involved in the Omaha attack and i hope that a lesson was also learned from what went on here. Never rely on just 1 piece of the puzzle (the air attacks) and that solders should always be made to expect the worst.

One last note R.I.P. for all those who died in this mission as well as to all those who have died as part of any armed force R.I.P.
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The torrent's up on Mininova:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1088919

I'm downloading it right now so I don't know about the quality yet. Requires you to register to Motorworld

EDIT: excellent quality

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There's a Scene rip of it:

Timewatch.Bloody.Omaha.WS.PDTV.XviD-REMAX


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There's a Scene rip of it:

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What is the link for it? Or is that the copy you were looking at getting? images/smilies/wacko.gif I'm confused. images/smilies/lol.gif
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Anyway, I managed to find it and made a torrent: http://www.finalgear.com/news/2008/0...omaha-torrent/
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Good, but Clarkson's WW2 docus are better. Hammond is trying to become the new Jeremy images/smilies/mad.gif
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I think they have very different styles and Hammond's was better suited to this programme - which was mostly told by interviews with survivors and experts. Richard is, imo, better at the simple voiceover than Jeremy.
And in answer to why a documentary on Omaha beach by a British tv programme - why on earth not? The BBC makes documentaries on all sort of topics - it doesn't need to be solely about British subjects.
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THis must be ripped...

Praising americans on BBC? Impossible!
how is making a programme about one of the biggest military disasters of ww2 due to lack of intelligence and mistakes in execution praising americans?

The programme was very well written and produced but they missed out alot of very important points and focused on some not so important points for a long time, I felt that they only really told less than half the story.
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I thought it was good, though it did seem to get caught up in the ramblings of that one guy that seemed to disagree with everyone else including the vets
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Here is a little vid about how they did the Graphics for Richard hammond's bloody omaha.... it was only 3 guys!! images/smilies/smile.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0
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how is making a programme about one of the biggest military disasters of ww2 due to lack of intelligence and mistakes in execution praising americans?
Not trying to be the "america saved yer asses, durr" guy, but when thousands of young men die over what most agree was a noble cause, you try to be somewhat respectful.

I'm torrenting it now, but its taking ages, is it up on the FTP's yet?
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Anyway, I managed to find it and made a torrent: http://www.finalgear.com/news/2008/0...omaha-torrent/
Holycrap, you said scene has a rip of it. I figured you meant they had a torrent as well which is why I asked. You didn't have to be a douche about it.
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Holycrap, you said scene has a rip of it. I figured you meant they had a torrent as well which is why I asked. You didn't have to be a douche about it.
The Scene doesn't do torrents. Infact, they hate P2P...
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Not trying to be the "america saved yer asses, durr" guy, but when thousands of young men die over what most agree was a noble cause, you try to be somewhat respectful.

I'm torrenting it now, but its taking ages, is it up on the FTP's yet?
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Well I'm sorry. I didn't realize that, I just always saw "scene rip" on the front page for how long now and made that assumption.
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