Samuel Golub
After watching Generation Kill, being an Army Reservist, I decided on watching this. Turns out Over There is god awful. It's really, really, really, just plain terrible. The effects are bad, a 40 mike mike video game-like dismembering the complete upper half of an insurgent across a fine border''dismembering''line, the stereotypes, unbelievable/unrealistic conduct of military personnel. Like said in the reviews here many times before: Generation Kill kills everything out of this crap series .. :')Jesus Christ it's bad, did I already say it was bad? The only good thing about Over There are the communication procedures.
Dondi0
Got lent this as a box-set by a friend after I lent them Generation Kill. They definitely got the better deal. The characters are paper thin cut-outs of the modern military movie mould plodding through the same old predictable arcs. The dialogue is clunky and clichéd and is either perfunctorily expositional or feels as though the writer's are simply making trite speeches via the mouths of their characters. The action sequences feel cheap and fake, are poorly directed and edited. They rely heavily on erratic fast zooms, whip-pans and student style post-production effects in a laughably dated attempt to feel hip. I don't know where this was filmed but it looks more like the Californian desert than Iraq. Also there is barely any actual dramatic tension.The whole thing is as mawkish as it's overly literal syrup-rock closing credits theme song.To paraphrase a previous poster Generation Kill literally kills this stone dead and I bet it cost less to make too. Admittedly Generation Kill is a lot more demanding of it's audience but the rewards are ten-fold. It actually attempts to take an objective view of the Iraq situation whereas Over There has a very pro-American subtext barely covered by a thin veneer of apparent objectivity. The structure, language, casting, performances, plot, direction, action humour and dialogue in Generation Kill are all superlative and make Over There look as dramatically dated as an episode of E.R. Goes to Iraq.You can buy the complete run of Generation Kill for 15 quid on Amazon right now. Cheap at twice the price.
Cracka_haha
Americans don't even need to be in Iraq for Christ sakes all there doing is getting there own soldiers killed, more people died in Iraq than the number of people who died in the 9/11 attacks, kinda stupid eh? why wont George pull the soldiers out and let the Iraqis fix there own problems, and you Americans thinking this war is all oh my god :( dramatically o well boo who , its like having America invade Canada saying OK, everything is going to be run our way, well screw u guys, try it, and i say this movie sucks whats to be proud of seeing a bunch of Americans in a place they don't need to be, seriously......for example, everyday tons of Iraqis are dying, some of them terrorists, others are just protecting there land, its Iraq, Americans don't or cant inflict laws or rules they cant do anything, and then they say WHY ARE THEY ATTACKING US? well u gotta think we invaded them, thus giving them a reason to attack us, it would be vice versa if this was USA.....honestly this TV show is to dramatical, Americans take to much pride in useless war movies, no offense
jason1085
I am a 7 year vet and have actually been to Iraq during the opening days of the war in Mar of 03. This show means so much to the people who have served there. It is so sad and hard for me to believe that the show has been canceled due to lack of interest. I am praying that the creators will notice the profits from their DVD sales and begin thinking of a second season. I don't think it should be a on-going TV show, but maybe just make one last season to end it so we are not lost in the character development. I only wish that the creators of this show bring this back. Think of HBO's Band of Brothers. They made a beginning and an end for this mini-series. Its only fair to us and the actors who put in so much effort to entertain us.