I recently had the absolute joy of watching Band of Brothers for the first time. A fantastic production.
I suprisied myself just how daft I was not to have watched it before, but my theory of why holds water with me and a friend who felt exactly the same.
BOB came out in 2001, prior to that Saving Private Ryan had come out in ’98. There’s obviously a strong Tim Hanks link between the two, but also between the two release dates came U-571. A travesty of re-writing of history and after that I never had much appetite fro watching another US-made WWII reworking. That as v unfair on the BOB productions which was done so well, and friend and former officer is content to call probably the best representation of WW11 warfare he has seen on a screen.
It has not aged at all either.