This show makes it look pretty fucking boring. There's what two firefights in however many weeks they are there. The rest of the violence is fuck ups. But it is my favourite TV show.
That singing part in the convoy reminded me when I was in the gunners hatch I started humming the song Africa by Toto because the area we were passing through looked like Africa, then the rest of the crew started singing, fun times.
The football game was sad. Ray still had loads of aggression and hadn't fully adapted to not constantly having to fight for your life. And then you can see the regret he has as he walks away
This is just my take on it, but I think that the March to Baghdad kept him sane in a way. While he was in action, he had something to keep him focused: his job. Driving and operating the radio. It was something to keep his mind occupied, which meant he was less focused on the idiocy of the leadership in the Battalion. When the invasion was over and they heard they were going home, he had no more outlet. Nothing to keep his mind occupied, so he lashed out.
@@HPSmugscraft yup, specially at Encino-man for his bad leadership, made them very angry he went unpunished, Ray frustration at Rudy was just in the show for dramatic purposes, didn't happen in the book/real life. Fun fact, they remain friends to this day, specially Brad and the reporter, Encino-man and Cpt. America were basically forced to abandon their careers as the articles and the book made everyone in the military disregard them, oh and Sgt. Major Sixta is in prison for child abuse he was a pedophile...
@@HPSmugscraft He was just pissed off that Rudy hit him so hard. After his explosion hes feels stupid for what he did. I would know cuz I've done the same thing before.
Half this movie is just Brad being quietly amused at Ray, a quarter is Brad being annoyed with Ray, and another quarter is Brad letting loose the absolute most vicious roasts on Ray out of freaking no where
@goodgoodnotbad9573 He is. You can't kill that mfr lol. We both got out after our second deployment, it's a shame because he would've been a great NCO.
@Rachit Rawat this is all based on actual Marines. Rudy Reyes is playing himself. He was actually there in the real story. The real John Sixta went to prison for pedophilia. The real godfather also has a fucked voice.
That is what I miss about the military. The insults between battle buddies is so colorful. And you can’t blame the guy who burns the other guy the most, because they said it in such a way....you just have to simply acknowledge it and figure out away to get them back. It’s so beautiful!
It's like watching an old married couple bicker and bitch at each other. This is the best and most accurate Team leader/troop rapport that I have ever seen.
In the book, Wright says they're like a family on a road trip. Brad and Ray are the parents, Trombley is the kid in the back seat and Garza is like the family dog with his head out the window.
Literally this show checks every box of what ur squad most likely has. U got the one psychopath who wants nothing but to shoot people. U got the incompetent officer, the guy who can make anyone laugh no matter how sad or angry u are. The list goes on it’s truly a wonderful show EDIT: I was not referring to brad when saying incompetent officer I was mostly referring to Encino Man my bad for referring to squad level
@Noot Noot Wants Noose Noose I mean that many of the scenes on the show were directly taken from Evan Wright's book, with him as a consultant for accuracy. Rudy Reyes even played himself. When I first watched the show, it had been out for a few years and I thought it was an exaggeration, but it isn't. This be how it be.
Dude, I had an intimate relationship with a turd that didn't want to come out of its shell and it was so very painful and made me cry when we grew apart and time came for us to part our ways... even THAT is a better love story than Twilight!
Real life Ray was/is actually a pretty big (well trained) dude, but from what I get James Ransone nailed the humor part of his character. But real life Ray was a kickass marine and radio operator, which is hugely over shadowed by his funny side.
I can only imagine he had to be a kickass marine, because he was recon... But even as a recon marine, I'm sure he had to be a kick ass recon marine or else a Guy like Colbert wouldn't have tolerated him in his squad.
yeah, me and my navy buddies used to laugh our asses off at that commercial. Marines we talked to weren't very happy when we asked them if they found that dragon yet.
Anybody else feel a sudden sadness when the series finished ? Like as a Marine you watch this and remember all the shit you went thru put up with but you always had your brothers with you every step of the way. I miss that shit.
I made friends with a psychopath in high school. I stuck around, and joined the army with him, so he wouldn’t kill innocent people. He would eventually get therapy including anti-psychotic pills.
The real Ray Person that is active on r/generationkill subreddit up to this day stated that there's still parts of this mini series that is exaggerated. He goes by the name of u/plasmata there
it's actually genius how this series portrays how a war can be so strange and asimmetrical that for these guys it esentially boiled down to a road trip with incredible tedium but with mind-numbingly intense combat sprinkled here and there as well
This is the most realistic military show/movie/series ever. I have even re-watch it when I feel alone and want to reminisce about to sucky but funny ass days over there and the camaraderie with the guys. I try to show this to regular civilians who have never been in the military and they’re not all that entertained and usually don’t finish it. It’s OK though because it’s only for us. You know who you are.
@@JnEricsonx if it needs to be an antagonist (like his sons) I'd say he'd make a decent Keaton (if they made the character older than written), Gaunt, or Barlow. For a protagonist I could see him as Father Callahan.
Even though I'm not a Marine but a lowly Airman, I strive to be like Ray for the other Airmen I work with. Gotta do something to relieve the shittiness that is USAF Ammo
Thank you for your service fr man. Im 16 and I wish I could serve but I have asthma and eczema so I can’t. You’re defending your country and that’s commendable no matter your branch
As a civilian who's never even *_seen_* a rifle in real life, I should be the fucking proof that you don't need any sort of military experience to absolutely love this show
If there's one thing more entertaining than watching "Generation Kill," it's watching "Generation Kill" in the company of non-Marines. They just look puzzled, chuckle nervously, get a little slack-jawed like they don't know what to make of it. And I sit there thinking how stranger and funny it is, the things you miss once you're out for awhile. I laughed my ass off when they were singing "Loving You" while driving down the road. Not the act itself, that is. I just remember so many times out in the field being uncomfy and miserable, knocking back and forth between boredom and tension, until the only thing you can do is just some sort of incredibly silly, pointless shit until you can start to smile or laugh at the absurdity of it all.........
Brad: "Ray, how much Ripfuel have you ingested?" Ray: "I'm on it like a motherfucker, Brad." The only thing I miss about 8-24 hour convoys is the shared misery.
Old war movies make war look like it's just like a camping trip but with violence. Generation Kill makes it look like a road trip, but with violence.
Storm_Shield1990 Well this movie portrays a modern motorised assault and there’s no stoppin
Maneuver warfare is America's warfare for the 21st century
Real life horror movie lol
The real war started after the occupation
This show makes it look pretty fucking boring. There's what two firefights in however many weeks they are there. The rest of the violence is fuck ups. But it is my favourite TV show.
"At least my mother took me to NASCAR." Great line.
That's nothing to be proud of.
@@AnakinSkywakka ^found captain america
And then Trombley asks him, "Is your dad really a truck driver?" lol
@@AnakinSkywakka type of guy to not invest in pussy infrastructure
L @@AnakinSkywakka
All our warrior dudes out there want to be like Brad, but we all know that we need some Rays in our life to stay sane.
don't fool yourself. you aren't warriors, you are semi-skilled machine operators
@@himanshujain6158 What's a warrior then?
@@himanshujain6158 Whereas the only thing you operate is a keyboard.
@@RaitoYagami88 piece of shit that's a dialogue which Brad says in the series.
@@himanshujain6158 recon Marines are just machine operators? Say that to a vet or one serving lol
My parents: "Why do you want to join the Marines!?"
Me: "Off-pitch duets with the homies in Humvees in the desert."
Best reason there is.
Semper Fi.
@@sirg-had8821 Errah. Getting into the DEP this week.
@@the_weeaboot8042 hoorah
First you have to survive bootcamp
Nothing else like it
Brad and Ray scenes from Generation Kill is like saying underwater scenes from Finding Nemo.
No shit
That was under water? No shit?
Brandon D whoosh
Well there was a big part not underwarter with that little entitled australian bitch
@@David-eh9le you mean that 9 yr old at the dentist?
That singing part in the convoy reminded me when I was in the gunners hatch I started humming the song Africa by Toto because the area we were passing through looked like Africa, then the rest of the crew started singing, fun times.
We used to sing 'Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind'!!!
@@alienresearchlab summer breeze by seals and crofts
@@luccaburaglia9094 Guys were shitting into MRE boxes in the desert. Summer breeze - makes me feel fine!
Oof, that's a tough song, acapella wise
@@JeroenZM We definitely butchered the song but it was memorable and hilarious 😂
"You know Iraqis don't really seem good at fighting, but they never completely surrender either"
Same with afghanis, but they’ve been in wars since the beginning of their civilization
As an Iraqi I can confirm
warrior's spirit but not the warrior's skill
Same with Vietnamese
@@LordVader1094 read my mind
@@wwo604 i always put it down to the need to save their collective strength for the next round arriving as soon as the last one leaves
The football game was sad. Ray still had loads of aggression and hadn't fully adapted to not constantly having to fight for your life. And then you can see the regret he has as he walks away
No, the officer made a stupid order, and didn't get in trouble, so that rage built up, and boiled over when he was gloating.
This is just my take on it, but I think that the March to Baghdad kept him sane in a way. While he was in action, he had something to keep him focused: his job. Driving and operating the radio. It was something to keep his mind occupied, which meant he was less focused on the idiocy of the leadership in the Battalion. When the invasion was over and they heard they were going home, he had no more outlet. Nothing to keep his mind occupied, so he lashed out.
That scene confused me, how some of them just straight up started attacking each other. Were they venting frustration or something?
@@HPSmugscraft yup, specially at Encino-man for his bad leadership, made them very angry he went unpunished, Ray frustration at Rudy was just in the show for dramatic purposes, didn't happen in the book/real life. Fun fact, they remain friends to this day, specially Brad and the reporter, Encino-man and Cpt. America were basically forced to abandon their careers as the articles and the book made everyone in the military disregard them, oh and Sgt. Major Sixta is in prison for child abuse he was a pedophile...
@@HPSmugscraft He was just pissed off that Rudy hit him so hard. After his explosion hes feels stupid for what he did. I would know cuz I've done the same thing before.
Half this movie is just Brad being quietly amused at Ray, a quarter is Brad being annoyed with Ray, and another quarter is Brad letting loose the absolute most vicious roasts on Ray out of freaking no where
I had a buddy like Ray...always talking, made everyone around him laugh, always kept us smiling. we were always embracing the suck together
Hope he's still kickin' around
@goodgoodnotbad9573 He is. You can't kill that mfr lol. We both got out after our second deployment, it's a shame because he would've been a great NCO.
Ray was the most sane one out of everyone there. He knew full well what they were doing.
Trying to better the pussy infrastructure of Iraq?
I was kind of shocked at that one time he gets mad at Rudy and their PTSD kicks in
@@rubenlopez3364 poor ray, I really hope the real Ray and Rudy made up after that.
@Rachit Rawat this is all based on actual Marines. Rudy Reyes is playing himself. He was actually there in the real story. The real John Sixta went to prison for pedophilia. The real godfather also has a fucked voice.
@@Skipjack2011 hope not yo, rather not see brothers fight ya know?
Generation Kill is just a musical road trip which is occasionally interrupted by brief action scenes. And we love it because of that!
Brad: "You can have your sloppy seconds after Trombley"
Ray: "WHAT?! HE'LL KILL HER!!"
"Eat, f***, kill. All the same..."
"Yeah, if you're a psychopath!"
That is what I miss about the military. The insults between battle buddies is so colorful. And you can’t blame the guy who burns the other guy the most, because they said it in such a way....you just have to simply acknowledge it and figure out away to get them back. It’s so beautiful!
Agreed. It's a type of humor that civilians will never understand.
@@ssmt2 I disagree, me and my friends acted like this since high school, and still do.
@@ssmt2
I think it's a guy thing, actually, not necessarily a vet thing. Problem today, is that there's a shortage of guys.
I do that daily, granted I'm a civilian and 90% of the people I hang around are military so
Dude I miss it.
I love that despite his best efforts Brad actually cracks up at Ray's wisecracking xD
You'd be shocked at the how often we NCO's select our drivers and gunners based on their ability to entertain us.
My best friend is Brad and I'm Ray
@@seandlax9 most entertaining one?
It's like watching an old married couple bicker and bitch at each other.
This is the best and most accurate Team leader/troop rapport that I have ever seen.
In the book, Wright says they're like a family on a road trip. Brad and Ray are the parents, Trombley is the kid in the back seat and Garza is like the family dog with his head out the window.
@@wogeyes perfect.
"MORE LIKE TROMBLEY???!!!"
Jack Murphy whopper Junior 😂
victorrocket215 nice
Get some!! Whooper jr!
I liked Trombley could really relate to him
Almost every scene in the show had a quote to live by
" I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby! "
Motivating.
“It’s not gay if you think Rudy is hot”
Straight up facts
I made two of my coworkers watch it and they were hooked. Started saying quotes to them 😂
stay frosty
I like the parts when the reporter is just laughing at all the shenanigans they are doing haha
I loved when the marines realized he had written for Hustler magazine.
"You know that picture of rolling stone's girlfriend?"
"I think it's safe to say we all know her intimately at this point."
Literally this show checks every box of what ur squad most likely has. U got the one psychopath who wants nothing but to shoot people. U got the incompetent officer, the guy who can make anyone laugh no matter how sad or angry u are. The list goes on it’s truly a wonderful show
EDIT:
I was not referring to brad when saying incompetent officer I was mostly referring to Encino Man my bad for referring to squad level
Sgt.Brad was anything but incompitent. One of the most qualified in the force back then
@@agss7499 Brad wasn't an officer. He was an NCO. I think Lucky was talking about Encino man
@@alexanderjohnson3014 Lt.Fick was also one of the finest
@@alexanderjohnson3014 might be Encino man
@@agss7499 it is Encino man, that or Captain America. Point is they're both incompetent.
Shoulda included "CHEF BOYARDEE! THE _MASTER!"_
JUGGS!
in UK it would of been STAGG
Oh God, I'm on a GK spree again
Generation kill-ing spree
@Kathy Childress this show rules.
4:44 Is Ray Brad's personal stress reliever? He seems to know when to push Brad just enough.
ray reminds me of george luz from band of brothers
+iwish4it Haha! Now when you say it
+iwish4it Both were cool mofos.
"And remember boys! Flies spread disease... so keep yours closed!
I'm good with that!
Compare that to Ray's pussy theory. How times have changed...or maybe not so much afterall.
The bother hood between these characters made the show
The Brotherhood between these two made the show
@@ghostsvoid5298 Glad you agree
@@xxl96 likewise
So turns out that this shit all happened...
@Noot Noot Wants Noose Noose I mean that many of the scenes on the show were directly taken from Evan Wright's book, with him as a consultant for accuracy. Rudy Reyes even played himself. When I first watched the show, it had been out for a few years and I thought it was an exaggeration, but it isn't. This be how it be.
Yeah, Holmes....we pimpin'
The adoption back and forth is one of my favorite moments of the series
A better love story than Twilight.
Dude, I had an intimate relationship with a turd that didn't want to come out of its shell and it was so very painful and made me cry when we grew apart and time came for us to part our ways... even THAT is a better love story than Twilight!
@MADMAN 6901 lmao
so true
"You know that picture of Rolling Stone's girlfriend? I traded that bitch for some PEC-2 batteries!!" hahaha awesome
Real life Ray was/is actually a pretty big (well trained) dude, but from what I get James Ransone nailed the humor part of his character.
But real life Ray was a kickass marine and radio operator, which is hugely over shadowed by his funny side.
I can only imagine he had to be a kickass marine, because he was recon... But even as a recon marine, I'm sure he had to be a kick ass recon marine or else a Guy like Colbert wouldn't have tolerated him in his squad.
I think in one of the episode Brad himself said he is the best RTO in business
@@jayantakarmakar8745 Yes he does.
4:25 Reporter is like "This is such good shit"
Lol yeah. Like "I gotta rite this shit down!"
RIP Evan Wright. He was 100% killed by the feds.
2:56
Y’know, in ancient times, armies used to sing death songs. Here we see Marines doing the same shit, just with a little twist.
You aint a vet if you've never jacked it in a 200 degree porta-john
This deserves more likes
@@josephmb023 Civvies will just never know
full kit sitting over a top layer of warm turds
Do construction workers in Texas count?
This is totally spot on
Honestly i still sing "loving you" like ray when i drive on almost empty highway...
I want to be the bird...
There needs to be another show like this
Unfortunately it wouldn't ever be this good. Because the pc culture wouldnt let it be this great.
I am glad we were here to experience it, unlike many other apparently
The MIC will make sure of that, looks like a snow map is due after the jungle and desert expansion packs.
lol nice profile pic, golem
The movie the Outpost 2019 was good. I recommend it. It has a similar feel and it’s about the army instead of the marines.
One of the best ever. Great book. Great series. Awesome actors.
Like, if you remember that 'USMC Dress-blues, dragon slaying, commercial' Ray was talking about at 4:08
yeah, me and my navy buddies used to laugh our asses off at that commercial. Marines we talked to weren't very happy when we asked them if they found that dragon yet.
I have never seen that but I've heard about it and I want to see it so bad.
Orderly Chaos I’ve been looking for the dragon commercial, but all I’ve found is the one with the lava monster
Orderly Chaos no but I’m bout to look it up
I was still in grade school when I saw that
Anybody else feel a sudden sadness when the series finished ? Like as a Marine you watch this and remember all the shit you went thru put up with but you always had your brothers with you every step of the way. I miss that shit.
I love how at 8:24 the reporter lunges for the juggs magazine 😂
I love their chemistry!!
العراق وحده مقابل امريكه وبريطانيا وصبانيه ويحسبونه انتصار
@@user-do5tb5sz9p whatever you say Haji
I truly loved this show u know I’d watch the whole series on a loop for the rest of my life an never get bored. Fukn brilliant
*sniffs* One of the most beautiful bromance out there ❤️😢❤️
He's totally checking out Ray's butt in that last frame.
Well they ARE Marines.
A great ass is a great ass.
Gotta appreciate quality
@@curiousfiend1169 facts
Alexander Skarsgård (Brad)'s American accent is fucking amazing. How the hell did he taught himself that?!
Dialect coach!
I want that... haha
Rabz Rabbitson hes american
He has the same one in True Blood
TheSilentAvenger
He's not American, he's Swedish.
Atleast my mom took me to nascar
"Hey buddy it's ten in the morning, don't you think you should change out of your pajamas!"
Gets me every time.
"Hitman 2-3 this is Hitman 2-2 watch my six... Taking a dump"
This series did such an awesome job capturing the bull sessions in the military when nothing is going on.
Ray is just so awesomely random.
What a character
I want multiple seasons of Brad and Ray road tripping through war zones.
"Check out the retard casevacing lamb chops." This line is pure gold!
4:07 the best part and conversation of the entire show LMAO
Reporter going " 😂 wow" always gets me at 4:25
*gasp*
Jugs!
That just made my night x)
I made friends with a psychopath in high school. I stuck around, and joined the army with him, so he wouldn’t kill innocent people. He would eventually get therapy including anti-psychotic pills.
Dude’s better now?
Sounds like you made him less effective in combat lol
@@GigaChadh976 Lol. I think he just kept tabs on him when passing civilians. Kinda like how Brad does in the show.
People not in Iraq back in March of 2003 have no idea how accurate Generation Kill miniseries was.
The real Ray Person that is active on r/generationkill subreddit up to this day stated that there's still parts of this mini series that is exaggerated.
He goes by the name of u/plasmata there
The ray and Brad dynamic was my favorite part about this beautiful show
it's actually genius how this series portrays how a war can be so strange and asimmetrical that for these guys it esentially boiled down to a road trip with incredible tedium but with mind-numbingly intense combat sprinkled here and there as well
The Rigby of Generation Kill
When he said jugs. That hit home. I know that feeling all to well
I did Ray's "Ooooh, dress blues with a sword!" monologue for an acting class. My teacher was floored.
Ray probably kept this entire units sanity in check with his antics. Sad that it's always those like him usually suffer the most from PTSD.
This shit is brilliant and is criminally under watched.
Oh hey, is that Eddie Kaspbrak and Pennywise’s brother?
I think it is
Najlaa Herva it is
This is an alternate universe. instead of running scared Pennywise motivated him to join the United States Marine Corps
@@seantylerfermin4927 No...these people exist...
@@astrosherlock374 Bruh, it's a joke...
This is the most realistic military show/movie/series ever. I have even re-watch it when I feel alone and want to reminisce about to sucky but funny ass days over there and the camaraderie with the guys.
I try to show this to regular civilians who have never been in the military and they’re not all that entertained and usually don’t finish it. It’s OK though because it’s only for us. You know who you are.
The most relatable and accurate series they've made so far, really haven't found anything to top it
With out humour such as this on the battlefield, we would be at each others throats 24/7
Generation Kill was cast to perfection. These dudes absolutely nailed it.
I loved this series, think I’m gonna binge it tonight
"at least my mom took me to nascar" fucking goooooold
2:20 I want iTunes version of this :D
The fact that both of them have now played major Stephen King characters blows my mind.
5:40 "Hitman 23 this is Hitman 22. Watch my six. I'm taking a dump."
I grew up and graduated high school in the late 90's and I never heard the teenage dirtbag song till I watched this series.
miss conversations like this when I was in the Army lmao
Any of them end with your NCO saying "put down that fucking milkshake and dig a fucking hole"?
They should have just called the series the " Ray and Brad Show " instead of GK....
*mouth full of chew*
God DAMN it Ray no country music!
Eddie Kaspbrak and Randall Flagg, brother of Pennywise the Clown.
How fucked up is that. So...who does Stellan have to play from King's works to complete the trifecta?
@@JnEricsonx if it needs to be an antagonist (like his sons) I'd say he'd make a decent Keaton (if they made the character older than written), Gaunt, or Barlow. For a protagonist I could see him as Father Callahan.
1:19 His face cracks me up everytime
Ray be like : "what a pretentious gay quote"
"At least my mom took me to NASCAR!"
"I traded that bitch for some pemptoo batteries"
PEQ-2, not "pemptoo". He's talking about the target illuminator that is fitted to the rifles.
i couldnt hear correctly, sorry :(
Every time I watch these Google tries to sell the digital download version of the series I already own in DVD format.
This is so like my time in the marines it’s scary
Even though I'm not a Marine but a lowly Airman, I strive to be like Ray for the other Airmen I work with. Gotta do something to relieve the shittiness that is USAF Ammo
Thank you for your service fr man. Im 16 and I wish I could serve but I have asthma and eczema so I can’t. You’re defending your country and that’s commendable no matter your branch
As a civilian who's never even *_seen_* a rifle in real life, I should be the fucking proof that you don't need any sort of military experience to absolutely love this show
In a world that we live in... Humour is the only thing keeping us sane
"Watch my six - takin' a dump" hahahahaha
These two are great together. Brad is the best straight man ever
Ray was every Lance I've ever run into, including me. Such a great show.
March 19, 2003… LOVE YOU, MY BROTHERS!!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🤘🇺🇸💪💪💪💪😎
4:45 is my favourite scene of all time
If there's one thing more entertaining than watching "Generation Kill," it's watching "Generation Kill" in the company of non-Marines.
They just look puzzled, chuckle nervously, get a little slack-jawed like they don't know what to make of it. And I sit there thinking how stranger and funny it is, the things you miss once you're out for awhile.
I laughed my ass off when they were singing "Loving You" while driving down the road. Not the act itself, that is. I just remember so many times out in the field being uncomfy and miserable, knocking back and forth between boredom and tension, until the only thing you can do is just some sort of incredibly silly, pointless shit until you can start to smile or laugh at the absurdity of it all.........
Hey hey hey
Pimping out the reporters girlfriends picture.
Love it.
Uuugh so gross
The last clip is great, dude telling another dude he loves them
Hahaha, every squad has a Ray of light in it. Thank God.
"Brad, we have major activity on the wire." Nice nod to the prior work of Simon and Ransone that I missed when I first viewed the series.
I want this Johnny Cash tune played at my Send Off when I kick the bucket.
Still *LOVIN' THIS TUNE... CRANKED* (9:24-9:49) *4-23-2019* Still here.
@@howardfortyfive9676 still here?
Iceman seems hardcore till you see him playing a gay man in Zoolander having a gas fight with his friends then lighting themselves on fire.
Brad: "Ray, how much Ripfuel have you ingested?"
Ray: "I'm on it like a motherfucker, Brad."
The only thing I miss about 8-24 hour convoys is the shared misery.
Miss the Red Rip-its