"Generation Kill," the HBO seven-part miniseries produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, is set to show the audience how it really was for Marines in the Iraq war.

"I think this is one of the first movies or series where you actually get to see what it's really like over there. I think people are kind of interested in that," said Eric Kocher, the military consultant for "Generation Kill," according to the San Jose Mercury News. Although HBO expects the miniseries to be watched by many viewers, it was said that the timing of this Iraq-related movie was not the best. Apparently, the public is oversaturated with these kinds of movies and the lack of interest is obvious.

The miniseries is based on the award-winning book "Generation Kill," written by journalist Evan Wright, and it begins Sunday. The movie is about a group of Marines who were heading to Baghdad in March 2003. The miniseries is almost like a documentary and it describes how the Marines in the Bravo Platoon of the First Reconnaissance Battalion were treated. The producers used real names.

"Evan wrote a great book. He cut the path.... It was our job to try to stay as close to that book as we possibly could," said Ed Burns, the co-executive of the miniseries and, also, a Vietnam veteran, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Viewers will be able to see how the Marines were dealing with the war, how they adjusted their way of life and how they were coping with what they had to do. Everything is very realistic, even the language.

Even with all these differences that separate this movie from other films with a similar subject, it is not sure if the audience will give it a chance. David Simon said that he just tried to show people that "justified or not, war is hardly as clean, precise and clinical as we wish to imagine it" and he also wanted to describe the "nature of modern war."

Some Iraq- related projects have not been successful: "Stop-Loss" and "In the Valley of Elah" were not at all big at the box-office. It is not sure if people just lost interest or if the movies were just not good. It remains to see what how the miniseries "Generation Kill" will be received.