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The Pacific - HBO series

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  1. Ronnie Bass

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    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E"]YouTube- The Pacific: Trailer (HBO)[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smoNSbMs9Yo"]YouTube- The Pacific Trailer #2 (HBO)[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eznAl2QJooQ"]YouTube- The Pacific Trailer #3 (HBO)[/ame]


    I can't wait for this series to start in March.
     
  2. wpgfishfan

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    Been watching Band of Brothers again getting ready for it
     
  3. Ronnie Bass

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    Just an FYI, the premiere of this series is March 14th at 9pm.
     
  4. Ronnie Bass

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    Starts on Sunday, I hope you all have HBO and watch this, if not get it NOW.
     
  5. maynard

    maynard Who, whom?

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    very much anticipating it!
     
  6. 305

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    Get off my lawn.
    Somebody let me know how it is tonight... I don't have HBO and have to wait on other means haha
     
  7. PeaTearGriffin

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    I liked it a lot. Starts slow but the last 20 minutes are awesome. Not really complaining that it starts slow though since Band of Brothers episode one was kinda boring. I'm expecting big things from this show
     
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  8. Ronnie Bass

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    Get HBO if you can, based on tonights episode it will be worth it. You can always cancel when it's done in May.
     
  9. 305

    305 Brawndo Club Member

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    Get off my lawn.
    I live in the barracks with another guy whos payin for the cable haha but Im gonna try to talk him into it...
     
  10. Ronnie Bass

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    It will be on a bunch of times before Part II next week, so start talking to him, hell kick his *** man if he says no! Unless of course he is your superior then never mind lol.
     
  11. Nappy Roots

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    Anybody that has fios let me know and I may be able to hook you up with hbo for a while
     
  12. maynard

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    pretty good episode. i dont think it will disappoint. whats interesting here is the contrast. you have normandy hell right off the bat, but here the hell is lurking in the jungle behind everything

    is a war not between western powers that play by the same rules, but of a suicidal enemy thats creative and brutal and really the favorite of the war in the beginning

    whereas 'band of brothers' was a needed visual aid to vastly famous encounters brought to a younger generation, this is about events that a lot of people dont really know about. in a way, it makes it more important historically
     
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  13. Pagan

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    The scene with the lone Japanese soldier kinda effed me up.

    That was an amazing show of how that war effected every side.
     
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  14. Ronnie Bass

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    John Basilone was the man.
     
  15. BuckeyeKing

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    Agreed. Some very graphic stuff on that show.

    Its pretty good though will watch Ep 2 later.
     
  16. Ronnie Bass

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    Has anybody been keeping up with this? Granted it started off a little slow but the last three weeks have included some of the most awe inspiring, gut wrenching and brutal combat scenes ever captured in film, and emotionally toll on the soldiers has been at times tear jerky.

    Turning into a must see for everyone.
     
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  17. Fin D

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    The wife and I haven't missed an episode. The biggest issue, for us, is being in the right frame of mind to watch it. It just simply effing hurts witnessing that hell they went through.
     
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  18. unluckyluciano

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    I should probably watch this my grandpa fought in the pacific............... sigh I need hbo.
     
  19. Ronnie Bass

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    I don't know if you saw last nights Part Seven but it is an emotional punch to the stomach, and actor Joseph Mazzello who portrays Eugene Sledge has come a long way from Jurassic Park. What a performance by him last night.

    I watched it two times last night and I plan on watching it again tonight.
     
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    It's been really good....The only episode that was so-so was The Australian one
     
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  21. Fin D

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    I just did. You're right. That look he gave the guy that told him to move it along...would make the toughest of men, poop a little.
     
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  22. Ronnie Bass

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    That was just sick that look, before the war Hammer could have never done that.
     
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  23. Fin D

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    Before episode 6 he couldn't have done that!
     
  24. maynard

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    i have seen every episode. i think its pretty good, but thats it. i suppose im holding to too high a standard in my mind, but its really not doing it for me. im just not connecting with the characters. im connecting with their environments and situations, but not really the men themselves the way i did with BOB
     
  25. Ronnie Bass

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    UGH! Sorry bro, but I can't tell you how many times I have seen people try to compare the Pacific to BoB when in fact they are nothing alike nor were they ever intended to be.

    When Spielberg and Hanks were making BoB one of the veterans remarked that as bad as it was for them in Europe it was nothing compared to how brutal it was for the boys in the Pacific, and I think when they made this mini-series it was in that mind-set to show the emotional and physical brutality that this kind of combat brought to the American Marine, where BoB was more made to show the camaraderie among the American soldier and thats the difference between them.

    I just think people are going into this mini-series with the wrong expectations and are cheating themselves on what this sereis can deliver, and that is a raw, gut wrenching and a sombering reality what it was like for these poor Marines.
     
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  26. maynard

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    agreed on all points, RB. i think the production quality is outstanding, but im finding it difficult to really be enthused about it. it feels disjointed. its following the men, but the story goes all over the place

    i suppose its a very difficult story to tell
     
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  27. Da 'Fins

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    Good thoughts. I think it is challenging to tell. I am enjoying the series for several reasons. But, after Band of Brothers - hard to top that, which was, imho, the greatest mini-series in the history of television. It also actually came from a book by Ambrose about a particular group of soldiers in the 101st Airborne who fought together as a unit throughout the war. There isn't a book that does that with the Marines and it seemed they were pulled in and out in a bit different fashion.

    Pacific has a very different feel to it than B of B (which I liked better in many respects). It is darker than B of B (though that had its moments). They also aren't following a great leader as B of B had in Winter. And, the characters are showing a lot more negative emotion.

    I can see, in some ways, the difference in the two fronts contributes to that - as well as the nature of the fighting. But, I think it is also Hollywood putting a bit more emotiveness into the characters - a bit beyond reality.

    At the same time, there is great value in this and in Pacific in demonstrating the negative impact such warfare can have on the human soul.
     
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  28. maynard

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    part 8 was awesome, just awesome. in sort of a good new, bad news way, it felt almost like a standalone short movie, not a part of a miniseries. but it was still excellent
     
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  29. Da 'Fins

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    It was probably the best show to date. Bummer that he died but it was great.

    Very powerful.
     
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  30. Fin D

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    You knew it was coming, but still....damn....
     
  31. maynard

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    yeah you can kind of tell that when he started running around like superman it was just a matter of bad luck. too much stuff flying around.

    the scene looked like absolute hell on earth. whats worse than that? throwing someone in a bear pit?

    anybody else think this miniseries should have included naval battles? or is it that they are too well known? too expensive?
     
  32. Fin D

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    I think it would have made it even less coherent.
     
  33. maynard

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    lol. probably true
     

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