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| Thread ID: 109827 | 2010-05-24 11:01:00 | The Pacific - your verdict on halfway through ! | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 887797 | 2010-05-24 11:01:00 | Hi guys In an earlier thread we discussed the first episode and the general reaction was that it was no where as good as Band Of Brothers, but that it needed time to develop. What are your thoughts on the series now that it over half way through ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 887798 | 2010-05-24 11:20:00 | Poor man's version of Saving Private Ryan. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 887799 | 2010-05-24 11:39:00 | Disgustingly horrible, particularly tonight's episode. Too much gratuitous violence and so I just turned it off. pretty boring too and no good characters or storyline. I won't watch it anymore. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 887800 | 2010-05-24 12:03:00 | Poor man's version of Saving Private Ryan. That was a Hollywood story with minimal basis in fact after the opening scenes . Disgustingly horrible, particularly tonight's episode. Too much gratuitous violence and so I just turned it off. pretty boring too and no good characters or storyline. I won't watch it anymore. LL Yes it's too bad war is like that. Leckie, one of the authors whose books inspired the script said "I have to tell the story of how it really was. I have to let people know the war wasn’t a musical." Sledge also did not understand why other memoirs were sanitised. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 887801 | 2010-05-24 12:08:00 | One way to describe it is that Band of Brothers was in technicolour but The Pacific is monochrome, . It is hard to track the key characters, continuity isn't too good, and there are too may computer generated effects. If I see any more planes flying in formation to nowhere in particular while soldiers are grunting it on the ground I'll scream. Filmed in Australia, and it looks like it. Hopefully it will improve, it is going to have to! Cheers Billy 8-{) :annoyed: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 887802 | 2010-05-24 12:28:00 | I love this series and I know how it ends the japs lose big time. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 887803 | 2010-05-24 12:42:00 | I don't think its awesome or anything, but you can't ignore the fact it is of a high quality, much better than normal programming, amirite? | Netsukeninja (13296) | ||
| 887804 | 2010-05-24 13:06:00 | With the same production team as Band of Brothers one would have expected a series with similar flow and continuous story line - This has not happened with Pacific - the series is disjointed, and in parts dopesn't flow in any form of natural sequence . The series does portray well the horrendous level of casualties inflicted on forces carrying out a beach landing against a determined defence . During WW2 American combat fatalities averaged 3000 men a week . The estimated loss of 1 million US dead and probably more than 4 million Japanese casualties in an invasion of the Japanese Main Islands more than justifies the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to cut short the war |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 887805 | 2010-05-24 13:16:00 | Next time we have a war I suggest we send off convicted boy racers in the first wave. They will all survive as they are invincible or think they are. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 887806 | 2010-05-24 13:22:00 | Band of Brothers is my favourite series ever. After Arrested Development. That **** is hilarious. |
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