The Pacific - DISCUSSION THREAD

The premier of The Pacific (a 10 part mini series) is this Sunday on HBO at 9 PM.

Similar to Band of Brothers, this series follows the USMC's involvement in the Pacific Theater, rather than the U.S. Army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pac...8miniseries%29

This is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Who is excited? I know I am.

[jaydub13]

I can't wait.... Band of Brothers was amazing, and this cannot be anything less.

[Powers]

Love Band of Brothers, have the collection on DVD, watched it like 3 times. Don't have HBO but will by the box collection of The Pacific the day it comes out.

Anything that gets Americans excited about their history is good in my book

[OLS]

Originally Posted by UFPowersmoker320

Love Band of Brothers, have the collection on DVD, watched it like 3 times. Don't have HBO but will by the box collection of The Pacific the day it comes out.

This is me. I have at least 12 complete view-throughs of BoB.
Took it to my Sister's for Christmas and they scratched disc 1.
Left it there and bought my another precious.
It is still the only thing I can watch anyday, anytime, no matter what.
I do not have cable of anykind, so I will avoid this like the plague and orgy it out
when the DVD set releases. I eat this kind of drama for lunch and would stick it in my
arm if I could fit it into a needle. Nothing gives me more pleasure cinematically than this
kind of presentation, and this type of production quality, this kind of lovingly produced
historic drama. BoB set a very high bar, though. Was David Schwimmer ever better or
could he ever be? Of course, in contrast, Is Jimmy Fallon the world's worst whatever he is?

[SteveA]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Band of Brothers was awesome and it's hard for me to imagine another series coming close. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised.

[ucla695]

I'm excited!! If it's anything like BoB, it'll be great!

[hotreds]

Makes me wish I had HBO. Will hafta wait for DVD. Hanks has been saying stoopid things lately, hopefully the series isn't tarnished by his mind set!

[Powers]

This is a great video of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg hosting an event at the World War II Memorial in DC with Pacific veterans in attendance:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=artslot

[yourchoice]

I am stoked! I imagine it being a Speilberg/Hanks production that it will live up to expectations.

Over the last month I've watched BoB again in anticipation of this release.

[Jack Straw]

Very cool, if only I had HBO. I really enjoyed Band of Brothers and Generation Kill.

[kelmac07]

While I wasn't a fan of the Band of Brothers...this looks interesting.

Originally Posted by kelmac07

While I wasn't a fan of the Band of Brothers...this looks interesting.

Why not? Did they not accurately depict what you guys were doing over there? You should have consulted for them, being you had first hand experience.

Originally Posted by Darrell

Why not? Did they not accurately depict what you guys were doing over there? You should have consulted for them, being you had first hand experience.

I'm still LMAO at this comment....

[ucla695]

I liked it. Kinda slow at the beginning, but built up to some good action. Looks like it'll be a great series.

[0002S]

After watching this, I get a feeling this one is going to not be as good ad Band of Brothers.

[Aron]

Originally Posted by 0002S

After watching this, I get a feeling this one is going to not be as good ad Band of Brothers.

While that is highly possible, as Band of Brothers was based on Stephen Ambrose, I must say The Pacific looks like it could turn out to be something really special.

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by Aron

While that is highly possible, as Band of Brothers was based on Stephen Ambrose, I must say The Pacific looks like it could turn out to be something really special.

Stephen Ambrose had started on a book on the Pacific war before he died. I recall reading that several of his students/assistants had decided to continue the project...I thought that The Pacific was at least in part based on it. (I realize it is primarily based on two classic books written by Pacific veterans.)

The book that I think covers the (entire) Pacific war the best is "Eagle Against The Sun: The American War With Japan" by Ronald Spector.

[yourchoice]

Originally Posted by 0002S

After watching this, I get a feeling this one is going to not be as good ad Band of Brothers.

At first, after one episode, I thought the same thing. But I remembered BoB's first episode, while good, wasn't where the mini-series shined. I'm still holding out hope The Pacific will be nearly as moving as BoB was.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by yourchoice

At first, after one episode, I thought the same thing. But I remembered BoB's first episode, while good, wasn't where the mini-series shined. I'm still holding out hope The Pacific will be nearly as moving as BoB was.

I am kind of the opposite, I think BoB WITHOUT Episode 1 would have been very.....
I can't even come up with the concept. It would still have been a war picture of sheer
intensity, but I thought the Toccoa stuff was priceless, and very well done. It also made the
concept come together in a way that cemented our view of the characters as a true
dysfuntional family that was ironically, super-functional. LOL.

I can't imagine watching live on HBO for the first time though, and having to wait a week or more
for "Day of Days" to actually run. They way it opens with "no jump tonight" then goes to Toccoa,
and you see that whole show and end up watching the end as Winters rides into history in the
jump door of the C-41, if I didn't have the DVD remote, I would have $hit!

I heard "they said" Ep 1 was a drag with all the hometown stuff before the men got to fighting,
but who knows. I am fine with it if the character development goes on to mean something later on. But as marked as these men were forever by it, I do loves da fightin', and want to see it now.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by OLS

I am kind of the opposite, I think BoB WITHOUT Episode 1 would have been very.....
I can't even come up with the concept. It would still have been a war picture of sheer
intensity, but I thought the Toccoa stuff was priceless, and very well done. It also made the
concept come together in a way that cemented our view of the characters as a true
dysfuntional family that was ironically, super-functional. LOL.

I can't imagine watching live on HBO for the first time though, and having to wait a week or more
for "Day of Days" to actually run. They way it opens with "no jump tonight" then goes to Toccoa,
and you see that whole show and end up watching the end as Winters rides into history in the
jump door of the C-41, if I didn't have the DVD remote, I would have $hit!

I heard "they said" Ep 1 was a drag with all the hometown stuff before the men got to fighting,
but who knows. I am fine with it if the character development goes on to mean something later on. But as marked as these men were forever by it, I do loves da fightin', and want to see it now.

Glad I'm not the only one that feels this. IMO Episode 1 MADE Band of Brothers as good as it was.