The Pacific. 6060 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 8 months ago | Thread started: Mar 16, 10, 5:59 a.m.

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• _me_

  Pretty unknown to me to be honest, the US push into the Japanese territories, i learnt the European stuff at school... loving the history lesson.

  Awesome cinematography already, great scene with the Japanese guy in the river...

  Mar 16, 10, 5:59 a.m. – Permalink

• zenmasterfoo

  loved it. I can't wait to buy the box set.

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 6:10 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  yes, need to watch this.

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 6:11 a.m. – Permalink

• Ruffian

  This, right?

  • that'll be it.– _me_

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 6:17 a.m. – Permalink

• Mimio

  Really good so far, has a bit of the "Thin Red Line" feel to it. at least this GuadalCanal part.

  • poetic like– Ramanisky21/2

    Yep, a couple really nice scenes were they don't muddle the character interactions with dialog.– Mimio2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 6:44 a.m. – Permalink

• SoulFly

  I liked the fact that they jump right into the action in the first episode. In Band of Brothers there was that whole training phase.

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7 a.m. – Permalink

• Ramanisky2

  ^^ the plot structure is different .. you have 3 main characters and their stories

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7:07 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  I don't have HBO. :( Will wait for the box set.

  My grandfather earned a Purple Heart in the 3rd Marine Division at Iwo Jima; he also fought at Guam and Bouganville. Pacific history is very interesting to me, so I cannot wait to see this show once it's out on DVD.

  • this is a must buy for you then. the interviews at the beginning are just like BoB. It pulls you into the history of it.– zenmasterfoo1/2

    badasses!– JazX2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7:08 a.m. – Permalink

• dibec

  Stoked about this!

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink

• elahon

  Holy shit, that looks amazing. I'll have to wait for the DVD. =(

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 8:21 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  Not enough real wars going on around the world, I guess I will settle for an HBO drama.

  • small violin.....– zenmasterfoo

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 8:31 a.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  The ad I saw on TV made it look like a very detailed video game.

  • games are like movies now.– TheeOtherJuan

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 8:35 a.m. – Permalink

• fyoucher1

  It's exactly like Band Of Brothers (which is beyond awesome btw) and even has some of the same actors and same title treatments. The first episode was good but I honestly expected more, maybe it's because I just wanted more. Can't wait for the second though.

  If you liked Saving Private Ryan, you'll probably like this show. Tom Hanks even does VO (maybe even is a part of the production???)

  • are you serious? toms hanks was an executive producer for band of brothers and the pacific– refunktion1/2

    Ahh cool. Didn't know that.– fyoucher12/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 9:30 a.m. – Permalink

• JazX

  Excellent. Had great uncle in the Pacific, met Douglas MacArthur.

  

  
  Well, if you lived they all got medals, sorta' like little league baseball kids that suck today. Everyone get's a prize!

  • It does really remind me of 'The Thin Red Line'.– JazX1/4

    That pipe is the size of a small cigar!– ideaist2/4

    he's got a badass bruce willis look to him.– gabe3/4

    That uniform is unsat.– dbloc4/4

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink

• subcommandante

  @mg33 "My grandfather earned a Purple Heart in the 3rd Marine Division at Iwo Jima..."

  Wow. My uncle was in the same division at Iwo Jima...weird.

  • Interesting. Was he also at Bouganville and Guam? My grandfather's name was William Ezra Gallegly.– mg33

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:37 a.m. – Permalink

• fooler2

  My grandfather was on the USS Tennessee as a Turret Capt. when it was hit in Pearl harbor. He's 94 and still alive, living by himself in California.
  Last year my sisters interviewed him on camera about all his war stories and edited it with some news footage from back then and gave everyone in our family a DVD copy of it.
  He doesn't really like talking about it but we convinced him to do it.

  He's a pretty modest man and hates the fact that the few survivors get together each year. "Why the hell would I want to remember that day, fact is most these men where hiding and crying somewhere while others laid dying" he says.

  • badass!– JazX1/3

    yeah he's a pretty tough cookie, he's getting to old to live by himself but he sure is hell aint going into a home.– fooler22/3

    haha, that's awesome, I know the type.– JazX3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:49 a.m. – Permalink

• JazX

  That show could get quite brutal if they wanted to show it.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap…

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink

• ghandolf

  My father flew B-17's in WWII but was in the European theater. He's passed away now, but it's true. None of these guys liked to talk about their roles in the war. He told me anecdotes, but no real 'meaty' stories. What he did tell me however, was extremely interesting. He flew 13 missions before the war ended, was shot down behind enemy lines and escaped twice, and liberated a concentration camp, flying survivors back to England at the end of the war.

  Rest in peace Dad

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink

• fooler2

  I never met my wives grandfather but he was shot down in a B17 too.
  The military sent a letter to his wife (whom is still living to this day) telling her that his plane was missing and all were presumed dead.
  He was the guy in the bottom ball turret and when they made their crash landing was still in it. After a few weeks or months she received another letter saying he survived but was seriously injured. He made a full recovery and the only thing you could tell he was in a plane crash was he was missing part of an ear.

  • he never asked or received a purple heart until after he died of natural causes in the 80s– fooler2

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 11:05 a.m. – Permalink

• JazX

  

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 1:20 p.m. – Permalink

• JazX

  

  • very cool image.. lower left looks like bad cloning.. wonder why?– inhaler971/2

    photo damage that was retouched?– scarabin2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 16, 10, 1:22 p.m. – Permalink