To: NavyCanDo
I didn’t like “The Pacific”. It wasn’t nearly the caliber of “Band of Brothers”. In “The Pacific”, it seemed like we were getting Hollywood’s Vietnam treatment of our guys, where the Marines were shown as either having mental troubles or as ruthless killers, without the brutality of the Japaneses really being shown. On top of that, the show was mostly boring. There were maybe two battles in a multi-part series about island-hopping, ferchrissake.
8 posted on
11/11/2010 12:15:34 PM PST by
fr_freak
To: fr_freak
11 posted on
11/11/2010 12:26:27 PM PST by
edpc
(It's Kräusened)
To: fr_freak
Agreed. Using Band of Brothers production, effects writing and human interactions as a starting point The Pacific could have been so much more.
To: fr_freak
I didnt like The Pacific. It wasnt nearly the caliber of Band of Brothers. In The Pacific, it seemed like we were getting Hollywoods Vietnam treatment of our guys, where the Marines were shown as either having mental troubles or as ruthless killers, Unfortunately there's a lot of that in Band of Brothers also. The whole last episode where the once heroic soldiers all turn into drunken, violent thieves and thugs that went around terrorizing the countryside. Plus the portrayals of Lieutenants Sobel and Dyke were just so over the top that it's just ridiculous.
33 posted on
11/11/2010 7:22:23 PM PST by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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