Posted on 09/29/2009 8:07:56 PM PDT by Saije
Trailer for "The Pacific", the HBO series on the war in the Pacific during WWII
(Excerpt) Read more at hbo.com ...
I believe that this movie is based on the book “With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa” by EB Sledge. It is a great book, drawn from contemporaneous notes by an enlisted Marine. It is better than any war novel I have ever read.
I look forward to this movie.
“I believe that this movie is based on the book “With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa” by EB Sledge.”
I’ve read that plus the one after that, “China Marine”. Sledge’s entire life story is amazing.
The Pacific is actually a 10 hour mini-series so hopefully lots of great viewing to look forward to seeing in a few months.
Why don’t they make a movie about the Revolutionary war? The Green Mountain Boys? Nathan Hale?
It’s what Americans really need to see right now.
I mean an honest movie, not some Howard Zinn socialist revisionist piece of garbage.
That's exactly why they won't. If anyone makes one, it'll be called right-wing propaganda by the left.
My Dad’s ship the USS Mississippi was at Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa, struck twice by Kamikazes. I wish he had lived long enough to see this film.
I don’t get HBO, but as soon as it comes on DVD, I am buying it.
“I mean an honest movie, not some Howard Zinn socialist revisionist piece of garbage.”
If Hanks and Spielberg are true to EB Sledge’s book even a little bit it isn’t going to be a socialist piece of garbage. And they did okay with Band of Brothers.
HBO did “John Adams” last year, does that count?
So? Does calling college professors left wing propagandists stop them from brainwashing American youth?
If we tell the reason for the Revolution it will ring true to every American.
Why let the leftists have the only access to America’s next generation?
They probably don’t think it would make a lot of money.
Hanks and Speilberg? LOL if you want the globalist’s not so hidden agenda, these are the fellows.
Doesn’t Hanks produce a television show about plural marriage? Didn’t he star in an anti-Christian movie about the life of Jesus? And Spielberg? What are you thinking?
“Hanks and Speilberg? LOL if you want the globalist’s not so hidden agenda, these are the fellows...”
That’s the really great thing about TV. Nobody can make you watch anything you don’t want to watch.
I agree, Sledge’s (RIP) book is a masterpiece. Another great one is Quartered Safe Out Here by the late George Macdonald Fraser, creator of Harry Paget Flashman. Fraser was a nineteen year soldier who fought under General Slim in Burma. To me these are the two greatest memoirs written by grunts in WW II.
Yet a book called ‘common sense’ based on the original by Thomas Paine is a best seller.
Do ya think that the globalist’s who own this company are trying to influence American thought against Individualism and Individual rights?
It wouldn’t be the first time.
Since Al Gore’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed foreign ownership of media outlets, the anti American bent of the entertainment industry has become nauseating. But they are getting what they paid for and Americans are getting trashed because Independence and Individualism and Property Rights for citizens gets in the way of the global looting of the American economy and the theft of American’s livelihoods through “free trade”.
I sure hope you’re not defending that.
Looks very good...
That’s the really great thing about television.
For less discerning indivudals, they can completely brainwash them into socialist monsters. And they vote when helped by Acorn.
There are more of them than there are loyal patriotic Americans, just take the election of Obama as a proof.
No other country has such an anti citizen perspective. Have you noticed? How can a country and culture survive, when it is regularly demonized to the voting citizenry? This is not a rhetorical question. However you have the course of history to disprove (marixist elected president) if you plan to argue against me.
About two years ago the History Channel had an excellent multi part documentary on the Revolution.
I really, really hope that they dont add too much sissy la la BS and tell the story that EB Sledge wrote.
Not the ‘history channel’. You’ve got to be kidding. They put out as left a view of history as the renowned socialist Howard Zinn.
They trashed General Washington, and made a piece of garbage about the Adams.
Go get a history book written before the 1950s. You have to go back pretty far to get real historical accounts and not ‘interpretative’ historical works they teach in school.
This will be showing when my son is deployed to Afghanistan with the Corps. It is amazing how there are always brave men willing to sacrifice their lives for our dear country.
have you seen the series I referred to?
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