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Offline Simaril

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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2009, 07:35:15 PM »
Just a little uncertain here --

Trailer said it was about "the battle that saved Australia"? But it has US Marines? Are they talking about the battles along the Kokoda trail (Aussie work <S>), or along the southern tail of New Guinea? Or about Guad? (And if its Guadalcanal, why are they showing both early LVTs and landing under fire with F6Fs swooping by?) Or is it going to be Bloody Tarawa (shiver), or a bunch of invasions...but then hard to justify the tag line.

Thought Band of Brothers was truly excellent in every way. They captured the essence of airborne, they let us feel what it might have been like to live through the Ardennes and see so many lost. Band of Brothers stayed historically accurrate to a high degree while remaining entertaining, even riveting.

Just hope the same standards of accuracy, narrative, writing and acting hold true for this project as well.
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #31 on: May 19, 2009, 08:13:47 PM »
Is Ben Affleck in it??
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2009, 09:45:51 PM »
Quote from: Sikboy on May 19, 2009, 05:33:48 PM
You didn't catch Band of Brothers? It was very well done.

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Ahhhh. No, I didn't see that movie either.
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #33 on: May 19, 2009, 09:56:56 PM »
Quote from: Simaril on May 19, 2009, 07:35:15 PM
Just a little uncertain here --

Trailer said it was about "the battle that saved Australia"? But it has US Marines? Are they talking about the battles along the Kokoda trail (Aussie work <S>), or along the southern tail of New Guinea? Or about Guad? (And if its Guadalcanal, why are they showing both early LVTs and landing under fire with F6Fs swooping by?) Or is it going to be Bloody Tarawa (shiver), or a bunch of invasions...but then hard to justify the tag line.

Thought Band of Brothers was truly excellent in every way. They captured the essence of airborne, they let us feel what it might have been like to live through the Ardennes and see so many lost. Band of Brothers stayed historically accurrate to a high degree while remaining entertaining, even riveting.

Just hope the same standards of accuracy, narrative, writing and acting hold true for this project as well.
Well the main reason that in the trailer it says, "The battle that saved Australia" is because that promo only aired in Australia, I don't think it has much to do with any battle that specifically saved Australia, but the general battle in the Pacific that stop the Japanese from advancing into Australia. 
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2009, 04:29:10 AM »
Quote from: straffo on May 19, 2009, 08:28:22 AM
isn't this the movie you were in ?




Ps : you have already been paid you won't have a cent more :p

LOL, I was there. They filmed a lot though, some scrap was used in Letters from Iwo Jima, but there was very much more. And this is expensive stuff!
I particularly recall the Higgins boats and LVT's cruising to beach while being "shelled". Kabooms and columns of seawater, no computer graphics, just dynamite. And lots of boats, many more than those used in SPR. A special Helicopter doing the filming for about 2 days or so. And nothing used.
And there was very much more....
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2009, 10:05:43 AM »
That's what you call lazy editing.

"Hey guys, we're on a deadline, cut anything!"
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2009, 08:48:22 PM »
Quote from: Denholm on May 19, 2009, 09:45:51 PM
Ahhhh. No, I didn't see that movie either.

It's a mini series and its the best mini series on war ever made.

it's also the best war movie ever made.
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2009, 10:56:22 PM »
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #38 on: May 21, 2009, 04:27:37 AM »
Some of the best stuff ever made for TV  :aok
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Re: The Pacific TRAILER
« Reply #39 on: May 21, 2009, 05:58:58 AM »
Quote from: Denholm on May 19, 2009, 09:45:51 PM
Ahhhh. No, I didn't see that movie either.

Band of Brothers is something else.  You have to check it out.

On another note, Spielberg also directed Empire of the Sun, and if you play this cartoon airplane game, you're somewhat compelled to watch it once :)
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