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Offline betty

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Re: Pacific
« Reply #210 on: March 22, 2010, 09:42:51 PM »
Did HBO remove the miniseries from their website?

I can't seem to find the link to the videos anymore.   :cry


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Re: Pacific
« Reply #211 on: March 22, 2010, 09:43:22 PM »
Did HBO remove the miniseries from their website?

I can't seem to find the link to the videos anymore.   :cry
It was only episode 1 that was being given out free by HBO, it was to get you interested in the miniseries so you would order HBO to see the rest.
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« Reply #212 on: March 22, 2010, 10:06:13 PM »
I guess they also decided not to run it on Directv 101 as well. Darn shame.
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Re: Pacific
« Reply #213 on: March 22, 2010, 10:32:36 PM »
I guess they also decided not to run it on Directv 101 as well. Darn shame.
Yeah I knew that you would only get to see episode 1 for free, it wouldn't make any sense for them to spend $200 million to make it, then just give it all away for free.
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« Reply #214 on: March 23, 2010, 12:05:16 AM »
Yeah I had the horrible realization earlier today...

May have to give Comcast a ring and see if they have any promotions running right now.  :)

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Re: Pacific
« Reply #215 on: March 23, 2010, 10:46:35 AM »
I had HBO turned on about 10 days ago and it will cost me about $24 to watch all 10 episodes.  I will probably have HBO turned off after the series is over.
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« Reply #216 on: March 23, 2010, 11:05:52 AM »
I had HBO turned on about 10 days ago and it will cost me about $24 to watch all 10 episodes.  I will probably have HBO turned off after the series is over.
Thats not a bad deal at all, it works out to just $2.40 an episode, plus for that time period your getting the movies they have too.
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Re: Pacific
« Reply #217 on: March 23, 2010, 02:06:00 PM »
Right now on History Channel WW2 in HD is on about Guadalcanal.
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« Reply #218 on: March 23, 2010, 02:40:03 PM »
If anyone is looking to learn a little more about the battle of Guadalcanal I recommend "Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle" by Richard B. Frank.  I read is several years ago and it's pretty good, he examines the land, sea, and air components of the batter. 

Looks like you can get it pretty cheap over at Abebooks.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Frank&sts=t&tn=Guadalcanal&x=0&y=0

There's also "Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific " by Eric Bergerud which examines the challenges and nature of the land war in New Guinea and the Solomons (if memory serves there more in there on New Guinea but a lot of the experiences were shared).
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Bergerud&sts=t&tn=Touched+with+Fire&x=0&y=0

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Re: Pacific
« Reply #219 on: March 23, 2010, 02:54:46 PM »
I'm not saying that they should have been fighting during the day, I'm saying they needed better lighting while filming the night scenes, I mean is it my T.V or are you guys having trouble seeing just what the hell's even going on in the night scenes?
I haven't had a problem seeing the night fighting but I've been watching the episodes at night with the lights turned off...try adjusting your contrast a bit.
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« Reply #220 on: March 23, 2010, 02:58:59 PM »
Same as gyrene, I turned the lights off and saw it just fine
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« Reply #221 on: March 23, 2010, 04:56:11 PM »
At the risk of being bombarded with harassment here. I googled for the episode and found it the day after. Megavideo or something like that. Watched it on my computer worked great.


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« Reply #222 on: March 23, 2010, 05:01:23 PM »
At the risk of being bombarded with harassment here. I googled for the episode and found it the day after. Megavideo or something like that. Watched it on my computer worked great.


Yeah your gonna be able to find it on torrent sites, and pirated copies of it, it's just your not gonna find any legitimate copies released by HBO.
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« Reply #223 on: March 23, 2010, 06:50:02 PM »
I'm looking forward to watching 'The Pacific' the same way as I did 'Band of Brothers' - on DVD, all the way through without interruption. I'll give my opinion then.

I noticed this comment early on in the thread:  "I dont recall any movie/series/show about the PTO wherein any single Japanese soldier, airman or seaman was ever perceived as anything less than a machine." I presume you meant 'else than'? Well, I've seen Japanese soldiers and airmen portrayed as very human indeed. The first was the laconic guard in 'A Town Like Alice', who started out fierce and remote and ended up carrying sick children before collapsing ill himself; the scene where he died weeping over the tattered photo of his wife and children held out to him by Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna) is unforgettable. Likewise, that masterpiece 'Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence', which turned all the stereotypes on their heads and showed the complexity of the characters behind the masks on both sides. And the frustrated 'kamikaze kid' in 'Empire of the Sun' was certainly no 'machine'. Neither were many of the characters in 'Letters from Iwo Jima'.

Born in 1953, I spent several years of my childhood in Singapore, where I learnt about the Japanese occupation from people who'd been through it. World War Two history loomed large in those days. I remember playing 'English versus Jerries' in the school playground back in England - and that nobody else seemed to want to play 'versus Japanese'. Perhaps that was because quite a few of my playmates were the children of men who'd suffered in POW hell-camps like Changi and the Kwai, and I know now that there was a powerful racist element too, who saw all Japanese as 'slant-eyed monsters', whereas 'the Germans were quite like us really'.

No, we're all just people and we all care, fight, cry and make love much the same - and kick the hell out of each other when we lose reason and resort to violence as a poor substitute for good sense. Which that fine officer Richard Winters understood, when he promised to live the rest of his life in peace if he survived D-Day and the day after.

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« Reply #224 on: March 23, 2010, 11:02:08 PM »
Yeah your gonna be able to find it on torrent sites, and pirated copies of it, it's just your not gonna find any legitimate copies released by HBO.
I said that 3 pages ago...but just because the first episode was available from HBO for a week people wanted to believe otherwise.   :lol
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