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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Forker on July 21, 2009, 04:19:59 PM
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This is gona be neat, cant wait to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E)
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This is gona be neat, cant wait to see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E)
Mint! Looks awesome!
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Darn thing gave me the chills! Talked to a guy the other day at a Barns & Nobles Bookstore who was in the Battle of the Bulge and Sicily.
Just wonderful people! Salute to them all!
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Saw the trailer the other night on HBO. Can't wait for it to start. When you see Tom Hanks AND Steven Speilberg on the credits you know it's going to be greatness. :aok
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Kinda hard to believe this'll be as good as BoB, but it's looking like it will be :)
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Just wonderful people! Salute to them all!
No doubt about it, but after watching the trailer, I can't shake the feeling that I've seen this film many times before. One of the things I liked about the John Adams series was that you can't easily think of 10 movies about John Adams or even the time period in which he lived.
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No doubt about it, but after watching the trailer, I can't shake the feeling that I've seen this film many times before. One of the things I liked about the John Adams series was that you can't easily think of 10 movies about John Adams or even the time period in which he lived.
I can think of 10 movies about the Pacific that I wish hadn't been made. The PTO was an odd theater as far as historical and media coverage is concerned. The invasion of Okinawa was a larger amphibious operation than the Normandy invasion, and yet, D-Day gets the majority of the coverage. The highest rate of direct fire, American deaths per hour during the war probably occurred on Tarawa, and yet Omaha beach is seen as the most "horrific" landing. Oddly enough, Ernie Pyle, who was a melancholy guy after N. Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France made special note about how much more brutal and bleak the front lines were in the Pacific. Flags of Our Fathers was probably the first serious treatment the Pacific War has received (I don't count the Thin Red Line), and it was more focussed on telling the story of the flag raisers than the battle.
It may not be as popular as Band of Brothers because it is the second type-series, but I feel like its even more important. Americans as a whole know a lot more, relatively speaking, about the ETO than they do the PTO, and I think that's ironic, considering the war began and ended in PTO for the U.S.
Regardless, I'm very excited to see this, having read both books on which it is based, and with the expectation of a polished production that Spielberg and Hanks bring to it.
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Anybody got an ETA? I just canceled my HBO and STARZ. :(
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March 2010.
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I've seen the Pacific. It's all wet.
:P
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Regardless, I'm very excited to see this, having read both books on which it is based, and with the expectation of a polished production that Spielberg and Hanks bring to it.
What books was it based on?
And just as a footnote: While Pyle appreciated how brutal the pacific invasions were, there's no doubt he empathized most with the ETO guys because they got no breaks between fights. In one of his dispatches he specifically talked about this, and made the point that grunts in the ETO had to just keep fighting until they were wounded or killed -- much less chance of them getting time on the beach or the transport in between fights.
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What books was it based on?
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
And just as a footnote: While Pyle appreciated how brutal the pacific invasions were, there's no doubt he empathized most with the ETO guys because they got no breaks between fights. In one of his dispatches he specifically talked about this, and made the point that grunts in the ETO had to just keep fighting until they were wounded or killed -- much less chance of them getting time on the beach or the transport in between fights.
That's because, as he admitted, he was prejudiced against just about everyone else in uniform unless they were on the front-line in Europe. Had he lived to see the Okinawan campaign through its fruition, or had he been in theater for some of the earlier operations, he may have changed his opinion. He couldn't stand aviators, and wrote about how "easy" sailors had it (he cruised on a transport that). Most of his experience with PTO fighting was second hand, as he'd only been on Ie Shima for 2 days when he was killed. I'm not sure what your point was in explaining this.
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Looks Good..
:aok
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these last few years post 9/11 have really war'd me out. I used to be pumped about these sorts of things. The pride.......Maybe I'm just getting older and closer to death...the history of war does not fascinate me like it used to.
Still...I will watch this.....some sort of sense of duty? I don't know.
Is it a miniseries like BoB?
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Yep it is.
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Wow, gave me chills. Looks great, can't wait.
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With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
With the Old Breed, btw, is an excellent read. I have not read the other. Synopsis?
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When I read about the series, it really reminded me of "Edson's Raiders" mainly from all of the stories of Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
But I definitely have to find both books and read them.
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With the Old Breed, btw, is an excellent read. I have not read the other. Synopsis?
Leckie landed with 1stMarDiv at Guadalcanal, and stayed with the Division through all of the campaigns until he was wounded at Peliliu. Its his autobiography from his experiences, and its much more colorful than "Old Breed", as he recounts the "Battle of Brisbane" while 1stMarDiv was taking on replacements and training in Australia after they left the Canal. From the previews, it looks like some of the making out scenes may be from his book, because he's got a lot of liberty stories and such. He hated officers, so steel yourself for that. He was pretty much a hell-raiser, and I've got a feeling, as a former officer, that he would have been one of those problem children in garrison, that turn into a machine in the field. Including this book and his character in the series will be a nice contrast to Sledge's.