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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: fudgums on April 18, 2010, 08:54:54 PM
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Was the best one so far in the series, hands down IMO.
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Was the best one so far in the series, hands down IMO.
agreed :aok
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Haven't had a chance to watch it (hopefully tonight) - but number 5 was pretty awesome so I was hoping 6 was good
Tronsky
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I liked number 6 as well. What is the name of the island there on?
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I liked number 6 as well. What is the name of the island there on?
Peleliu
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I havent had a chance to see any of them yet ( no HBO ) Is it worth the wait for them to come on TV, or should i go buy the DVDs? Opinions?
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Episode five and six looked way better than band of brothers. this is a very good series IMHO
Todd
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Peleliu blows Omaha away. The only thing that made SPR more shocking was the fact that no one had ever shown anything like it in a movie before.
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After the break in the action, Rosie grabbed my arm and said relax. I was sitting on the edge of my seat and my heart was racing a mile a minute.
Devastating. Very Graphic. Hard to watch.
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After the break in the action, Rosie grabbed my arm and said relax. I was sitting on the edge of my seat and my heart was racing a mile a minute.
Devastating. Very Graphic. Hard to watch.
This has been a sort of "personal experience" for me. All of my grandpa's stories of Guam and Okinawa are finally shown and it simply amazes me what he endured for 3 years as a Marine. IMO, this is better than BoB and I'll be getting it on DVD to pass down the same stories to my son when he's older.
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lucky buggers.... I dont have HBO :(
you have no idea how much I wanted to watch The Pacific
-BigBOBCH
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I done copied episodes 1 thru 5 on the DVR, and put em on DVD-R DL HD version.......
will do the same after episodes 7 thru 10 are finished.....
yes, is better than BoB, my thoughts anyhows...
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After the break in the action, Rosie grabbed my arm and said relax. I was sitting on the edge of my seat and my heart was racing a mile a minute.
Devastating. Very Graphic. Hard to watch.
This has been a sort of "personal experience" for me. All of my grandpa's stories of Guam and Okinawa are finally shown and it simply amazes me what he endured for 3 years as a Marine. IMO, this is better than BoB and I'll be getting it on DVD to pass down the same stories to my son when he's older.
My wife's Grandfather was 1st Marines. We watched last night and during the airfield crossing all she could say was "Oh my God, Oh my God". I could see in her face as she finally got it, the realization that she has a real life hero within her family.
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I done copied episodes 1 thru 5 on the DVR, and put em on DVD-R DL HD version.......
will do the same after episodes 7 thru 10 are finished.....
yes, is better than BoB, my thoughts anyhows...
TC, I'm wondering if we can talk turkey via Telephone or PM? You already know what I'm gettin at. :)
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Wow, that episode was certainly more intense than any of the BOB series...I'm not sure what was harder to watch, the poor guy counting nonexistent japs or the one who went crazy during the night
Tronsky
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TC, I'm wondering if we can talk turkey via Telephone or PM? You already know what I'm gettin at. :)
sure Jay........
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Wow, that episode was certainly more intense than any of the BOB series...I'm not sure what was harder to watch, the poor guy counting nonexistent japs or the one who went crazy during the night
Tronsky
My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.
I got a HUGE kick out of the psychotic old Gunney in these two episodes. "Woof!" LOL!
I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.
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I am normally pretty ok with the ultra-violence. But last nights episode left me tense and ready for a smoke and I have been smoke free for over 3 years now.
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My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.
I got a HUGE kick out of the psychotic old Gunney in these two episodes. "Woof!" LOL!
I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.
That scene stuck w/ me as well.
Something about Snafu's eyes when he said "Is that so...."
Great series. Liking this better than BoB as well.
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I thought this episode was very intense. My youngest son is 18, the age of a lot of those marines on Peleliu. (He was planning on joining the US Marines this summer until he blew his knee out a couple of months ago...) I can not imagine him going thru the horrific experiences that those men were shown going thru. It brought tears to my eyes thinking of what the youth of that generation went thru so that we can have the freedoms we enjoy today. Like the Lt. was explaining to Sledge during the night after the airfield battle, they were indeed fighting for a "just cause."
BTW - just finished reading "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge, and "Helmet for My Pillow" by Leckie. (Got them in a special paperback set from Military Book Club). If you haven't read these, I would highly recommend them. Of the two, I enjoyed Leckie's style of writing more, but would definitely read both of them if I had the chance. Am now reading Basilone's biography; "I'm Staying With My Boys" by Jim Proser. Only a couple of chapters in, but it also looks like it's going to be a good read.
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Wow, that episode was certainly more intense than any of the BOB series...I'm not sure what was harder to watch, the poor guy counting nonexistent japs or the one who went crazy during the night
Tronsky
part where the guy went crazy at night got me more. Wonder what part 7 will be like?
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This is a very good series. I'd like to see the people that said Hanks inserting his politics into the script comment on the last few episodes. Crow is a bitter bird to eat. The series is based on reality, not a John Wayne script. Hanks and Spielberg took great effort to make sure it reflected what happened to these men before, during and after the battles.
Gunnery Sgt. Elmo Haney is definitely a great character and a helluva Marine that earned the Silver Star. The shower scene, the dressing down of a Shavetail on the range and... WOOF! :salute
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I think its better than BoB also , and the scene where they were sharing in the last bit of water from a canteen , well that is just awesome .
I have both books and Leckies is my favorite , but in both it tells alot of how they name each other , and why .
Nutte
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Gunny is great. :aok
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My only gripe thus far is the actual run time of each episode... :mad: ...very short.
My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.
Yeah, especially when he found that corpsman that was trying to help the guy that just got hit and BOOM!!!...gone.
Did anyone else notice the part where Leckie was running back across the airfield and after one series of explosions he got hit in the helmet by a boot?
I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.
I like the part when Snafu asks Sledge if he has a smoke, and Sledge pulls out a pack, grabs 2 and hands one to Snafu...the look on his face was classic..."I told you so".
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For those of us that don't have HBO, is there a site where we can watch the episodes?
ack-ack
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I'm really liking the Snafu character. He's REALLY creepy and definitely comes across as a bit unhinged, but turns out to be a pretty decent guy in the end. It also gives us a MUCH different perspective on what it was to be a replacement.
In Band of Brothers we tended to see the replacements from the perspective of the veterans we'd been following since Episode 1: unwanted newcomers replacing your best friends who might have just been killed a few days or weeks before. It's definitely a much different outlook The Pacific gives, of being that guy coming IN to replace someone's best friend and seeing the generally rotten treatment they received (IE: Snafu tossing his gear to "claim" empty bunks to force Sledge and his group out of the tent, or the way he treated them when scrubbing out the oil barrels) but also being "shown the ropes" (IE: Snafu trading his opened tin of rations for the one Sledge was having problems with).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LCQ3W6V-g
This always makes me want to :cry
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LCQ3W6V-g
This always makes me want to :cry
Hans zimmer is amazing.
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For those of us that don't have HBO, is there a site where we can watch the episodes?
ack-ack
You'll have to search the torrents. I think I saw a link over at FW.
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Yeah, especially when he found that corpsman that was trying to help the guy that just got hit and BOOM!!!...gone.
Did anyone else notice the part where Leckie was running back across the airfield and after one series of explosions he got hit in the helmet by a boot?
I like the part when Snafu asks Sledge if he has a smoke, and Sledge pulls out a pack, grabs 2 and hands one to Snafu...the look on his face was classic..."I told you so".
Those 2 parts I most remember watching aswell. But that was at 3in the morning. Parts 5and 6 have gotten to the action.
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i will have to wait for the dvds
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Band of Brothers is still so much better imho.
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Part seven.
Dang, that was good.
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Ya I think 7 was best so far as overall sense of loss, action etc.
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It just gets better with every episode. Fantastic program.
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Great show - the emotional tugs seem to never end in that episode (7)
Tronsky
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Band of Brothers is still so much better imho.
Only in that the episodes were longer...otherwise it was the best before this came out.
Episode 7 almost got to me...the death of the Lt and the Capt...both damn good officers and you can tell the men are going to be affected. The look on the gunny's face after that heavy firefight...pure shell shock...I have the feeling he's gonna "buy the farm" later on.
And what the $@$@#$ is up with that Snafu character? Definitely a section 8 waiting for papers... :O
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I was reading comments on Alan Sepinwall's review. There were a TON of people who said they didn't think they would be able to sleep last night after watching Part 7.
I generally don't believe in comparing the series to Band of Brothers, but in this case it's impossible not to: Band of Brothers didn't come close to showing the horrors of war to the extent of the three episodes on Peleliu.
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I was reading comments on Alan Sepinwall's review. There were a TON of people who said they didn't think they would be able to sleep last night after watching Part 7.
I generally don't believe in comparing the series to Band of Brothers, but in this case it's impossible not to: Band of Brothers didn't come close to showing the horrors of war to the extent of the three episodes on Peleliu.
I had a feeling that the difference between the "Helmet For My Pillow" episodes and the "Old Breed" episodes was going to be night and day.
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Band of Brothers is still so much better imho.
Disagree.
BoB was certainly very, very good but I think Pac is better.
Ironically, my initial gripe about the lack of character development in the first few episodes has been completely erased.
I think some of that is primarily due to the fact that the first couple episodes were jumping around constantly between the three main characters whereas, over the last three episodes, Sledge was 90% of the focus. I "felt" much more for him and the band of surrounding misfits than I did for the BoB characters - and that's saying a lot considering that, until this point, BoB had that trophy in the bag.
Despite being in only a couple episodes and stating only a few lines, I thought the actor portraying Captain Haldane played a more human role than did the actor portraying Winters. By all accounts, Winters was an outstanding combat leader but you knew he would make it so you viewed his actions with an air of invincibility.
By contrast, the sudden, unexpected, unseen and nearly-drama-free death of Haldane injected a significant dose of reality that BoB simply did not capture as well.
Pac just keeps getting better with each episode. I will surely purchase the DVD's upon release and I am equal parts proud and glad that the Marines hopping from island to island in the PTO have finally had their story told in such a profound fashion.
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Did anyone catch the cameo by Leonardo DiCaprio as a Seabee?
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I didn't pay much attention to who was playing the character. Was it DiCaprio?
I got a huge kick out of the Corsairs wheels-down bombing the Japanese positions, and the shot you see of another one landing at Peleliu airfield in the beginning was even in the right period markings (so often they just toss planes in to movies and TV with no thoughts to their paint jobs).
It's a shame the series is overlooking the interdependency the Marines on the ground and in the air had with each other, particularly in the two parts on Guadalcanal where the Cactus Air Force was omitted entirely (despite the infantry and airmen sometimes fighting side-by-side on the ground during some Japanese assaults).
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When it started airing I decided that I would just wait till it came out on DVD/Blu-Ray rather than subscribe to HBO for the duration. Then I went on a business trip last week and the hotel had HBO and I got to watch episodes 3-6 that night (missed episode 2, but saw #1 when it was available On-Demand). Now I'm sorely tempted to get a month of HBO to finish the series rather than wait it out.
I also think I need to go get Helmet For My Pillow now since so far Leckie has been consistently my favorite character from the series.
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It's a shame the series is overlooking the interdependency the Marines on the ground and in the air had with each other, particularly in the two parts on Guadalcanal where the Cactus Air Force was omitted entirely (despite the infantry and airmen sometimes fighting side-by-side on the ground during some Japanese assaults).
Wasn't part of either book, and so, I had no expectation that it would cover any of that. Not to say it isn't a worthy story to tell, just that I didn't think they'd talk about it. What you should realize is that those guys on the Canal had more cognizance of Washing Machine Charlie than they did of Joe Foss. They probably never saw either of them, but Washing Machine Charlie kept them up at night, and that fact alone made them take notice. Otherwise, their span of awareness never made it very far beyond the platoon/company level.
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I got a huge kick out of the Corsairs wheels-down bombing the Japanese positions, and the shot you see of another one landing at Peleliu airfield in the beginning was even in the right period markings (so often they just toss planes in to movies and TV with no thoughts to their paint jobs).
Almost missed that stuff myself...very cool...did you notice they weren't in a 45 degree dive from high alt going in?
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Those guys were pretty much taking off right into their bombing and strafing runs. That's how close the action was on Peleliu.
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For some odd reason, snafu is my favorite character of the whole thing.
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I think some of that is primarily due to the fact that the first couple episodes were jumping around constantly between the three main characters whereas, over the last three episodes, Sledge was 90% of the focus. I "felt" much more for him and the band of surrounding misfits than I did for the BoB characters - and that's saying a lot considering that, until this point, BoB had that trophy in the bag.
Despite being in only a couple episodes and stating only a few lines, I thought the actor portraying Captain Haldane played a more human role than did the actor portraying Winters. By all accounts, Winters was an outstanding combat leader but you knew he would make it so you viewed his actions with an air of invincibility.
By contrast, the sudden, unexpected, unseen and nearly-drama-free death of Haldane injected a significant dose of reality that BoB simply did not capture as well.
The loss of Ack Ack was palpable...I think that he was killed off screen but carried through the lines added to the scene far more than it happening directly in front of you. That the show is able to have the briefest of levity (eg. the guy who crapped himself when he was chased by the jap) and the horrors of death and destruction and neither seems forced or "out of place" is something that BOB doesn't have. And is the greatest of compliments to the production levels of the Pacific...I feel really sad for anyone who stopped watching early because it wasn't enough like BOB.
Did anyone catch the cameo by Leonardo DiCaprio as a Seabee?
Was he the guy asking about if anyone had a sword or jap weapon for sale??
For some odd reason, snafu is my favorite character of the whole thing.
He's grown on me too - but its helps when your not being an stunninghunk the entire time
Tronsky
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Was he the guy asking about if anyone had a sword or jap weapon for sale??
Yep
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I like the last two parts, I slept like a baby. they were really boring. same for the whole series, no comparison to band of brothers. this series try to show more graphic gore just for effect. it reminds me of a porn movie lots of action but with some boring talking in between.
semp
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Eh, wish they didn't spend as much time on Basilones love life in this episode, and went to Iwo Jima more. Part 9 looks good, real good.
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You can watch any number of movies about Iwo Jima. Watch it from both sides with Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. This is telling the story of their experiences and part 8 was just as valid as the others IMO.
I like the series.
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You can watch any number of movies about Iwo Jima. Watch it from both sides with Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. This is telling the story of their experiences and part 8 was just as valid as the others IMO.
I like the series.
+1. Showing Basilone's love life was bittersweet knowing that once he left her and shipped out for Iwo, he would never see her again. I think it's important in showing the degree of patriotism and selflessness the men of that genration had - willingly returning to combat duty when he was newly married to "the prettiest girl in the world" (his words in the cafeteria).
The series has definitely grown on me since the beginning. At first I kept expecting a USMC version of Band of Brothers. But as it has gone one, I've felt myself being drawn more into it. I think its because it takes longer to relate to the 3 main characters than it did in BoB.
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I'm speechless on this one.