Posted on 02/27/2010 7:34:06 AM PST by Saije
This looks to be quite interesting.
Based on the mini-series of The Pacific.
Just got it yesterday.
So am I. Judging from the trailers it looks to be pretty good.
Ditto, BoB is one of the few movies/series I can watch over and over and enjoy it each time. I don’t get HBO, but can’t wait to see Pacific when it hits DVD.
Don’t know if everyone has access to it but HBO did have about a eight minute excerpt from the series that showed the Marine assault across an airfield, presumably what would become Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
It was extremely intense.
“This trailer looks really good.”
Thanks for posting. I hadn’t seen that one.
I am so sick of hearing liberals and Leftists trash the military - now, after getting away with lying about Vietnam, they declare all wars meaningless, including WWII. And why? Because yet again, they are trying to undermine the resolve of the people's support of the military fighting now.
Leftists are all for fighting, as long as it's against a free people. But when America goes against totalitarian murderers, Hollywood fires up the trembling horror machine, and fronts actors intoning fear and grief at military families. And of course, the subtext is that the troops are too stupid to know their sacrifice is pointless, if not evil. It's war alright - war of the mind, and the enemy made the movie - yet again.
I will watch this and so will my brother and sister. Our dad (USMC) was there and his rare accounts of his service in WW2 to us kids were unbelievable.
It depends on the approach they take. If this is done like Band of Brothers, great. But if we start in on portraying the “Japanese heroically defending their unique culture” nonsense....
Great book!
Thanks for the book recommendation - Dad’s Honorable Discharge paper states he saw, “battles, engaments, skirmishes, expeditions: participated in action against the Japanese on Peleliu, Okinawa(wounded), and occupaton of China”. I will see if I can order this from Amazon today.
Semper Fi ... that trailer is intense.
The Pacific is partly based on that book and also, “I’m Staying With My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC”
I don’t see anything of what you’re saying in what he said. I saw it in a “it was strategically unimportant to the overall Pacific campaign” light.
I don’t know anything about the battle or it’s historical significance, so I can’t comment either way, but that’s what it sounded like he was saying.
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