'The Pacific'

Originally Posted by Skybird

Band of Brothers was absolutely excellent and a real quality event. I especially liked it for lacking the pathos and nationalistic mood you usually would expect from an american war movie, and what still was present in Private Ryan - also a good movie, but at the end there was this certain and somewhat typical posturing that BoB was lacking. Bob just did the narration as close to the people as possible, sober - and by that so much more moving and believable than any artifical sentiment could ever manage to achieve in the audience. My biggest compliments to the creators of that series. If Pacific manages to repeat these virtues, I will get and watch it. But the standard to which I compare it - BoB - is set to "very high".

Yea I liked BoB for the most part. Certain episodes seemed to be better then others. I know that it's pretty unlikely that there will be much cowardice or any cruelties of the US soldiers in these, most likely just the heroes of the 'good war'. I guess it's refreshing for Americans to escape to a simpler time when good guys and bad guys were easier to tell from one another, or so it seemed at the time.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Yea I liked BoB for the most part. Certain episodes seemed to be better then others. I know that it's pretty unlikely that there will be much cowardice or any cruelties of the US soldiers in these, most likely just the heroes of the 'good war'. I guess it's refreshing for Americans to escape to a simpler time when good guys and bad guys were easier to tell from one another, or so it seemed at the time.

You are automatically assuming there will no 'cowardice or any cruelties of the US soldiers' in the movie. Why? You sound a bit bitter.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

You are automatically assuming there will no 'cowardice or any cruelties of the US soldiers' in the movie. Why? You sound a bit bitter.

Yea, why should I doubt Hollywood to bring us anything but the truth.

On the subject of the WW 2 in the Pacific, The Naked And The Dead was a good book but the movie kind of sucked. From Here To Eternity was pretty much the same deal. Pretty much always the books are better then the movies especially when Hollywood is making the movie.

I'd like to see a movie about WW 2 that wouldn't be full of naive stuff, that'd be more realistic and would give an impartial view of the events. This kind of stuff about MoH winners etc. is kinda predictable.

[AVGWarhawk]

I see and understand what you mean.

[Dowly]

@OTH

You should be smart enough to know that there will never be (atleast in public spreading) a movie that get's down and dirty and shows how stuff really went. The winners write the history as they like.

[Biggles]

And it's a whole different thing to be in a war and to watch a movie based on it, how accurate it may be.

Or so I would believe.

[Task Force]

Oah no... does tf sence a dumb love story from that preview...

oah well, it looks pretty good.