The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

[Oberon]

Excellent!

[Onkel Neal]

Great news, this will be good.

Wish Steven would do the same for the American sub war.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Great news, this will be good.

Wish Steven would do the same for the American sub war.

They could do the Wahoo/Tang story.

[CCIP]

Awesome! Looking forward to it

[Skybird]

Band was absolutely stunning and excellent any maybe is the best project ever done on the war. But while I was heavily impressed by Band, Pacific left me just as unimpressed. Something they had done superbly in Band, was missing in Pacific, and that was detailing and calling-to-life the various characters, and their relations, depicted in a believable way. In Pacific, there are just bots running around and they are just placeholders with a ID-name on them. Band also lacked the typical Hollywood pathos and extreme display of patriotism that ruins so many other productions on the topic, and even almost brought Private Ryan down, at the very end - good movie, with a very oh-bah! end.

If they get these things right again with the new series, it could become another good one.

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Band was absolutely stunning and excellent any maybe is the best project ever done on the war. But while I was heavily impressed by Band, Pacific left me just as unimpressed. Something they had done superbly in Band, was missing in Pacific, and that was detailing and calling-to-life the various characters, and their relations, depicted in a believable way. In Pacific, there are just bots running around and they are just placeholders with a ID-name on them. Band also lacked the typical Hollywood pathos and extreme display of patriotism that ruins so many other productions on the topic, and even almost brought Private Ryan down, at the very end - good movie, with a very oh-bah! end.

If they get these things right again with the new series, it could become another good one.

I wanted to express a similar opinion on my comparisons of the BoB compared to the Pacific, you said it better than I ever could, so I 'll just quote you and stupidly say, "Uh yeah, I agree"

Pacifics problem was that its story was too fragmented.

In BoB you almost "fell in love with" or gained a window into the soul, with the men it followed, Pacific seemed empty.

Joe Bassilone is a NJ hero, to this day they hold parades to him in his hometown, he is beloved!

I did not feel that vibe seeing his portrayal in the Pacific.

BoB detailed the lives of men in the same unit, even if that particular episode did not feature them, you still saw the other guys, and learned more about them.

Pacific seemed forced, like Stevie was taking a payday.

[Sailor Steve]

Given that Band Of Brothers was based on the book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose, perhaps Spielberg should base this new one on another Ambrose book, The Wild Blue.

[Red October1984]

Oh......my........God.

This is just what I've been waiting for. Wow....I can't wait. I really cannot hold in my excitement.

I loved Band and The Pacific both. I could follow the Pacific's storyline fine and I felt that in some ways, It was better than Band. But in other ways, was not.

I'm so excited! When will this Air?

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Great news, this will be good.

Wish Steven would do the same for the American sub war.

1100th post! Woo!

They've done a war in europe, a war in the pacific, and now a war in the air....

They'll do a Naval one next.

Just wait...

[Jimbuna]

Looking forward to it and would love to see something on the Atlantic....an ASW group perhaps.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

1100th post! Woo!

They've done a war in europe, a war in the pacific, and now a war in the air....

They'll do a Naval one next.

Just wait...

For the members of the board's sake i hope they get their facts correct, or we wouldn't hear the end of it from all of our naval enthusiasts.

But absolutely, hollywood, for the most part, has barely nicked the surface of the war at sea. U-571 was the last good naval movie they made (battleship was a disgrace). If they did it would probably be again in the pacific, perhaps even a letters of Iwo type deal where it portrays both the life of a Japanese and an American sailor. They might even do a WW1 Jutland type deal.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

U-571 was the last good naval movie they had

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Dowly

For Hollywood, it was good. So many members of this forum have major griefs with it's accuracy,but forget that its a general public Hollywood movie, since when have you expected a great deal of accuracy? I went into the movie with no expectation of that "Das boot" realistic feeling and came out slightly impressed with how Hollywood manged to get some things correct, even if the whole premise was totally false (obviously it was the british who first captured an enigma, and the film acknowledges that at the end.)

It was an action movie, and for that it wasn't that bad. AFAIK there hasnt been a decent modern naval warfare movie since, not counting Master and Commander. The thing i do hate about U-571 was the whole "Woo! Go America!" type of patriotic bull that hollywood decides to snuff so many films with. I was never into that sense of hyper-nationalism and neither were many of the men serving in the war. It was your average action flick, and while not being terrible for it's action scenes, it was full of inaccuracies and demonization of the average kriegsmarine sailor.

[Jimbuna]

Most seriously flawed for its historical inaccuracies which I honestly feel viewers would appreciate more then the so called 'action'.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

For Hollywood, it was good. So many members of this forum have major griefs with it's accuracy,but forget that its a general public Hollywood movie, since when have you expected a great deal of accuracy?

It's not that there isn't a great deal of accuracy, it's that there is none at all. They somehow managed to screw up even the tiniest details, which even five minutes of research would have shown them.

As for the movie itself, it was trite, contrived, and annoyingly stupid. I could have written a better plot. The movie is just plain bad.

Again, it's hollywood. They try to appeal to a dumbed down audience.

And you liked it.