General Band of Brothers and The Pacific, the pinacle of war movies...
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It was good, however...Band of Brothers did a great job of leading into each epsidoe by giving you a backdrop of the battle and the impact on the war.
The Pacific focused WAYYYY too much on the characters personal lives and relationships outside of the battles.
Band of Brothers followed a specfic group through their duration in WW2 and focused ont he bond that developed in combat.
The Pacific was more about what the horrors of war does to a man's psyche.
Both great shows, Band of Brothers is way better imo.
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Fury (Best job i ever had!)
A Bridge Too Far (About Operation Market Garden, which is featured in Band of Brothers as well. Great Cast)
Hacksaw Ridge
Fury (Best job i ever had!)
A Bridge Too Far (About Operation Market Garden, which is featured in Band of Brothers as well. Great Cast)
Hacksaw Ridge
I literally just finished a re-watch of both BoB and the Pacific.
I feel like the Pacific island hopped (pun intended) through the key battles, without really letting the viewer know the situation and impact of Battles like Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, etc.....and the aftermaths and how those battles affected the Pacific theater. Band of Brothers did a great job of that. Giving a little factual lead out after each episode. Nothing like that in the Pacific. Way too much shit with Leckie and John Basilone's romantic life outside of the War. It dragged way more than Band of Brothers did.
I feel like the Pacific island hopped (pun intended) through the key battles, without really letting the viewer know the situation and impact of Battles like Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, etc.....and the aftermaths and how those battles affected the Pacific theater. Band of Brothers did a great job of that. Giving a little factual lead out after each episode. Nothing like that in the Pacific. Way too much shit with Leckie and John Basilone's romantic life outside of the War. It dragged way more than Band of Brothers did.
Its like they misunderstood the assignment.
When Spiers jumps through the mortar shell on his way to relieve Dyke.
But yeah, WInters leading the charge at the crossroads is up there too.
There was just too much fluff. You go in expecting a Pacific version of BoB, and you get entire half episodes of a romantic drama.
Has anyone seen the Midway movie with Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson? Any good? It's on my watchlist, but the trailer made it look kinda meh
My worry is that it's total shit like MIchael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie
My worry is that it's total shit like MIchael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie
Wasn't that one episode and done to REALLY punch up the ending...
Yeah, but then there was the entire lost episode of Leckie meeting the girl while he was on leave and her family, and blah blah blah. Really, that story went nowhere, maybe they were trying to attract female viewership with the focus on all the Romantic plot lines
Also, it's confusing to me whben someone says "I don't care for Spielberg"
Dude is literally responsible for some of the greatest movies of all time.
Jaws
Close Encounters
ET
Raiders/Indy
Jurassic Park
Private Ryan
Empire of the Sun (another great WW2 movie)
Hook
Shindler's List
And if you bring in movies he produced it's stuff like
Goonies
Poltergeist
Is it because he's Jewish?
Dude is literally responsible for some of the greatest movies of all time.
Jaws
Close Encounters
ET
Raiders/Indy
Jurassic Park
Private Ryan
Empire of the Sun (another great WW2 movie)
Hook
Shindler's List
And if you bring in movies he produced it's stuff like
Goonies
Poltergeist
Is it because he's Jewish?
Your concerns are well founded.
Its another beautiful nothing of a movie.
Most of that list I never cared for...take Jaws for instance, great atmosphere and acting but the terrible roaring shark just ruined it for me. That was way back then.
Rule #1- if your tank is immobile, you are a sitting duck...ambush or no (lol, they killed like 200 nazis), ONE soldier with a rocket and your tank is a bbq. And those were SUPPOSED to be hardened troops.
Pitt takes like 8 30 cal bullets and still looks like a moviestar...yeah disbelief and all that.
I saw Fury opening night and couldn't believe how bad that ending was...Fury borrowed the only still operable Tiger tank left in the world from a museum in England
Rule #1- if your tank is immobile, you are a sitting duck...ambush or no (lol, they killed like 200 nazis), ONE soldier with a rocket and your tank is a bbq. And those were SUPPOSED to be hardened troops.
Pitt takes like 8 30 cal bullets and still looks like a moviestar...yeah disbelief and all that.
The only roaring shark was in Jaws 4 lol
That WAS Shit.
Spielberg only did the first movie.
The first film is one of the few examples of a Perfect movie imo. Raiders is another.
That WAS Shit.
Spielberg only did the first movie.
The first film is one of the few examples of a Perfect movie imo. Raiders is another.
Here's a doc about the incident that just popped up today.
Haven't watched it yet.
View: https://youtu.be/T4CXEzNXbms?si=jXRPw7ftbi8dPi7k
You'll like the movie
