Ok, so I'm watching this new miniseries "The Pacific".
I've enjoyed "The Band of Brothers" immensley so I thought I'd give this a shot.
"Dissapointing" does not even begin to cover what I'm feeling.
I was always interested in our campaign in the pacific (more so than the european campaign) and I was hoping to learn something but all we got was a "Band of Brothers" in the Pacific.
The fact that the Navy chickened out (maybe too harsh a word) and left the Marines hanging on the 'Canal was ommitted and all we got was "the Navy was sunk" dialogue between a couple of Marines. Henderson field was mentioned numerous times but we never even got to see it. It would have been nice to actually see the damn airfield.
The usual "the enemy has loved ones too" scenes were done to death in the first episode.
And this pisses me off no end these days. In every war movie we see these days (not just this mini series), the same theme always seems to be "the enemy is human also and we did terrible things" schtick. I've seen it in "The Sand of Iwo Jima" and I'm seeing it in spades in this miniseries as well.
I know our soldiers did some terrible things but it seems these days, the enemy is portrayed as some local hick that got caught up in the winds of war and our soldiers were just mean.
In fact, the only things I really enjoy about this series is the five minute montage in the beginning where real vets describe their experiences and the awesome opening credits.
I'm hoping this series picks up but I'm seriously doubting it.
What do you guys think?
I've enjoyed "The Band of Brothers" immensley so I thought I'd give this a shot.
"Dissapointing" does not even begin to cover what I'm feeling.
I was always interested in our campaign in the pacific (more so than the european campaign) and I was hoping to learn something but all we got was a "Band of Brothers" in the Pacific.
The fact that the Navy chickened out (maybe too harsh a word) and left the Marines hanging on the 'Canal was ommitted and all we got was "the Navy was sunk" dialogue between a couple of Marines. Henderson field was mentioned numerous times but we never even got to see it. It would have been nice to actually see the damn airfield.
The usual "the enemy has loved ones too" scenes were done to death in the first episode.
And this pisses me off no end these days. In every war movie we see these days (not just this mini series), the same theme always seems to be "the enemy is human also and we did terrible things" schtick. I've seen it in "The Sand of Iwo Jima" and I'm seeing it in spades in this miniseries as well.
I know our soldiers did some terrible things but it seems these days, the enemy is portrayed as some local hick that got caught up in the winds of war and our soldiers were just mean.
In fact, the only things I really enjoy about this series is the five minute montage in the beginning where real vets describe their experiences and the awesome opening credits.
I'm hoping this series picks up but I'm seriously doubting it.
What do you guys think?
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