I feel as though too many reviews and too many viewers are approaching HBO’s The Pacific as though it’s a chore. Read the full post.
Mar 14
2010
09:56 PM ET
'The Pacific' review: Brilliant, brutal, and, yes, very enjoyable
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Its a boring series so far i havnt been entertained more of just waiting for it to finish rather than been disapointed it has finished. the characters are poor i dont really care if they survive or not, overall not a scratch to how good band of brothers was im upto episode 2 first episode consisting of machine gun fire in the dark thats it then the second episode having sex in austrailia. Im viewing this from been entertained as a show i dont care about historical accurcy as long as its tasteful and many on here are too blinded by patriotism to realise that this is a very poor series so far hope it gets better!
I’m in for the long haul. Series has been a real treat to enjoy to part 7. Great drama and character.
so many opinions, basically it sucked to be there so they made a show that makes you feel bad to watch it, sure some pull threw, minor victory… no re-watchabilitly, unless you want feel depressed
agreed, it feels like they put in just enough action to keep you watching,, hard-on for side stories and dialog sitting around, zero re-watch ability
I must confess to being quite disappointed with the Pacific. I’m very passionate about WW2 history, so I really Wanted this series to be good, but I’m afraid that the character development was hard to follow, and frankly boring. The combat scenes are great, but too few and far between. I’ll still keep watching it, on the basis that this part of the war is often neglected by the media.
One particularly disappointing part of the series was it’s depiction of Melbourne. As an Aussie and a Melbournian, I noticed that there were all of about three Aussies in Australia, and absolutely NO reference to the many thousands of us that were fighting in the Philippines, Malaysia, Burma etc. And of course, The Greeks didn’t come here until AFTER the war, so Leckie’s ffair is ludicrous
My father was a Marine and served in the Pacific…1st Marines…5th Amphibious Corps. He joined a year before the war broke out and went through every major campaign and was among the first soldiers to occupy Japan. Despite being just a sergeant he was also took part in the planning for the invasion of Japan…something he and most of his fellow Marines believed would cost over a hundred thousand American lives and tens of thousands of Japanese. I believe the war in the Pacific permanently changed my father forever. Unlike many men, he talked about it constantly…and the fact that he somehow made it through the carnage filled him with grief and guilt which he never really got over. Before he died he wrote a book for the family about his experiences starting in 1939 to the end of the war…I pick it up and read parts of it fairly often…it’s an unbelieveable tale from and unbelievable time in our history.
I consider the collaborative efforts of Hanks/Spielberg to be a special gift to all of us veterans who had ached for well told & produced – and truthful – narratives of America’s wars. My wife had shunned “war stories”, until she got hooked on “BOB” 8 years ago. Interestingly, she feels the same appreciation for The Pacific, in spite of its graphic depictions of war horrors. Both of us spent a half day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl) in Honolulu this past December. We shed tears together for all the lives lost in that ugly, but necessary conflict. I think about all those rows of graves while watching this epic series, and thank those brave American guys with all my heart.
Watched the first five of Pacific now. It’s a yawn fest. Incredibly dull to watch with possibly the most boring title sequence in TV history. I have given up waiting for the show to come alive, I struggle to identify with any of the characters and the battle scenes lack the impact of those in Band of Brothers. All in All, total pants.
The Pacific is nothing like i expected. I love Band of Brothers but the acting in the Pacific makes me want to puke. I couldn’t watch more than 5 minutes of the 4th episode it was so bad. I expected much better.
waited a year for the pacific to come on t.v as the follow up to the awesome band of brothers, the pacific was sorely dissapointing!
same budget as B.O.B so on the pacific with a few episodes with no fighting in them-what did they waste the budget on?
episode 3 had 2 bullets fired at a cow in a field! not impressed, sorry
Alan – I think they were more interested in realistically sharing the perspective of representative marines about the war, than trying to entertain you with lots of bullets and action.
You have thousands of Hollywood movies to choose from with exaggerated action and special effects. Please allow the rest of us just a couple productions that try convey the — yes, sometimes more mundane — reality of their experience. Yes, a major part of one episode revolving around Leckie’s inability to stop peeing his pants was maybe not terribly exciting, but it was still interesting if you want to understand what these guys really had to deal with.
I really enjoyed these series how they purposely made the bad and good guys a morally grey area. I mean, both the japanese and americans are humans, both did their fair share of attrocities and disgusting acts like torturing one another. I dont get why we have to show each other how much we wikied “war in the pacific”, when no one honestly cares. History is always written by the victors remember.
RE: “Temple Grandon” emmy awards: I was thrilled. I thought Claire Danes was remarkable. I saw Temple at an ‘ALoud’ presentation of the Library Foundation of L.A. in January and she told us there was a movie about her coming out soon. When I saw Claire Danes I could’t believe what a good job she did. It’s also inspiring that the award winners showed the real Temple so much respect. 5 stars, in my estimation.
Contrary to what is shown, it was not Leckie and Juergens who were firing into the hordes of Japanese crossing the spit that night, but rather Albert Schmid, Corporal Leroy Diamond and Pfc John Rivers, who got no coverage here for some strange reason. Leckie wrote that he was to their right (after shifting down from the beach defense) and does not claim any major role in the firing that night. I also wonder how (in his book) he and Juergens alone shifted their machine gun and tripod from their initial position without any ammunition carried with them! A machine gun squad comprised more than two men, but Leckie mentions only Juergens.”
Everyone that is disappointed in this show I think that reveals a lot about your ability to look more deeply into a movie/show/story of any kind, its not about how great it was that soldiers liked each other during the war, its so much more complex than that and this series does that complexity a lot of justice
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