The Pacific (hbo miniseries from spielberg/hanks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E

band of brothers was pretty amazing so i'll re-up my subscription for this when it airs.

My dad'll be all over this, I can tell already.

airs march 14

need to make plans for that night

what if its airing in the daytime

i have plans i can't break that will interfere that day >: (

it's kinda funny to me that the trailer looks/sounds like The Thin Red Line!

need to make plans for rest of life

this one doesn't look (from trailers) to be as obviously well crafted as BoB was, but the names on the top of the credits suggest otherwise (of course). I mean, no way SS and TH will do a half-assed job but it looks slight compared to previous efforts.

the BoB trailers looked kinda lame iirc, i'm kinda feeling like this will be pretty dope.

need to make plans for rest of life

― new worlds order comeing soons (jeff), Monday, February 8, 2010 3:31 PM

did u hate BoB

BoB was terrific. psyched for this, but i'm not an "hbo subscriber" nor "into torrents" so i'll have to wait

i'm a sucker for this stuff

me 2

i'm "into torrents"

starts tonight. excited.

mann nancy franklin u just dont get it, ever

http://i40.tinypic.com/2nktdgg.jpg

she blows

so this being considered a failure?

no?

I meant ratings-wise.

dont have HBO

Me neither, got the first ep off the torrents.

So, my buddy sent me an email about this yesterday, and the subject line said "The Latest from D-Day Hanks and Steven Normandyberg..."

I lol'd.

Saw the first ep today. Wow. I'd read a few complaints that 'oh it's not as good as Band of Brothers', 'I can't tell who anyone is, am not connected to the characters as much'...I don't see that at all. Band of Brothers was the same for me in the first episode as this was...figuring out who everyone is, and for a while they're all just guys in helmets til the personality starts to come through. Plus I can't even tell you how many times I've watched BoB? Of course there's a stronger connection. So far that doesn't seem to fly as a criticism of the Pacific. Early days, but that's just my take.

Generally speaking, it has those hallmark unspoken moments between characters that BoB had, captures the confusion of combat, and definitely captures the general 'otherness' of fighting in the Pacific...the feeling that they may as well have been on another planet, ie everything you know is wrong.

second episode in and only getting better. i was super hyped by the end of this one. by now you know who most of the key characters are and can't wait to see the rest of their story. this is totally going to be good

Good. I was disappointed by the lack of a Captain/Major Winters character (as in BoB) to tie things together in the debut. We only had the machine gunner who shifted positions at Alligator Creek to root for, and that's not enough.

^ otm

I looked at the associated book and thought it was a bit US-centric, but then a book that was less so contain a lot of chapters about people being stationed on islands and then all being killed.

Looks good so far, very brutal, great action scenes, nice dynamics between characters. Don't agree with the UK ads calling it 'the television event of the year' tho, CLEARLY they have forgotten about upcoming Treme and Boardwalk Empire.

shit is brutal

dude throwing pebbles into dead Japanese solders skull was WTF!