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jerkstoresup posted:I was worried it was going to be 7 hours of guys sitting in humvees being bored and doing very pointless missions. It was, but it was a lot better than my assumptions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51KspYwb4s One of my favorite scenes from the mini-series. If it hasn't been mentioned, 'The Brest Fortress' is a pretty good Russian WWII movie (Called Fortress of War in the States). The whole thing is on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J_wyXGa9dc
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My buddy had a situation where a captain was trying to do an unnecessary fire mission and told him he was a retard so I bet he would get s kick out of generation kill. Also that captain hosed his career up so lol to that.
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The other thing I really like about The Pacific is that it ditches the idealism of the "greatest generation" bullshit and throws stones into that mindset's half blown apart head. The Pacific War is probably the nastiest theater of World War 2 just by the nature of the Japanese army. I don't think there is another conflict in modern history where the killed outnumbered the wounded except in the Pacific. Even on the giant eastern front it was still the regular wounded outnumber killed numbers. There is none of that fighting the Japanese and I love that the show focused on just how brutal things got. There isn't that same sense of camaraderie in The Pacific as in BOB because the constant influx of replacements were getting slaughtered. It does not pull its punches.
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The Pacific was also significantly shorter than Band of Brothers. 540 minutes to 705. When you've got a narrative bouncing around between three people that really hurt it. Not sure why they went with shorter episodes. Money? It's even less History Channel friendly than Band of Brothers.
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Just finished the first ep. tonight.
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Hunterhr posted:The Pacific was also significantly shorter than Band of Brothers. 540 minutes to 705. When you've got a narrative bouncing around between three people that really hurt it. Pacific could have been really excellent if it only did the Sledge storyline - as is it dipped down to just "good" too often to be on the BoB/Generation Kill tier.
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Copper Vein posted:One thing about Spiers' portrayal in the series that never really gelled with me is that in episode 2 when he is first introduced, he is first gunning down prisoners and later is leading his whole squad to get waxed taking one german gun emplacement when Easy took out three without a casualty (Hall was from Able and Able don't count). So Spiers is initially characterized as reckless and cold-blooded; but then by episode 7 when Easy has to take the town of Foy, Spiers is the untouchable, unflappable savior of the company. in that later episode he indicates that he probably didn't kill those prisoners, but isn't going to tell people that because the myth builds morale. he was called upon because he happened to be right behind winters, and even spiers admits that Lipton would've been a great choice. that whole episode was weird though, it didn't quite have the same feel of other episodes (although it did have some amazing scenes)
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gohuskies posted:Pacific could have been really excellent if it only did the Sledge storyline - as is it dipped down to just "good" too often to be on the BoB/Generation Kill tier. One of the things that bothered me was that the whole "Leckie gets burned by the Aussie girl" never took place. They spent an entire episode on some made up bullshit.
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AFewBricksShy posted:One of the things that bothered me was that the whole "Leckie gets burned by the Aussie girl" never took place. They spent an entire episode on some made up bullshit. Apparently the real Leckie had multiple girlfriends during his time in Australia, so that girl was just a sort of amalgamation of them all, except the story was entirely fictional.
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I hear the reason they spent so much time in Australia was that it was a condition of the money they got from Australia is this true
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Mange Mite posted:I hear the reason they spent so much time in Australia was that it was a condition of the money they got from Australia is this true So the same reason that the film Passchendaele spent three quarters of its runtime in Alberta. Funding and advertisement.
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Mange Mite posted:I hear the reason they spent so much time in Australia was that it was a condition of the money they got from Australia is this true that probably makes sense since one of the studios behind it was channel 7 in australia. and they also aired it at 8.30pm. like the pebble in skull scene was shown literally at 9pm on free to air tv lmao and thats probably why it had a shorter run time, due to channel 7 and their need for ad breaks
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Two BoB Bits that I never noticed before. Speirs taking several obvious moments to decide to not just walk off with Picante's lighter when Picante asked for it back, in ep 9. Winters' Mormonism substituting "crapheads" for "shitheads" when imagining a certain high-strung sergeant taking over Dyke's command, in ep 7.
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Copper Vein posted:Speirs taking several obvious moments to decide to not just walk off with Picante's lighter when Picante asked for it back, in ep 9 Yeah I just watched that episode. Speirs owns gently caress all zee haters. Man I loving forgot all about the part where they find the concentration camp. I hadn't watched this since it originally aired.
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I also really liked the slightly maligned and twisted characters in the Pacific, and leckies storyline was good too. I definitely need to rewatch it. BoB is obviously in a league of its own, but as said above the Pacific is great in its own right for its own reasons.
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Off topic but you guys should google the Battle of Brisbane and the Battle of Manners Street.
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Copper Vein posted:Two BoB Bits that I never noticed before.  Winters' Mennonite-ism
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I met Don Malarkey IRL, he was in my fraternity and gave a speech at this big leadership conference that my chapter flew me out to. I got to spend a week in the dorms at Washington and Lee and see VMI and took a pee in the ATO water fountain cause they are our rivals.
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BoB is great. I saw (from behind the police tape and barrier) Spielberg and T.Hanks on location while filming The Pacific in the city. They closed off one block of a busy street outside our main station to film the street scenes with the old cars and trucks driving up and down and when the guys jump on the tram. It was cool to see the station all dressed up like it was during the war with sandbags all over it. Not my video but hey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saMsf0-VUc0 Generation Kill is good. Generation War is also drat good.
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Is there any recent news about The Mighty Eighth? I've seen most good war films and want more 
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The Pacific is pretty good if you skip the filler episodes like the Melbourne one and the one where the guy just sits on his rear end in a medical tent.
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Fanatic posted:The Pacific is pretty good if you skip the filler episodes like the Melbourne one and the one where the guy just sits on his rear end in a medical tent. The melbourne one is good because you get to see some nice Aussie titties though
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I saw Bob when I was like 17 and joined the army asap
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Fanatic posted:The Pacific is pretty good if you skip the filler episodes like the Melbourne one and the one where the guy just sits on his rear end in a medical tent. Nah, the medical episode is great because Leckie slowly starts going insane, and the french Canadian blows his brains out.
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His Purple Majesty posted:No love for The Longest Day here? Shameful. it's corny poo poo, especially compared to BoB. Look at this poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDLcKqV_WjA Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Feb 4, 2016 |
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