About 2/3s the way through and already anxious about it ending. Is The Pacific worth watching after this?
Also, just watched Bastogne last night. I didn't get why the Allied planes fired on the the 101st when they were making the drop. Specific event in an old show but worth a shot.
Just rewatched BoB for about the 50th time last week. Still the best thing to ever been put on TV. The Pacific is good but definitely nowhere near BoB.
It is awesome. Bastogne was hard to watch yet I was mesmerized. I was literally cold by the end of the episode.
The lines were really close, they may have thought they were the Germans. Or they were warning them to watch out for the drops.
The pacific was great. Just as good as band of brothers IMO. I think it did a great job of showing just how different the theaters in world war 2 were. The line in the last episode where the cab driver dropped leckie off pretty much sums it up. He refused to take payment from him knowing he was a marine where the driver was in the army. He said something to him like this: "I can't accept that. You girenes. I at least had London and Paris. You? All you got was jungle rot and malaria."
Just finished BoB the other night. Was amazing. Truly the greatest generation. The line from Winters at the end about his grandson asking if he was a hero and his reply "No, but I served in a company of heros". Got dusty. Gonna go right into The Pacific.
I agree. Surprised it didn't get the fanfare that BOB did, its just as good. Eugene Sledge's autobiography of his war experience is a great read. If you liked the Pacific, his book is a must. And youll recognize certain events from the show. It's called with the old breed. Ambrose's book is based off of it and also Leckie's. I haven't read Leckie's yet.
I think the only reason I liked BoB more was because I loved the actors that played in it. Wasn't as big of a fan of the actors that played Leckie and Sledge.
The Pacific is great... Don't be crazy and go around telling someone that it is as good as Band of Brothers.
I can't think of anything on TV that I would be able to put up against Band of Brothers. It's a perfect series in almost every way.
Been listening to the 20th anniversary podcast and doing a rewatch. I never realized that the Speirs/prisoner scene was true and he confirmed it.
I have no idea how I haven’t ever seen this but my buddy and I have watched 1 episode a week and we just finished episode 2…that was something my grandfather was in the 11th airborne parachute division in the pacific and watching Saving Private Ryan with him was a very special day
Yes. Also by Spielberg and Hanks. Not great like Band of Brothers, but same production values and very good.
I still thought it was great as I'd read With the Old Breed (one of the main books it's based on) and many other Pacific front books.
This by the way is coming probably 2022 on Apple TV+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Air?wprov=sfti1 same deal as the other two. Hanks and Spielberg attached with Cary Joni Fukunaga directing at least 3-4 eps. Based on Donald Miller’s book of the same name.
Bastogne may be my favorite hour of anything on film. It's 65° here and I'm so cold after watching it I'm almost shivering.
I finished a couple weeks ago, pretty incredible and I’ve spent some time reading up on the real guys Speirs you were a bad man
When our show well runs dry or new attempts flop, this is our fall back. BoB is so fucking good we usually roll right into the Pacific theatre.
It’s -11 here today and days like this always make me think of 19th/20th century soldiers and how there wasn’t an inside. If it was cold you just sat there in your foxhole or trench and froze. Don’t know how they did it