New Trailer for HBO’s “The Pacific”
HBO has put up a new trailer for “The Pacific” an epic mini-series about the war with Japan (from the creators of “Band Of Brothers”):
[The first trailer can be viewed here.]
The miniseries is apparently based on E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Consider this video clip of an old interview with Sledge as a teaser for his book:
“In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the “good war”—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns
If HBO is true to the original tone of the book, this could be much better than “Band of Brothers.”
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I loved Band of Brothers but this one looks so so. Already it looks like they’re upping the war movie cliches, complete with love story interest, melodramatic montages with slow motion bullets, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ rapid editing/blood and gore, etc. etc.
Been there, done that. Not at all suitable for a movie about Pacific island hopping campaign. Those were some of the most savage and brutal conflicts in the entire Pacific, and maybe eveen the entire World War 2 campaign.
Yea i feel you, every movie should be done in the same fashion as Terminator 4, pure action and death, no love or story line. RAWHHH
I’m with you! Screw the mandatory love story crap! This is just like when I was watching AVP2 and I found that the humans’ story was rather crappy and unnecessary.
I’m willing to give it a chance. I think if it does follow the book it could certainly be better than Band of Brothers. I’m assuming the trailer shows glimpses of what some of the soldiers were before going to war. I can’t really make a judgment without seeing it but I don’t see anything wrong with showing the contrast of who a man is at peace and at war.
Anyway, I have hopes for it and I didn’t see anything in the trailer that turned me off from it.
Ya I agree the trailer has me worried they’re going the crappy Pearl Harbor Hollywood route but hopefully it lives up to BoB.
If it’s in the same vein as Saving Private Ryan, BoB and other modern American war films, it’ll be well directed, thought provoking, graphic and chilling. And it will also probably ignore, downplay or downright lie about the important roles played by America’s allies.
World War II was fought by the Allies, aka the United Nations. Omaha Beach and other beaches the US fought their way inland from on and after June 6th, 1944 was taken by the US, and the US alone. US and Commonwealth troops rarely fought side-by-side on the same battlefield, as they used different weapons, had different command structures, etc. Private Ryan was about one US unit’s battle to get off Omaha and find a US troop who was operating in an area under US combat jurisdiction. It was not a movie about “The War in Europe after D-Day”, so naturally there were no British or other Allied troops depicted, as they were not in the areas depicted in the movie. Sorry if that chafes your loins, but you know, I have seen BoB movies that completely overlook the contribution made by the Eagle Squadron, and I got over it.
If this new series is about a Marine unit or units in the Pacific, I doubt there will be a lot of talking about the Kiwis or Aussies or Brits. There will probably not even be much action involving the US Army, although they fought in the Pacific as well, just not side-by-side with the Marines. That would not be “ignoring, downplaying or outright lying” about the contributions of the others who fought and died in the war, but those stories were very often separate from the story of what the Marines were doing in a particular campaign in real life.
everyone’s a cynic…
How many “allies” served in the US Marine Corps in WW II?
Although it is true that there was a Brit in my sons boot camp battalion at Parris Island.