The Pacific: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [2010] [Region
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The Pacific: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [2010] [Region Free]
| Dimensions: | 17.5 x 14 x 4 cm; 435 Grams |
| Model: | 5051892024235 |
| Dimensions: | 17.5 x 14 x 4 cm; 435 Grams |
| Origin: | Portugal |
A wonderful well made story from the second world war. I bought this as a gift but sadly had to return it as was faulty. I passed on my series to my friend who loved it.
This series is a no holds barred, when it comes to the combative scenes ( be warned). This is the pacific version of Band of Brothers. This follows a group of US marines from the canal to Okinawa , nice to know it’s taken from the books of those soldiers that were there. The production team did well in telling these mens heroic but terrifying stories. Well done to all involved.
Loved The Pacific my Father was in Burma during the WW11 and I wanted to know what it was like for him. This definitely showed me what they endured and how brave they all were. Everyone should watch The Pacific it is part of our history and our heroes who played their part. Thank you
The production quality is the equal if not better than most Hollywood blockbusters. On Blu-Ray the visuals are stunning and the sound is just brilliant.
This is the follow up series to A Band of Brothers, of which I was a big fan and this series follows a similar set up where you get to know a few characters and follow them through their deployment.
The brutality of the Pacific campaign is brought to shocking life by this series but they also capture the effect it had on the soldiers too.
Simply stunning.
I hope you find my review helpful.
I would give BoB a 5 Star rating but this get 4- only because BoB was so good.
In Pacific because of the character of the battles it seemed to become a little battle weary,like the soldiers it portrayed.
That’s a bit nitpicky because it is still head and shoulders ahead of other conflict films
Absolutely brilliant mini series, the directors and actors were magnificent and I learned so much about the campaign in the Pacific which was absolutely horrific for anyone fighting in it. Realise just how brave the people fighting in it were and what they had to endure from the enemy and from the elements, jungle, malaria and rain. Absolutely 5 sta
My biggest criticism of The Pacific is that the story is a little fragmented. It’s not that it is particularly difficult to follow, rather that it lacks a sense of overall cohesion. When characters appear and then disappear I feel it takes a lot of momentum out of the series.
It also could have benefited from a bit more exposition and background information. I knew the Iwo Jima episode was going to be a meat grinder, for example, but I would guess the context and significance (or lack thereof depending on your view) would be lost on a lot of viewers. For better or for worse these types of programmes are important history lessons for some people, and I think a few seconds of an island-hopping map graphic at the start of each episode is too limited and a missed opportunity.
That said, the last episode is arguably the pick of the bunch. It’s an episode set after the fighting is over but in many ways it hits the hardest, with the knockout delivered at the final credits when you see the real people who were being portrayed in the series and what happened to them after the war. For me, the final episode grasped a bunch of loose hanging threads and made something great out of them.
I’m not sure how reviewers on here can give it 1 star. This series is one of the most brutal portrayals of warfare that has been made. Personally I found it to be much more grittier and a better watch than Band of Brothers. Anyone who is interested in war and the Pacific War during WW2 in particular needs to give this a watch.
movie, and this is a case in point. This is a story of 3
men who fought through the Pacific Theater campaign
of WW2. The source material, are 4 books written by
by men who were there, and we see the that war with
all its complexity on the human spirit, and in parts it
is very UGLY. Remember, in war, good men have to
do bad things, and here we see it all…
This series is as good as any of the movies on the
Pacific War made in recent years, and concentrates
on the main battles, but also includes the little known
battle of the Island of Peleliu, which covers 3 episodes.
Peleliu was a bloodbath, and the first battle were the
Japanese dug in to defend to the death. To say this
battle was horrific, is an understatement, and here
we see some very gruesome things, but this is war,
and we see the psychological effects it has on the.
troops. Brave men fall apart after so much violence.
After the Battle of Okinawa, the Americans had over
26,000 psychiatric casualties, and the troops were
exhausted, and this was one of the main reasons
the USA dropped the Atom Bomb. Think what you
want about the A-Bombing of Japan, but I feel they
had no choice, and besides that, the Japanese were
as bad as the Nazis, and would have never given up
without it.
If you have any interest in the Second World War. this
is worth watching.
I was wrong, it is a completely different animal – and just as brilliant for it. The Pacific focuses more on three individual marines, before, during and after their served time and their personal journey, rather than the company as a whole and their role within the war. It also reveals the stark difference in fighting style, in mentality and in the Pacific theater itself.
The actors are phenomenal (especially the performance by Rami Malek as Snafu) but of course this is nothing compared to the actual actions of the men they portray. And, as with band of Brothers, this reality is really brought home in the interviews conducted with these heroes.
I was hooked from the outset and watched the entire thing in two nights. I also promptly went out and bought With the Old Breed – Eugene B Sledge (also incredible).
I can’t rate this highly enough. Inspiring and humbling.
The Pacific series is from the team behind Band of Brothers. Its a ten-hour mini-series that traces three American marines of Easy Company as they fight World War II in the Pacific.
In most good TV drama series, strong, well-defined characters are required right from start to shape the action. To start with characters are pencil sketches, unsubtle and thinly drawn. But in a similar way to Band of Brothers, after a few episodes, we start seeing the men of Easy Company as three-dimensional people.
Like Band of Brothers, the series draws upon the expertise of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The $150million budget was mostly spent on sets and set-pieces rather than its cast, who as with Band of Brothers, are relatively little-known. The trick with The Pacific is to be patient and you will be rewarded.
The story, as far as the main characters are concerned, follows the trials and strife of a few real-life soldiers from the campaign, one of whom may be the bravest soldier of the twentieth century. In any other era of film making, we could be forgiven for assuming that the exploits had enjoyed some Hollywood over-dramatisation; not so, if anything, the heavily decorated John Basilone was even braver in real battle and real life than he is portrayed in this mini-series – I looked into his sadly short career on Google. Suffice to say that the producers have not exercised any moviemaking license or dramatic hyperbole in the making of this series, and they needn’t have done, the truth is startling and frightening enough.
The characters are well drawn, youthful, callow as the teenagers and frightened as the young soldiers of WWII would have been. There is no schmaltz, no tackiness in sketching the relationships, even when playing out the brief romance and even briefer marriage of Basilone.
Shot in low saturated colour, the photography gives the movie a feel of the period, a period of history which we all think of as having taken place in black and white and which makes us uncomfortable with livid technicolor. Each episode is so captivating and seems so short (though they are not) that I challenge you not to watch at least two episodes on the trot.
A fabulous dramatic roller coaster and I recommend it to you.
Highly recommend this to anyone, you instantly get into the characters and their own personal stories, and how they all come together to fight in all the different places they were sent to. The war scenes can be a bit graphic, but then you wouldnt expect less.
Its very moving too, beautifully done. The last DVD is especially poignant, as it shows you the actual people who the film was based on and what they did after the war – this had me in tears!
Buy it and enjoy it – amazing.
This DVD series describes the progress of a group of US Marines from enlistment after Pearl Harbour to the Battle of Okinawa taking in Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea,Pellalieul atoll and Iwojima along the way. It shows in graphic detail their growth from gung-ho youth to seasoned veteran bearing the scars physical and mental of the struggle against ruthless and fanatical Japanese opponents. The film work is superb throughout and one can feel what it was actually like to be in a rain soaked jungle or an arid volcanic landscape fighting this ruthless foe. It also emphasises the waste of life incurred in the taking of Pellalieul atoll, ordered by MacArthur, at a cost of 6 000 Marine casualties. The atoll and its airfield were subsequently never used in the push across the Pacific. Indeed it could have been quietly by-passed without influencing the course of the war and without loss of any lives. There are interludes of peace described, however, including “R&R” on peaceful islands and in Australia and a trip to the USA by a heroic sergeant to sell war bonds.
Essentially the series is a tribute to the fortitude of the human spirit against terrifying odds. It is also a handsome tribute to the thousands of young GIs some as young as 17 years old who gave their lives for freedom. To hear the survivors accounts some 60 years later is deeply moving.It complements beautifully the original “Band of Brothers” that covered the European War in a similar realistic manner.
I have watched or read the story of the war in the Pacific in “snatches” so have enjoyed watching the complete story based on the experiences of a small group of men. I suppose my only criticism is that the Japanese are only shown flinging themselves at the American soldiers and dying in large numbers and it may have helped to add “colour to the events” if we understood what the Japanese were doing. Evenso, it wasn’t a “John Wayne” picture of the war and did show the problems faced by the Americans fighting so far from home and in alien surroundings.I enjoyed watching the series.
One of the main attractions of this series is that it tells us of the incredibly savage battles that took place across the Pacific as the Japanese were gradually dislodged from the thousands of tiny islands that they’ve occupied. This is a little known aspect of the war, which deserves to be more widely known. Shocked by the brutality of one particular battle, on an island called Peleliu (now part of the nation of Palau), I did some research, discovering that the struggle on Peleliu had indeed been savage beyond measure. It is in fact regarded as the most difficult battle that the US armed forces fought in WW2. Worse than D-Day! It took more than two months to gain control of an island just 5 square miles in area, and the Marines lost thousands and thousands of men.
I’ve seen some great films about the war in the Pacific, among them the outstanding Flags of our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima , directed by Clint Eastwood, and Kokoda – 39th Battalion , about the Australian experience in Papua New Guinea. But nothing could prepare me for the relentless assault on the senses that is the Pacific. Buy it. It’s unforgettable.
Footnote: if you want to read more on the subject, two of the soldiers who were portrayed in the series wrote about their experiences. I’ve bought both books already. They are: Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge (for me the outstanding character of the series). I can’t wait to read them.
Ben Kane, author of The Forgotten Legion.