The Pacific (Band of Brothers sequel)

[Dom]

As Band of Brothers was one of the best bits of TV ever I'm pretty excited to hear that a sequel is being made, this time about the Pacific war. It's going to be 10 episodes long and is apparently the most expensive television production in history having cost around 150-200 million dollars to make.

It's out next year and you can see a trailer at https://www.pacificfans.com/trailer.mov

Plus info at https://www.pacificfans.com/

[JonB]

Oh I dunno. BoB was fantastic. But the Pacific War? zzzzzzzzzz.
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[JonB]

Oh FFS, why does the trailer have to be so damn good? Now i'm excited by a boring aspect (IMO, of course) of WWII.
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[Catalyst]

Looks good, but doesn't look very historically correct. I'm no historian or anything so maybe it is correct but i hate most things on the pacific side of the war.

I just hate the way that they think they were better than the Japanese, when in fact the only reason they beat them was because they dropped a nuke in desperation. They knew they couldn't win any other way. Someone needs to make a series like this but on the British side of the war, after all we were the main fighting force in Europe. The African campaign would be epic if made into a series like this.
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[JonB]

hollis. The Americans would have won the war eventually. Most historians agree that it would have only been another 6 months or so before it finally came to an end, bearing in mind in addition to the USA, the UK forces + commonwealth and Russia were all turning their attentions towards Japan. There is no way Japan would ever have come out victorious. The main reason or so we believe for the Atom bomb was to stop more American deaths in the long term and to reduce cost. Morally wrong? Probably. The acceleration of a certain victory? Definately.
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[JonB]

BTW, I think BBC had the series last time on BBC 2, I hope they get it again and put it on BBC HD. That would be perfect. HD and 5.1 sound, thank you God.
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[Dom]

An equivalent series with a British perspective would be fantastic, but only the yanks can afford to put things together on this scale. If they do as good a job developing the characters in this as they did with BoB then I'm sure it will be excellent, regardless of the setting (not that I think you could ever really say a war was boring).
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[Catalyst]

[J D]

Looks amazing and doesnt seem to be full of computer effects which is always a plus.

[bonehead]

Im looking forward to seeing this, I spent months making all the machineguns, grenades and bayonettes for this about 2 years ago.

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[Visitor Q]

Agree with Jon B 100%, however I was quite amused by the "Project X-ray/Bat Bomb", which was actually deployable and was projected to cripple their [Japanese] industry without many fatalities.

However, they went for the Nuke. To be fair, /someone/ was going to use it eventually. It needed to be field 'tested' against hostiles to prove a point, and without the Japs catching it I dare say the cold war could of got a lot hotter.
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[Dom]

The first ep went out last night in the US of A. Should any of you nefarious immoral bastards wish to acquire it I'm sure you could find a copy via whichever illicit means you favour.

I might be downloading it now, maybe. The HD version is presumably a must.
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[Alabama Blacksnake]

By the looks of the trailer its going to be good. Hopefully it will be as good as band of brothers some of the scenes look like there taken from band of brothers. I wonder if they will get the veteran's to talk at the start like band of brothers
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[Visitor Q]

It appears to be https://tvshack.net/tv/The_Pacific/

Haven't bothered to watch it yet, on my 'to-do' list tomorrow.
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[Dom]

Well I watched it last night and, without wanting to spoil anything, it certainly has the potential to be every bit as good as BoB. The sound and the visuals when the bullets start flying are as good as you'd expect (watch it in HD) and, given a chance to develop a bit, the characters look like they could turn out to be fairly interesting. Like BoB there was a brief interview with a veteran at the start.

[Luke_Retrofly]

I want to watch it so bad, but I dont have Sky movies, and I'm worried getting a rip won't do it justice.

I have BoB, I watched the series and the boxset twice, 3 times in total .

If Pacific comes out on Blue Ray I'll deffinatly get it, despite it probably costing a small fortune.
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[Mr Hammers]

If you're using Firefox and have the Modify Headers addon, you can also watch it here for free;

https://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/episodes/0/01-part-1/video/part-1-full-episode.html?cmpid=e9
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