HBO's miniseries The Pacific

[AuburnAlumni]

Quote: Originally Posted by Coug00

Thumbs up from me. I won't give much away, but I thought they did an amazing job portraying how mentally taxing the Pacific theater was.

The style of fighting was 180 degrees from the European theater.

1. It was a lot of island hopping, jungle warfare as opposed to the European countryside. Guerilla tactics were used much more by the Japanese as has been shown in numerous other movies. Much harder to fight in that regard.

2. There was fanaticism by the Nazis to be sure...but you literally had an entire army that believed it was better to die than to be captured or surrender. Kamikaze pilots, suicide bombers, etc. Again, a completely different type of enemy and a different type of warfare.

[sven]

They did a great job establishing an eerie mood.

[mkharsh33]

thanks for the replies! will definitely watch this tonight!

[Pink Mist]

This has the potential to be as good, if not better then BoB.

[ODogg]

So which theater would you guys have preferred to fight in?

[Pink Mist]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

So which theater would you guys have preferred to fight in?

Probably the Western front.

The Pacific theater was brutal.

[sven]

The home front in a factory. I'll help Rosie with those rivets.

Oh and the guy playing Eugene Sledge was the little kid in Jurassic Park.

[AuburnAlumni]

Quote: Originally Posted by sven

The home front in a factory. I'll help Rosie with those rivets. Oh and the guy playing Eugene Sledge was the little kid in Jurassic Park.

This....

Quote: Originally Posted by AuburnAlumni

Thought the first episode was great. Should be a great mini series. Anyone else notice that Eugene Sledge is the little boy from Jurassic Park. Keep forgetting that movie was 17 years ago.