Movie Thread

[Irving]

The Road was good (probably because it was based on a book). It made my fiance all gung hoe to stock up on food. She's already bought a package of rice and some extra noodles. lol. The Road did a great job of making all the scenery very bleak and colorless. I'd like to see the same thing happen (only better) if they ever make a Mistborn movie.

I haven't seen Star Ship Troopers yet. I know it is a big Sci-Fi favorite though. At first I wrote it off as just another summer action movie, but didn't know it was based on books and had a following.

I thought that looked like something I said. Need some quote brackets in your post.


I just finished with The Pacific. I didn't think it was as good as Band of Brothers, but can understand the differences. Watching BoB first really helped me appreciate what I saw in The Pacific a lot more though. I also really liked how The Pacific ended with showing the pictures of the soldiers that the characters were based on. I wish that they had done that with Band of Brothers.

[jake]

I also really liked how The Pacific ended with showing the pictures of the soldiers that the characters were based on. I wish that they had done that with Band of Brothers.

I thought at the end of BoB they did a wipe from each actor to the soldier he was portraying, or vice versa. The problem for me with the Pacific was at the end when they showed the photos, I could only remember two or three of the characters in the first place.

[Irving]

I thought at the end of BoB they did a wipe from each actor to the soldier he was portraying, or vice versa. The problem for me with the Pacific was at the end when they showed the photos, I could only remember two or three of the characters in the first place.

I had that exact same issue (remembering the characters) and it was one of the main things I disliked about The Pacific. However, I realize that BoB followed on company for the entire series, where as The Pacific followed at least two to three. I give The Pacific a pass for that very reason.

Other points about the Pacific:

- It seemed like all the battle scenes were poorly put together as you just have the Americans setting up machine guns and blasting waves of Japs. It was difficult to have an idea of what the objective was, or even to follow what was going on. I gave this a pass because if I understand correctly, the Japanese were a completely different enemy than those faced in the European theater and missions probably were less defined.

+ I liked that The Pacific was shot in full color, but don't take away points from BoB either as I really appreciated the artful way it was shot with very muted greens and yellows.

- I thought that even though The Pacific showed the soldiers doing a lot more things that were not combat related, I still had a difficult time with understanding character development. The only two characters you really saw changes in were Eugene Sledge and Robert Lechy. Last night my fiance watched Part 9 of The Pacific with me, and when she asked, "So what's that guy's story?" (referring to Snafu) I couldn't even tell her anything.

Question: Band of Brothers had a full hour documentary about the show and longer interviews with the soldiers. Was this done with The Pacific at all, or did they skip it since they had so few surviving (at the time it was shot anyway) members?