The teaser trailer for the new HBO show, The Pacific, a 10-part follow up to what is perhaps my favorite piece of filmed media of all time, Band of Brothers. I am in goosebumps and on the edge of tears, and I haven’t even freaking watched it yet.
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Then you should watch THE THIN RED LINE as quickly as possible. Best film ever made about WWII in the Pacific. Best film ever made about WWII. And probably one of the best films ever made, frankly.
…Finally! Something worth watching on TV for a change, in the midst of all the reality show garbage. The only way this could be better is if Tom Hanks would get off his lazy rich butt and do that Right Stuff remake miniseries that everyone from Dave Scott to all the regulars on sci.space.history advised him strongly to do after From the Earth to the Moon. Especially a remake that doesn’t cornhole the memory of Gus Grissom the way the movie unjustifiably did.
Yessir, I’m looking forward to this one almost as much as I did John Adams. If it’s half that good, it’ll be more than worth the watch!
Wow. Personally, as someone who was so geeked for “Band of Brothers”–heck, I own the soundtrack–I look forward to this one. Finally, something I need DVR.
Looks fantastic, can’t wait.
Speaking of HBO and anticipated miniseries, A Song of Ice and Fire needs to get done like yesterday.
The link below is not a cute Japanese robot making coffee at all, but instead a tent. I think you guys should enable comments for your smaller posts. Sometimes they are interesting and worthy of discussion. Or wrong.
I’d kill for a movie on the One-Puka-Puka 100th and the 442nd RCT. I remember hoping BoB would at least cameo them, but I don’t remember seeing them at all.
The 442nd Infantry was all Japanese-American, a quarter of it from mainland internment camps, the rest Hawaiian. 21 Medals of Honor, 52 DSCs, 560 Silver Stars, 9,486 Purple Hearts in that unit – 90% casualty rate, with soldiers escaping from hospitals to return to the front lines.
Biffontaine and the Lost Battalion, 800 wounded and 120 dead to rescue 200 stranded soldiers. Italy, where the 442nd joined with three other segregated units from the US, Britain and Brazil – blacks, Arabs, Jews, Indians, Gurkhas, Japanese. The first soldiers to liberate Dachau were scouts in the 522nd Field Artillery battalion, part of the 442nd RCT.
There was a cartoon I remember seeing by Ted Rall about one of the 522nd soldiers in Germany who’d liberated a concentration camp. The Jews were confused, thinking the Japanese had won the war AND beaten the Germans.
One begged the soldier to shoot her dead, because the Nazis killed her entire family, and she had nothing left to live for. He couldn’t bring himself to do it.
All of that to come home not to a thankful country, but the horrid foreshadowing homeland hatred against the Goddamn Japs turned on some of the Army’s greatest heroes.
God, I want to see someone treat that story as well as Band of Brothers.
Lonin, you mean George Martin’s series? They are FILMING IT?
I dunno. WWII is kindof played out. Madmen and Skins were the best things to happen to television so far this century.
If only there were more cop/hospital dramas….un-tapped market right there.
NoahApples, you can comment on the small posts (which are often tweets) by clicking on the speech bubble icon at the end of the text. In that specific post, it’s right after the word “Link.”
Great. Now another US generation will grow up thinking the US won the war single-handed…Don’t hold out much hope for many Chinese/Aussies/Brits/Dutch or even Russians featuring. Didn’t see many native inhabitants of the Pacific in that trail either. I’ll still watch though – loved BoB despite the US focus.
Anyone interested in this theatre should read Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser (better known as the author of the Flashman books, but the style is VERY different) which covers his experiences in the Burma campaign.