http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99B80crU3E

The new HBO series "The Pacific" is set to air in March 2010, produced by the same guys that brought us "Band of Brothers".....ie Spielberg and Hanks. It looks incredible, like they took "Band of Brothers" (which was also awesome) to a new level. I do believe that this is going to make me buy HBO for a few months. I have always loved studying WWII, with a special interest on the PTO. I am stoked about this series.

*PS any old threads on this were long since dead.

11/27/2009 2:52:17 AM

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"I do believe that this is going to make me buy HBO for a few months."

11/27/2009 9:55:04 AM

I can't wait for this show!





More at:
http://www.hbo.com/events/pacific

11/27/2009 10:05:15 AM

I, too, am stoked for this show!

11/27/2009 10:27:10 AM

ill have to torrent this show since I dont have cable. Looks great though

11/27/2009 10:53:44 AM

count me in

11/27/2009 10:54:40 AM

been looking forward to this since I saw the first preview b4 Big Love earlier this year

then it felt like 2010 was soooooo far away

11/27/2009 11:42:51 AM

3 months now

11/27/2009 12:11:03 PM

wow, this looks awesome

11/28/2009 11:01:26 AM

can

not

wait

11/28/2009 11:46:47 AM

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"wow, this looks awesome"

11/28/2009 12:20:57 PM

i am anxiously awaiting this

11/28/2009 2:52:11 PM

bttt...

HBO is re-airing Band of Brothers each Sunday night, beginning tonight with part 1, to lead up to the premiere of The Pacific.

I'm sure everyone has seen it, and it's been all over spike tv as well, but for those of you who haven't seen it unedited here's a good chance.

1/3/2010 6:52:46 PM

Band of Brothers is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. I will be watching this.

1/3/2010 7:13:27 PM

PLZ 2 B TORRENT!

1/3/2010 7:59:04 PM

nice

1/4/2010 1:03:50 PM

this show will be epic

1/4/2010 1:34:07 PM

I'm thinking that this will become the most pirated tv show yet.

1/4/2010 1:42:28 PM

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"I'm thinking that this will become the most pirated tv show yet."

1/4/2010 2:08:46 PM

You all should read "With the Old Breed" before you watch this. It's a good read.

And I'm especially excited about this, because my grandfather served in a company that'll more-than-likely be shown in this series. Watch for it: L/3/5 1st Division.

1/4/2010 2:09:30 PM

Only six weeks left to the premiere. Can't wait!

Though the trailer was just lukewarm to me... but I'm sure it'll be amazing. I see HBO is starting to run a whole bunch of Band of Brothers re-runs all of a sudden.

Must be getting close...

[Edited on January 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM. Reason : oops didn't see jeepin's post... that's why I saw it last night!]

1/25/2010 10:20:56 AM

I've been waiting for this show for a long time! I loved "Band of Brothers" and I imagine like that, I will own this series on Blu-ray one day.

1/25/2010 6:00:35 PM

bump

Starts Sunday, March 14th. Cannot wait!!!

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"Episode 1: Guadalcanal/Leckie In the immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Marine Sgt. John Basilone prepares to ship out and confront the enemy somewhere in the Pacific, while budding journalist Robert Leckie enlists in the Marine Corps. Eugene Sledge, unable to enlist because of a heart murmur, says farewell to his best friend, Sidney Phillips, who is about to leave for boot camp. Exactly eight months after Pearl Harbor, the 1st Marine Division, including Leckie and Phillips, lands on Guadalcanal in order to secure its strategically vital airfield and prepare for the inevitable counterattack."

3/1/2010 10:46:20 PM

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"I, too, am stoked for this show! "

3/1/2010 10:50:27 PM

during last night's episode of 24 they had the trailer for this; needless to say, CAN NOT WAIT!

3/2/2010 9:16:39 AM

i'm considering getting HBO so i don't have to wait a couple hours to watch it online

3/2/2010 2:14:43 PM

dude from warmingglow.com had a few reviews yesterday http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2010/03/first-reviews-of-hbos-the-pacific

3/3/2010 8:43:18 AM

arg, i want there to be a free hbo promo or something... i still might get this and foot the extra fee/month for a few months just to get it.

3/3/2010 1:54:42 PM

looking forward to this

3/9/2010 1:53:19 AM

this will be epic

3/9/2010 2:05:02 AM

Joseph Mazzello is the kid from Jurassic Park BTW.

3/9/2010 3:38:30 AM

rad

3/9/2010 9:48:27 AM

really looking forward to this

3/9/2010 12:38:30 PM

I wonder how they are going to handle Hiroshima and Nagasaki

3/9/2010 12:59:26 PM

with a bang

3/9/2010 3:50:51 PM

Tom Hanks talked it up pretty well on Colbert last night. Apparently it's chock full of f-bombs and racials slurs.

3/9/2010 4:00:56 PM

i hope they took a page out of Gran Torino's racial slur playbook

3/9/2010 4:16:26 PM

just got a 3 month free trial of HBO yesterday.


couldn't have been better timing

AT&T u-verse FTW

3/9/2010 8:45:42 PM

^^I got my grandpa's English-to-Japanese-field-dictionaries that were from the US army while he served in WWII and from when he was stationed there years later. It's pretty interesting stuff and made me realize how hard it must have been to "switch off" hating japos.

3/10/2010 7:09:39 PM

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"'The Pacific' review: Sepinwall on TV - Alan Sepinwall Midway through HBO’s 10-part World War II epic "The Pacific," a group of frightened Marines try to take their minds off of combat by talking about family vacations. One mentions that his father always said of the Grand Canyon, "You have to see it to understand." The family eventually went there, and, the private explains, "My dad was right. Pictures don’t show it. You have to be there, looking down into it." Most viewers of "The Pacific" won’t have actually witnessed the brutal combat on small islands like Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. But the moving (in every sense of the word) pictures of the miniseries do an incredible job of making the viewer feel like they’re looking down into the real thing. If anything, "The Pacific" is an even more intense, gutting experience than "Band of Brothers," the beloved 2001 HBO miniseries that focused on the European theater of WWII and came from the same production team, including Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and "Pacific" head writer Bruce McKenna. War was hell in "Band," but not to this extent. The combat is savage, bloody and unrelenting, everything more shocking in both its scope and its intimacy. The soldiers in "Band" came to recognize they had much in common with their German counterparts; the American and Japanese combatants of "The Pacific" view each other as completely alien and terrifying. The advances in digital effects over the last decade, plus a $250 million budget, lets "The Pacific" depict fighting in ways "Band" simply couldn’t. The most memorable "Band" moments often took place in between the action, but there are long stretches of "The Pacific" where there’s nothing but action. The fifth, sixth and seventh episodes essentially turn the battle of Peleliu (a footnote in many WWII histories) into three straight hours of the storming-the-beaches sequence from the start of "Saving Private Ryan." But the carnage is never mindless or shown without purpose, and the altered focus of the new miniseries makes it easier to understand what’s happening as the bullets whiz by, mortars explode and bodies fall. (Easier to a point, anyway; there are certainly sequences of the miniseries, particularly on Peleliu, where I gave up trying to chart who was where and just tried to pick my jaw up off the floor.) "Band" followed an entire company, and even its biggest fans (and creators like Hanks) will admit it took nearly half the series before viewers could figure out who everybody was. Here, the focus is more varied but also simpler, with three central characters, all Marines: steely veteran John Basilone (Jon Seda), writer-turned-machine-gunner Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and son of privilege Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), who enlists in spite of a heart murmur because he’s desperate to prove himself a man. The trio rarely interact with each other (though Leckie serves in a company with Sledge’s best friend), but the pattern of their service — with the men coming in and out of action at different times — allows the miniseries to cover a large chunk of the Pacific campaign while also not splitting your attention too much. At most, only two of the three are in combat at the same time, and several of the episodes focus on only one Marine. There are a few supporting characters of note — most memorably Rami Malek stealing a few late episodes as an amoral buddy of Sledge’s — but so long as you know who and where Basilone, Leckie and Sledge are, you’re fine. This not only makes the action (somewhat) simpler to follow, but the portraits to grow deeper. There’s no performance quite on par with Damian Lewis’s star turn as the quiet, decent company leader in "Band," but the three leads all take advantage of their showcase roles to craft characters that transcend both war movie cliches and the actors’ own mixed backgrounds. Seda (Falsone from the later years of "Homicide"), like Lewis in "Band," finds a way to make his characters’ innate heroism and super-competence into something absorbing. Dale (Jack Bauer’s partner Chase in the third season of "24") completely owns the flashiest role of the three, as the angry, arrogant Leckie comes close to losing his mind a few times in the wet, oppressive jungles. Mazzello (the little boy from "Jurassic Park") has perhaps the trickiest role, as Sledge most has to carry the miniseries’ key theme about what war (even a "good war" like this one) does to the men who fight it. Early on, Sledge’s doctor father warns Eugene that he doesn’t want him to come home like the boys he saw serve in World War I. "Wasn’t that they had had their flesh torn," Dr. Sledge tells him. "It was that they had had their souls torn out." Those are loaded words for an actor to have to embody, but Mazzello does it over the course of his "Pacific" tenure, and by the end, you may feel as weary and hollow as Sledge. This isn’t the ripping adventure yarn "Band of Brothers" became at times. (And I say that as someone who reveres "Band" and rewatches it in its entirety every couple of years.) The experience of watching it is more visceral and relentless, but as rewarding in its own way. You’ll feel stirred at some of the heroism on display, but mainly you’ll be in awe that good men were able to endure the horrors on display and return home — some more intact than others."

3/11/2010 7:53:52 AM

^haha, that was the first thing i read this morning on AS' blog. Fuck yeah, i'm so pumped.

3/11/2010 8:12:41 AM

hot damn i can't wait for this.

3/11/2010 9:12:41 AM

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" Fuck yeah, i'm so pumped."

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"hot damn i can't wait for this."

3/11/2010 9:54:26 AM

Here's hoping Hanks didn't put his kid on this one too

He was the worst part about BoB

Dude can't act for shit



[Edited on March 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM. Reason : x]

3/11/2010 10:04:03 AM

^no joke

3/11/2010 12:11:40 PM

^^ agreed

3/11/2010 12:33:33 PM

ehehehe, he's not even credited at all on the IMDB webpage for Band of Brothers

3/11/2010 1:01:47 PM

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"Here's hoping Hanks didn't put his kid on this one too He was the worst part about BoB Dude can't act for shit "

he was the 2nd Lieutenant who went on that patrol across the river?

he's wasn't bad at all

3/11/2010 1:58:11 PM

the one fresh out of west point?

3/11/2010 1:59:51 PM

i think so

I don't where all the hate is coming from

he did a fine job

3/11/2010 2:02:00 PM