The Pacific (2010)

Please don't spend money on this.

Best movie of this year hands down!

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The war in the Pacific was a hell of a lot different than the war in Europe. Of course both where terrible - full of death, sacrifice, and heroism. However, it seems the soldier's stories from the European theater have gotten a lot more press.The US Marines in the Pacific lived like animals in the most horrible environments imaginable. On top of fighting an enemy committed to kill them at all cost and never surrender, they battled the mud, heat, malaria, near starvation, and isolation for months on end.Basically, it was a total nightmare, and the heroism of all the US Marines in the Pacific theater is nothing short of awe inspiring. The Pacific tells this story well. It is a must see on the topic of WW2.

I sooooooo wanted to like this. I've seen Band Of Brothers maybe a dozen times, some long stretches of weekends where all I do is watch one thru ten. I was excited for this, I mean come on another 10 episodes just like BoB??? Sorrily, no. The acting is horrendous, the lines the soldiers say are incredibly trite and cliché, it's almost laughable. The main characters? I don't have a clue what their names are, never really cared no matter how hard I tried to care. BoB I knew them, their stories, their friendships, etc, but this? It seemed like they hired nothing but unknown actors to jump on the BoB hype to make as much money as possible. They knew A list actors would need lots of $$$, so they saved it by hiring nobodies. And I'm sorry, these guys are bad. So very very bad. I have had this series for years now, never making it past the 4th episode, but now I'm finally watching it straight through and so extremely distressed about the poor acting. Graphics are so so, nothing to write home about.

I will now speak the simplest variant of English, only to make my point clear and precise - this 10-episode serial is very bad. The first reason, is that although it cost more than $200 ml to make, it is not clear as to where this money went. It seems to be a very poor choice to waste money on this flick. The plot is so terribly predictable and yes, we have seen all of this many times. Do we need a poor rendition of equally poor Band Of Brothers? Do we need a terribly inferior variant of Private Ryan? The casting is of a dubious merit. We do not feel any empathy for all these seemingly vapid and shallow characters. The battles are loud and they grow tiresome so quickly that one can skip them all as fast as possible. The message is clear but again, do we need to see that again? Tom Hanks made a huge misstep here and he did not deserve any praise for this third-rate formulaic flick

I am always dismayed when modern filmmakers handle history, reflecting the present-day lack of morality and respect for our past and our forebears. As I began this series with hope that Tom Hanks would do better than that, it took less than two minutes before the F-bomb was shoved in my face multiple times. I turned it off and in effect tossed the series in the can, having seen the direction it was taking. "Maybe" it got better. But I doubt it. If you arrived for a blind date, and the first words our of your date's mouth are vulgar and crude, do you stay for dinner to hear more? Not me.My father, who is still alive, was a tank driver in WW2 and in the Battle of the Bulge. He says that although the "f" word was sometimes used, it was nowhere near as prevalent during the war as modern movies want to make it. For heaven's sake, why can't we treat history with respect? We know people went to the bathroom, and that some cads spoke of women in vulgar terms, that soldiers cussed some, and that there was some promiscuity. Folks know that and don't need to be feed those images in order to "get it." When we have to dish up the lowest levels of human behavior in order to be "relevant" to the times, it is a good indication that the filmmakers lack the artistic creativity to present a compelling story without lurid details.I wish filmmakers were interested in helping viewers rise above filth and become connoisseurs of real fine art. But since most in the business today are students of a generation of America-degrading "artists," we instead get inartistic productions that make our forebears into sleazeballs. I reject that. My GGG grandfather fought in the American Revolution and at Yorktown. My great grandfather was an honorable cavalier in the Confederate Army, not a Simon Legre. My grandfather was a sailor in WW1 and behaved honorably. My father was an honorable WW2 soldier. I will never dishonor their memory by watching movies in which others dishonor them.