Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.The Pacific is a mini-series that follows three perspectives of marines that enter the Pacific theater in different roles. The series is a departure from Band of Brothers and it has a more finer focus on its three characters. The series follows the characters before boot-camp and after the end of the war.Like the series before it, Band of Brothers, the mini-series has high production values and has real characters that are the focus on each episode. The series has much of its action and characterization scarred across each episode with the bulk of the action being in the middle and end chapters. The beginning is meant to give the viewer a grand scope and to see how the United States began mobilization. These men were not all volunteers and the series makes it clear with the characters. Some of the soldiers had been drafted and are awaiting their service to expire.The actors and actresses all do a great job here with the highlight being Rami Malek. This television series really launched Rami Malek's career with his fantastic performance as on of Sledge's compatriots.The Pacific is different from Band of Brothers as the combat scenes are more gory and visceral. The series also plays more to the themes of post-traumatic stress disorder than in Band of Brothers. The two series are fine on their own and one should not compare the two. Each series talks about separate themes even though they utilize the same tropes.The Pacific is highly recommended. This series is a high budget mini-series with its own direction.

bbeets-03353 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.

bheadher Pacific is done with a similar flair that Band of Brothers possessed, but doesn't have quite the same feel to it...and there is no reason it should really...The War in Europe, and The War in the Pacific, were totally different...and the overall tempo of the Pacific War is shown pretty much the way it was, in an island hopping campaign that never seemed to end...Where BoB tells a story of deep emotional ties, developed within an Army company of Paratroopers, Pacific tells a completely different story, one of young men who made the giant leap from civilian to Marine, in a very short time. There is a certain loyalty displayed, and patriotism, but each character is portrayed as an individual...the movie dwells a lot on the inner turmoil that every soldier had to deal with...One reviewer really slammed the series, for not being realistic...I would agree partially, but this wasn't supposed to just focus on how fanatical the Japanese were. Instead, it tries to paint a broader picture of how our young men reacted to the constant fighting...Frankly, I did like Pacific, more because I did not expect it to be another movie...

pruiett 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.