Post by Eλευθερί on Nov 22, 2020 11:41:06 GMT
I am almost finished watching HBO's Band of Brothers, which follows an American military unit during the European conflict in World War II, from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge.
Several people here said they thought Band of Brothers was better than The Pacific, which was the HBO show made several years later focusing on WWII engagements between Americans and Japanese in the Pacific.
imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/241729/pacific
I don't think Band of Brother was as good as The Pacific. After the first episode, Band of Brothers is just hour after hour of machine-gun fire and mortar explosions. With a few exceptions, many of the men all kind of just blend into one another. In The Pacific, on the other hand, they followed individual soldiers from their home lives before the war, through training, into the battles, and then back home again. For me, the effect was much more powerful because you felt like you got to know each of them as individual people, rather than as just another soldier in a foxhole or on a stretcher.
Several people here said they thought Band of Brothers was better than The Pacific, which was the HBO show made several years later focusing on WWII engagements between Americans and Japanese in the Pacific.
imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/241729/pacific
I don't think Band of Brother was as good as The Pacific. After the first episode, Band of Brothers is just hour after hour of machine-gun fire and mortar explosions. With a few exceptions, many of the men all kind of just blend into one another. In The Pacific, on the other hand, they followed individual soldiers from their home lives before the war, through training, into the battles, and then back home again. For me, the effect was much more powerful because you felt like you got to know each of them as individual people, rather than as just another soldier in a foxhole or on a stretcher.
