OT "The Pacific": Your Reviews

[Boarspear]

This is late in coming, but ... I actually subscribed to HBO to see this, I thought it would be so good. Truthfully I cannot fully review the series, since I stopped at the third episode. Why? I don't see
how anyone can read the books by Sledge and Leckie and NOT have a real problem by this point. OK -- we need to create some drama and some characterization, but the writers actually added an entirely
fictitious "love interest" for the Leckie part. Anyone who's read his book realizes he may have slept with a few girls but he didn't have any anxious drama that they show. This is really bad to me, on top of the fact
that I really don't think it necessary or any more "realistic" to show soldiers love-making any more than it is to show them taking a piss or eating a bologna sandwich, if it's not integral to the story. Clearly the memoirs
of Leckie and Sledge said basically nothing about either their loves or really much about their families, except in passing.

In sum the first three episodes of Band of Brothers caught my attention fast and had me addicted. This series -- maybe I expected too much -- I was bitterly disappointed in the lame writing and what I view as
disrespect of the source (if I was Leckie's family I'd be embarrassed). Maybe I'll rent it, but have no plans to buy it.

Speaking of an interesting war movie, has anyone seen "Max Manus: man of war?" I picked up this film because it looked interesting, and found it is an absolute classic -- about the real-life story of Max Manus and
his compatriots who fought underground for Norway against the Germans. Interestingly enough the writers here never showed a bedroom scene -- maybe they could have learned a thing or two from The Pacific writers? Nah.
Watch it -- it's great.