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The Pacific (2010)

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Show title: The Pacific

IMDb score: 8,3 (137.744)

Episodes: 10

Playing time: 8 hour and 27 minutes

Developed by: Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman

Stars: James Badge Dale, Jon Seda and Joseph Mazzello

Origin: United States / Australia

Releasedate: Sunday 14 March 2010

First aired on: HBO (Verenigde Staten)


The Pacific plot

We follow Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone, three US Marines of the First Marine Division. Their lives are intertwined against the background of the battle in the Pacific during the Second World War. We see them from their first battles against the Japanese on Guadalcanal, the landing at Cape Gloucester, the Battle of Peleliu. Standing on the bloody beach of Iwo Jima, they survived the horrors of Okinawa and made the long-awaited but uneasy return after Japan's surrender.

Episodes Season 1 (2010)

  1. 1. Guadalcanal/Leckie

    14 March 2010 (49 minutes)

  2. 2. Basilone

    21 March 2010 (48 minutes)

  3. 3. Melbourne

    28 March 2010 (53 minutes)

  4. 4. Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika

    4 April 2010 (49 minutes)

  5. 5. Peleliu Landing

    11 April 2010 (47 minutes)

  6. 6. Peleliu Airfield

    18 April 2010 (47 minutes)

  7. 7. Peleliu Hills

    25 April 2010 (48 minutes)

  8. 8. Iwo Jima

    2 May 2010 (53 minutes)

  9. 9. Okinawa

    9 May 2010 (55 minutes)

  10. 10. Home

    16 May 2010 (58 minutes)

Full cast & crew

Actors and Actresses

Robert Leckie

John Basilone

Eugene Sledge

PFC Sidney Phillips

PFC Bill 'Hoosier' Smith

PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton

Lt Col. Lewis 'Chesty' Puller

Cpl. R.V. Burgin, Sgt. R.V. Burgin

Private Young

2nd Lt. Stone, Sgt. Stone

Sgt. Manuel "Manny" Rodriguez

Virginia Grey

Pvt. 'Loudmouth'

Reviews & comments

avatar van rep_robert

rep_robert

  • 27450 messages
  • 3980 votes

The Pacific is simply undervalued. You always hear that BoB is better, but the series is just completely different. But it cannot be denied that the action is portrayed even more intensively and the depth of the characters is just a lot better (source material is also better for it). What does war do to a person? What is the war like for the Marines after returning home? What do soldiers do when they are not fighting (leave)? Things that may not be necessary, but are a welcome change. I kind of miss those quiet moments in BoB and the Pacific gives me this. I can't watch long enough the kind of quiet episodes like the one in Australia, obviously also the least rated episode on IMDB.

Oh well... Together with BoB this is simply the best you can get in the war area. The Pacific really isn't inferior!

4.5*

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avatar van Lebarron

Lebarron

  • 1018 messages
  • 702 votes

The Pacific is a good series about a somewhat underexposed theater of war in WWII in the Netherlands and therefore perhaps more interesting to watch than Band of Brothers. The series has three protagonists Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone. As my upstairs neighbor reports, the action is portrayed better and more intensively than with Band of Brothers. The character development is also better than with Band of Brothers, but something is still missing: cohesion and that is because the protagonists were each in a different unit. This makes you switch from hot to here and that made it difficult for me to follow the story. It was more like Call of Duty than a series. Nevertheless, it was still a good series that told a very important part of WWII. Definitely worth a look! My verdict is Band of Brothers 4.0 and The Pacific 3.8 because of the less fluid storyline, but rounded up it's also a 4.0.

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avatar van Diederik58

Diederik58

  • 775 messages
  • 1403 votes

I liked "The Pacific" less than "Band of Brothers". This was due to the slow pace, no introduction by those directly involved and a lot of squabbling of places. The episodes with a different sweetheart in each town could be stolen from me.

Actor Malek doesn't care. He gives me a huge allergic itching. Absolutely unbelievable as a soldier.

I liked the rest of the cast.

The CGI was on the brink. The well-known blue-grey flat wall.

Hero worship is unavoidable, but it is very much milked when it comes to John Basilone. It's a failed attempt to bring more drama to the series. Sleep inducing.

If the title is "The Pacific", then the role of the Japanese could have been more highlighted.

I liked the fight scenes. The imagery drew you into the fights.

You also get an idea of how the Americans and the Japanese fought to the death by conquering islands. Pointless, when you consider that two atomic bombs caused the surrender of Japan.

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