Showing posts with label Across. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Across the Pacific from DVD - Mini Pacific brilliant all-in-one series

Recently, I got the DVD set as a gift and the boy Pacific what a gift he has proved to be. I can honestly say that I was totally enthused from the beginning to end with this incredible mini-series and have never been so absorbed in a drama of World War 2, never.

DVD box set not only tells the story of three marines for their own accounts of real events, but you get to see behind the scenes and get an eye overview birds from how it was made. As an educational aspect get you a break from the war of the Pacific itself and see influences historical and cultural perceptions and differences play a large role and contributed to the implacable continuing brutality of the conflict.

Of course there were other representations of the battles of World War 2 but with the collaboration of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, putting their spin on events engineering, the result is nothing less than pure brilliance and has classic written all over it.

EC which makes it stand out from everything else that I've ever seen, I believe, is the fact that you the viewer gets to be so involved and up close and personal with the characters. You experience and feel the pain and the raw emotions that endured these brave men.

The mini series Pacific focuses on three marine Robert Leckie, John Balisone and Eugene Sledge all have very different experiences, but also during their time at war with the Japanese so horrible at home on leave or during combat.

Sledge and Leckie having written with books about their struggles with a brutal enemy not only in an unforgiving land but personal wars with adaptation to normal everyday life it is easy to immerse yourself in the horror and the hardships they must treat.

With a disk 6 featuring a number of Veterans of World War 2 that particular campaign telling their own experiences he really makes home the fact that what you saw is not the imagination of some Hollywood movie maker, but everything happened and these brave men lived, endured and overcame the terror and the tests such that fortunately most of us will never know.

Both humble and edifying and graphical detail used to really understand not only a vicious enemy, merciless, ruthless, but harsh daily lives, exhaustion, starvation and disease across the Pacific DVD is a true testament beautifully presented and said, and even if you're not a fan of World War 2, this special epic is a must see.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Across the Pacific's DVD Review

The Pacific DVD set as a compilation is just breathtaking. We all take our TV viewing for granted these days, but just sometimes something happens really stands out and leaves you with a real sense of being there and feel involved characters and I must say that you must be quite hardened not to immerse yourself completely in this particular journey.

OK, so there was a number any stories in World War 2 and some really were quite spectacular, but I'll paste my neck here and say I've never been anything quite like this before. In collaboration with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, they have created a masterpiece.

Across the Pacific DVD tells the story of three specific marine concentrating on their actual, individual experiences during the conflict with the Japanese in World War 2 by a combination of real events and personal experiences in innovative ways.

I have never been personally to the combat, and could never imagine or totally understand what it must be like, but through three marines, Robert Leckie, John Balisone and Eugene Sledge and some graphic scenes, you begin to realize some of the debilitating war not only physically but psychologically too.

With a number of World War 2 veterans fighters present on disk 6 horrible sharing and graphic memories all backup stories already seen, and if you doubt the authenticity and then these brave men will put you right back there with them and you do feel very humble.

You can really see how terrible fighting was against an enemy whose mantra has always been dead before in disgrace, which makes it an extremely brutal and relentless adversary.

Not only that but, with impenetrable forests as the field of battle, taking on this fanatic enemy conditions were far from ideal being doing hell on the day the day on Earth. Thus, these men were pushed physical and mental limits.

Episodes cover all aspects and influences of this brutal conflict that see us the characters at home, to leave and away from the battle field too. But with powerful performances of half hungry soldiers exhausted trying to fight in the torrential rains and the fight against malaria too it is difficult not to feel their pain and their raw emotion.

If the Pacific DVD set was a book for one certainly could not put the beginning to the end of such is the power of the drama that unfolds before your eyes, totally convincing.