I quit watching it. I also figured it would be easier to watch it altogether rather than episodically. Either way I thought it wasn’t very good. If it improved then I am glad. I didn’t want it to not be good, it just was.

I love aviation. I love aviation movies. This series took way too long and probably had way too many hands in it. The CGI was necessary but not particularly good. The characters were meh. The story was not compelling and we all know the actual history is wildly compelling. For example, the entire scene of ferrying the aircraft to Europe via Greenland. What was the point? Showing a big crosswind landing? Sorta telling a broken narwhal story? What? It was a random scene for no purpose. There were lots of those. Plus I don’t care how frustrated you are, no pilot is throwing a glass bottle at their airplane. Or somebody else’s airplane. Tossing it? Sure. Breaking it against your plane that you depend on and love? Nope.

I think Memphis Belle was a better film.

We went too easy on Germany.

I stopped watching after the third episode, and haven’t had any real desire to go back and watch the rest. Maybe one day if I’m bored and there is nothing else on.

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I stopped watching after the third episode, and haven’t had any real desire to go back and watch the rest. Maybe one day if I’m bored and there is nothing else on.

Isn’t that what you said earlier in the thread?

Let them hate. I’m about to fire up tonight’s episode and see if Buck and Bucky make a break for it from the POW camp. This series is 90% better than the rest of the shit out here. Been watching this every week, Tokyo Vice, and keep hammering away at Peaky Blinders, which may be the best series I have ever watched. I’ll take 1/2 way decent American solidier/WWII stuff with Spielberg and Hanks producing over most of this trash out here. I think too many expected this series to be Band of Brothers. Take it for what it is, in this time, and it’s a damn good series IMO. YMMV.

I just started Tokyo Vice....pretty neat.

It seemed like the CGI of the Tuskegees was an afterthought. Looked nothing like the rest of the series.

We like it but I just realized one huge thing that’s missing (and of course why). BoB and the Pacific both had segments with the actual soldiers. Seeing and hearing them speak made for a significant connection with those being portrayed. It’s hard to believe we have lost almost all of them now.

OK, I watched the first two and said never mind, it was not factional or even very entertaining. Then my sister texted me about it and started asking a lot of questions about our dad. He was one of these young men, trained on B-24s as a pilot but switched to B-17s because so many crews were lost in big week. Completed 50 missions including a night sortie to radar map the beaches at Normandy for you know what. On his 49th mission they were clobbered by flak, lost both port engines with #1 burning for quite awhile. Made it back, an artist in his squadron made a painting from a strike photo of his plane just before it got hit, it hangs in the Comandants office of the Airforce academeny last I heard. So I have studied a lot of the history behind these stories, Rosenthal's first mission as it was depicted did happen, the bloody 100th was a thing. After talking to my sister I binge watched to #6, It will never be like 12Oclock High, command decision, The tv series 12Oclock high, The CG was not good, especially the damage to the planes and the back stories just didn't cut it for me. I expected better from Spielberg and Hanks...but I'll watch the ending...

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I found BoB outstanding. Afterwards i read the book and a bunch of others by the same author and some others on the same subject. It caught my interest and motivated me. Not the same with Pacific, a lot less. As with both Clint Eastwood movies and John Woo’s, i felt a lot more detached. Still the subject is one of my lifetime favorites.
MoA feels so detached and done by the numbers yet lacking in all of them. Not worth the long wait.

Not making my priority watch list: Shogun, Gentlemen, Tokyo Vice.


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Ok. Now that you can I watched it again. I binged watched over a couple days.

The flow was much better than waiting a week for the next episode.

Then I watched the bloody 100th which is the documentary of the flyers that many of you have wanted.

The Bloody 100th is absolutely worth watching…

Much better watching it this time.

Finished the series last week. Great finale. At the end, you find out that Buck and Bucky were real, as well as Rosie. They come to America to complete degrees, teach, and do some pretty amazing things. Final EP had an ending that showed many of the main characters of the series, in real life, with stills, and biographies. Still satisfied with the series.

Binged it over the last 4 days or so. By the 3rd episode it was really lacking but then picked up well over the last 6 episodes and ended well, I thought.

If it had started stronger, it could have been very good. I haven't rewatched the Pacific in awhile but BoB has those 2 episodes at the beginning which build the characters and get you invested. The dialogue is rich and in MotA, it is stilted and poorly written. The first 3 episodes are largely throw-aways and could have been one episode. Once the characters are thrown into different situations, this gets better. Egan and Crosby's trip to London, the SGT's being escorted out of Belgium, etc.

I also think they spend way too much time in the base bar. I understand it's importance to the soldiers who had a lot of downtime between missions but the fact that so much of it takes place there makes the entire series less urgent and less dangerous. And of course, I realize flight scenes are harder and more expensive to shoot, but it is hard to be as concerned for these pilots safety when they spend an inordinate amount of screen time in the bar dancing to jazz.

Finally, I think Austin Butler was just miscast. He is too pretty, sounds like Elvis even though he's supposed to be from Wyoming, and is just too brooding. Callum Turner was pretty good and Barry Keoghan was excellent and underutilized since he died in the 3rd episode.

Overall, if BoB is a 10/10 (and I think it is), the Pacific is a 7-8, this is a 5. The best cinematography moments came once the P-51's were introduced. I also think if they had a narration of actual men, or even historians since the men are mostly deceased, to set up the episode, it would have greatly helped to ground the show in reality.