The Pacific

Moby Dick · Post by **Moby Dick** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:45 pm

starts Sunday night on HBO...

Should be nails.

Who else is in?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:49 pm

The War In Iraq

Moby Dick wrote:started in 2003...

Should be over.

Who cares?

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:51 pm

I don't subscribe to HBO, so I'll wait and buy the DVD set when it comes out....just like I did with Band of Brothers. I think this will be nails too, just like Band of Brothers, and I'll probably end up watching it 10-15 times too. My son and I have Band of Brothers weekend where we watch the entire series....will probably have to do the same with Pacific, and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:17 am

This would be a most excellent time to click on the "free HBO for 2 months" link on AT&T's shit website.

I might even pay the bill... nah, fuck that.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:30 am

I'll probably wait and buy the DVDs so I can watch them at my leisure and not have to plan 10 nights to be in front of the TV.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:34 am

They have these things called DVR's. I've heard they work.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:42 am

War Wagon wrote:They have these things called DVR's. I've heard they work.

They have yet to arrive in Iowa....or at least to my house....but it sounds like a wonderful concept.

BarFlie · Post by **BarFlie** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:13 am

Mace wrote:I don't subscribe to HBO, so I'll wait and buy the DVD set when it comes out....just like I did with Band of Brothers.

same here

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:09 am

Definitely in! I watched the History Channel's series "WWII in HD", and it was mostly on the PTO ( Pacific Theater of Operations), and it was freaking brutal! You will see lots of backlash of this series from the Japanese. Those bastatrds were tough as nails, but also psychotic as a nation. When the U.S. took Saipan, half of the civilian population killed themselves, their kids, ....cutting their throats...throwing them off of cliffs, cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder....which is what THOSE bastatrds did, not the U.S. Hard stuff to watch.

Anyway ...I will be watching, and RACK!!!!! all military vets that saw and lived through such brutality and lack of humanity. Especially you BF.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:29 am

Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:...cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder....which is what THOSE bastatrds did, not the U.S.

Yeah, you guys saved that for Okinawa during the post-war occupation.

Way to go, rapists.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:38 am

Martyred wrote:
Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:...cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder....which is what THOSE bastatrds did, not the U.S.
Yeah, you guys saved that for Okinawa during the post-war occupation.

Way to go, rapists.

What else is a guy supposed to do on Okinawa?

dingus · Post by **dingus** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:33 am

I'm watching Band of Brothers with my 8 year old son for the first time. He loves it. His grandfathers both fought in WWII and fortunately my son has had the opportunity to know them. We're in Episode 9 when E company runs across the death camp. I'm gearing myself up to explain that to him, and I look over and see that my son has fallen asleep and I was grateful, no one should ever have to see that, but everyone should have to see it if you know what I mean. What a bunch of evil cocksuckers and the Japs might have been more evil than the fucking Germans. One of the things I love about Band of Brothers is that I never knew my dad when he was that age, of course, but I can imagine what he was like in his 20's, honed to the razor's to the most serious enemy the world has ever known.

BarFlie · Post by **BarFlie** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:22 am

My dad played a small role in "the raid at los banos' in the phillipines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Los_Ba%C3%B1os considered to be the most successful raid in modern history. My dad drove an amphipian tractor and helped ferry the freed pow's across the lake. He broke down when he tried to tell how happy those pow's were to see them. Over 2000 prisoners rescued.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:02 am

Martyred wrote:
Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:...cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder....which is what THOSE bastatrds did, not the U.S.
Yeah, you guys saved that for Okinawa during the post-war occupation.

Way to go, rapists.

As an adult human, with a full functioning mind, I am curious. What's it like being a complete moron?

Seriously. A response like that begs this question - Instead of a brain, what is in your head? I am guessing some form of excrement? Cow would be to passe'. I am thinking.....some form of swine. Or something more exotic. llama perhaps? No...I have it......whale shit!

Yep! That's it. Instead of a brain, your head is full of whale shit. I imagine...............humpback. Although pig shit is not out of the question.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:09 am

Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:As an adult human, with a full functioning mind.

I laughed.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:12 am

heya mv!

Want to have a spelling contest?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:18 am

Spelling is or should be the least of your concerns.

Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:18 am

"...cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder..." --shrubber

Not to mention cannibalism. It wasn't widespread, but there were plenty of cases where the Japanese ate their human POWs to internalize their fighting spirit and to feed themselves after being shutoff from their supply train.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:34 am

mvscal wrote:
Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:As an adult human, with a full functioning mind.
I laughed.

Do you ever get the feeling like he does this shit on purpose?

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:13 pm

KC Scott wrote:Rothliesberger was in Okinawa?

All part of Goodell's NFL globalization plan.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:11 pm

One the stories in this series is apparently this guys story, or so I've been told:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilone

While on Guadalcanal his fellow Marines gave him the nickname "Manila John" due to his former service in the Philippines with the Army.[3] On October 24, 1942 he engaged the Japanese in the Lunga area with his unit when their defensive positions came under attack by a Japanese regiment of appoximately 3000 soldiers. The Japanese forces began a frontal attack using machine-guns, grenades and mortars against the American heavy machine-guns. The American forces fought for the next 48 hours until only Basilone and two other men from his squad were still able to continue fighting. Basilone moved an extra gun into position and maintained continual fire against the incoming Japanese forces. He repaired another machine-gun and personally manned it, holding his line until replacements arrived. With the continuous fighting, ammunition was becoming critically low and the supply lines cut off, Sgt. Basilone risked his life by fighting through hostile lines and returning with urgently needed ammunition for his gunners. By the end of the battle, the Japanese regiment was virtually annihilated. For his actions during this battle he received the United States military's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor.[4]

Afterwards Private First Class Nash W. Phillips, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, recalled him from the battle for Guadalcanal: "Basilone had a machine gun on the go for three days and nights without sleep, rest or food". "He was in a good emplacement, and causing the Japs lots of trouble, not only firing his machine gun but also using his pistol."[3]

Dude gets the CMOH, comes home and does the War Bond circuit but can't stand it and wants to go back to combat. He's denied time and time again and finally they allow him to go. He gets killed at Iwo Jima.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:15 pm

On October 24, 1942 he engaged the Japanese in the Lunga area with his unit

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:41 pm

Smackie Chan wrote:
On October 24, 1942 he engaged the Japanese in the Lunga area with his unit

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:57 pm

Rooster wrote:"...cause the Japanese told them that the Americans would rape, pillage and plunder..." --shrubber

Not to mention cannibalism. It wasn't widespread, but there were plenty of cases where the Japanese ate their human POWs to internalize their fighting spirit and to feed themselves after being shutoff from their supply train.

I see no problem as long as the sushi chef sanitized his tools properly.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:54 am

Anyway, this thread spurred me to watch Band of Brothers, which I am doing now. I had never watched it - 2.5 episodes in, I see what the fuss was all about.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:59 am

Band of Brothers

~moan~

--Stanley Pickle

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:36 am

I just switched back to Time Warner cable after fucking off with AT&T U-verse for 10 months.

Ordered HBO just so i could watch The Pacific and just got around to watching the 2nd episode on demand.

Wow, just incredible. What a portayal. If even half of that's what's it was really like, shudder....

Just two episodes in and it's already one of the best, if not The Best, war flicks I've ever see.

I don't see how they can top that, but I can't wait to find out.

Episode 3 on demand, up next.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:56 am

War Wagon wrote:Ordered HBO just so i could watch The Pacific

Try Graboid. It's $4.99 for 10 GB and 4 GB free trial. If you can hook a laptop up to your TV, it's the way to go. I downloaded 15 episodes of Fringe season 2 and 12 episodes of Dexter season 4.

If you can wait, you can get all of The Pacific for about $5.

Stanley Pickkkle · Post by **Stanley Pickkkle** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:01 am

mvscal wrote:
If you can wait, you can get all of The Pacific for about $5.

Do you ever find your free market capitalistic side in conflict with your stingy jewish side?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:12 am

mvscal wrote:

If you can wait, you can get all of The Pacific for about $5.

No, I couldn't wait. I could be dead tommorow, you never know.

Have you seen episode 2?

You wouldn't want to wait either.

Has anybody seen the 2nd episode?

Apperently not, or this thread would've been at page 5 a week ago.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:16 am

Stanley Pickkkle wrote:Do you ever find your free market capitalistic side in conflict with your stingy jewish side?

Think of it this way, Stanley. What if you paid $50 to have ten inches of black cock slammed up your dirtpipe and then another brotha came along and offered to slam 12 inches of black cock up your ass for only $10?

Stanley Pickkkle · Post by **Stanley Pickkkle** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:21 am

mvscal wrote:
Stanley Pickkkle wrote:Do you ever find your free market capitalistic side in conflict with your stingy jewish side?
Think of it this way, Stanley. What if you paid $50 to have ten inches of black cock slammed up your dirtpipe and then another brotha came along and offered to slam 12 inches of black cock up your ass for only $10?

:D :D

Oh my God....You crack me up.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:45 am

Answer the question, Stanley Q.

Stanley Pickkkle · Post by **Stanley Pickkkle** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:47 am

Goober McTuber wrote:Answer the question, Stanley Q.

Oh, there was a question? I thought he was just being silly. Nobody really believes that I like black cokkk up my ass.

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:15 am

Actually, pikkkle, you're the oral type, etc...

Okay, I've watched the first two episodes...and there's good and bad.

The good is that it's better than Saving Private Ryan (though Spielberg is only "executive producer" on this), with decent acting, excellent location feel, and dependable action scenes. A little schmaltzy and stereotyped, but it moves along.

The bad is that it's shaping up as a recruitment vehicle for young men who just want to shoot something! You know, like your standard militant Christer getting married in the woods.

Case in point: in episode two the fierce battles of Gaudalcanal are basically rolled into one eight minute sequence of non-stop automatic machine gun , etc, and while at least two thousand Japanese are seen running suicidally into the reaper of American hot lead, NOT ONE American is seen taking a hit. I'm not kidding. Sure, allusion is made to dead marines (next day burials), but none are shown getting shot during this entire sequence. It looks adventurous, exciting, and fun. ANd of course the 1st Marine detachment are total HEROES, etc.

Part 3...Spoils of war. Aussie brunettes spreadin' like flowers in Spring...all for you, forest groom Christer loon recruit, good sanctioned Victorian sex--thirty seconds of fumbling hydraulics followed by confession....

Sign up, sign up.

but first,

WW

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:18 am

Stanley Pickkkle wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:Answer the question, Stanley Q.

Oh, there was a question? I thought he was just being silly. Nobody really believes that I like black cokkk up my ass.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that doesn't. Maybe you should start a poll.

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:12 am

Watch yer grammar, pvt. Goober. Your train wreck sentence suggests that everyone "want's one." Are you some kind of total latent twisted homo...a Christer republican? Like Larry, just go to your stall and wait... :?

Goober McTuber wrote: I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that doesn't. Maybe you should start a poll.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:53 pm

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Watch yer grammar, pvt. Goober. Your train wreck sentence suggests that everyone "want's one." Are you some kind of total latent twisted homo...a Christer republican? Like Larry, just go to your stall and wait... :?

Well, Nick Crisco, maybe you’re just a little too anxious to throw in with the group that "want's one."

Stanley Pickkkle wrote:Nobody really believes that I like black cokkk up my ass.

Goober McTuber wrote:I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that doesn't.

You having trouble following along?

A Christer republican? Yeah, that’s really close.

Go fuck yourself, tard.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:10 pm

LTS TRN 2 wrote: The good is that it's better than Saving Private Ryan...

After watching only two episodes thus far, I wouldn't say that.... yet. Nice comparison, though.

oh, and plenty of GI's are seen taking hits. Graphic shot to the jugular hits. How'd you miss those?

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:50 pm

Well, except for the beginning, Private Ryan blew chunks. Pacific is basically a nine-hour movie, and so the character development, details, and battle scenes are all more...realistic? And sure, wagoner, the American gets clipped in the trench--that was episode one. In the episode two sequence to which I referred, it's just non-stop slaughter of the Japs without a single American getting shot. I've got it recorded. I don't doubt the basic tallies of the brutal fight--32,000 out of 36, 000 Japanese killed, to about 7,000 out of 60, 000 Americans. Clearly if the Japanese had established their base on the strategic little isle the whole war would have been much much worse.

As if you need any further reason to rationalize or justify the slaughter of the Japanese army, try checking out The Rape Of Nanking (2007) a horrifying documentary of Japan's ruthless genocidal assault on China--starting with Shanghai and marching inland to Nanking, killing everyone in between. Even the German Nazis who were visiting were shocked.

(yeah, goober, yer grammar suffers what's known as a "predication error"--and a Freudian would interpret yours pretty easily. just sayin' :wink: )