Comments attached to the News 'The Pacific (R1/US BD) in November' on Movies @ The Digital Fix
HBO have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of The Pacific on 2nd November 2010. The Pacific is an epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilo...
Nowhere near as iconic as BoB, very slapdash in its geographical approach. Well made - one beach invasion scene rivals the opening of Saving Private Ryan - but the characters wash over you and you don't care about them in the slightest. The only truly interesting character is the wide-eyed psycho, but it's not enough for me to pay anymore than Ł10 if the box set ever drops down to that price.
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