The film Master and Commander... had the grave misfortune of being released in the same year as Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King, which pretty much swept the Academy Awards and consigned Master to a short list of great and forgotten films.
The same thing happened, sort of, to the HBO mini-series Pacific, which was released too soon after the blockbuster Band of Brothers. Brothers was an intimate ensemble character study, and we wanted Pacific to be just like it, with palm trees. When it evolved into Pacific Panorama, we tuned it out.
HBO re-ran Pacific over the Memorial Day holiday; I binge-watched it, and, removed from comparisons, it played very well.
Pacific is not a character study. It is a graphic, almost too graphic, exposé of the birth of the modern U.S. Marines. Watch Pacific again, if you get the chance; learn what 'A Few Good Men' really means.
Take a few moments. Watch this:
http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/about/video/anatomy-of-the-pacific-war.html
The same thing happened, sort of, to the HBO mini-series Pacific, which was released too soon after the blockbuster Band of Brothers. Brothers was an intimate ensemble character study, and we wanted Pacific to be just like it, with palm trees. When it evolved into Pacific Panorama, we tuned it out.
HBO re-ran Pacific over the Memorial Day holiday; I binge-watched it, and, removed from comparisons, it played very well.
Pacific is not a character study. It is a graphic, almost too graphic, exposé of the birth of the modern U.S. Marines. Watch Pacific again, if you get the chance; learn what 'A Few Good Men' really means.
Take a few moments. Watch this:
http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/about/video/anatomy-of-the-pacific-war.html
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