Sequel to Band of Brothers coming

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Qianglong
GOOOOOD!! i can finally see crazy saked loaded jap soldiers doing banzai charges towards US infantry and then get mowed down my browning machine gun. Or Jap soldiers in foxholes turned in BBQ eel by American Flame throwers!!!

you have something against the Japanese?

 

[eleison]

After thinking about it for a bit, the only way the sequel can be any good is if it can explain why things were the way they were. Why the greatest generation were so brutal... why the fighting was brutal.. etc.. if they can do this without injecting todays morales then it will succeed.

Band of brother tried to stay away from what was right and what was wrong. It only showed what happened.. the reason it happened and the aftermath... The morales of today did not play a prominent role.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: mugs
Damn, 2009? I heard a rumor probably 4 years ago that they'd be doing a similar series about the Pacific theater, and I've been waiting ever since.

my thoughts exactly. 2009 is far far away

 

[Kwaipie]

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: Kwaipie

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: leftyman
My father fought in the Pacific in WW2 and I have been waiting a long time for something like this to show up.

My wife's grandfather served in the Pacific, and he managed to sneak a camera along with him on his tour. He's got some really cool pictures, for example...

1. Tons of pictures of piles of dead japs, with soldiers gleefuly posing next to them.
2. Downed figher planes, both American and Japanese, though only pics of the Jap planes showed bodies in them.
3. Pictures of the poison gas mortar shells sitting on standby ready to retaliate if the japs decided to cross into chemical warfare.
4. A New Zealand islander posing with the severed head of a Japanese guy. They used to pay the natives a bounty for each Jap they killed, though they only required the japs ear for proof. The islanders would bring one ear one day, and the other ear the next, and collect 2 payments, so they started requiring the islander to produce the entire head. The islander was only wearing a loin cloth and some tribal jewelry, holding the head by the hair with a big smile on his face (the islander, obviously the severed head wasnt smiling)

Very cool pictures. I need to see if he'll let me scan them and post them.

Yea, will the movie reflect this? Its reality... Remember the Japanese did a lot more and to civilians... Also, I have heard that the Pacific fight was much more brutal. Fanatic, suicidal japanese .. take no prisoners, etc..... hopefully, they tell the whole story which BOB tried to do.

Americans didnt even think of the Japs as humans, and treated them accordingly. He used to tell me how when they were transferring POW's via air transport to a central holding area, they would just throw 1 or 2 out the door midflight for the hell of it.

The Greatest Generation indeed. :disgust:

Payback for death march.. killing/gasing/beheading pows... wake island... rape of nanking... hiding gernades and detonating then when surrendering... and of course pearl harbor... there are also many other countless things that the japanese did.. but those were the only things that come to mind.

During the 40's, the japanese were told they were the ultimate race... everyone who wasn't were treated like dogs.. No wonder the Americans treated them the way they did. The japanese would have done worse if they had the upper hand...

Now, lets see if hollywood has the guts to show it how it really was...

While I won't apologize for what the Japanese did during this war, there are plenty of things the Americans did as well. Burning down entire cities and dropping nukes come to mind. Many will say that the nukes prevented further death but a LOT of civilians died because of them.

Your responses (and others in this thread) are just further proof that Americans are too violent. I recommend getting some counseling or putting down the xbox 360 Gears of War for a couple of weeks. I get the feeling that the only production you'd be happy with is "Steven Spielberg Presents: The War in the Pacific; Hostel/Saw IV, Starring Freddie Kruger as Chester Nimitz and Jason Voorheis as Admiral Yamamoto"

The thing that made Band of Brothers such an exceptional work was the dramatic interplay between young Americans from all over the country being put together in a place that none of them wanted to be in. We all get something different from the movies, I hope that some day someone makes your WW2 slasher flick, I doubt Spielberg/Hanks are going to do it for you.

 

[Rudee]

Originally posted by: leftyman
My father fought in the Pacific in WW2 and I have been waiting a long time for something like this to show up.

Not your Granddad but your Father? Wow. Would it be safe to say you are at least in your 50's?

 

[eleison]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie


The thing that made Band of Brothers such an exceptional work was the dramatic interplay between young Americans from all over the country being put together in a place that none of them wanted to be in. We all get something different from the movies, I hope that some day someone makes your WW2 slasher flick, I doubt Spielberg/Hanks are going to do it for you.

Most of them if not all wanted to fight/kill the germans. A lot enlisted. Some even killed themselves when they couldn't get pass bootcamp.. it was in the movie.. Did you even see the movie? As a matter of fact, a lot of people has said that Band of Brothers was a PRO-war movie... actually, some of the characters even complained about NOT having the chance to kill germans. This how most soldiers felt in real life...

WW2 "slasher flick" or not... I don't care.. as long as the truth comes out. If the movie can explain why americans during the 40's were happy and felt no compunction posing in front of a japanese severed head and smiling.. then it has done its job. ..... And by the way, those people who were smiling were, contrary to the liberal media, not psychotic killers... if the movie can explain this, I will be happy.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: Kwaipie

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: leftyman
My father fought in the Pacific in WW2 and I have been waiting a long time for something like this to show up.

My wife's grandfather served in the Pacific, and he managed to sneak a camera along with him on his tour. He's got some really cool pictures, for example...

1. Tons of pictures of piles of dead japs, with soldiers gleefuly posing next to them.
2. Downed figher planes, both American and Japanese, though only pics of the Jap planes showed bodies in them.
3. Pictures of the poison gas mortar shells sitting on standby ready to retaliate if the japs decided to cross into chemical warfare.
4. A New Zealand islander posing with the severed head of a Japanese guy. They used to pay the natives a bounty for each Jap they killed, though they only required the japs ear for proof. The islanders would bring one ear one day, and the other ear the next, and collect 2 payments, so they started requiring the islander to produce the entire head. The islander was only wearing a loin cloth and some tribal jewelry, holding the head by the hair with a big smile on his face (the islander, obviously the severed head wasnt smiling)

Very cool pictures. I need to see if he'll let me scan them and post them.

Yea, will the movie reflect this? Its reality... Remember the Japanese did a lot more and to civilians... Also, I have heard that the Pacific fight was much more brutal. Fanatic, suicidal japanese .. take no prisoners, etc..... hopefully, they tell the whole story which BOB tried to do.

Americans didnt even think of the Japs as humans, and treated them accordingly. He used to tell me how when they were transferring POW's via air transport to a central holding area, they would just throw 1 or 2 out the door midflight for the hell of it.

The Greatest Generation indeed. :disgust:

Payback for death march.. killing/gasing/beheading pows... wake island... rape of nanking... hiding gernades and detonating then when surrendering... and of course pearl harbor... there are also many other countless things that the japanese did.. but those were the only things that come to mind.

During the 40's, the japanese were told they were the ultimate race... everyone who wasn't were treated like dogs.. No wonder the Americans treated them the way they did. The japanese would have done worse if they had the upper hand...

Now, lets see if hollywood has the guts to show it how it really was...

While I won't apologize for what the Japanese did during this war, there are plenty of things the Americans did as well. Burning down entire cities and dropping nukes come to mind. Many will say that the nukes prevented further death but a LOT of civilians died because of them.

Your responses (and others in this thread) are just further proof that Americans are too violent. I recommend getting some counseling or putting down the xbox 360 Gears of War for a couple of weeks. I get the feeling that the only production you'd be happy with is "Steven Spielberg Presents: The War in the Pacific; Hostel/Saw IV, Starring Freddie Kruger as Chester Nimitz and Jason Voorheis as Admiral Yamamoto"

The thing that made Band of Brothers such an exceptional work was the dramatic interplay between young Americans from all over the country being put together in a place that none of them wanted to be in. We all get something different from the movies, I hope that some day someone makes your WW2 slasher flick, I doubt Spielberg/Hanks are going to do it for you.

Damn, this thread went to P&N all too fast.

The object of war is to win. Civilians or no civilians. People die.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Kwaipie

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: eleison

Originally posted by: Mxylplyx

Originally posted by: leftyman
My father fought in the Pacific in WW2 and I have been waiting a long time for something like this to show up.

My wife's grandfather served in the Pacific, and he managed to sneak a camera along with him on his tour. He's got some really cool pictures, for example...

1. Tons of pictures of piles of dead japs, with soldiers gleefuly posing next to them.
2. Downed figher planes, both American and Japanese, though only pics of the Jap planes showed bodies in them.
3. Pictures of the poison gas mortar shells sitting on standby ready to retaliate if the japs decided to cross into chemical warfare.
4. A New Zealand islander posing with the severed head of a Japanese guy. They used to pay the natives a bounty for each Jap they killed, though they only required the japs ear for proof. The islanders would bring one ear one day, and the other ear the next, and collect 2 payments, so they started requiring the islander to produce the entire head. The islander was only wearing a loin cloth and some tribal jewelry, holding the head by the hair with a big smile on his face (the islander, obviously the severed head wasnt smiling)

Very cool pictures. I need to see if he'll let me scan them and post them.

Yea, will the movie reflect this? Its reality... Remember the Japanese did a lot more and to civilians... Also, I have heard that the Pacific fight was much more brutal. Fanatic, suicidal japanese .. take no prisoners, etc..... hopefully, they tell the whole story which BOB tried to do.

Americans didnt even think of the Japs as humans, and treated them accordingly. He used to tell me how when they were transferring POW's via air transport to a central holding area, they would just throw 1 or 2 out the door midflight for the hell of it.

The Greatest Generation indeed. :disgust:

Thats correct ... they were.

Be very careful about judging people from back then based on your limited knowledge of what its like to be at war ... I'm not implying that throwing POW's out of a plane was the right thing to do, only that WWII was horror on a scale that has no modern-day equivelant & for the most part our soldiers were 18-20 year old kids.

We didn't start WWII either in Europe or the Pacific but we were the ones who had to end it & we all owe the people who fought a debt we can never repay.