The Pacific DVD Set - A Review of a Dramatic and Amazingly Brilliant World War 2 Miniseries
Words such as classic and epic have already been used in reviews to describe the Pacific DVD set and whilst they are easy to say they are not often used without just deserve.
So, they are a very high accolade indeed for this awesome World War 2 miniseries which has only recently become available for you to actually buy.
The pacific DVD set came to be as a result of what can only be described as a monumental collaboration between two of Hollywood's giants in the form of actor, turned director Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg and boy have they pulled out the stops on this one.
There have of course, been other series made using World War 2 as a back drop but, I cannot say that I have ever seen the war in the Pacific captured and depicted in such a way and because of this I think that it puts it in a class of its own on the viewing front.
Looking at reviews there are so many people who have been thoroughly bewitched and totally absorbed by the three main real life, characters on whom the series is based and everybody seems to be total agreement that a masterpiece cleverly unfolds before your eyes.
What really is so stunning is the fact that everything you see really took place as told through the eyes of those three exceptional men and recorded in their personal memoirs so that nobody should ever forget.
It is both humbling and enlightening in equal measures to be given such a graphic insight into what these marines had no choice but to endure whether it was from the hard, difficult and unrelenting jungle conditions and the psychological effects of an unforgiving enemy or from the heart rendering and bewildering very personal suffering on them due to long distance relationships and the effects that living like this day-to-day had.
Of course, the war would never have been brought back to life in this way without Spielberg and Hanks weaving some of their absolutely awe-inspiring magic and another massive appeal has to be the realism that they have created right down from the smallest details to the biggest battle scenes, just breath-taking.
The Pacific miniseries seems to have the ability to take you to the middle of the action where ever it is and make you feel like that you are experiencing the whole thing as if you were actually there such is the power of the drama, seeing is believing.
The Pacific DVD set also includes footage from other Pacific World War 2 veterans which makes for humbling viewing too and very much adds to the validity of everything you see, a real classic of that I am pretty sure.
So, they are a very high accolade indeed for this awesome World War 2 miniseries which has only recently become available for you to actually buy.
The pacific DVD set came to be as a result of what can only be described as a monumental collaboration between two of Hollywood's giants in the form of actor, turned director Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg and boy have they pulled out the stops on this one.
There have of course, been other series made using World War 2 as a back drop but, I cannot say that I have ever seen the war in the Pacific captured and depicted in such a way and because of this I think that it puts it in a class of its own on the viewing front.
Looking at reviews there are so many people who have been thoroughly bewitched and totally absorbed by the three main real life, characters on whom the series is based and everybody seems to be total agreement that a masterpiece cleverly unfolds before your eyes.
What really is so stunning is the fact that everything you see really took place as told through the eyes of those three exceptional men and recorded in their personal memoirs so that nobody should ever forget.
It is both humbling and enlightening in equal measures to be given such a graphic insight into what these marines had no choice but to endure whether it was from the hard, difficult and unrelenting jungle conditions and the psychological effects of an unforgiving enemy or from the heart rendering and bewildering very personal suffering on them due to long distance relationships and the effects that living like this day-to-day had.
Of course, the war would never have been brought back to life in this way without Spielberg and Hanks weaving some of their absolutely awe-inspiring magic and another massive appeal has to be the realism that they have created right down from the smallest details to the biggest battle scenes, just breath-taking.
The Pacific miniseries seems to have the ability to take you to the middle of the action where ever it is and make you feel like that you are experiencing the whole thing as if you were actually there such is the power of the drama, seeing is believing.
The Pacific DVD set also includes footage from other Pacific World War 2 veterans which makes for humbling viewing too and very much adds to the validity of everything you see, a real classic of that I am pretty sure.