The Pacific - TV series

[AYBG]

The Pacific has cost an estimated $200 million, being shot entirely in High Definition.

Oh Sky, you amuse me so. For those that don't know, digital video (including HD) is incredibly cheap compared to celluloid. But Sky doesn't seem able to stop, well, fapping over whatever HD shows they can get.

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Is anyone going to this today?

[Beate]

*raises hand*

[hdaniel82]

Moi aussi

[tilly]

and me! Hope it is as good as it claims to be as spending all that money does not even guarantee the series is going to be any good.

[EthanRunt]

Well, I for one loved it, far too short for me, I could have gone all night and watched all 10 parts, but besides being a little confusing in the big battle in episode 2, tremendous, tough stuff at points, funny, engaging, just needs more character strength and it'd be perfect.

[opas]

I was also there tonight. We were in the very large screen (yipee!) and there was a decent turnout but maybe only 50-60% full. We also got goody bags with water, popcorn, green and blacks chocolate, plus a sky magazine with other info on the screening. We also got an introduction by two men, I think one was from sky and the other was the director.

It was good but the action and gun fire made it difficult to watch, I was constantly looking away. I will be interested to see how the relationships between the characters are developed but I can do without 5 minutes of non stop machine gun fire every other scene. I realise they were trying to get the intensity of the film across, but to tell you the truth I think I would have changed the channel if I was watching at home - it's just not my type of film, too depressing. So far a 6.5/10 from me - but I will make an effort to continue to watch and hopefully I'll get more into it.

Oh and congrats hdaniel82! - I assume you are the person who won the book? One of the few female names that was called I might add! I'm glad an fmuker got a prize - did anyone else from here also win the book?

[EthanRunt]

Chocolate? My bag was sans chocolate.

[kevinknapman]

Loved it too. Compares quite favourably to 'Band of Brothers' so far. Looked amazing on the big screen, the battle scenes in particular were very impressive if admittedly confusing at times. The acting was strong (including the kid from Jurassic Park all grown up) and the individual characters seem to be shaping up quite nicely. I can't wait to watch the remaining 8 episodes. Shame it's going to be a few weeks before we get the chance to see episode 3.

[Beate]

Well, looks like we are all different.

They put us in their biggest cinema with the "biggest screen in Europe". They gave us free bottles of water and a goody bag containing popcorn and Green & Black's chocolate. Why then was it one of the most boring evenings I have had this year? (Apart from the Pizza Express meal with bevvy and OH!)

To start off I wasn't very amused about being kept waiting until 6.40pm for anything to happen and then we got not one but two annyoing speeches, one from a Sky guy and one from, to be honest, I have no idea who he was, but his constant droning about how great this series is and what utter war heroes those guys are was grating. Bevvy laughed because she heard me mutter "p*ss off" under my breath.

The screening was so utterly uninteresting that I have no idea why we didn't just leave after the first part. At home I would have switched over after 10 minutes. It was just constant ra-ta-ta-ta-ta machine gun battles, with enough lights flashing to make you epileptic. The characters were bland and I couldn't care less about them. The one comedy moment consisted of throwing up peaches! After a while I just put my earplugs in and closed my eyes, trying to drone the whole rubbish out.

The screening room was half empty (which is still a lot of people in that cinema) and the lower part was completely deserted so after it was finally over we foraged quite a few more chocolates on the way out. We deserved it after having sat through this. I am actually really glad I don't have Sky now!

Oh, and congratulations to hdaniel82 who managed to win one of 10 books to the series - she was the only woman whose name was read out! If anyone heard a cheer, that was me.

4/10, and that is almost entirely made up of points for the water, the goody bag, the big screen and the comfy seats. Got to sort out our goody bags now.