Band of Brothers was considered to be one of the best war mini-series coming out of HBO. It doesn't feel pretentious and dull at all and had impacted me with emotion, great character development, action with high amounts of gore and violence and a outstanding story with a complimentary talking heads with the veterans of World War II, focusing on the European campaign against the Nazis. It's up there with my favourite movie of all time, The Longest Day and it often felt realistic than just annoying cliches that pertains in all World War Two films.

Now Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg who created Band of Brothers decided to create another World War Two miniseries on the Pacific front against the Emperor of Japan. And frighteningly, the fact that this miniseries was released last year had something to do with the events right now with Japan and a number of people hating Japan. But nevertheless, it's called The Pacific and watching Episode/part 5 right now, it's pretty much a mixed bag for me and I still think Band of Brothers is still better than this.

One of the main faults of The Pacific is the emotional impact, in Band of Brothers you could feel each character's pain throughout the series and the result of that war-trauma that they have in the end of the series. Now, this is me just watching the first five episodes of The Pacific but all I felt with Lucky and the other characters were from other World War Two movies of being macho at the start and then "war is hell" with all the psychological terror that the Marines face during fighting in the Philippines against the Japs and the horrible terrain and conditions that they faced in those islands that they landed. I mean, episodes like Lucky going to some mental hospital and seeing the trauma of others from the war has some emotional impact but it still goes in the conventions of war films. 

 And the fact that they know how the Japs use deadly tactics wasn't established and every marine knew how to toss grenades and shoot at holes and the fact that the "Banzai" wasn't heard that much and this tactic was really deadly to Americans during the war. It doesn't feel realistic at me, it felt like some kind of video game and created no moment of tension and danger when they are constantly moving the Japs down and it's just entertaining to see it as war miniseries, nothing else and not something that you could get attached with. Though Lucky played by that dude from AMC's Rubicon is somewhat a great actor as one of cocky marines and that antagonist from Die Hard 2 is the colonel. Overall it's just a typical war movie/miniseries that doesn't have a emotional impact nor interesting characters than the stereotypical dudes.