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Which scene really got to you?

posted 9 years ago by michaelhoulihan-30566
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The Pacific is full of both gruesome, and emotional scenes. But which scene really got to you? As in, which scene really made you feel something, be it bad or good? I'm curious.

[–] jd-276 9 years ago

Pretty much everything in the last episode but especially the last scene with Sledge sitting under a tree and the dialogue between his parents.

[–] michaelhoulihan-30566 9 years ago

Ah - yes the last episode pretty much had me on the verge of tears throughout. Especially when Burgie got off the train and hugged his brother and dad for the first time in 3/4 years. Very moving

[–] gasivodo 9 years ago

Not a scene:

The way, a lot'?!? find the western front more entertaining!??

"Oh that's not like BOB"

[–] michaelhoulihan-30566 9 years ago

Personally I think The Pacific is better than BOB because it examines issues like humanity, brutality, PTSD and other visceral elements of war that BOB tends to shy away from

[–] gb321 9 years ago

When the Americans had to kill their own man who had a nightmare and then went crazy.

The first banzai charge on Guadalcanal.

When Sledge doesn't kill the surrendering Japanese soldier, only for a fellow soldier to shoot him in the head.

The Okinawa family killed while running from the Japanese while the Americans can only watch.

The Japanese soldier who broke down in the first episode.

The Michelle Williams scene.

There was a lot.

[–] gb321 9 years ago

Also, throwing rocks into the half blown off Japanese soldier's head. I think that's the most gruesome thing I've ever seen in a war film, and I've seen a lot of war films.

[–] Chisoxfan311 9 years ago

Michelle Williams scene? Was she even in this?

[–] drjeff21 9 years ago

I think he means Adelaide Clemmens; the scene where Sledge goes to the college registration table and she is asking him the questions regarding what he learned in the service.

[–] sanhuezaehijos-ltda 9 years ago

That baby's cries... I watched this first when I was single, but now that Im a father, that cries of desperation *beep* pierced my heart...

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[–] The Grand Master 9 years ago

Episode 9: Discovering a crying baby in the hut that was hit by a mortar and killed the mother and whoever else was in the hut. Seeing that baby crying was one of the saddest scenes in the series.

[–] domester82 9 years ago

Yeah, the baby in the ruined hut in episode 9. That was devastating to watch.

And Snafu throwing rocks into that half blown off Japanese soldier's head. That was possibly the most gruesome thing I've ever seen in any war film

[–] OhioTexas 9 years ago

Episode 10- When Sledge and Snafu are back in America, in the train. The train arrives in New Orleans and Snafu looks at Sledge who is asleep. He didn't say goodbye to his war buddy and got off the train. That scene really got me.

(He wouldn't see Eugene Sledge again until 1981 I think- when the book "With The Old Breed" was published.)

[–] fabiovasconcllos 9 years ago

Episode 9: Discovering a crying baby in the hut that was hit by a mortar and killed the mother and whoever else was in the hut. Seeing that baby crying was one of the saddest scenes in the series.

that is the scene

[–] drjeff21 9 years ago

The scene where Sledge breaks down during the dove hunt with his father. He simply could not bring himself to fire a gun again and kill anything.

[–] Blueshirt476 9 years ago

I have to agree with the Sledge/SNAFU scene on the train. It was just sad to me. I don't know if I would be grateful or sad by a "battle buddy" doing that.

Also the scene with the throwing rocks into the dude's exposed brain didn't bother as much as the scene wear the one marine strangles that dying Japanese soldier when they come across all the wounded/sick Japanese. Just seemed very brutal to kill someone like that. Granted the rest of them were killing the other ones with bayonets, but those seemed quick. That not so quick. That one and when the marine starts digging out the gold teeth of the living Japanese soldier and his screams till SNAFU puts him down.