Which scene really got to you?
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domester82 — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 12:07 AM)
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(May 12, 2016 08:40 AM)
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(May 21, 2016 10:53 PM)
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.
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Blueshirt476 — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 10:08 AM)
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. -
SALTYteaBAG — 9 years ago(June 06, 2016 08:05 PM)
I picked up The Pacific and BoB on blu ray many years ago. I immediately watched BoB but as a tribute to recent Memorial Day I decided to begin watching The Pacific.
Just a disclaimer: I am not all the way through the series, I just finished episode 7 I believe. Anyway when Sledge and Snafu/Malek are in the transport boat before they leave for Peleliu landing. What got me is when Snafu just nonchalantly throws up. Up until this point he is portrayed as kind of a seasoned "seen it all" character. This just really got to me for some reason. -
joefreitag — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 12:29 PM)
On the canal they had their first real contact with a wave of Japanese soldiers. Firefight is extensive. After everything stops it's real quiet and you can hear:
"contact on the left"
and another guy yells
"no sh!t"
I still laugh. -
ghostly_host — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 03:14 PM)
The scene where John Basilone is on Iwo Jima and fighting like the tough, battle-hardened bastard of a hero he was and will always be remembered as, when he gets that first bullet and falls and you know his number is up it is so so sad. Even if you know the history of the USMC in WW2 and knew that he died, it's still tragic. Then later we see his widowed wife at John's parents' house and she gives his Dad John's Medal of Honor.makes me wanna cry just thinking about it now. In the final episode when Sledge is home again and how he acts I can just totally relate to that. Then when he goes hunting with his Dad and falls down crying.
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ShilohGrace — 9 years ago(September 30, 2016 09:40 AM)
Episode ten where Sledge is whimpering and thrashing in bed from nightmares, and his parents are just standing outside his door. I'm not even a parent, but just the thought of the helplessness you'd feel seeing your little boy go through that had me bawling.
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Bobby_vs_Satan — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 05:54 PM)
Right after the baby scene where Sledge finds the mortally wounded woman and has a moment of regaining some of his humanity and instead of shooting her, even though she wanted him to, cradles her until she dies.
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garzelf — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 06:12 PM)
When they are carrying Ack Ack down through the lines of soldiers after having been killed. The reactions of all of the men, the despair and sadness of having lost their leader. I thought it was a wonderfully done scene.
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Dr_Julius_Strangepork — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 12:15 PM)
just about every battle scene, when they really amped up the intensity of the fighting, surpassed almost anything i've seen on a screen.
as for the noncombat scenes:
-the one that made me physically cringe was the screaming baby scene. any dad knows that noise, but hearing and seeing it in that context was intense.
-the scene with the other baby, held by the mom who desperately is trying to get one of the marines to take it because she knows she's going to blow up and wants to save her baby's life.
-bergin hugging his younger brother after getting off the train.
-sledge hugging his parents.
-sledge trying to get the maggots off him after falling in the hole next to the decomposing body.
-leckie's line, "you're breaking up with me because you think i'm going to get killed," stood out.
-and of course the tossing rocks into the open head scene.