MILITARY NERD BONER, ENGAGE!
03.10.09
Today’s weather: Warm and sunny, with a 100% chance of explosionsFollowing the success of Band of Brothers, Steven Spielberg and HBO have teamed up to create a 10-part, $150 million miniseries about Marines in World War II’s Pacific Theater of Operations called, simply, The Pacific. From /film:
[The Pacific] tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
Since most of you ignorant heathens don’t know Tarawa from Pelelieu, Robert Leckie was a noted military historian whose memoir Helmet for my Pillow — about his time as a scout for the 1st Marine Division — is part of the basis for the series. E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, about Pelelieu and Okinawa, is one of the finest war memoirs ever written. And who was John Basilone? Oh, he just won a Medal of Honor on Guadalcanal for single-handedly annihilating about 3000 Japanese while manning and repairing a machine gun through the night until his hands were blistered from the heat. No biggie.
The Pacific (early promo trailer below) is expected to air late this year or in early 2010. Watch it or I hate you.
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—More ad nauseum, seen-it-already, PC WWII retreads
(—and self-serving moral alibis) from a Hollywood that’s
made BILLIONS these past decades catering to the dumb-down
franchise slum needs of history’s most awesomely genocidal
regime —ACROSS the Pacific.
70 million exterminated in ‘peacetime’ —decades AFTER
WWII -unoutted and utterly unanswered for —that you’ll
never be hearing so much as a quality PEEP about in ANY
Hollywood film —EVER!
ESP. galling on this, the 60th Anniversary of the epic,
STILL urgently unfolding —and once again ‘mysteriously
overlooked’ —-KOREAN WAR!
AMEN
looks like the start of private ryan but still gave me a semi-chub.
as far as the crabapple the commie pinko fuck, they just dont hand out a CMH to anyone. around 3400 since 1861. nearly 26 million Americans living today have served in the military. sorry i couldnt find a a number since the inception of the medal itself. but im willing to go out on a limb and say 3400 medals is still less than the amount of handjobs you give out in any given year.
Yea that guy killed 3000 enemies by himself and it’s true because the military never makes these things up in order to motivate its troops or country.
Pat Tillman’s ghost taps me on the shoulder and wants a word with me.
Awesome. I’ve always thought that With The Old Breed needed to be made into a movie. A miniseries incorporating it is even better, especially if Hanks and Spielberg bring their BoB/SPR A-game to it.
Yut.
Not only did he distinguish himself at Guadalcanal, the crazy bastard requested to go back to the fighting after a much deserved transfer back to the states. Got schwacked on Iwo, earning himself a Navy Cross in the bargain.
Balls big enough to be moved by truck, no doubt.
Those amtracs look like the same ones I crewed in OIF. Probably were.
John Basilone was an absolute bad-ass. Read through his Medal of Honor and Navy Cross citations on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilone
“..contributing in large measure to the virtual annihilation of a Japanese regiment.”
this is going to be awesome!
Clint Eastwood still thinks they’re pussies
Ufford is harder than Chinese algebra right now.
/so am I.
I have a plan to annihilate 3000 Japanese too but maybe I shouldn’t discuss that here.
And who was John Basilone?
I don’t know, but can he hit a curveball?
Did Oprah’s dog survive these explosions?
Thank god Fox isn’t in charge, or John Basilone would be played by John Cena. He had (cinematic) military experience, after all…