Autobiographical or not, it is still pedestrian filmmaking.
jpj
On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:51 PM, BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:
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>
> I'm with you on this one Dave. I found the situations/dialogue/ on #3 pedestrian
> and weak. Good art direction, off-setting gratuitous sex scenes.
>
> the bulk of the mini-series is based on 2 autobiographies, Basilone's and Leike's. episode 3 was largely Leike's story. without having read it, I'd guess he goes back to Melbourne after the war after the girl. episode 2 was mostly Basilone's
>
> John Lau
>
> Truth is only for the brave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jean-pierre jacquet <jacquet@optonline.net>
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 3:05 pm
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: George Pelecanos / The Pacific
>
> I'm with you on this one Dave. I found the situations/dialogue/ on #3 pedestrian
> and weak. Good art direction, off-setting gratuitous sex scenes.
> jpj
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 5:55 PM, davezeltserman wrote:
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> > Jack, from what I can tell from imdb, Pelecanos was one of the writers for
> episode 3 (last night), but none of the others.
> >
> > First 2 episodes were pretty good, last night's episode with them in Australia
> was very much on the weak side.
> >
> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jack Bludis <buildsnburns@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > At least the first three episodes of the new HBO Spielberg/Hanks series "The
> Pacific" were written by George Pelenconos.
> > >
> > > Just a side note that I thought might interest some here.
> > >
> > > Jack Bludis
> > >
> > > "Dead Brunettes Can't Testify" by Jack Burns @ Amazon Kindle
> > >
> >
> >
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