jlohman20 Reviews

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Fantastic

[10/10 · 6 June 2017]

this is the first time I've written a review on here, and this is one of the few movies that made it impossible to resist. The only reason this isn't a ten in my book is because I don't believe in perfect movies and thus 10/10 is reserved for my favorite movies only.

I wrote this because I can agree with those that say that this had one of the greatest endings of all time. I'm not going to lie, I did not like Darcy a lot at the beginning. Though I liked him better than Collins and Wickham, he still seemed too cold. Gotta say, he has some of the best development I've seen in a character on the big screen. When all he did is revealed to the audience, I truly thought he hit rock bottom after Lizzie leaves him in the rain and that there was no way back for him in my eyes.

The last 30-45 minutes or so were absolutely amazing. Darcy literally does everything for Lizzie. The last ten minutes, I was actually cheering and jumping around in my room. Such a good movie and Mr. Darcy has to be one of my favorite characters I've seen in a movie.

The Pacific (2010)

Brilliant film-making on a dark piece of history

[10/10 · 15 March 2016]

Please, for the love of God, please do not overlook this miniseries. I have seen way too many people who don't bother to see The Pacific because it wasn't like Band of Brothers. This was in no way, shape, or form meant to be like BoB. If you have studied WW2 at all, you would know that the war in the Pacific was a totally different war than the European theater.

I loved Band of Brothers, it was a great and realistic series of the harsh realities of warfare and the scars it can leave. The Pacific was much harder to watch than BoB ever was. BoB was all about the bonds formed in combat and how this can tear people apart. This grim series displayed how completely unprepared the US military was mentally for how truly horrific this war would be. Not only were you fighting the unpredictable and relentless Japanese soldiers, but you were also fighting the terrain. The dense woods, the heavy rain, the thick mud. Not to mention all the diseases that came with these harsh conditions. Water was a luxury in a lot of situations. The filmmakers brilliantly showed how this affected the fighting men, who became virtually hollow shells, their sanity teetering on the edge of their knives.

The Japanese killed everyone without remorse. One particular scene that gave me chills to witness was in the latter half of the series when a group of civilians was slaughtered by a Japanese machine gun nest while running to the American forces. One person, a child, started to crawl slowly to the lines, a couple bullet wounds on his body. One of the combat rookies wanted to run in to help the poor boy, but was kept back so they would not be shoot too. All the Marines could do was watch, as the helpless child was brutally killed after a bullet from that machine gun emplacement hit him in the back of the head and his body went limp instantaneously.

This is on par with Saving Private Ryan, another collaboration between Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, as one of the most horrific, gruesome, and realistic war dramas ever put to film. I highly recommend giving it a watch, but be warned: this series is not for the faint of heart.