Product: Battle 360: Complete Season 1 [Blu-ray] (2010)
Rating: 4.0
Nice CGI, annoying narration, watch in small doses
There's a lotta history in these DVDs - the use of CGI was really great in helping visualize some of the battle sequences, spliced in with interviews of the vets who served on the Big E as well as actual WW2 footage. 360 starts from the dark days of the Pearl Harbor, the Raid on Tokyo, then Guadalcanal, onto the road to victory.I agree with one of the reviewers who noted the narrator uses repetitive phrases - "spewing hot lead" as an example. I guess there are only so many ways to say strafe or shooting at....A lot of the WW2 clips are the same ones over and over and even some of the CGI clips - I still have an image of a 500 lb bomb falling on a Japanese carrier, which is why I recommend watching this in small doses.I did enjoy the Marine Sergeants comments - adds a bit of salt and "hell yeah" attitude. This is one way to get younger generations hooked on military history - it's eye candy and uses editing techniques more accustomed to video games and MTV than say PBS "World At War" series.Would I watch more of Battle 360? Hell yeah. Would I buy it? Nah, that's what my local library is for. Good entertainment, but I don't need to see this over and over again.