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Summary: Great Action with a Sappy Love Story
Review: I saw PEARL HARBOR on opening day. I waited in line for more than three hours to go see it. While I was not in any way disappointed with the film, I felt that the love story was just too phony. The battle scenes were incredible and are worth the price of admission alone. This is not a bad movie in any way, but it could of been handled or written differently to incorporate a more believable love story. Overall a really good film!
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Summary: Pearl Harbor
Review: From the opening scene to the closing credits Pearl Harbor captures your attention, and reminds us that the Allied WWII generation of men and women, young and old, of all colors, creeds and religions embody the morals, values, ethics and virtues that we should all aspire to. The hopes and dreams that we all have in our youth are alive in this film. Everything we are - everything we have today - we have because of their bravery, their courage - their sacrafices. Pearl Harbor reminds us. The film will sink deep into your heart and hopefully your memory. Was the film - can any film accurately - reflect the entire history of this tragedy - No - That's why we have books, biographies, documentaries and teachers like me who sent every one of her students off to see the film after having studied it in class. Are there pilots who can really fly like that - Yes! thanks to those who keep those warbirds flying like Steve Hinton, John Maloney and Alan Preston. See for yourself at the Reno Nevada Championship Air Races during September of each year. Did military personell have personal lives that were changed forever by the events at Pearl Harbor, Doolittles Raid, and the hundreds of battles across the Pacific in between - Ofcourse. The point is - this film opens your heart -enough to remember - be curious - learn more and then hopefully you too will pass that information on - so maybe - just maybve - we can prevent history from repeating itself.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing!
Review: The main reason why I give Pearl Harbor 2 stars because it was a complete waste of time. I saw it on opening night and I didn't really like it at all. I was expecting alot of war action NOT romance. I think Ben Affleck did an okay job in this movie and Josh Harnett but I think the love triangle should be thrown away. This movie was alot like Titanic in a way but worse. If you really want to see this movie wait till it comes out on video or go rent Saving Private Ryan or Tora! Tora! Tora!. Please, don't waste your time on this movie it really [isn't very good]!
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Summary: No! No! NOO!
Review: The last good war movie ever made, and unfortunatly the last one ever to be made was Saving Private Ryan. Hollywood in its recent attempts to fashion "moving" war epics has failed miserably. We have lost sight of everything that makes a war movie worth watching. Realism, Accuracy, Credibility, and most of all good acting is what we need, this film lacked it all. I went to the theater expecting to see a well-directed and acted film about the attack which changed America forever. This film did not do justice to this incident so crucial in American history. Barely touching on just "why" the Japaneese made their suprise sneak attack, the viewer is left with nothing else to focus on besides the horribly typical Hollywood romance between pretty boy Affleck.. and Weiz, WE HAVE seen this before in at least one hundred movies before. Little better than a mid-day soap opera. Cm'on people! The cinetography was great, special effects awesome, Cuba Gooding did an excellent job, as well as many other of the supporting cast such as Tom Sizemore. But the juggling romance plot kills it! It makes no sense.. the main characters must trade the same girlfriend at least three times during the movie!! And to boot, we have the movie going on for an extra hour explaining the people's careers after Pearl Harbor.. Like we care? The epic Pearl Harbor movie in the end turns out to be nothing more than a typical glorified-American action movie, with no more value than Independence Day. We need a movie that is about Peal Harbor, why did they go on about their adventures in China?? hahaha I just laugh writing about this movie.. It is sad that we will never again see a real war movie. Thanks Saving Private Ryan.. we knew you were the last one, at least you made it worth it.
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Summary: Worth seeing for the special effects
Review: After reading some pretty scathing reviews I went into this film expecting a mediocre story with some great special effects and action sequences. This is exactly what it delivers.. though differently than I expected. The story itself is typically cliche (you really can't believe some of the terribly cliched lines they pull out in this film) and sappy, but is pretty well interleaved with the development of the attack on Perl Harbor. The attack itself really is worth seeing - the special effects are just amazing. While I'm sure it isn't true to history (were you really expecting Hollywood to be true to history anyway?), seeing the attack in color and from different perspectives is just amazing. Go enjoy the special effects... maybe enjoy the story... take the whole thing with a grain of salt... it isn't a documentary.. :)
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Summary: Best movie ever
Review: It was a great movie, the best I've ever seen- see it now.
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Summary: A Beautifully Woven Romance With the Hardships of War
Review: Danny and whoever the other guy is are best friends, and always have been. nothing can come between them. They are destined to become pilots, and one day that other guy meets a nurse. They fall in love, until he's transferred to Europe where supposedly he's killed in action. That's when Danny takes his girl, but when he comes back there's gonna be more fighting than that just between them, but also with the U.S. and Japan. A wonderful storyp life, love, death, and bombs flying through the air. A must see.
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Summary: Bombs Away
Review: My husband and I went to "Pearl Harbor" mainly to see if it was as bad as all the reviews said it was. We were not disappointed - it was that bad. Unlike my husband, I did not have any problem with the actors - they did the best they could with some of the worst dialogue ever written. The love story was trite, the battle scene looked too much like "Titanic" and the whole movie felt like it was an hour too long. Every once in a while there was a small, fleeting moment of a good movie - such as every time Dan Aykroyd was on screen. Also, I got the sense that Cuba Gooding Jr. had wandered into the wrong movie. He was very good but I have a feeling much of his footage was edited out to make room for the completely overdone love triangle. Just my opinion, but I say save your money and wait for cable.
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Summary: Blown Away
Review: The movie was just amazing. Everything was set up so perfectly, the long battle, the romance, everything. It makes a person really consider war and what everyone went through. It's like a wake up call for some. Dynamic special effects are only a small portion of the movie. Just go see it, it's absolutely brilliant.
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Summary: It would have been a brilliant parody.
Review: Incorporating nearly all of the cliches that have characterized inane contemporary film, Pearl Harbor plays like a flawless self-parody. Sadly, the two and a half hours of sweeping visuals, unbeleivably contrived love stories, and gratuitous action sequences are all too sincere, and representative of the kind of film that cashes in at the box office, despite lacking in both style and substance. The cinematography, though fairly decent, is content with grandiose, yet hollow sweeps. At times, a technique wherein the camera lens appears to have been smeared with vaseline is used, but with no apparent purpose (to signify confusion, emotion, the point of view of a wounded soldier?) The effect is somewhat distracting and awkward. Another fault is in the story itself...it goes on!... and on... and on. The title is "Pearl Harbor," not "Pearl Harbor and Superfluous Hour Long Footage Used to Tidy Up the Contrived Love Triangle Between the Melodramatic Leads." Also, the film has a bit of trouble with historical inaccuracies, but that could have been forgiven, had the film not so clearly been such blatant propoganda. This propogandist quality is, however, what makes this film worth watching as a study of American culture. Among the scenes that are particularly telling are: *anything with Alec Baldwin in it. His lines read like recruitment posters, repeatedly reffering to "the japs" as "bastards" *The scene in which FDR rises from his seat, grunting as he struggles to his feet (like tiny tim at the end of "a christmas carol"), in a passionate statement that anything is possible. (myself, and several others in the audience were tearing up from laughter at this point) *When Ben Affleck is complimented by a British soldier on his ablility with words along the lines of: "If all americans are like you, then the germans better pray that the US doesn't get involved," the feeling that one should be filling with a baseless sense of american pride is palpable, and equally revolting. *At one point, after the Pearl Harbor bombing, a soldier says: "World war two has just begun." I felt like screaming from my seat that, in fact, WWII had actually begun several years before, when the allies became involved! *Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the token African-american, and I get the distinct feeling that his part was just tacked on at some point near the end, judging by the fact that his scenes have absolutely no point in being in the film.... .... what a waste of talent: Gooding, Afleck, Akroyd, etc.... All in all, the film is sensationalistic, sappy, poorly constructed, unentertaining, trite, and a symbol of everything that is wrong with contemporary filmmaking. That said, it is worth seeing it simply for the laughter and the culture study. it is no wonder that only edited versions were sent to Germany and Japan.
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