Pearl Harbor

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Summary: Pearl-less Harbor
Review: Not a Pearl of a movie. Very uninteresting. The action bombing scenes use a lot of gasoline, but little else. Go get "Tora Tora Tora" and see the real thing.

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Summary: Pearl Harbor, the masterpiece
Review: I think this dvd is gonna sell great, everybody should see this film, it's amazing.Even though i'm a guy for this love story, it's kinda weird but i still loved it. All of Michael Bay's movies are just amazing.Great action movies.The action in this movie is just awesomely radiant.I recommend everybody that has a dvd player get this.Me for sure am going to purchase it.

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Summary: The Best Movie Made
Review: Pearl Harbor is based on the attack on this Harbor on December 7, 1941, a day that will live in ifiamy. The movies stars (someone who evry female knows) Ben Afflect(raindeer Games), Josh Hartnett(Halloween H20), and the hottie Kate Bekisale(brittish filems) Ben is a pilot named Rafe and Josh is a Pilot, and they are all great friends and ohh it is Such a GOOD, sad, action pack film i can't write anymore There will be antother rewiew that you can read called the greatest movie made!! Cheak out the CLient rewiews and i have one of them called Fantastic Page Turner!! So sorry that this review was so bad but i have to go

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Summary: "Pearl Harbor" is a thrill ride of a movie!!
Review: I saw "Pearl Harbor" the day that it came to the movie theater, and the movie had everything!! Action, romance, a great storyline, and a great cast!! The film's center of attention is Ben Affleck, who plays Rafe McCawley, and his best friend Josh Hartnett, who plays Danny Walker. Rafe falls in love with a beautiful nurse named Evelyn (played by an outstanding Kate Beckinsale), whom Rafe had the terrible discomfort of leaving her behind to go off with the Royal British army to fight alongside other fighter pilots. When word gets out about Rafe being shot down in action, both Danny and Evelyn were filled with grief over the incident. But in an unexpected twist of fate, Evelyn and Danny became emotionally attached to each other. But, one night, Rafe suddenly returns much to the delight of Evelyn, Danny could not believe it either until Rafe figured out that something went on between the two of them. And then, history intervenes when the love triangle is put on hold and both Rafe and Danny put aside their differences to go out and fight the Japanese fighter pilots that started the attacks on Pearl Harbor, an attack even we Americans never saw coming. The acting in this movie is superb, especially with Cuba Gooding, Jr. playing Dorie Miller, and Jon Voight playing FDR. The soundtrack is outstanding, especially with Faith Hill singing "There You'll Be" in the film. This will definitely be a DVD must-own when I go out and buy it. "Pearl Harbor" is Ben Affleck's best film since "Armageddon". Josh Hartnett's best film since "Here on Earth". Kate Beckinsale's best film since "Cold Comfort Farm". Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s best film since "Men of Honor". "Pearl Harbor" is truly a movie masterpiece. Quite possibly the best film of 2001!

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Summary: Who would have thought they could make Pearl Harbor boring?
Review: Pearl Harbor was supposed to be a combination of action, history, and romance, along the lines of the far superior Titanic. Unlike Titanic, this movie has a terrible script, moronic dialogue, mediocre acting, confused and distorted history, and nothing worthwhile to say about life, love, war, or anything else. I found myself squirming in my seat and looking at my watch for the first 1 1/2 hour of this movie. In short, one of the very worst big-budget movies in many years. Anyone looking for somewhat realistic WWII action flics should consider Tora, Tora, Tora; Midway, or A Bridge Too Far. One of the finest films about WWI was the Australian production Gallipoli. Any one of these on video or DVD is a better pick than Pearl Harbor.

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Summary: the best guilty pleasure you'll ever watch
Review: For those of you who say that the blood is not depicted accurately enough, do you know anything about what will be in the DVD? It will have all the rated-R stuff Disney made Bay cut out. They'll also have behind-the-scenes stuff and a historical documentary. It's true that this film has been ridiculasly compared to Titanic and that it's a bit long. The characters weren't nearly as well-developed as Titanic's. OK, we all know that the story's cheesy. But the acting was decent enough to make you care about the characters. Ben Affleck's Tennessee accent was overdone but he was able to make Rafe's emotions believable. Jon Voight and Alec Baldwin were exceptional though I don't know why Doolittle thought they were gonna win the war through Rafe and Danny. These guys embodied their characters' tough, no-nonsense attitudes. The historical aspects were smoothly woven into the main plot. Plus, the humor is well-done. The opening foreshadowed how funny the rest of the movie as gonna be. So kick back and relax afteryou turn Pearl Harbor on and let your TV handle the rest.

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Summary: O.K. I see your points, now read my review... please!!
Review: I went to see this movie on its opening week-end. I had heard of all the actors and directors in this movie. I thought it was written very well, by Randall Wallace. And I loved Braveheart, so I thought this would be pretty good also. Now here is my review of the movie, 1.I thought it was a little too long.My rear felt like I had been sitting there from '41-'45. 2.The SFX were great and the acting was good but it could have been alot better. There was just so much too tell it was hard to get it in just one movie.If they had just cut it into two movies and shown them as part 1 in the spring, and part 2 in the fall, it would have been better and you could have put more of the war in, personally my favorite would have been to include the most uplifting part of the war into the movie which was the flag-raising on IWO-JIMA. That would have been a very good closing of what would have been a better film!!!!!

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Summary: Not a great drama, but worth it for the action scenes
Review: For those demanding great drama, forget about it. It's an OK, shlocky love story; it was enough to hold my interest, but frankly, too long leading up the the payoff.

That said, the battle scenes were excellent. Historically accurate? Dunno. But they're fast paced eye-candy, and if that appeals to you, I'd highly recommend them.

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Summary: Worst Film of the Year
Review: The character development is non-existant. The acting was okay to wooden. The dialogue is awful. "First you went away, then we thought you were dead, then all of this happened [referring to the attack on Pearl Harbor]..."

The story is inane. You can tell exactly what turns the plot is going to take at any time. You can probably guess almost all of the main plot points from the very beginning. It's a throw back to the old Saturday afternoon war movies, where one guy fights the war all on his own. Ben Affleck joins the British Eagle squadron (made up of Americans who went in as civilians and formally joined the RAF, but still manages to stay in the US Army); he is shot down, and taken to occupied France; somehow gets back to England, over to America, and out to Pearl Harbor before any word of being alive makes it there; he arrives the day before the raid; he is one of two pilots in his old squadron to take off during the raid; he and his best friend shoot down 7 Japanese aircraft; and then he gets recruited to fly B25s for Jimmy Doolittle.

The first 90 minutes is a romance. Guy goes to war, is missing in action, best friend takes care of the girl when they think he's dead... well, you can guess where THIS is going.

The combat footage isn't bad, except for the comic book dogfights, but the Pearl Harbor raid takes up only 35 minutes of the movie. Wrapping it up with the Doolittle raid would have been an intelligent choice if they didn't have the fighter pilots act as the crew of a couple of the bombers. If I was a B25 bomber vet, I'd have been insulted.

One day someone will trim this turkey down to its battle scenes and post it on the web. Wait for that to happen. It's certainly not worth sitting through the full 3 hours to see good CGI used badly.

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Summary: Disney's Penchant For Rewriting History
Review: Leave it to Disney to take the most important event of the 2oth century for the USA and make it an uninspired love story. I found some of the lines laughable and without a true understanding of the time and the people who lived it. Hollywood has repeatedly treated the viewing public with contempt. They believe that if you give the public alot of eye candy (Millions of dollars worth of CGI and good-looking acting hacks), the substance and quality of the script is irrelevant. That's like building a designer home with a foundation made of balsa wood. Such a moment in our history should have been treated with more respect and greater attention to detail. If Disney had done that, instead of trying to cash in on a Titanic-esque story, they would have made alot more money (which is all that they are really interested in).