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Summary: Hallow and crude
Review: I was looking forward to a slice of honest patriotism. What I got was "A Jerry Bruckheimer Production." "A Michael Bay Film." Pearl Harbor is not so much a film as an advertising campaign. One is constantly being sold something - whether it's the beauties of Hawaii or the "genius" of Roosevelt. There is nothing honest or dramatic in Pearl Harbor. The filmmakers, on behalf of the Disney corporation, present the spectator with a series of finished products, whose positive qualities are absurdly exaggerated in order that these products may be purchased and consumed with the least amount of resistance. The "actors" are items packaged as pleasingly as possible. The plot? It doesn't matter. The filmmakers have focused all their creative energy on the $135 million budget. Granted, one can't expect total historical accuracy in the medium of film, but in the case of Hollywood, one feels that it has been surgically removed. Film writers simply transport their own philistine selves back in time (The Patriot). Naturally, racist epithets have been removed for the potentially lucrative Japanese market. I guess only Whites and Nazis are real villians. Hollywood commerical cinema has a virtual monopoly on the worlds screens. Pearl Harbor is one more consequence of this reality. There is no point in waxing indignant about it. Critics who bash the film and insult its creators without understanding why a film like Pearl Harbor can even exist, are just fooling themselves.
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Summary: [Bad] [Bad] [Bad]
Review: This movie was dull, boring and not even close to fact. It was a waste of film.
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Summary: Was I entertained?
Review: I...I guess this was a good movie. Like most people, I was annoyed by the historical inaccuracies, the overblown Hollywoodishness, and the cheesy love story. On the other hand, I was blown away by the pretty special effects, the charming countryside/dance club/etc., and the cool bomb-cam. I watched it once this summer, enjoyed it, and will most likely never see it again until it's playing for free some boring Tuesday night on TBS.
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Summary: A male-bashing chick film
Review: Hollywood sure loves trends. The latest one is where women are super smart and super tough but men are weak dummies. The photography, effects and action scenes were as good as the hype but the film suffers from feminist attitudes. Ben Affleck's character is nice to this witchy nurse and she never gives us a reason to like her. She's vain, cruel and utterly pothetic from the moment she stabs him with the needle, "because he was getting fresh" as she later brags to her friends. He was only trying to flirt but after what she did he should have grabbed the needle and stabbed her back. See how funny she thinks that is! Oh, I'm sorry that would be politically incorrect nowadays. The most embarassing scene though is after the bombing in the hospital. Everyone is panicking and a doctor freezes and doesn't know what to do until this same macho witchy female orders him to get busy. I am sure that every doctor in theatre audiences nation-wide scoffed at that. What a complete insult to both doctors and to men. And finally, this business of her being the reason two guys (best friends) start fighting is ludicrous! Of course this was written to delight women, but it is painfully unrealistic. It simply almost never happens. Two men who are close friends fighting over a woman? It ain't gonna happen ladies. Guys just simply don't care as much as you'd like to believe. As if she's all that anyway, please! This soap-opera story drags for the first hour and a half making the same points over and over until the predictable scene where Ben Affleck re-appears. This first half could've been trimmed down to about twenty minutes. There's nothing wrong with a chick film, but if movie-makers want to get money from both women and men they should show a little respect for each. What's sad is young girls will see this movie and think this is the way to treat men. What a shame!
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Summary: Pearl Harbor the censored version
Review: I saw this film thinking it would be good, after all the hype it has recieved. After sitting in the theatre for 3 hours I realized that it would of been good if it wasn't censored, historically correct, and protrayed both sides of the story, like why Japan decided to bomb pearl harbor in the first place. A lot of these war movies these days seem to be all pro-American this. It makes me wonder the perspective the germans, russians, and Itlians have about WW2, because Hollywood makes it seem that America was the centre of WW2. I recommend Enemy at the Gates it may not be that good of a WW2 film, but its better than this.
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Summary: Would have made a better cartoon....
Review: I won't be surprised if the producers of this film are sued for fraud. Notwithstanding what one may be led to believe by the specious title, the actual event, one of the most consequential of the 20th Century, serves here merely as romantic scenery for what is essentially a quite dull "infatuation du jour" triangle. It could be likened to a tropical "Dr. Zchivago". I give this film a 2 only because the actual attack scenes, while only white noise for the plot, are magnificently depicted.
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Summary: FANTASY
Review: The special effects won the day on this one. I found the romance to be cute but totally unbelievable. The end was predictable halfway through the film. It was long, covered a large period of time but took considerable license with history. One should view it as pure entertainment only.
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Summary: Entertainment at it's best
Review: If you want to see a film that has both a romantic storyline for the girls and amazing action sequences for the boys, Pearl Harbor is a must. Kate Beckinsdale provides a good performance, yet both Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett steal the show as the best friends torn apart over their love for the same woman. Supporting cast like Cuba Gooding Jnr, and Baldwin, shine. Go see it now!
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Summary: The Best
Review: how can you not like this movie?first of all it had great special effects and the love story was very romantic and it fit in well with the action.most of you would compare it to Titanic which made a huge amount of money at the box offices.but Pearl Harbor was not all lovely dovey and mush.i see titanic that way all they did was pay focused on Jack and Rose.in this movie they payed attention to what the Japeneese were thinking and followed them through out the first half of the movie until the attack.they also had great special effects when the bombing took place.and this also had information about Pearl Harbor and had history included.i thought that it was very neat how they included the president at that time and what his plans were.i mean you can't say there was no learning experiance in there.i learned quite a bit new things about Pearl Harbor that i had not known before.Also for teens out there.there was a hunky herion Ben Affleck.but he not only was the heroin he did a very good job making the movie and playing the part.his Character was probably my favorite.he seemed to know what he was doing and he did well.the costumes and things were outstanding!i thought they did a great job on showing what people wore in the forties.they caputed a lot of different costumes including what the uniforms looked like at that time period.i think this movie was the best that i have ever seen.it's so much more better than titanic it's unbelieveable!pearl Harbor will deffiently be my favorite movie.i mean who else can make a movie where there are so many different special affects.this movie was a very expensive one to film.i enjoyed it very much and i think it was deffintley worth it.
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Summary: Show up an hour late, then leave after the battle scene.
Review: Talk about your disappointments! For almost two years, I have eagerly anticipated this film. The stills that would leak out would captivate my imagination toward the belief that, finally, there would be a film that would do justice to the "Day of Infamy." Instead, I got to see three hours of a biring Titanic rip-off love triangle in which I cared about none of the characters that just happened to take place around the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The plot is dull and boring. There is no attachment to the characters at all. The dialog is rediculous, and the writer(s) obviously didn't research their history well. "It looks like Woprld War Two just started!" Well, at that point, there was no World War ONE. It was still considered "The Great War!" Oh, and should a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army decide to go fight for the British before the United States entered the war, he would have had to resign his comission in the Army. The Armed Services are NOT professional sporting teams, there is no free agency! And these are just two of the many absurdities I can point out! I know it seems petty to be picking on these small details while reviewing this film, but the fact lies here: Were the movie even halfway decent, I would have been able to suspend my disbelief to some degree and overlook all this. As it was, during those seemingly endless three hours, I had to keep myself occupied somehow. The only reason I gave this film two stars is because of the battle scene. It truly is breathtaking, and worth viewing. Michael Bay has truly outdone even himself in choreographing this battle. It kept me on the edge of my scene, and was awe inspiring to watch. It's too bad the other 2 hours and 30 minutes "were so bad". Follow my advice: Show up an hour late for the film, then leave after the battle. You won't be disappointed that way!
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