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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: Some of the critics blasted this but my wife and I really enjoyed it. But......I liked Titanic too.
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Summary: A Better Mix of Romance and Tragedy than Titanic
Review: Although snickering movie critics say that Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay's Spring 2001 release of "Pearl Harbor" was a bomb, I tend to disagree. Critics state that the four category Oscar nominated film focused on the romance part and not so much the events leading up to, during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. But, didn't "Titanic" focus on romance for two hours, then the ship sank and the movie ended? It still won, what, 11 Academy Awards? I enjoyed the film, because it was dynamic and even though the actors didn't really have a great part for one another, they really acomplished their character. The cast was huge and well chosen and the music was tops for that certain type of movie. The visual and sound effects were tremendous and every crew member did their part. I think that the film should deserve more recognition and more praise for its on-screen heroics.
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Summary: A Movie Which Will Live In Infamy
Review: Over all Pearl Harbor is an exciting war/love epic which will move you to tears. It has masive action plus a twisted love triangle which will draw the viewer(s) in! For all you guys, there are tons of blood and dead bodies EVERYWHERE. Bombs explode... people get blown up... and Michael Bay does a great job directing the film (There is also a short love scene that you might be interested in seeing). And for all the girls, there are romantic scenes which will make you cry and use up a box of tissue(you'll finish the box and many more). Pearl Harbor is a wonderful and astonishing love story with flying guts and blood(dramatic/action film)! Besides the great storyline the actors are the best. Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are soooo HOTT in the movie! As for Kate Beckinsale, she's pretty and she'll make you wish you were in love like her character in the movie. The costumes were amazing and the movie will have you glued to your seat(even if it's 3 hours long). I was shocked, myself, that it didn't get nominated for a golden globe or an academy award! The time was worth it and a part of me even thinks it was too short. The plot was great and Pearl Harbor would make an excellent book!!!! Pearl Harbor is a movie which will truly live in infamy!
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Summary: Must see!
Review: THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!! i own it and watch it whenever possible. it reeally deserves 10 stars. it's the perfect date movie... some action for the guys and a little bit of the "mushy stuff" for the girls (and HELLO! Ben Affleck! JOSH HARTNETT!! need i say anything else, ladies?) youve really gotta see this movie! even you history buffs out there will like it! sure its prolly not perfectly accurate, but it's historical all the same. well, just WATCH IT! you HAVE TO!
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Summary: It's just a movie
Review: ... I doubt seriously that Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer felt they had a legitimate Oscar contender with this film. Not every screenplay is Braveheart. Just ask Bryan Singer. It's just a movie. Entertainment. And on that merit, I found it quite enjoyable. Never have I seen a movie portray the bombing of Pearl Harbor in this way. And the love triangle, though admittedly cliche, did nothing but show that people did, in fact, live on the island before, during, and after the attack. No, it's not Saving Private Ryan or Titanic. It's Pearl Harbor. It isn't great, but it isn't awful. It's a fun night at the movies.
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Summary: Pretty Good But Better War Movies Are Out There
Review: This movie isn't as good as the only movie with more hype Titanic. Titanic was just flat out better directed with better acting. Pearl Harbor was good in my opinion but something lacked to it.I thought the bombing sequence was portrayed very well and the American retaliation was my favorite part but I have seen better war movies. It is real unlikely that Ben Affleck would have been at Pearl on 12-7-41, been fighting the Nazis in Europe, and then was a fighter when America retaliated. This relies a little to much on the love triangle between Beckingsdale, Affleck, and Hartnett. If you want a bette rwar movie, see the Patriot or Black Hawk Down. But this movie is pretty good also. I liked it.
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Summary: Pearl Harbinger?
Review: Anytime a studio saturates the media with endless promotions touting its latest epic, air raid alarms should alert any saavy movie goer to the bombs about to fall. This film is to Pearl Harbor what Falcon Crest was to wine. Two and one half hours of boilerplate love triangle tedium cannot be offset by 30 minutes of special effects calculated to pump some excitement into the veins that Kate,Ben,and Josh just couldn't muster. Computer regurgitations of unlikely aircraft maneuvers are as realistic as they are phony. If that sounds conflicted, blame it on the story line. If only the Japanese would have telegraphed their intentions as clearly as the writers of Mr. Affleck's characters' destiny, Pearl Harbor would have had more than ample time to prepare a much warmer welcome. But I gotta hand it to the studio machine. They were clever enough to trot out (with much fanfare) aging WW2 veterans for the world premier. No reports as to how many of the true survivors of Pearl Harbor fell asleep while enduring this debacle. If you are more than mildly interested in some of the events surrounding Dec 7, 1941, a much better film has long been released. Its called "Tora Tora Tora".
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Summary: Directors cut?
Review: we don't need a stinking directors cut! The movie is long and boring enough anyways. It just shows The two lovers getting a little more slap and tickle in. Don't buy this! it's just a ploy to get you to buy a crappy movie twice.
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Summary: Greatest movie of all time
Review: One of the best movies I have ever seen.When they started to bomb Pearl Harbor I could feel my heart beat going faster and faster.Even the romance thing wasn't that bad and the soundtrack from Hans Zimmer is excellent by the way.Great visuals and the best effects I have ever seen.
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Summary: Three Hours For This?
Review: This movie was an hour longer than it should have been. Combining stale, overused cliches snatched from every possible story in Hollywood, Pearl Harbor plods through its first two thirds, introducing a nicely pat romance and a conviniently unrealistic love triangle before we can finish dozing off. After it gets going, it manages to come off as insincere and manipulative as it throws scenes stolen from other movies at us one after the other, culminating with the award-winning Cuba Gooding Jr. getting a bit part to play the role of the heroic black man, quickly becoming a sad cliche in movies today. True, the battle scenes were fairly well done, which accounts for the extra star. But even after sitting through two hours of a cheap Titantic remake, when the flag was finally razed and the movie started hitting its stride, I came out not having gone through anything profound--compare this overblown polished monstrosity, for instance, to Black Hawk Down, which managed to tribute without being pedantic. It saddens me, especially in light of recent events, that this was all they could pull off. Pearl Harbor deserves better. -SLiGH
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