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Summary: ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING
Review: This film is awsome, I totally recommend it. Its so inspirational and somewhat sad but a good ending. Its about Love, Friendship, Faith and most of all Honor. It's a wonderful movie for those who know how to appretiate a film for its value and meaning not only what happens with the relationships.
It's a wonderful film, great value and worth every penny.
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Summary: One long movie full of cheesy lines and immature plot
Review: The movie was trying so hard to stir our emotions-without any success-it was like encountering a high-pressure salesman (the more they push, the more appalling it gets). Most scenes looked like it was borrowed from somewhere else, like a messy patchwork of all the past movies (especially Titanic and Saving Private Ryan).The heroine is very beautiful, but the way she conveniently transfers her love from one man to another in a matter of months stirs no sympathy. Also, the movie is strangely full of Caucasian casts while hundreds of native Hawaiians and Japanese-Americans also fell victim to the attack. The existence of Cuba Gooding Jr. was almost like an after-thought with no effect to the plot and no memorable dialogue. It is a dishonest depiction of history. 1 star for the spectacular special effect.
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Summary: This is the best movie on earth.
Review: This is the best movie on earth.The first time I saw it I couldn't sleep.I kept seeing the movie in my head over and over.The only thing I didn't like is that Rafe got the girl and Danny died.I think all actors/actresses played their parts very well.I give it two thumbs way up.
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Summary: I Love This Movie!
Review: This is the best war movie I've ever seen!!! Ok, I haven't seen all that many war movies but I've seen a few and I LOVED this movie. It is also a love story but that adds to the movie, because it let's you actually get to know the characters so it makes it all the more devastating when something bad happens to them. I'd never seen Josh Hartnett in a movie before and I fell in love with him in this flick. He does a great job of portraying Danny Walker, a shy, adorable pilot from Tenesee. I think if you haven't seen this movie you should, and I'm sure you'll love it.
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Summary: Historical??.............Spare Us
Review: Pearl Harbor is without a doubt the phoniest excuse to make a huge blockbuster movie which is exactly what Michael Bay and Bruckheimmer did. Before this movie came out, they were saying such things as "We want to honor the survivors of Pearl Harbor" and garbage like that. If anyone who survived Pearl Harbor saw this version, I think they would be insulted. Pearl Harbor is ripoff combination of Titanic's love story and Independence Day and Armaggedon's special effects, though nowhere near as good as any of these movies. The acting among the 3 main stars are average at best. Cuba Gooding Jr. being in this movie was ridiculous because he had absolutely no role. He was just used for star power and a poor excuse to put a black actor in the movie. Just a waste of a good talent. The movie is excrutiatingly long, well over 3 hrs. It obviously tried to copy the Titanic effect. The music was way too overdramatic, made you laugh at times. The bombing sequence which was probably a good half hour was very impressive. If that's all you're interested in then you'll get your money's worth. It was obviously the only part of the film that the directors focused on. The other 2 1/2 hrs were just thrown in. The screenplay was laughable as well. There were no memorable lines at all and it made you scratch your head that the guy who wrote Braveheart did the screenplay for this. Anyone who can watch this movie straight without complaint, my hat goes off to you.
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Summary: Worst Look at Pearl Harbor Attack...not worth a 2nd look
Review: This film is so inconsiquental to the actual events that happened leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, it is a disgrace to all WW2 veterans. Pearl Harbor was best, and miraciously, rendered in the film "Tora, Tora, Tora", that this story is just a farce of anything it tries to be.
Apparently, the writers tried to make the film a step closer to "Titanic" in its love story (note...love story is all fiction, and some of the language in the film was never used 61 years ago). The special effects are spectacular, but the filmakers script is so belittled, it makes you wish to know what really happened, not just someone is trying to 'cash in ' on the 60th anniversary of this event.
Go rent or buy "Tora, Tora, Tora" if you are really interested in the Pearl Harbor attack , and try to not make this farce of a story lend itself to the truth that happened.
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Summary: Long, over-indulgent, shallow, inaccurate...need I go on?
Review: It's unfortunate that such potent and emotional material as the attack on Pearl Harbor could be destroyed so horribly. I could probably write an extremely long, scathing review of the film, but I'll keep the problems succinct (with many spoilers, I might add).
First, the previews for the film show Affleck fighting during the attack; unfortunately, the "shock" of his surviving the plane crash in Europe (and ultimately the entire emotional impact of him finding out about the new Hawaii love) was negated by this.
Secondly, director Michael Bay had to produce a PG-13 rating to make all the money back that he spent on making the film, so unfortunately the horror and carnage of war and death has been relegated to the side-lines in favor of eye-popping yet repeticious special effects (wasn't that ship blown up three times already?). As a sad result, war has never seemed so cool.
Thirdly, concerning history: The script proposes that Roosevelt used his disability to make a point during a crucial discussion in Washington; in actuality, he went to great lengths not only to hide this fact from America but never turned it into an issue or point-making gesture. And don't even get me started on the film's portrayal of the Japanese!
Fourthly, instead of taking the remaining hour following the attack to wrap up the contrived love-triangle (which truly attempts to be the central story line), the filmmakers opt for a pointless retelling of Doolittle's air-raid on Japan to raise the viewers' spirits about America's retaliating force. No offense, but we know we won the war--we don't need the end of the film to try and explain this to us.
Fifthly, if the film had even one more American flag floating in the water of the harbor, I thought that I was going to end up hurting someone. Please, Michael, keep your perpetual hard-on for nostalgia and Americana to a minimum.
And last--but certainly not least--the film uses the oldest trick in the book to solve the love-triangle. And for those of you who think this trick is resolution, talking issues out, and realizing how all parties involved made mistakes, think again. For the sake of those who haven't seen it yet, I'll not ruin the awful and contrived ending for you.
These are only a few unfortunate occurences that happen during "Pearl Harbor." Perhaps Bay should realize that he's much more adept at making mindless action films for pure enjoyment, and he should leave the heavier stuff to the professionals who really know what they're doing.
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Summary: Worst movie of all time.
Review: [...].I am a major movie buff and this was just one of the worst movies i've ever seen.It was so awful I couldn't.It wasn't realistic,bad story,and very predictable.The only reason this movie did well at the box office is because of Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett.In fact I could tell just by the previews.I gave this movie thumbs down and a 1 out of 10.
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Summary: It is an unremarkable action movie.
Review: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours,about show on Dec.7,1941,the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle.Its centerpiece is 40 mins of redundant special effects surrounded by a love story of stunning banality.The film has been directed without grace,vision or originally and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog,ti will not be because you admire them.The filmmakers seem to have aimed the film at an audience that may not have heard of Pearl Harbor,or perhaps even of WW2.This is the our weekly reader version.If you have the slightest knowledge of the events of the film,you will know sense of history,strategy,or text:according to this movie,Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply,and they were down to an 18 month reserve.Would going to war restore the fuel sources? Did they perhaps also have imperiolist designs?Movie doesn't say.So shaky is the film's history that at the end The Tokyo Raiders crash land in China,they are shot at by Jap patrols with only a murky throwaway explanation about the Sino Japanese War already underway.There is not a shred of conviction in love story or chemistry,but Evelyn is a hero in the aftermath of the raid.Another hero was Dorrie Miller that got a machine gun and shot down several planes and cernal Dolittle that led the attack on Japan.How can planes,ships,and houses exploding be excellent when people are dying and flying everywhere?This movie is not about the people that died at Pearl Harbor at all.
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Summary: A truly woeful film.
Review: Hollywood take note, good special effects are no substitute for a quality story and good acting. A truly woeful film that had people in the theatre laughing.
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