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Summary: Subtitles that will make you go blind
Review: The portions of the movie where the Japanese are speaking, are subtitled. The subtitled text is nearly impossible to read, mostly because of its size and color. The small, white text is very difficult to read, and is moreso when shown with lighter colors in the background.Outside of that, the movie's sound and video direction was good.
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Summary: Put together out of what could've been two or three movies
Review: I've just watched it and while I don't think Pearl Harbor is nearly as bad as some reviewers do I do think the producers tried to put too much into it. For your time spent viewing it you get a long build up towards what could be called the title segment (for a movie named Pearl Harbor not much of it occured there)followed by what could almost be termed a chunk of another movie entirely (Dolittle's raid on Tokyo). I also thought that the romance angle seemed to almost be another story by itself. Pearl Harbor has some great battle sequences, maybe the best I've seen, and for romance, well, it has that too but I wish things had somehow been handled differently. Buy it for a good idea of what the attack itself might've been like but don't plan on finding it to be a really great movie.
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Summary: A Worthy Summer Drama
Review: I thought this movie was very entertaining and worth the price of the movie. I had heard all of the negative press and read quite a bit of the reviews this movie earned, so I was prepared for the worse. However, I found the movie to be incredibly engaging, highly entertaining and visually stunning. It was not made to be a docudrama about the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is a summer movie that uses Pearl Harbor and the attack by the Japanese as a back drop to tell a story. Granted, the story has been told before (many times), but it is still entertaining. And the visual effects the producers used in this movie certainly raise the bar for other action movies (war or not) to attempt to meet. The actors did a good job, although I don't think there are any more cliches they could have written into the dialogue of Alec Baldwin's character. The additional material included on the DVD add to the experience of the movie, and allow the viewers to appreciate both the art of making a movie like this and the experience of the people this movie tries to portray. I was disappointed that the 183 minute movie was split up on the two DVDs though, and not put all on one of the discs. I really think that all of the people that have jumped on the "attack Pearl Harbor" band wagon should take a breath, step back, and look at the movie for what it is. If they do that, they might be able to enjoy going to the movies much more. I would recommend Pearl Harbor. If you liked movies like Independence Day, Armageddon, Twister and Saving Private Ryan, you'll like this also.
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Summary: Sick and Twisted Love Triangle with Bombs
Review: I did not like this movie. It had a weird love triangle that made me sick. It was historically inaccurate. The computer-generated graphics (looked phony) didn't mesh well with the real photography. The love scenes were sickening and did not portray "The Greatest Generation" fairly. It did not portray the social and moral standards of 1941. They made this movie for a sick and twisted audience. My guess is most people who lived through pearl harbor would think the movie did not portray the events of December 1941 very well.
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Summary: Gotta See!
Review: I thought this movie was awesome! The special affects were great and the bonus material on the dvd was great to! i really enjoyed watching the making of it. It was really interesting. This movie is a must see! Its a movie with a mix of romance and drama. Even though there is more love story then history, it is definately still a must see! I loved this movie because it told an important story and i also think Ben Affleck (Rafe McCawley) and Josh Hartnett (Danny Walker) are totally hot!!!!
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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: despite all the negatives review, this movie is fully enjoyable
hystorically the film stinks in the first 80 minutes which is ruined by the stupid love story
if you want a movie about world warII or pearl harbor that will fill your intellectual need,this one is hopeless
but if you prefer a romance film or maybe the "titanic" type, grab some popcorn ,sit tight and enjoy =)
I especially like the superb specials effect during the attack so i give it 4 stars
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Summary: NOT history, and not even very entertaining
Review: I'm glad I only rented this thing and didn't put out any more money than a couple of bucks. That's all it's worth.
All you folks who know anything at all about the early 1940's and the real Pearl Harbor, rent it, watch it for the action sequences, return it, and forget it. This has nothing to do with what actually happened, and it carries no "feel" whatsoever of the early '40's. Most, not all, but most of the people who are giving the best reviews are those who do not know their history and are willing to accept anything which looks good, and what the "critics" tell them is good.
Trust me... the animation is the only redeming factor in this movie.
History goes out the window on a greased skid, so if you're expecting to learn anything about the attack, or WWII in general... again, forget it. The two fighter pilots never saw the Doolittle raid, but survived the war as successful pilots. Ken Taylor became a Brigader General and at last report is living in Ancorage, Alaska. George Welch (of the grape juice family) became a test pilot for North American Avaition after the war, and was killed in an air crash. The movie gives the impression that these were the only two to become airborne, when in fact there were nearly twenty others.
Another irritation is the Japanese sub-titles are tiny, and some, not being in dark boxes, are invisible against the background.
In a nutshell, the action sequences were so-so, and the rest was BORING! If you want to see a much better movie about Pearl Harbor, stick with Tora, Tora, Tora.
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Summary: One of the few that enjoyed this movie, obviously
Review: I am 28 years old and I am not sorry to say that I loved (yes loved) this movie. I don't really know how it compared to the historical event because our wonderful schools in this country did not teach my age group about it. Which is very sad. But I digress. I thought the acting was great and the special effects were top notch. (Typical of Michael Bay movies) But I am a female so that might have something to do with the fact that I liked this movie so much. But I generally DO NOT watch love stories or as some call them "chick flix". I do own the DVD and I would not trade any other movie for it. But this is just my opinion. Thank you for your time.
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Summary: "wrong" is the best word to describe this movie
Review: This is not what happened in Pearl Harbor.
The whole fight is totally wrong presented; it features American heroes taking down japanese fight jets in masses, actually it was exactly the other way around. It were the Japanese who shot down the American jets one by one.
Im wondering how a director can shoot such a wrongness with expenses of $2000000 without getting a guilty conscience.
Further is the Love Story in my eyes not very romantic, as those nurses grant everyhing access to beneath their red-cross slips that comes crawling into their hospital.
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Summary: A stinking ... in the face of moviegoers everywhere
Review: There's no excuse for this. I'm no snob, but when I saw the slo-mo scene with kids playing baseball startled by evil Japanese fighters coming over the hill -- AND THEN THE LITTLE GIRLS IN THE MIST WEARING LITTLE GAUZY BUTTERFLY WINGS, SKIPPING OBLIVIOUSLY IN SLOMO AS THE ATTACK BEGINS -- oh my! I'd never seen such ham-handed cinematic waste in my life. Just goes to show that you can take a ... script and shallow director, spill for a big marketing budget and cast, and fool a lot of people into spending their hard-earned money to see it.
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