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Summary: 30 Minutes over Pearl & Tokyo....and it's Over!
Review: Michael Bay may some day make a movie for adults, instead of these live-action cartoons, but not today! I wonder if he ever bothers to read the cruddy dialogue in his scripts or is he too swamped in the logistics of his set-piece blow-em-up action scenes. Does the 2nd unit shoot the rest of the flick?Anyway, the Pearl Harbor attack and the raid on Tokyo are doozies! Really fabulous movie magic action and worth seeing! Since that is about 30 minutes of this near 3 hour turkey, you gotta a lot of dumb characters played broadly, trite dialogue, and boring love story to sit through. About the depth of a Sgt. Rock comic book. The performances across the board aren't worth talking about, so I won't. The photography is pretty. I wish Bay & Bruckheimer would play fair and create a DVD of just the airfight over England, the Pearl Harbor attack, and the Tokyo raid. About 30-40 minutes and sell it for $5 bucks. Now that would be just treatment of the audience and give you about what is worthwhile for about the right price. Since a little over 1/4 of the movie is the only thing worth seeing, that is the only reason it even gets 2 stars.
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Summary: Listen Very Carefully:
Review: 1. This Movie is Split across TWO DVD's ( Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad!!!!)
1a. If Paramount could squeeze Titanic on 1 disc in 1998, Touchstone can do it in 2001, so what am I missing here.
2. Oh, word to Micheal Bay, kick your casting agent, because you don't score any brownie points for signing up Private Ryan B-strings (Tom Sizemore.) I heard Touchstone is putting him in yet another war movie (Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down) WITH JOSH HARTNETT!!)
Is hollywood that hard up for actors that will weather boot?
3. For everybody that keeps whining about how hard critics are, remember this: It could be a relative of yours up on that screen, and would you want to see that much saccharine coming out of thier mouths when you heard they were going to be in a respectable, intelligent war movie? Your answer betrays your character.
4. As far as romance injected into history, I will defend TITANIC to the death. Kate and Leo had chemistry to spare, and the dialogue was very convincing, though anachronistic. It struck a deliberate middle ground between soap and high art.
5. TITANIC had the decency to be 95% accurate. Some arguments will never be settled on that boat, but as far as Dec 7 was concerned, there is too much interesting documentation to allow equal amounts of cinematic non-sense. Why did the Japanese hate us? I don't think you get it out of this movie, or its extras.
6. The most appealling thing connected to this movie was the teaser trailer with the Martin Sheen voice/over. Somehow, since the studio must have wanted to be consistant, they completely filched on us and left it out of the Trailers section.
Thanks a lot!!
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Summary: Just "Plane" Awful!
Review: It's virtually impossible for me to find any reasons to recommend this movie.Okay maybe the special effects during the main battle scene are pretty good.It's about the only aspect of this film that is in any way good.The other 2:30 minutes were a clichéd bore.I mean how good actors took on this film having read a dreadful script is beyond me.The dialogue is stunted and pretty awful.The characters are all paper thin and the love triangle story is even thinner then that!The only actor to come out with his reputation held in tact is Cuba Gooding Junior-and even he's stereo-typed beyond belief.At least he adds a touch of humour in comparison to the wetness of the other main characters.As for the historical contexts and inventions and stuff-well I don't have a real problem with this-I mean when has Hollywood ever paid due regard to historical facts?The fact that the producers felt they needed an American victory of sorts for the viewer to celebrate is just so predictable-I mean why did they call this movie Pearl Harbor when most of the action takes place with the pilots as children or the years subsequent to this terrible attack when they gained some measure of revenge.I had to say that this was the most disappointing film of the year!
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Summary: No 2 disc movies
Review: This movie was placed on two different discs. That is unacceptable. The movie can go on one while the supplemental can go on other. Do not purchase this movie until it comes out on just one disc. A DVD can hold the entire movie if they didn't try to cram in so many different features on disc. They should have put DD and DTS on different versions, that may have reduced the amount of data to one disc. Other than that great movie, good audio and video transfer, good features. Highly recommend once it's out on one disc.
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Summary: An audiophile's dream come true...
Review: Surround Sound enthusiasts! This is the movie that justifies spending the equivalent of 4000 movie theatre tickets for your top-notch home theatre system. It has the booming sound capacity to drive eighty of your neighboring apartment dwellers crazy. Two lifelong best friends and fighter pilots find themselves caught up in the frenzy that is World War II. They share not only comradery, but a love for the same woman. Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale have the starring roles and give an outstanding performance. The storyline is predictable, but then again not. The Japanese are not the only masters of surprise at Pearl Harbor. But you don't watch it for the story, dear viewer. You watch it for the action and the spectacular surround-sound effects. The battle scenes are impressive recreations and the sound effects will have your housepets ducking the invisible bullets and airplanes flying around the room, throughout the show.
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Summary: I LOVED THIS MOVIE
Review: This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time, it was wonderful and my husband liked it too. What a great "date" movie because it had something for both the men and the women. Nice love scene for the women and fighting - gore for the men. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time and at the end both of us wept like babies. Very moving and well done. I have never regretted paying for this set, not even for a minute. It's a must see.
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Summary: Not Half Bad! Pleasantly Surprised
Review: I had heard so much bad press over this film that I expected a corny love story pasted over an orgiastic frenzy of special effects. What I got intead was a believable love story integrated with an adventure story based on a real historical event. And yes, special effects people have been going overboard with their new digital toys for the past three years or so, creating digital extravaganzas while forgetting there has to be a story in there somewhere, or it is all for naught. This film did not forget that a story is needed. The special effects, of Japaneze Zeroes torpedoing "Battleship Row" at Pearl Harbor, were extravagant, but relevant to the story and seemingly a realistic representation of what actually happened there. I approve! As for the love story, Ben Affleck and friends portrayed likable and realistic people, locked in a love triange by circumstances, and reacting heroically to the surprise attack. After Pearl Harbor, the story moves to the 1942 Doolittle bombing raid on Tokyo, again an exciting sequence that made me feel as if I were there. My one criticism of the film was that the entire Pacific Theater of operations appeared to be a "no smoking zone." Not a single cigarette appears anywhere in the film. In the 1940s, everyone smoked, as did their brothers, sisters, dogs and cats. This bothered me -- now we are rewriting history to be P.C.! My overall summary, however, is positive. This movie is better than what the critics reported -- it is enjoyable, moving and a great history lesson (except for the smoking part).
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Summary: A Painful Movie-Going Experience
Review: I went to the theatre to see this disaster of a film knowing that I shouldn't expect a Saving Private Ryan. I didn't expect the film to be some of the most painful movie-viewing hours of my existance.
While the film had a few bright spots such as Dan Akroyd and Cuba Gooding, Jr., the point here would be that they were only spots. These characters (who were based on real people), especially Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s, were more interesting than the three main characters. Unfortunately, the movie wasn't about them, and their parts actually made the movie even more horrible by adding nothing to the already choppy storyline. The most annoying of these wasted characters was Cuba Gooding Jr.'s, who seemed injected into the film just so that Bruckheimer could say "Look, I put an important African-American in my movie!"
And then there was the love story. One of the worst things about the love story was not that it was "done", but that it was "done" in 1950s soap operas (even they have to come up with something more entertaining than the old love triangle nowadays). The other is that it overshadowed the attack on Pearl Harbor. This wouldn't bother me as much (I mean, these are the guys who made Armageddon, for crying out loud) except that the film was titled "Pearl Harbor" and was advertised as a war movie that was meant to honor those who served. The soap opera love triangle could have happened in ANY scenario and did nothing more to honor our servicemen who fought than yesterday afternoon's episode of Days of Our Lives.
If you are looking for mindless entertainment that feels like Armageddon, sure, this is your film. If you want a movie that lives up to its advertising as a serious war epic, rent Tora! Tora! Tora! or Saving Private Ryan. If you want something that is a good old-fashioned war movie, go find something with John Wayne in it.
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Summary: just a great movie!
Review: I totally enjoyed this film and it was also one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. The triangle romance was very appealing and heartfelt. The battle scenes were magnificent and the acting wonderful all around. I won't go into what it was about because that is obvious, but it was a good depiction of the beginning of the War for the U.S. This is one movie every American should see at least once.
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Summary: great movie and special effects
Review: Pearl Harbor was a great movie.I brought it at safeway on dec 8
and i went home and watched it on Saturday night.I was shocked that it was so good and storylines were at its best.The frist hour was good and everything was in place.I loved the music they
played when we see the Japanese planning their attack.Ben Afflick
was funny and the rest of the cast were great.After Danny and whats his name got into a fight i knew that it was time for the attack to begin.I loved the special effects and the attack was great.I love this movie and wish that i seen it at the movies with that loud stereo sound.
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