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Summary: I love this movie!
Review: I avoided seeing this in the theatres because of the bad reviews it got. After renting it I was sorry I didn't see it in the theatre. It is a beautiful story of 3 peoples lives during pre-WWII. I got a good feel of what it was like in that era. The actual bombing didn't enter the movie until much later. It was an incredible recreation. If you are looking for just a "war movie" than you will more than likely be dissapointed. The movie would have done much better if trailers didn't misportray (is that a word?) what the main plot of the movie is. All in all I would really recommend trying out this movie. You may be as pleasantly as I was.
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Summary: Excellent Film
Review: Not much more to say. There's a great story behind it. The special effects during the battle sequences was very well done. Everything was believable.Well worth the watch!
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Summary: The best movie of 2001
Review: I have watched this movie three times and I believe it is nothing short of a classic. Every time I watch it, I cry throughout the battle. What wonderful, brave service men and women this country has, and this show portrays them very vividly. The love triangle was beautiful and believable. The point most critics have not made seems to be painfully obvious; the true love in the show is between Rafe and Danny. Theirs is a true friendship/brotherhood, which so many of us never get to experience. The music, the scenery, the actors, the action...everything in this show sparkles.
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: I really liked this movie. I understand the critism because it was labeled as a "war" movie and it clearly wasn't. So I see how one could be disappointed. I just saw it a week ago, much past all the hype. What I saw was a good movie, not a war movie. I will continue to watch it and enjoy it.
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Summary: pretty good
Review: This movie was great, and by the end of the movie i really was crying. The movie is a kind of movie you only have to see once, though. Eveyone says either awesome! they are so cute, or i hated it! it is so boring! It doesn't have to be either Yeah, there were somethings wrong for it, but there were many things that i didn't know about this attack, and learned. I think this movie is a must see movie (but that doesn't mean its necessarily the bast movie, just one you have to see).
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Summary: Pearl Harbor
Review: The basic theme of the story centers around the love triangle involving the characters played by Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett. The first hour of the film drags on at times in the building of this triangle. The film then ventures into the events leading to the bombing itself as well as the events after the bombing. The special effects were believable and well timed. The end of the DVD and VHS version offer a documentary through the History Channel with interesting explainations and facts surrounding the bombing. The cast of characters also include supporting roles by known actors such as Cuba Gooding Jr., John Voight, Alec Baldwin, Dan Akroyd, Andrew Bryniarski, and Guy Torry to name a few. With the movie containing a mix of history centered around a romantic theme, overall, it was an enjoyable film.
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Summary: Good movie, historically flawed but good
Review: Okay, I have a true love about the history of World War 2 having started to study it almost from when I could first read. The movie seems to poke a finger at America for not becoming involved in the war sooner, after all America only came in at the end of 1941 for a war that ended in 1945 while Britain was there from 1939. The film producer's state that they were being fair towards Japan in the movie but a total of 10 minutes in a movie of 3 hours is not long enough. The battle scene is spectacular and this is the part of the movie that really scores a good number of points. However, the love story in the movie just didn't seem to have any relevance to what was supposed to be a historical account and brings it down. Wallace wrote Braveheart without any significant love story but crams one into Pearl Harbour, which makes it lose points.
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Summary: Please don't buy this DVD.
Review: I certainly expected a generous amount of slick Hollywood computer animated movie magic when I started this film, but I had no idea that the filmmakers would forsake every single piece of historical evidence that has come to light since 12, December 1941.
This movie delivers plenty of explosions, death sequences and cheesy love story cliches, but not one single explanation of why these events happened. The historical characters (FDR, Doolittle and Hirohito, etc.) were as shallow as the fictional heroes created to make the story more 'interesting.' I've enjoyed Bruckheimer/Bay movies in the past. Armageddon was a lot of fun, and The Rock was astounding. But to pretend to make a serious film out of one of this country's most devastating days, and to then ignore every shred of factual, historical detail in the process is an utter blasphemy. I beg of you; please DON'T BUY THIS DVD. To do so would only encourage the lousy, shallow and worthless artificial art that these men pass off as filmmaking. If you really want to know what happened at Pearl Harbor (and why), read a book. If instead, you just need something flashy to pass a few otherwise useful hours watching, then this DVD might be for you. Anyone else would be wasting their time. Like I did.
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Summary: A Travesty of History
Review: I have just watched Pearl Harbor on DVD and found it to be the worst example of Hollywood corrupting history I have ever seen. From the 5 minutes actually spent on the attack on the Pacific fleet (second wave ?) to the Doolitle raid (in an a movie about Pearl ?) taking off in a flat calm from an angled deck carrier (not invented by the British until the 50's) this film more than stretched incredulity. If you know anything, and I mean ANYTHING, about WWII avoid this film at all costs. The premise that two fighter pilots (who shot down 7 enemy planes during the Pearl raid according to the film ??) would be asked to become multi-engine bomber pilots is beyond farcical. How the producers managed to get this piece of crap past the top brass is beyond me. The strange thing is that at times the effects were stunning. The SGI shots of the Oklahoma capsizing were amazing. And yet we would still see shots of modern Spruance class cruisers with obvious pyrotechnics on deck purporting to be WWII warships. In short, after much anticipation I was VERY disappointed. If you want to see a film about the attack on Peal Harbor I would recommend Tora Tora Tora. By far the better film. Don't even bother renting this waste of time.
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Summary: Buy This for the Documentaries on Disc Two
Review: I give this movie a four-star rating because of Hollywood's intrusion. The first hour of the movie should have been focused on the events which led up to the attack. Instead, Hollywood felt compelled to stick a love story into what should have been a documentary-style movie. They did this with Titanic, remember? Our government made many mistakes that allowed the Japanese to attack us the way they did, but that was skimmed over for useless soap opera.
Afleck did a good job portraying the arrogant pilot. After watching all those men die on the ships, however, I was irritated with his macho bravado. I wanted one of those Zeroes to shoot him in the head so he would shut up. Better yet, I wanted to shoot him myself.
I liked Josh Hartnett's performance better, although he was a little too sweet sometimes. Alec Baldwin (Doolittle) has lost the passion he had had in The Hunt for Red October. The movie had some humor. For instance I liked Red, who stuttered when he was nervous. I would've laughed at the scene where he tried to warn his crew about the Japanese if I hadn't seen their brutal onslaught against those ships.
I thought the attack itself was done very well, although Hollywood had to intrude in that, too. The bombing and the killing went on for at least a half an hour, to the point where I wanted it to stop. I didn't have any empathy of the main characters in the story, but I did for all those sailors and military personnel. I got a chilling sense of the hatred the Japanese felt for us. The directors did a great job of portraying that as well as the helplessness of the doctors who tried to save those men.
The movie takes up one and half discs. On the second disk, is a documentary from the History Channel, which gives a very interesting and detailed account of how our involvement in WWII began. There's another documentary which talks about the men who died and the Arizona memorial. Also included is a Faith Hill video, which I had no interest in since I'm not a fan. So, I skipped past that. Last but not least, there is a piece from the National Geographic.
The documentaries are worth buying this DVD set. The movie itself gave an overview of what happened at Pearl Harbor, but it entertainment.
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