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Summary: I can't believe I missed it on the big screen
Review: I was one of those that heard the bad reviews of this film and decided if I was going to spend $20 bucks on a movie I would wait for the DVD to at least get something for my money. I just bought this DVD yesterday. I watched it and I am kicking myself. This movie is a great blend of romance,war, and friendships. It is just enough to get you interested in the characters. The major scenes are without a doubt the actual attack scenes which are real cool. I was upset by only one thing. The english subtitles to the Japanese dialoge "bit". They were micro sized on the screen and you had to be right up on the TV to read them. That was down right stupid. Why not just have them speaking in english for us folks...???? I still give the film a 5star rating cause I moved closer to the set and could make out a few of the last subtitles. Hey you guys fix that for the 3 disc release will ya? The all star cast is nice. I liked the friends. I thought it was well done making them buddies from the same hometown. That is not uncommon. It was a bit predictable about the resurrection of Affleck's character. His character was a bit overblown fighting on 3 continents. Also he seemed to have an ego as big as "Maverick" from TOP GUN. Nice acting. Bad character. In short, don't allow yourself to stay away from the film. It does have allot to offer. If you are a WWII buff this is a must see. I recommed.
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Summary: Great Movie, but Crazy DVD
Review: This movie is great. The acting is wonderful and the special effects are even better than Jurassic Park 3. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars and not 5 was that the love story was way overdone, and the DVD stinks,half of the movie is on 1 disk, and the rest is on the other. Right smack in the middle of the movie it ends and says intermission switch to disk 2. That is screwy. The features are good and so is the menu. But the movie still rules!
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Summary: Another split 2-disc movie?
Review: I don't get it. There's no bigger turn off than a DVD movie that has been split onto 2 DVDs. What's the excuse?? Give me one good reason why you can't fit the whole movie on one Digital Versatile Disc. Better image quality you say? That's total BS. DVDs were made for an immense storage capacity. You could fit three perfect versions of Pearl Harbor on one disc without losing .01% of video or audio quality. So what the hell is their excuse? It's just the same as the Godfather Part II in the box set. Why the hell 2 discs? What a joke. I repeat, "WHAT A JOKE."
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Summary: Moving
Review: Au contrare to what previous reviews may have said, I would like to say something: They are wrong!! Pearl Harbor is a very moving movie, Ask anyone. It is very informative of attacks on Pearl Harbor and is a very complicated love story. But without complications, it would have (been very bad) had it not have been acted and filmed the way it had. Though recent events have surely swayed people to buy this magnificent video, I do not think that the distributors have used September 11th attacks to promote Pearl Harbor. Still don't believe me? It's okay. The awards speak for themselves.
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Summary: Bad history and bad subtitles
Review: I was very disappointed with the DVD version of this innacurate and boring movie and definitely will not buy the Director's Cut when it comes out next year. An additional aggravation was the use of a very tiny font for the subtitles in the Japanese language scenes. I was sitting about 10 feet away from a 20" TV and could hardly read them! I ended up turning on the Spanish subtitles (English closed-captioning was not available for the Japanese language scenes) in order to understand what was going on!
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS GREAT!
Review: THE ONLY THING THAT SLOWED THIS MODERN MASTERPIECE DOWN FROM BECOMING A CLASSIC. WAS THE USE OF THE LOVE TRIANGLE IT WORKED BUT.... IT JUST SLOWED THE STORY DOWN, WHEN EVER THE ATTACK DOES HAPPEN THE LOVE TRIANGLE JUST GOES TO THE BACKGROUND. AND THE ACTION STARTS HAPPENING, IN ONE OF THE MOST GRAND AND AWSEOME DISPLAYS OF MOVIE MAKING OF ALL TIME. AND I THINK THAT ANYBODY WHO LOVES DVD'S WILL LIKE THIS ONE, THE TRANSFER LOOKS GREAT AND HAS NO VISIBLE GRAIN THAT I COULD SEE, AUDIO IS THE GREASTEST I HAVE HEARD IN A LONG TIME, BUT IT WAS A LITTLE WEAK IN THE CENTER CHANNEL, BUT I CAN LIVE WITH THAT. SO WHEN EVER YOU SEE THIS MOVIE OUT IN THE STORES OR ONLINE. BUY IT ,BUY IT ,BUY IT, BUY IT!
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Summary: One Reviewer Mention
Review: That the truth is always more interesting than fiction. How true that statement is in regards to this movie. This movie is entertaining but far from a classic. When I watch it I get a feeling of a lost opportunity. During that time there were so many interesting people and so many crucial decison made that I fell the movie would have been beter serve if they went the historical route. FDR is a interesting and charismatic person and the picture barley uses his character. Here is a man that was a four term president. There has never been a president before or after that had that long of a term. If we had learn more about his decison and the attitude of the American people before Pearl Harbor it would given us a better sense on why Pearl Harbor happen. Instead we had an emphass put on a romance. That was OK for a while but they strech it to the limits. At the expence of screen time for some real life people who have had many books written about them because of the public interest. I fell it a shame not to use them and to have brought them more to life with this movie. I realize it a movie and not a documentry. But Peal Harbor,FDR and the attitude of the American people at that time were not boreing. Why so much fiction when you have these people to help tell the story. Take advantage of it; instead it takes a back seat to a love story that could have been use in a number of movie's.
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Summary: Artistically awful
Review: this film fails in so many areas that I lost count.One-My girlfriend wanted to leave the room before the actual attack took place.The love story,which is 90% of the movie were putting me to sleep.It seems to me that they tried to pull off a titanic,it didn't work. Although during the attack which i felt was a perfect length I loved the shots,they were in fact beautiful.But don't forget "tora tora tora" did nearly the same thing with no digital effects. and actually it stole lines of dialogue word for word from that film.And Alec Baldwin taking credit for the Kamikazi....that's a Japenese thing sorry..American Pride needs to be pulled back just a bit i think. I'm not the only one who didn't want a lame charactered love story. Effects were excellent,but effects aren't everything.Sound in DTS 5.1 is great...Have not listned to the dolby 5.1 track yet. Worth buying only if you intend to use the attack scenes as a demo for system proformance. A.P.L
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Summary: Two Movies in One
Review: If Pearl Harbor has one great flaw, it is that it tries too hard to be the end-all epic - the war movie on the grandest scale. The first ninety minutes and the last, say, 20 minutes of the film are one more or less complete being. It is an entirely passable, if a little cliched love story, which at its best can be downright touching. The brotherly dynamic between Hartnett and Affleck works well enough that the audience can believe the tension when everything falls apart. The intervening war scenes are visually stunning and well executed, but it seemed as if they were only rewards to the men in the audience who stuck through the love story. Because of this, the film can feel a bit disjointed, but the capable performances of Affleck and Beckinsale keep this from being just an "effects film". It never quite reaches the hights that it strives for, but for [crying out loud] it was better than Dude Where's My Car. Michael Bay is the Norman Rockwell of cinema. He should kiss his cinematographer on the lips.
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Summary: Great History back into the Movies
Review: This movie was not so much about the love story that all the trailers protrayed, but about the history of something that happened to our WONDERFUL country. The attack that happened on Dec 7th 1941 (Yes, almost 60 years ago) was something most generations growing up in todays socity have no visual clue about what really happened at Pearl Harbor. You do have look past the cheesy love story and pick-up on the wonderful bits of history in this wonderful movie.
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