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Summary: God help the men who's girlfriend's make them rent this!!!!
Review: I wish to God I could have that two and a half hours of my life back. If you do decide to rent this piece of... get the DVD. At least you can enjoy the extra features and the ease of skipping ahead to the cool war scenes. The rest of the movie is a bunch of generation X'ers running aroud pretending they know what its like to live in the forties. Chick flick to the max my friends!!!
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Summary: Simply a disaster!
Review: Other have dicussed this film's cliched script and insipid acting. I agree with the bulk of their criticisms. My problem is with it's arrogant and/or idiotic parade of historical inaccuracies. Torpedo planes bombing Hickam field? Radio contact between between Doolittle's Raiders and Pearl Harbor?(this technology didn't exist!). Radio contact between a walkie-talkie and a P40? (again, impossible in 1941). Survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack manning Doolittle's B-25's? (not ONE of any of the B-25 crews were present at the Pearl Harbor attack). The list goes on and on. "Pearl Harbor" is a disaster in American filmmaking as well as a disservice to the "Greatest Generation".
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Summary: True to the period
Review: Pearl Harbor is a movie (DVD) that really takes the audience back to another era. After reading many letters and accounts of this time period, I feel that the director and producer did an admirable job in transporting the viewer back in time. People think that the love story is trite. Well, they haven't read much about the "lovers" of this era. Times were very different, and I think that the movie is very representative of the forties. Also, the special effects only enhance the war scenes. After visiting P.H. three times, I can truly say that a movie that used so many effects and actual war heroes to portray a momentous day in American history deserves our attention. Three cheers!
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Summary: Excellent Movie!
Review: I almost didn't rent or buy this movie because of all of the negative reviews I heard after its release in the theater. After watching the movie, I have learned that reviews do not always depict the actual quality of a movie. This movie was excellent! I am not a "war story" kind of person; I very rarely watch historical-based films. However, the writer/producer did an outstanding job in this movie.The love story made the film more realistic and interesting; it "brought home" the personal aspects of the men who fought in the war. I would recommend this movie to everyone. If you liked the Titanic, you'll love this.
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Summary: A great disappointment
Review: If you're looking for a great war epic like Saving Private Ryan you'll be greatly disappointed. The interaction between the main characters are shallow and it seems like an hour action movie with 2 hours of thin plots and poor scripts to fill it out. The love plot between the 3 characters are very corny and detracts from an otherwise okay action flick. I must admit the CG effects are very good and the action scenes are great but even with the action it seems to run out of steam towards the end with the raid of Japan scene. It seems very rushed and there's no sense of climax at all. Audio wise it's very average, no big gun sounds but instead sounds very tinny. Actually, the whole movie sounds very tinny besides the explosions which makes decent use of your subwoofer. If you're a die-hard war film fan and you've seen Saving Private Ryan there's little you'll appreciate in this movie.
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Summary: this movie stinks
Review: The movie focuses on a poorly acted, poorly written storyline. The soldiers are disrespectful of their officers.If the real soldiers had behaved this way, we would not have won WW2. The children are disrespectful of their parents. You do not want your children to see this movie. Tora, Tora,Tora is a much better movie about Pearl Harbor. The book Day of Deceit is also interesting on this topic.
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Summary: The worst movie. Do not see it.
Review: This movie is obviously about the attack on Pearl Harbor. But it is extremely flawed.
Historically, there are many incorrect facts. One example is
when Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck are flying their planes low above the airfield and they are communicating via radios to the guy down on the runway.
The love story is corny, and the tragedy of the attack and "sadness" of the love story is so obviously forced, I find it actually dishonorable to the real life attack on Pearl Harbor. The love story is very predictable, and overly acted, and most definitely not helped by corny lines like "I'll never look at another sunset without thinking of you".
The battle is okay, but filled with way too much computerized animation. A lot of the effects were so obviously CG effects. The CG effects actually get repetitive. Just about everytime a CG airplane explodes or crashes, chunks of it fly at the camera. It looks cool if it is done once or twice, but not 20 times. But ILM still did a great job. They are the only reason why the movie gets a 1. Really a one and a half. I congratulate them on a movie well computerized.
The Japanese perspective on the lead-up to Pearl Harbor is enjoyable, and just about the only best part in the movie. But it looks like it is their just to pass the time. And the scenes that you do see are rushed. The scene where the dialogue goes something like "I fear all we did was to awaken a sleeping giant" is the most important piece of dialogue in the movie, but it isn't given enough screen time for it to really sink into the viewer.
The second tape is just a weak attempt at making the movie an epic movie, and really just made the movie seem like it was dragging on. And the presentation in widescreen kept giving me the feeling that the director did that so it would look more epic. Talk about falling flat on your face.
Then there is the whole end to the battle. The end makes it seem as if we won when we really didn't. Pearl Harbor was a huge loss to America. But the movie gives the false sense that we won.
Anyways, there is so much to criticize, but this is already long enough. In short, the movie is horrible and corny. It was so bad that "I'll never go to bed without thinking of how terrible this movie was."
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Summary: ANYONE WHO RATES THIS MOVIE DOWN IS...
Review: OK PEOPLE! HERE'S THE DEAL. WHO EVER USES THE WEAK EXCUSE THAT THIS MOVIE IS TOO FOCUSED ON THE "LITTLE LOVE TRIANGLE" INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL EVENT (AND I HAVE A FEELING MOST PEOPLE WHO GAVE IT LESS THAN 5 STARS USED THAT STUPID EXCUSE)... HERE'S A NEWS FLASH: IF THE FRIGGIN MOVIE WOULDNT HAVE HAVE THE LOVE STORY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A HISTORY/DISCOVERY/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY! DUH! DOESN'T ANYONE REALIZE THAT? IT NEEDS SOME SPICE! AFTER ALL IF THE MOVIE IS JUST ON THE ATTACK IT WOULD NOT BE INTERESTING AT ALL AND WOULD EVEN BE TOO SHORT TO EVEN BE IN THEATRES. NOW I HAVE ALSO HEARD THAT THE 45 MINUTE ATTACK WAS EXAGGERATED. NOW LET ME SEE... A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE IN THE 21ST CENTURY WITH BAD SPECIAL EFFECTS? I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THE MORE EXAGGERATED AND BOMBS, FLASHES, EXPLOSIONS, ETC. THE MOVIE HAS... THE BETTER IT IS! I THINK THIS WAS THE BEST MOVIE THIS YEAR!
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Summary: My thought on Pearl Harbor
Review: I've read the reviews on here..I don't think this movie deserves that much criticism. I have found that this movie is very easy to get into, no disappointment here. It's fairly long, three hours to be exact, but it's worth the watch. There's great acting, a beautiful love story, and you get a general idea on what it was like to be out to war during that time. I thought the movie did a great job..and everything was tied together nicely at the end.
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Summary: Pearl Harbor a good one.
Review: First of all I am just an average Joe who enjoys a good movie. My wife and I really enjoyed Pearl Harbor on the Big screen and look forward to seeing it on dvd.
We all may not agree on whether it was good or not and there is no point in worrying about it. I thought it was a well put together movie and would suggest others to see it.
Thanks for your time.
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