Pearl Harbor

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Summary: Packed with neat historical factoids ?
Review: Let's keep an open mind and consider that maybe this movie is not an insult to our intelligence and does in fact have the historical facts straight. In that case, I learned many things that I didn't know. For example, I didn't know that people in 1941, though war and depression-weary, still bleached their teeth. I didn't know all pilot aces were good-looking studs and that usually a best friend of an ace is also an ace. I had no idea that in those more prude times, nurses giggled about sex and boys, and switched carelessly from one to another. Continents must have shifted significantly in the last 60 years because I was stunned to find you could conveniently take the train to go to England, as Ben Affleck does. In that age before color movies, I had no idea people randomly sat on shorelines and turned their profile to the sun rather than face it directly. What a surprise also to learn that a group of people from different parts of the country could be all in one place at first and that those same people could later all find themselves together again 10,000 miles away, at Pearl Harbor, defying statistical odds. All these things were a history lesson but the one historical factoid that came as a real shocker to me is that 30 years before the Fonz and Silicon Valley, people already said "cool!" when they heard something they liked.

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Summary: The "Titanic" of the Pearl Harbor catastrophe...
Review: In this movie, there could have been more information regarding the Japanese persepctive of things; it would make the movie more educational and more interesting, more historical, perhaps. However, this is not about "Pearl Harbor." This is a romance/relationship set against the movie "Pearl Harbor." The relationship could be true to a certain extent, but the acting runs off a little cheesy and corny, for me. It's like the newest movie on the Titanic catastrophe; it's a corny romance set against the Titanic catastrophe, but there is only certain information that is interesting about Titanic, and it's the same with Pearl Harbor. I wish the movie would be more realistic and historically correct and you know what I mean. However, FDR was done very well, and the bombing was done incredibly well. It was fabulously breathtaking.

Thank you very much, and I hope you take my advice seriously.

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Summary: Great War Movie...
Review: This movie was great - when it finally got to the Pearl Harbor story. The first 45 minutes or so is setting up this romance that really could have been cut. The set-up regarding Pearl Harbor - how the Japanese strategized about the bombing and their reasons for doing it were very insightful and educational. The Pearl Harbor bombing scenes were incredible - I was so drawn into the movie!!

I would recommend the movie - just bare with it through the first 45 minutes...it get better.

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Summary: Pearl Harbor!!
Review: Pearl Harbor was wonderful. It was very sad. It also expresed the reality of war! It was a wonderful movie that I very much injoyed! I think they did a very good job with special effects. They also did very well expressing how sad The Pearl Harbor bombing really was.I also injoyed the love story it was a very interesting twist to what happened in the end. So if you love love storys or war movies you wil love this movie. If you don't I think you will still injoy this movie. At the end you will be truely touch by the power of this movie. You should go and see Pearl Harbor.

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Summary: The Best Movie Ever!
Review: I found this to be the best movie of the summer. The actors could not have been better. The story was great and the action sequences were the best i have ever seen. Ben was amazing and looked better than ever. I highly recomend this movie to all people.

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Summary: Groan
Review: I was barely able to sit through this horrid plate of Hollywood tripe. This movie hardly makes the grade as a 4th rate mellodrama. It was deliberately mis-advertised to attract the widest possible audience, who, once their money is seized, are condemned to sink with the film. Amazing how far Ben Affleck has fallen from his earlier, quality work. Amazing how the mindless consumer drones that comprise America's cinematic audience could actually find this film entertaining.

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Summary: Boring, Long and Hyped
Review: This is a bad movie. I don't care how much it cost to make it. The actors seem to just walk through the motions of acting, the boiled-sterile dialog is so bad it's funny at certain, inappropriate times (but not so funny as to alleviate the boredom). It is incredibly long, without the benefit of having a good plot and good actors like, say, Titanic. I was not even impressed with the much ballyhooed special effects. Watching them, they looked like special effects that cost a lot, but not like the real thing. Nothing could save acting and writing like this.

Disney should stick to kid stuff.

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Summary: A
Review: The only reason I gave this movie even two stars is that the re-creation of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Dolittle's raid on Tokyo are done flawlessly, at least as far as the effects go. CGI is photorealistic, ships blow up real good, bullets strafe the water with individual clarity and under the surface with frightening realism. Swooping camera angles that follow planes and bombs give a breathtaking view on the combat.

However, the rest of the movie is pure by-the-numbers dreck. Obviously hoping to capture some of Titanic's worldwide repeat business success, Bruckheimer and Bay lead us to and past the attack on PH through the lives of three people who of course endure tragic circumstances, misunderstandings and conflicted loyalties. There was not a single original instance in the entire storyline, every development was telegraphed far in advance, and the dialogue was atrocious. Supporting characters are, at best, one-dimensional, and recognizably taken from previous war movies' "Barrell o' Stock Characters." One of the air force mechanics is named "Gooz" fer crying out loud. ...

Bay's MTV-style photography worked very, very well in the hyperkinetic "The Rock," but here, it is too slick, too apparent, and we are always aware that we are watching a movie -- something "Titanic" helped us successfully to forget.

Go see "Memento," "Moulin Rouge" or something else with artistic merit, and wait for this one to be released to home video.

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Summary: Great Movie on DVD!
Review: The special effects is awesome, this is how it looked like if you're in the time period in Pearl Harbor. Great cast ensemble, and great musical score. This movie is ten times better than Titanic. Kate Beckinsale is not only beautiful but a superb actress. The extras include a documentary from the History Channel, and the making of the movie which is spellbinding. This movie is a MUST HAVE!

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Summary: all i gotta say is...WOW!!! truly spectacular....
Review: Coming into the movie theater, I had many forewarnings about Pearl Harbor--from my friends and from the media. Some said it was excellent; others said it focused way too much more on the love triangle between Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckingsale, and Ben Affleck than it did on the actual attack on Pearl Harbor. If you are leaning towards believing the latter, well, then ya better straighten up 'cuz this movie it's anything but romance-dominated. don't believe it when people say that the first two hours are just filled with mushy love because plenty of that time is packed with suspenseful, compelling scenes of the Japanese preparing their attack and well...other things, but i'm not going to spell out entire plot. IT IS A GREAT WAR FILM. The special effects are spectacular. The acting is as true to reality as you can get. If the movie can move an entire audience to tears, then you know it's gotta be good. I was captivated by the soaring planes, the blazing flames, and the vast,wonderfully blue oceans. Pearl Harbor is an excellent portrayal of the attitudes of people--both civilians and those in high authority--during the months, weeks, and days before the attack--they really did NOT expect the Japanese to target that small lil paradise of an island that was thousands of miles away. but neway,this is the type of movie that ur jus gonna have to see for yourself. so take my advice and go see hollywood at its best.