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Summary: peal harbour josh is a hottie!
Review: Everybody looks at this film and only likes ben affleck but i think josh hartnett who also performed in black hawh down is brilliant and really cute. i cried when he died! i just want everyone to know how much i love him!
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Summary: Inaccurate, stultifyingly boring caricature of a WWII movie
Review: Tora! Tora! Tora! is by far the better film for anyone interested in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
This film is an epic of inaccuracy and the boring love triangle is contrived and completely predictable.
The viewer sighs in relief at the conclusion of the Pearl Harbour story only to realise with a growing sense of panic that there's another hour to go to cover the Doolittle raid as well.Why can't Hollywood simply find and show the genuine actual drama in stories like the attack on Pearl Harbour? This film is an insult to veterans, the US, Japan, in fact the whole world. Worrying is the fact that the average rating for the film is four stars, which betrays a general lack of knowledge and taste in the reviewers.
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Summary: Can you say Drama?
Review: There is much drama leading up to Dec 7th. At this point in the review process it would be pointless to tell you about this movie. So many other reviewers have already done it pretty darn good.
However, I can tell you that I wholeheartedly enjoyed this motion picture. An absolutely great picture that is a must see. If you haven't seen this picture, then you should. This is a movie to own!
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Summary: Hollywood TRASH
Review: What can you say about a movie that makes the tragic attack of Dec. 7, 1941 a backdrop for a stupid love triangle! The only part of the movie that is any good is 40 minutes of combat that does not include Ben (of Benifer). If your looking for a GOOD movie about Pearl Harbor check out TORA TORA TORA.
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Summary: There are much better...
Review: ...movies out there about Pearl Harbor. If you are interested in the events surrounding Pearl Harbor, pick up a copy of Tora! Tora! Tora!. If you are interested in a love story set during Pearl Harbor, pick up From Here to Eternity. If you are interested in World War II, pick up anything else (even U-571). I think this movie would have been much better if it were set in a sci fi setting with a space port named Pearl Harbor that is attacked by aliens. For all pratical purposes, the Japanese in this movie might as well have been aliens. You don't get any background story to their goals other than they are going to split up the love triangle. Speaking of which, could we have gotten a more predictable finish to that story? No. One more note, why did it have to end with the Doolittle Raid? And for that matter, why did our intrepid heroes have to fly it? They had a hard enough time training B-25 pilots to do it. I can't imagine that they would use pilots who never flew bombers to do it. Ah well.
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Summary: Boring, inacurate, superficial, what more can I say!
Review: First off let me say that if Kate Beckinsale's character was a plain woman do you really think that those two guys would still fall in love with her?, hmmm I wonder! I have yet to see a movie of this caliber have a story like that {that would be absolutely sweet}. Also this film is an insult to the actual events that took place on that terrible day, not only to the dead but also the survivors of the actual Pearl Harbour tragedy. But likewise as a fictional film goes this is a demeaning and shallow, utterly stupid film that should not have been made. Avoid it please at all costs.
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Summary: Michael Bay wrenches MY heartstrings once more
Review: I don't know why I've avoided this film for so long. It was probably mainly to do with the oh-so-bad reviews I kept reading, and people telling me (complete with "oh man" littered throughout) that it was diabolical, historically inaccurate, ya-de-ya-de-yah. I've seen the DVD many times, picked it up, and then put it back down (I've got a reputation to uphold here, y'know). And then on a bank holiday, it had its terrestrial premier on UK TV. So I thought what the hell, I'll give it a whirl, and then see what all the fuss is about, and most likely give it a bad review. Boy, was I wrong. I've seen reviews that have said it's too slow, it takes an hour before it gets into the real swing of things, blah blah blah. Well, I'm sorry, but I was hooked from the beginning. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, and was dreading the phone ringing, or the 20-minute break halfway through for the news. And in my opinion, everyone that has watched this, and given it a bad review, has a heart of stone. OK, so it has a few corny lines, but tell me a film that doesn't. The whole romance thing is cheesy and predictable (what guy is honestly going to touch his best friend's girl?) but I'm an old romantic at heart, and most of the scenes between Kate Beckinsale & Ben Affleck had me going practically giddy. (Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett just didn't seem right) Ben Affleck is so cute in this! And Kate Beckinsale is absolutely gorgeous too, but I'm not that way inclined. And for once, it wasn't the uniform that was making me go weak at the knees, it was just Ben Affleck before J-Lo, just being himself. This is the second Michael Bay movie that I've seen that has made me cry buckets! I was welling up throughout, but by the end, the gates opened, and the tears wouldn't stop. And I thought I was bad enough at Armageddon! ("Bruce Willis is gonna die! WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" And then someone has the nerve to tell me that "it's only a film". My eye it's only a film!) I'm glad I didn't see this movie in the cinema - cos I did with Armageddon, and that was highly embarrassing. OK, I did notice some historical inaccuracies in this, not that I was looking out for them you understand, but there are some glaringly obvious stupid things. It's the 40s right? Have they never heard of contraception? It was practically a sin if you were unmarried and had a child in the 60s, you would have been burnt at the stake and sent to dance with the devil for this! And four months passes, but still no pregnancy bump? On someone as skinny as Kate Beckinsale 's character, there would definitely be a bump! And Rafe has dyslexia, but he writes pages and pages to Evelyn? Not possible, and probably not legible. There are some fairly cheesy lines - obviously Michael Bay was reading some Mills & Boon before doing this movie. Some of these include: "When I get cold, the one place I can go to be warm is to think of you"; "I'm going to give my whole heart to Danny, but I don't think I'll ever look at another sunset without thinking of you" and for some major eye rolling: "I love you, and I'll have your baby, only I love him more, and you have to accept that in spite of my loving you forever while he'll always be my true love.." Even I'm not that much of a romantic. This film was visually stunning. The action scenes were incredible, and absolutely breathtaking. But there were some sad moments amongst all the action scenes - the saddest being Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett's characters holding the hands of the drowning on the Arizona. However, I did feel that Michael Bay watched Armageddon & Titanic a little too many times while making this film. There are many scenes very reminiscent of both movies. For example, Kate Beckinsale could pass for Liv Tyler, especially in some of the final scenes, when she's there to meet her loved one off the plane. And the scenes actually in Pearl Harbour? Lots of people jumping ship, hitting propellor blades - remind you of anything? There's also planes flying overhead when the guys are walking towards their planes - a scene like the one in Armageddon, when they're all going to go away into space. The score is very reminiscent of Armageddon too, and was very sad and tugged at the heartstrings. Some simple scores can set me off, and along with Armageddon, Anne of Green Gables, and a couple of other scores that people keep playing me, this score will be amongst them. This is THE movie to have in your collection. It's going to quite happily join my collection of 'bad' movies as soon as I can get my hands on it. And it's up there in my list of great movies, along with Armageddon, Titanic, and probably some others too.
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Summary: Titanic Revisited
Review: With so much material, I don't know why the makers of this film tried to remake the Titanic (guess it was for the money)... Don't get me wrong, the film wasn't bad, but I was expecting a historical war movie (maybe I should stick to the History Channel or wait until Mel Gibson takes up this type of film). The reenactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor redeemed the film from me - very realistic and much easier to stomach than the love triangle fodder...
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Summary: good
Review: It's good . I like it so several times have seen it at home.
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Summary: Why dont you do some research?
Review: For those of you who only give this movie one star and say its inaccurate, maybe you should do some research yourself. Did you know that the characters Danny and Rafe, represented represented airment in real life, Taylor and Welsh, who also shot down six planes? When Evelyn used panty hose as a turniqette, surgeons in realife had to use torn sheets as masks when they ran out of supplies!? What about "Dori" Miller played by Cuba Gooding Jr, the first black service man to shoot a gun and knock down a plane. What about realife Roger S. Moran, who resembled the red headed character with the speech problem, who tried to wake his fellow officers TWICE the morning they were hit!? There are many more to choose from, but take you pic and do some research...while this movie does have a love triangle to pull veiwers in and get them to empathize with someone else, it is historically accurate.
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