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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: Excellent movie
Review: I don't care what the critics say about this movie. I think it's worth spending the money to see it on the big screen, comparing to so many trashy pictures out there targeting teenagers. Good love story based on history. Of course it's predictable, but you know it before you buy the ticket. And the effects are outstanding. Most movies that the critics praise usually put me to sleep. Who cares about what they say, you pay for entertainment and that's what you get. I sense a lot of jealousy and politics when they gave Pearl Harbor a really bad review on the Wall Street Journal. Funny how people keep lining up to see it.
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Summary: Pearl Harbor Critics Panned
Review: Pearl Harbor has been widely panned by any and all commentators with a keyboard and a website. Why? They say it will cause anti-Japanese hate crimes; it was too soft on the Japanese, implying that America's oil embargo caused the attack; the love story is too cheesy; the list goes on and on, with each commentator arguing that the film says the opposite of what the next commentator says it says. I attended Pearl Harbor wearing the Aloha shirt I had worn to the Arizona Memorial one year ago (during which, incidentally, I saw a portion of the filming of the movie). Whatever the critics say, there is no way to soft-pedal the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The thought kept recurring to me, "Thanks for nothing Japan." However, I will not be burning Toyotas in the streets. As for the oil embargo, they had to start the movie somewhere without going into each and every precipitating event in some sort of boring pre-story history lesson. Considering that the movie was about the American experience rather than the Japanese experience, it stands to reason that Japan's military campaigns preceding Pearl Harbor were excluded. For America, due to America's unique geographical location and despite all warning signs to the contrary, the attack was out of the blue. The film portrays this. Eisner will succeed in conveying to a Japanese audience the emotional toll their nation's action took on young lives. Most people understand the emotion of a story much more than the history. Tying together the causes and effects of Pearl Harbor is the job of a historian. Portraying the emotion of an event is the job of a filmmaker. In this, Pearl Harbor succeeded.
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Summary: BRUCKENHEIMER'S JOKE
Review: Producer Jerry Bruckenheimer is joking in this "epic"... My Go, what a waste of money. I went to the movie with great expectations, even knowing who was producing it. Unbeliavable. Hans Zimmer "dramatic and romantic" soundtrack suffocates the movie all the while. The "romantic" dialogues are joke, I bet the actor, after the director said "cut", laughed all night long !!! Ir
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