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Summary: Extremley realistic cinematography,good F/x's
Review: Watching this movie,I can only imagine how brutal the attack on Pearl Harbor was.Combination of a chick flick and a monster man movie...one or the other.
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Summary: Titanic,1941.
Review: Great effects,stunning flight sequences,effective acting by Ben Affleck,cinematography.Hartnett and Beckinsale are are a little wogden,and they're are corny lines.
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Summary: Previous reviews say nothing about "THE PRODUCT!"
Review: It's frustrating to sit and read some these reviews. I think it's time people like me actually review some of the reviews since some people have no idea how to voice a proper opinion without saying something wrong with a completely brilliant production! First off, a good reviewer will know how hard it is to get a movie off the ground as well as how much work it really takes to ensure it becomes a hit. Be reminded that thousands of people worked countless hours to make this thing come to life! Based on some of the serious grammatical errors I see on some of these reviews, they probably don't work near as hard in their own lives so I guess they digress to harping on other peoples work. That's the nature of the beast, oh well. What's really engaging about this movie to me is that it was shot so beautifully and so eloquently who gives a hoot where the story is going? The movie gets the job done! So, they have a love triangle-that's cool, you appeal to the lovesick teenage girls who just can't get enough of Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett, not to mention the guys who love watching Kate Beckensale-WOOF! Bottom line, see, "From here to eternity," and you'll see that Hollywood has been using similar formulas for years in war movies! So, you have flawed historical accounts in a movie-sorry to say it folks, but EVERY movie has that, it keeps continuity to the STORY, not HISTORY itself. We already have read the "history" of Pearl Harbor a million times, why not take a tangent here and there? So, you have bad acting, almost every film that has been a success did not become a success on Oscar winning actors alone. No one really knows why some things work and some things don't, why speak your mind about something already said? Get over it! It doesn't say anything about the DVD product! So, it was PG-13, ah ha! Look what we have coming down the pike! Low and behold AN R RATED VERSION COMING TO DVD MAY 16TH! Personally I liked the PG-13 version myself because I felt comfortable taking my twelve-year-old nephew to see the film. He loves me talking about my adventures in the Navy and I felt at ease that there wouldn't be a ton of gore to make the attack scenes even more horrifying. Keep in mind, this is a Disney flick and even though it doesn't have Disney written all over it, they still have a rep to protect. Again, most reviews are not focusing on the DVD itself! When doing reviews on Amazon, people need to keep in mind that the movie has been reviewed a million times and considering how popular of a movie Pearl Harbor was, most everyone has in one form or another-SEEN THE MOVIE! Get off the high horse of opinionating the movie! Reviews have long since past! Review the product! That's what a consumer will want to read! For instance; How is the sound of the Pearl Harbor DVD? Phenomenal if you ask me! My home theatre system is peaked when I put this DVD in! How is the picture of the DVD? First rate, not a blemish to report here and actually the colors are far more vibrant on the DVD than they ever were in the theatre. With the exception of a slight pause around the middle of the film, this DVD picture is flawless. Does the DVD have extras? You bet! Lots of them! The new Vista Series DVD (which by the way has released several great versions of previous movies including "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable.") will include even more extras as well as the R-rated version on two discs. TOO COOL! These are the things consumers want to know before buying a product. I could care less about your opinion of a film! Let the consumer be the judge of a film! Consumers need your input on the product! I would hope Amazon improves the review system by deleting unnecessary reviews and highlighting the ones that really "work" for the product they are selling! To all of you reviewers out there (including me), focus on the content of the product and leave the movie reviews to the real critics, since that's what they get paid for! Keep writin!
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Summary: Could have been a bit shorter....
Review: The main problem with this movie, as I see it, is that it drags on and on---especially the "love story" at the beginning of the movie. I think the writers could have shortened it and get the point across at the same time. When the attack occurs----well, that is a true masterpiece. Not only did the director manage to capture the total destruction at Pearl Harbor, but the human loss was made quite clear. One scene in particular has stuck with me--after the attack was over, people began to try and rescue some of those trapped--some soldiers are trying to free their fellow soldiers from being drowned and all they could do was hold their hands as they died. That scene alone, for me, conveyed the devestation of human loss at Pearl Harbor. I also liked Cuba Gooding Jr. in this movie...Mister "Show me the money" proves he can go way beyond a comedy and into some serious drama. Hopefully, he will get more roles like this one. The only character that got on my nerves a bit was Alec Baldwin's. We get the message, Mr. Baldwin, you're supposed to be a tough guy! Sheesh...talk about over acting. Aside from Mr. Baldwin's performance, and the length of the movie, I would recommend that you purchase this film.
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Summary: Chick flick? Don't think so!
Review: People say that Peral Harbor is a chick flick, but how? It is a real life situation with real drama. I mean I am a girl but how would you feel if you were bombed?! It is a romantic story with action and great special effects. I think you should buy this DVD because it is the best movie ever! Although I said this wasn't a chick flick you still might want to buy a box of kleenex.
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Summary: What the?
Review: All I have to say is: why was Cuba Gooding, Jr in this movie? He played no important role. The director easily could have edited him out of the movie. Now, I'm not putting down African-Americans, but what did he add to the story? Nothing. You never would have missed him. If you wanted to do a movie set in Pearl Harbor about a cook, good for you. If you want to do a movie set in Pearl Harbor about 2 pilots and a nurse, good for you, but none of them even interacted with Cuba Gooding, Jr. And that's another thing; the whole love triangle just disgusted me. I think you have enough plot prepared with WWII going on, you really don't need the added tangle of a love triangle. If you wanted to do the triangle, good for you, focus on that, use WWII as an excuse to why Rafe is gone. If you wanted to do WWII, good for you, focus on that, and experience the war through Josh Hartnett's eyes, or through the friends' eyes. You'll just make it too complicated if you do both.
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Summary: Momentous event turned into banal movie
Review: marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I wish I could report that the movie Pearl Harbor is a fitting retelling of that event, but it turns out to be pretty lame. It is also quite long. To paraphrase film critic Roger Ebert, it somehow manages to squeeze a two hour movie into three hours. Rafe and Danny [Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett] are best friends from he hills of Tennessee who sign up for a hitch in the Navy and become pilots. Rafe is the stronger of the two, and, when he gets a chance to fight with the RAF in England against the Nazis, he tricks Danny into staying behind because he doesn't want him to be injured or killed. Before he departs, he meets Evelyn [Kate Beckinsdale], a Navy nurse, and they fall deeply in love. During a dog fight off the English coast, Rafe is shot down and is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Danny and Evelyn have been transferred to the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. They are grief stricken over Rafe, but three months later, they are in love with each other. In basic soap opera tradition, Rafe turns out to be very much alive and just shows up one day in Hawaii. It takes nearly and hour and a half for this love triangle to unfold on screen before the Japs finally show up and change everything. Then the attack itself runs forty minutes. In this sequence, which is spectacular but strangely unmoving, Rafe and Danny seem to be everywhere at once. They dodge bombs and bullets to get to their planes in order to take out a few Japanese. Next, they are in the chaos-filled hospital giving blood. Moments later, they are aboard the capsized USS Arizona trying to free sailors trapped inside. After the attack, the movie has another hour still to go. Rafe and Danny get to go on Jimmy Doolittle's famed air raid on Tokyo. The structure of this movie is awkward and puzzling. More competent film makers [or ones who weren't handed a 150 million dollar budget] could have told the story of the love triangle in half the time it takes Pearl Harbor to do so. It is, after all, a tried and true plot device. Then there is the last hour. The Tokyo raid is essentially a whole other movie. I think the idea was to tell the audience that we Americans didn't take the infamous day laying down. We fought back. But everyone knows already that. We know who won W.W.II. Any information about what happened after Pearl Harbor could have been handled with brief notes before the final credits. Movies have never been the best tool for teaching history. It gets in the way of the entertainment quotient, it clashes with modern values, and/or it's improperly research. For example, nobody smokes in the film. That may make the movie's heroes and heroines more appealing by current standards, but it's also inaccurate. In the real Pearl Harbor attack, the airfields were attacked first, but this fact gets in the way of the movie's script, so it shows the attack starting with the ships. That point is minor compared to the other revisionist history involved. I promise you that the Japan of 1941 was as evil, ambitious and out of control as Nazi Germany. The atrocities they committed in China were horrendous. But the movie portrays the Japanese leadership as being merely upset because we were cutting of their oil supply, as if bombing Pearl Harbor would solve the problem. The reason for glossing over the facts? It's simple economics. Japan is now the second biggest market for Hollywood movies after the USA. The producers were trying to make sure it didn't bomb there.
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Summary: NOT the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, a different Pearl Harbor
Review: The film "Pearl Harbor" is not based on the real Pearl Harbor. This is a completely fictional story about a fictional War in a fictional place called Pearl Harbor; a place where American War Ships are docked. Late in the film, this fictional place gets attacked by a fictional Japanese squadron of fighter planes. It is silly to point out historical or technical errors this film may have. This film is not trying to be real. It is trying to be fiction, it is trying to be wrong, and is also trying to teach the younger generations not to believe their history books. Its' point is to be as innacurate a portrayal of something that didn't really happen as possible.
If you liked this movie, you are wrong. You are not entitled to your opinion. This movie is ALL LIES. Infact the film shows no feeling for what happened and gave no sense of what it was like to be there. But that is because Michael Bay didn't have any interest in the subject matter. So he slept his way through this complete shame of a movie.
NO ONE CAN LIKE THIS MOVIE.
UNLESS YOU HATE EVERY AMERICAN WHO WAS AT PEARL HARBOR, WHICH THIS FILMMAKER CLEARLY DOES. PLEASE DO NOT PRAISE THIS FILM EVER EVER AGAIN!
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Summary: An enjoyable war period romance.
Review: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, and Kate Beckinsale are young lovers caught in a love triangle in the months before the Pearl Harbor attack. Uneven romance takes the spotlight in this big-budget war film, which works mainly because of convincing acting, the Golden Era (For movies) nostalgic feeling the movie produces, and the amazing battle scenes crafted by Michael Bay. Fantastic score from Hans Zimmer.
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Summary: See" From Here To Eternity " instead.
Review: After Pearl Harbor finished playing.I had one thing on my mind.I must see "From Here To Eternity".Forget Pearl Harbor,Pearl,and Tora Tora Tora,From Here To Eternity is a efinately the film to watch instead.
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