Who likes Pearl Harbor???

I know people say its crummy, predictable, and make the Americans look like heroes, but i am addicted to Pearl Harbor!! Both Josh hartnett (who i am a big freak fan of) and Ben Affleck are extremely fit in this film, and the acting isn't half bad either!! Who agrees with me?? Theres a bit of everything in it aswell!! wot more wood u wnt???!!?

~Vindicated~

 

A waste to me, a Pearl Harbor movie and actual fighting in the movie at Pearl Habor takes place for about 20 minutes of an over 3 hour film. It's ok to put a love story into something if you're still gonna make it historical, i.e. Titanic, but Pearl Habor to me was a waste of $7.50, watch Tora, Tora, Tora.

 

I've not seen Pearl Harbor, but from what I've heard of it, I doubt I'd like it. Tora! Tora! Tora! is good enough for me...

 

I checked it is only a little under half fighting scences. Also the Pearl Harbor scene is about an hour long but, the love story in the movie really sucks. They should have made the movie specifically about what it advertises... Pearl Harbor. They included the love story because they figured 'Hey it worked for Titantic'. i loved the action sequences but, the movie sucked because of the love story in it.
If you want a good action war-ish movie watch Black Hawk Down or Platoon or sumtin' like that
If you want a good love story movie watch A Walk To Remember or The Letter or sumtin' like that
Don't try to combine the two though.

 

it's the same shit as Captain Corelli's mandoline where Nicholas Cage and Penélope Cruz have a love story in the middle of such interesting facts from the Second World War, i can't understand this kind of movies where they have to put a love story, and i agree with the others Tora Tora Tora is a great war movie.

 

I've never bothered with this movie, and I'm in no rush to change that. I've seen Tora! Tora! Tora! and that was pretty decent, so that's pretty much enough for me.

 

I'm too much of a history dork... I can't sit through movies like this without picking out all the inaccuracies and being really critical of the cheesy computer effects... I hate that shit.

 

jerry bruckheimer would have to do alot of things that belong on the kinky forum to get me to give a movie he produced a 3 star review.

 

we got a copy of it for chrisrmas one year and we never opened it. i think it got re-gifted

 

Hmmm . . . . . I've thought long and hard and I'm really sorry, but I can't think of one good thing to say about this abomination. It's stupidity and historical inaccuracy is extremely offensive and somehow managed to insult both WWII vets and the Japanese.


Wait, I thought of one good thing: it didn't leave all five of my senses feeling raped and polluted like Bay's last despicable movie, Armageddon.

 

I thought it was alright , until the 'revenge' part near the end ... when they were planning the bombing raids ... it just lost any of its heart and was just another ... 'we americans shall now kick your ass' ..

 

Well that's what happend in real life you know.

 

worthless piece of crap.

I just love how two guys end up surviving the attack on pearl harbour, get the only two american planes in the air to attack japanese fighters, and they recruited to join the doolittle raiders. ahah wtf....... its different flying a fighter and a bomber. Im pretty sure they used trained bomber pilots to fly during that mission.

 

Why are there two threads about this? It's a terrible film!

 

You are an idiot, did you want them to have it historically inaccurate just so America could look bad?

 

I was impressed with the visuals.


I really liked the few Japanese scenes; those particular set designs brought out that Spartan Zen feel of their Bushido spirit.

I thought the computer generated graphics were well done.

The romance angle in war films can work.
It worked in the 'Thin Red Line' with those great poetic flashbacks that perfectly contrasted with the harsh immediate reality.
It worked in 'In Harms Way', and 'For Whom The Bell Toll', and I think it worked in 'Cold Mountain'.

The, 'you thought I was dead, so you fell in love with my best friend', is a powerful romance angle.
But they made all those nurses look so stiff that in the end I couldn't buy into
the romance.
You have to work hard to make 'Cold Comfort Farm' Kate Beckinsale look less than perfectly desireable. But they did.

But I have yet to see a Perl Harbor movie that begins at the begining.
They never mention our Black Ships in Tokyo Bay, nor the Opium War in neighboring China.
Watching Hollywood films about Perl Harbor you would never know that those two events were what woke Japan up to their immediate peril, and led them to a collision course against White Western Colonialism.

 

no , not all . The lazy point i was trying to make was .. the point in the film when it seemed like their was no honour involved and they just went and bombed the shit out of japenese targets... i realise this happened but it did not add anything to the arc of the story ...the whole tone of the film changes imho at this point . completly unneeded sequences .

Imagine Independance day with the world going to the alien planet and bombing them to high heaven.. probably something we would do ?? would it add anything to the film ?? no not realy .

It has nothing to do with my sense of american bravado... i realise that america is not as gun ho as is made out...but the end did imho pander to the type of audience member that likes to wave their flag at every opportunity.

 

I don't care for this movie so much.

 

that's what happenend as a result of pearl Harbor and that's why they put it, not putting it would be crazy.

 

I know did happen ... and why they put it in ..... older films used to put words up to say what happened next (at the end). I guess they had more money and a grand finale was needed .. just the whole thing just seemed gun ho thats all.