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IT DOESN'T SUCK THAT MUCH!!!!
Pearl Harbor, in a way, is director michael bay's Titanic ( you know romance during tragedy) but not as good. this movie has some of the most groan-inducing dialogue i have ever heard and the whole love triangle between affleck, beckinsale and hartnett was ridiculous and the ending could have been better. Michael Bay should have shifted the movie's focus from those 3 and put it on cuba gooding's character since he played a real life hero from the aftermath so the movie could have been a biopic instead of a crappy romance saga. so you're probably wondering why i bought this film in the 1st place and i'll tell you why. Simply because i am a fan of the director, the visuals are breathtaking (Hawaii never looked so good), and the Pearl Harbor bombing scene is an excellent workout for your surround sound system. You see folks that's the beauty of DVD technology....it can make 100% complete crap look like 100% complete GOLD!!!

$150 Million Well Spent
Have you ever wanted to commit suicide but could never come up with the courage? Watch 'Pearl Harbor' and you'll have all the reason you'll ever need to blow your brains all over that cheap DaVinci print hanging on your bedroom wall.

Directed by Michael Bay, mastermind of such craptasterpieces as 'Bad Boys' and 'Bad Boys 2' and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer of 'Kangaroo Jack' and 'Flashdance' fame comes this epically horrid World War II love story. The lame story focuses on two losers(Ben 'Phantoms' Affleck and Josh 'Halloween H20' Harnett)who both are in love with a complete slut(Kate 'Van Helsing' Beckinsale). They shouldn't have fallen for this upscale prostitute but should have gathered all the native Hawaiians and stoned the crap out of her Mary Magdelene style.

You would figure that a movie called 'Pearl Harbor' would actually be about the events that took place there. Instead we get a pathetically acted, horribly scripted, and all around lame pile of fecal-tinged love story that overshadows the epic event that was the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Maybe I'm being too harsh, but if you like piss-poor and melodramatic excrement, then this film just might be your cup of tea. Myself, I rate 'Pearl Harbor' slightly better than 'Dirty Dancing', but tied with 'Titanic' as the worst movie ever made.

A very disappointing film--not what it was advertised to be. It stinks actually!
After waiting with anticipation for this movie, I was very disappointed. Michael Bay spent big bucks promoting this on it's historical accuracy and basically sold it on it's authenticity. In fact, it was not that accurate. You simply don't get what you were told you would. That is my primary complaint. Entertaining? Sure, to a point, it was, but it could have been outstanding--the opportunity was there.

I lived on Oahu for several years and spent much of my free time visiting and researching December 7th sites and the history of the attack--including talking with many veterans and residents there on that fateful Sunday. Does that somehow make me an instant expert? No, not a chance. But, this movie did not do justice to those people or the honor of such a solemn moment in history. Why don't I write a book, if I know so much, or make my own movie? As you can tell by this review, writing is not my forte, and more importantly, I would probably make the profit motive number one too, over historical accuracy, as did the makers of this film. The important point is, the opportunity to make a truly inspiring movie, as this was hyped to be, was lost for the sake of Hollywood hoopla, and the bucks too, of course. Disappointing!

The most upsetting/rediculous episode of the movie to me was the response of the P-40 fighters, zipping around at Mach 1 (speed of sound--impossible in a prop driven fighter of the day), less than 10 feet off the ground, in true "Star Wars" style, between computer generated buildings and hangars. One building was so very obviously computer created right in front of the main entrance to an aircraft maintenance hangar, it blocked any access to the hangar. This was to gnerate the "Star Wars" effect of aircraft buzzing between the "canyons" of buildings. What nonsense! It may have worked for "Star Wars", but not for this movie. Sad, really sad--this is the kind of hype I refer to. I worked at one time or another in all the hangars at Hickam AFB and Wheeler AFB, during my time in Hawaii, and visited/saw every other hangar on the island, including Ford Island--there were none then or are there now any configured like this silly setup was.

The Doolittle Raid and much of the love triangle, though somewhat entertaining, added little to the movie, but the love story parts had to be expected. If they insisted on putting the Doolittle raid in, as they did of course, they could have at least gotten it partially right. I guess they did actually--they got Doolittle's name right--that's about all. A for instance is, during the real Doolittle Raid, the B-25s were not in any kind of formation like the movie portrayed, they flew in trail, minutes apart, in the order they took off from the Hornet. They didn't have the fuel to spend time forming up after takeoff. Most barely made it to the target and few, if any, made it to the planned rendezvous point in China due to fuel exhaustion. They bailed out or crash landed and were scattered all over China--one crew landed in Russia. "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (see my review of this 1944 classic), although also Hollywood, is a fair representation of the Doolittle prep and attack.

I really didn't expect an actual documentary, but I expected something more professional than this considering the money expended and the buildup about all the research that was supposed to have been done to ensure historical accuracy. The research failed in it's purpose or was intentionally ignored, and we got little for our expectations. Any further examples of the "inaccuracies" are a waste of your time and mine, and those who extol the "historical accuracy" of the film don't know any better anyway .

Can't please everyone, I guess. If you haven't seen it, you should, but don't get your expectations up too high. Rating this movie one star is being Santa Claus--none, zero, zip, nada would be more than enough. Ahhh, I'm easy!!!!

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