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"Pearl Harbor" is a movie that MAY live in infamy!
Show-stopping special effects and production design cannot save this multi-million dollar turkey. The love story triangle is boring, sentimental and insipid (just count how many times characters sigh at each other)and some of the lines are right out of WWII propaganda films of the 1940's (Alec Baldwin's pumped up speech to Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett about "making America believe in victory" takes the cake).
Disney's Touchstone studios produced the film, which simplifies history to such an extent that the script could be read to 2nd graders. Haven't we learned more about this event over the years? I guess not, according to Hollywood. "Tora! Tora! Tora!" made in 1970 still takes the honors as the definitive Pearl Harbor film. If you want more factual data, go to a National Geographic video program. But if you want to be dumbed down to and assaulted by never-ending (albeit impressive) pyrotechnics, watch this film.
Lastly, the only scene missing was Ben Affleck taking his adopted son to Disneyland at the end of the film. That would have been the perfect touch to an very imperfect film.

A Movie Which Will Live In Infamy
Over all Pearl Harbor is an exciting war/love epic which will move you to tears. It has masive action plus a twisted love triangle which will draw the viewer(s) in! For all you guys, there are tons of blood and dead bodies EVERYWHERE. Bombs explode... people get blown up... and Michael Bay does a great job directing the film (There is also a short love scene that you might be interested in seeing). And for all the girls, there are romantic scenes which will make you cry and use up a box of tissue(you'll finish the box and many more). Pearl Harbor is a wonderful and astonishing love story with flying guts and blood(dramatic/action film)! Besides the great storyline the actors are the best. Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are soooo HOTT in the movie! As for Kate Beckinsale, she's pretty and she'll make you wish you were in love like her character in the movie. The costumes were amazing and the movie will have you glued to your seat(even if it's 3 hours long). I was shocked, myself, that it didn't get nominated for a golden globe or an academy award! The time was worth it and a part of me even thinks it was too short. The plot was great and Pearl Harbor would make an excellent book!!!! Pearl Harbor is a movie which will truly live in infamy!

All i gotta say is...WOW...truly phenomenal
If you are looking for a class-act war film, then go see Pearl Harbor. This movie definitely deserves much more credit than it has been given. The special effects are spectacular; the actors are as true to life as you can get; and the overall story is exceptional. If a movie can move an entire audience to tears, then you know it's gotta be good.

Many people say the movie focused way too much on the love triangle between Ben Affleck, Kate Beckingsale, and Josh Hartnett. Don't believe them. In fact, the movie is more about the Japanese's preparing their attack and the events leading up to the war than it is about romance. I was actually intrigued by the scenes with the Japanese devising their plan. To me, they didn't come off as these big evil villains at all. I just saw them as a race of people trying to fight a war. I mean, at one time or another in history, every country has done something they're not particularly proud of, but a person cannot go around hating that nation because of it. "If you're going to go around hating a country becuase of what they've done in the past, you'll soon discover that you hate the world."-quote by me.

In fact, the USA killed almost 180,000 people when they dropped the atomic bomb on Hirsohima. So does that mean Americans--the same Americans who began to resent the Japanese after they saw this film--are going to hate their own country now? Of course not--because few people know that fact.

Okee, oops. I guess I'm getting sorta off track here. soree. I was definitely impressed by this film. I laughed and I cried. I left the theater feeling pretty depressed. I guess what made it worst was seeing the actual memorial in Hawaii onlee months before. If you've never been there, there is this enormous wall with thousands of names of all those people who died in combat. So sad... But even if you haven't seen the wall, you'd prolly cry anyway after seeing the film. And Josh Hartnett is really HOT in it! haha. i was captivated by the soaring planes, blazing explosions, and vast blue oceans.

neway, i really think this is the type of movie that you have to see for yourself. but take my advice neway (hehe) and go see hollywood at its best.

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