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Review: Pearl Harbor
Tip 1: make that trip to the john before this
3.5 hour deal starts out.
Tip 2: dont expect too much.
Perl Harbor opened this weekend, and has all
the effects and weak plot we have come to expect
from the Summer movie extravaganza. I can really
sum this up pretty easily -- If you saw
Armageddon, you saw Perl Harbor. Aside from the
now-becomeing-old standard array of summer movie
actors, director Michael Bay delivers the best
knock off of (insert Jerry Bruckheimer film title
here) I have seen in a while.
Ok, ok, the movie is worth seeing. The special
effects are absolutely amazing, and the sound is
even better, but all in all it wasn't a great
outing.
On the OMG-here-comes-the-political-correctness
tip, the movie really dissapointed me. It glossed
over the collosial pooch screw that the Japanese
attack was on the part of our military. Now,
barring historical reality, I was also
disappointed by the glossy portrayal of
Japanese-Americans in this movie, which starts out
with a little tip about German-Americans in the
first few minutes. WW2 was one of the darkest
times in the history of our planet, and our
treatment of the Japanese-American population
during that war is likely second only to slavery
on the grand scale of attrocoties this country has
committed. But maybe that wouldn't make for a good
film -- not a summer action film either.
TOTSP Score: 2.6 on our scale of 5.2. Check
this one in the theater only if you don't have a
good system to play the DVD on.
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Re: Review: Pearl Harbot
I don't know if this is the same movie or not. I saw Pearl Harbor this weekend.
I would agree that the overall fictional plot was typical. I liked the characters, but had plenty of trouble with things like the dyslexic guy who could not read an eye chart, but could send and receive loving snail mail. Or how his best friend would when he would not...(you have to see the movie).
I have read quite a bit about the actual day and how it unfolded, and I was able to follow the special effects and their account was very accurate. I will say that until I saw this movie, I thought "Searching for Private Ryan" did the best job of completely terrifying me with the awfulness of the battle. Now, I will say I have never been so terrified or horrified by anything I have ever seen on the silver screen. I honestly can't imagine how horrible war must be if this was not an accurate depiction.
I also wondered why so litle effort was made to show the Japanese american perspective. Now there is an angle yet to be explored.
I would rate it higher if for no other reason than to encourage everyone to see it in a real theatre and try to sense how it would feel to have actually been there.
Rick
Re: Review: Pearl Harbot
I agree that the accounts of what happened there were reasonably accurate. ( Aside from the obvious -- really we got five planes aloft and they weren't nearly as successful ). Most of the historical problems I had with it revolved around the larger issues -- the way FDR and the Navy brass just totally dropped the ball.
I certainly don't want to appear to diminish the memories of the servicemen that died there, or what they went through. I am a huge student of WW2 and am coninously awestruck by what humans can do in that situation, both bravely and cruelly, but Pearl Harbor happend because of a bunch of head in the sand not paying attention chumps at the top. Come on, we stopped sending steel and oil to Japan while they were in the middle of an extended war. How did we expect them to respond?rick stuart wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is the same movie or not. I saw Pearl
> Harbor this weekend.
>
> I would agree that the overall fictional plot was typical. I
> liked the characters, but had plenty of trouble with things
> like the dyslexic guy who could not read an eye chart, but
> could send and receive loving snail mail. Or how his best
> friend would when he would not...(you have to see the movie).
>
> I have read quite a bit about the actual day and how it
> unfolded, and I was able to follow the special effects and
> their account was very accurate. I will say that until I saw
> this movie, I thought "Searching for Private Ryan" did the
> best job of completely terrifying me with the awfulness of
> the battle. Now, I will say I have never been so terrified
> or horrified by anything I have ever seen on the silver
> screen. I honestly can't imagine how horrible war must be if
> this was not an accurate depiction.
>
> I also wondered why so litle effort was made to show the
> Japanese american perspective. Now there is an angle yet to
> be explored.
>
> I would rate it higher if for no other reason than to
> encourage everyone to see it in a real theatre and try to
> sense how it would feel to have actually been there.
>
> Rick