Pearl Harbor impressions.

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I was a tad disappointed with Pearl Harbor. It reminded me a lot of Titanic; the focus was on the love story for an hour and a half (it's a 3-hour film, BTW). I would have liked it more if they toned down the romance and had more scenes with the Japanese and American militaries trying to outguess each other.

That said, the attack scene was excellent. More brutal than I thought it would be. Pure Michael Bay goodness. Makes me wish I had walked into the theater 90 minutes late.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Basically, it was "Get the part where the boat sinks!" :P</div>

[Gilder]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>White Squal was a HELL of a lot worse, just an hour or so of nothing, the Squal and a crappy ending, one of the worst movies I've ever seen</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: left; '>I agree. Movie's about 45 minutes too long, but worth seeing nonetheless.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>I didn't get the reason they put that whole last part of the movie on there... and the whole love triangle thing was retarded.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Really, in practically every film he or Jerry Bruckheimer does, there's a black guy who speaks funny and a little dog for comic relief.

Pearl Harbor was better than I thought, I thought the actual attack scene got the horror of the situation across very effectively. But it was cheapened by the fact that the ending GLORIFIED war, which is totally contradictary to the little speech that Danny's dad gave at the beginning.

Plus my friends and I were playing "count the locals." This might surprise you, Michael Bay, but there are polynesians and asians living in Hawaii too...</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's made the love story one of its principal objectives. This gives the film more of a 'chick flick' factor, therefore increasing gross. Wise choices.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>How did it glorify war in the end?</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>My first impression: the movie is 183 minutes long and all the girls come out crying. That's the first sign of a bad movie</div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: justify; '>It's easier to glorify war if you're winning. The Dolittle invasion, as far as actual damage goes, was completely and totally worthless. It was intended to give people hope. Before that there were a lot of folks running around thinking we were done for, what with a titanic chunk of our Pacific fleet missing and all. A tiny little ineffective battle to give people some hope doesn't glorify war. I'd say it actually emphasizes how ridiculous it can be.

--Lee S.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Not to mention inacurate... first of all, the Japanese attacked the airfield BEFORE the naval yard and NO american planes ever got off the ground.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>First <u>The Mummy Returns</u> and now this. What's up with people thinking they can flaunt at realism in the movies? Is this a bad year for movies or what?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Did he do Titanic?</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>The whole "America knew nothing but victory, Japan knew nothing but defeat" bit. I don't know, I think a condemnation of war would have been more appropriate somehow but I may be just nitpicking.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Nope, that was James Cameron (Terminator 2).</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Nothin' says 'fun night out at the movies' like 3 and a quarter hours.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Hey, like I said, as long as your entertained who cares about something small and unimportant like the facts?</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Especially when you have to pee.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The love story was Disney's decison. They wanted their own 'Titanic.'</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I don't think he's racist. The movie is about as historically and demographically accurate as Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Like Titatinic, the event merely provides the backdrop and an excuse for cool special effects...</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The only Hawaiian I remember was the guy in the bar fight scene.

I wouldn't go as ar as to say he's racist, though. Probably just narrow minded.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Well, that's a pretty accurate voice-over given the outcome...one of the few historical accuracies in this movie...Not that the voice-over provided any great insight or anything...</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>I think historical war dramas should make you think about war, and all this one really did was scream at the top of its lungs "war is bad, people die, but it's okay because the United States won in the end."</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Heh, I don't actually think he's racist, but it's still bad even if he's just narrow minded. The whole film is very nationalistic and ethnocentric, and that's dangerous considering a good portion of America will use this and films like it (The Patriot, etc.) as a damn history lesson.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I think you are under the very mistaken impression that this movie was going to be based in some historical accuracy or provide some insight into the war. Errr, this is a Jerry Bruckheimer flick, remember? ;)</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Then it should say "Based on a true story", emphasis on "Based".</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I think the survivors of Pearl Harbor should sue Jerry Bruckheimer for making such a disgraceful movie.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Heh, the biggest theater at the local cineplex (Pfft, dirty old 8 deal) is the farthest from the can. Sadistic architects.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's not like Titanic created or even revolutionized the love story. It's the chick flick factor.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>A generation of trailer-folk believing Ben Affleck has a congressional medal of honor? Sounds like a fun time.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Whoa, Ish is on the money today. :)</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Errr...I mean Michael Bay. Dammit, Ish! You made me look bad.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Don't worry Jerry Bruckheimer produced it. That's what you meant, right ;)?</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>I dunno, I find twisting the facts for the sake of making more highly disrespectful to the people who fought in the battle or worked at Pearl Harbor. I know it's going to happen, but that still doesn't mean I have to like it. Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer should be banned from Hollywood. Hell, if not for this than for the fact that Jerry Bruckheimer made Coyote Ugly and didn't put more T&A in it =\.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Same people who voted for Bush. Like I said, I weep for the future of our country.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Anybody who voted for that motherfucker HAD to be stupid. Jesus, the guy has no remorse for the planet, and doesn't know the meaning of the word "compromise".</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It did revolutionize the 'high grossing chick flick' though, which was why I mentioned it.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Wait while I scramble to get proof for my unsubstantiated statements.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I think he said 'contromiscual' before, though. That's kind of close.</div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: justify; '>Michael Bay directed it and co-produced it, actually, so Sine kind of covered all the bases with that one.</div>

[Lee S.]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: justify; '>Maybe, but I'm a patriotic kind of guy, so I liked it. Besides a message putting down us going to war after the Japanese bombed the shit out of us wouldn't have set too well.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>heh, you can't sue people for bad taste...</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>And to aid your search, Gone With the Wind was an early HGCF.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic"; text-align: left; '>You couldn't really call it that, because things changed a lot in the later century.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Movie has always been like that, it's nothing new.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I wouldn't care about The Mummy, but PH should at least TRY to be accurate.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Not really. They were getting good for a while.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't know what movies you've been watching.</div>