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05-28-2001, 03:18 AM | #1 | |
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Pearl Harbor
It's not like I want my money back or anything, but I won't see it a second time. My review, from my board:
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05-29-2001, 03:21 AM | #2 |
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Re: Pearl Harbor
Well Iron, I think you liked it a bit more than I did, my review wasn't nearly as kind I'm afraid.
You are right about the effects and the battle scenes during Pearl Harbor, very beatiful and frightening, perfectly done. But they went on so long that towards the end of the battle they lose effect. And then there are the other battle scenes in the film, Rafe's dogfighting in Europe, and the final gratutious America triumphs battle, both of which where VERY underwhelming in both the way they were presented and the way they were filmed. But even with great effects, god I was bored out of my mind most of the time. I mean the Pearl Harbor battle is like 15 minutes out of a 3 hour movie, the rest of the time I was just looking at my watch. |
05-29-2001, 01:53 PM | #3 |
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Aw geez! I hate it when they take what has potential to be a great historical epoch and turn it into a love story or something else it`s not meant to be (Titanic is a great example). That`s what was so nice about 13 Days. It didn`t delve deep into all of the 'relationship' stuff between JfK and Jackie and Robert and his wife. It kept to a storyline and kept to the topic of the movie. There were a few very brief moments and that was it. I`m still excited about seeing the movie (Pearl Harbor), but perhaps a little less so now. I`ll be seeing it this coming weekend. Shall keep an open mind and post my review afterwards.
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05-30-2001, 03:13 AM | #4 |
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Re: Pearl Harbor
Whatever you may think of love stories in historical disastor films, I'll say this, Titanic made it WORK. Despite frequent critisizm, there is a reason Titanic won an Oscar for best picture beyond its rampant popularity with teenage girls.
Pearl Harbor has not ONE OUNCE of that, despite its desperate and blatant attempts to rip Titanic off. |
05-30-2001, 05:57 PM | #5 |
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Actually, Titanic didn't work for me in terms of plot or characters or romance - more than Pearl Harbor, but that's really not all that much.
I find that it is successful as a production that is so incredibly lavish and well-envisioned that Cameron's directorial efforts manage to conceal the blandness of the screenplay. |
06-14-2001, 02:00 PM | #6 |
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I personally really liked the movie. And for those of you who didn't like the love story that was thrown (which is rather predictable), how would you make it a movie without it??? Have a bunch of war planners sit around and argue and plan and finally attack??? Sounds boring except for the end, which we lose anyways. I thought it was a great movie, except for the part where my friend attempted to give me a few Snowcaps and ended up missing my hand for the most part. But, anyways, if you haven't seen try it.
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06-14-2001, 10:21 PM | #7 |
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So what are you saying? Its no longer possible to make an interesting movie without throwing in a love story? BAH!
There are a million different ways it could have been done. Just look at Saving Private Ryan. No love story there. And if you are GOING to throw in a love story, at least make it entwined with the battle. In PH, the battle is just a backdrop for the love story, and really doesn't actually impact the love story at all. In Titanic, at least the sinking of the ship had some impact on the characters. |
06-15-2001, 05:18 AM | #8 |
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Lawrence of Arabia.
220 minutes long, and not a single speaking female role. Yet it is, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others who love the art of cinema, the most breathtaking epic ever to hit the screen. |
06-19-2001, 03:28 AM | #9 |
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GREAT example Iron. Been talking about this topic on my board and have been racking our brains to think of good films without love stories. That's a big one we mssed.
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06-19-2001, 02:38 PM | #10 |
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I was just saying that the way the movie was set up, it would hace been a documentary without the love story. That's just how the story was done.
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07-06-2001, 03:13 AM | #11 |
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I finally got round to seeing it. Have to say I prefer "Tora! Tora! Tora!".
The Doolittle Raid bit was interesting though. Oh, one thing you guys probably didn't know about. The Japanese invaded Malaya in SE Asia several hours before bombing Pearl Harbour. But since we're on the other side of the Greenwich Meridian, the calendar in these here parts had already turned over to December 8th, while over there in Hawaii it was still December 7th. So the history books record the invasion of Malaya on the 8th, giving the impression it occurred one day after Pearl harbor. |
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