Guest Downhome Report post Posted January 4, 2003 It is the worst MAJOR feature film I have ever had the displeasure to sit through. I will not even begin to point out it's many technical, acting, script, historical, etc... problems, I would be here all day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted January 4, 2003 Problem is that Pearl Harbor was hyped and advertised as some historic retelling of events as they happened movie. The whole premier on a Aircraft career and parading veterens around yammering about how accurate it was and all of that. If they had pushed it as a romance movie set during Pearl Harbor then I'd have no problem with it. But instead of hyping up the movie for what it was they played the historic retelling movie card. It would've saved me time if i had been told what kind of movie it really was. I didn't go into it hating it as I really wanted to see because i had heard everyone saying it was good. The romance stuff isn't even what made me turn the movie off. I turned it off because of all the sugar coating taking place and because it was painfull predictable. The black guy becoming a hero after the white man gave him the "boy you can't do this" lines. The hero making a triumphant return after he was believed to be dead. Predictable cornball shit like that is what made me dislike the movie. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Lethargic Report post Posted January 4, 2003 The black guy becoming a hero after the white man gave him the "boy you can't do this" lines. You do know that really happened right? That's the funny thing I always notice. A lot of people that put down the movie always point out the few moments in the movie that were actually true and call THEM the corny parts. I've had some people put it down because of the corny part of having only two pilots get up and fight back and help end the invasion. I'm like, yeah, but that really happened. If anything is corny it's that it would just HAPPEN to be two best friends. Not that it was only two of them. I found Cuba's part a little corny only because it's become cliche at this point after years and years of war movies where the black cook always ends up picking up a gun. But it's one of the most famous stories from Pearl Harbor, they couldn't leave it out just because it's been done to death. I completely agree on the advertising. I think they really screwed the movie in the ass with the trailers. Pretty much every trailer was non-stop bombs. Disney tried to sell it as a war movie and the film-makers were making something totally different. Even going so far as to force them to change the name of the movie in the first place. That right there was the first nail in the coffin. If they had kept the original title it would've been better recieved probably. If they advertised as just a Michael Bay WWII movie, you know Armageddon in the 40's, nobody would've been disappointed by it. You'd know exactly what it was going in. If you name it Pearl Harbor it's gonna immediately make people think it's the 100% definitive movie about the attack. It's not and wasn't meant to be. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest SP-1 Report post Posted January 4, 2003 Yeah, I take no issue with having the romantic angle in it, it's just that it was executed and blended horribly. There's absolutely no flow between the two main plots of the film, and there's very much a cutoff point. It's like watching two different movies spliced together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
