I felt physically ill after watching this

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2008)

Pearl Harbor is not only a terrible movie because it's just so terribly done, but because it leaves you feeling sick. I actually felt woozy after watching this film, i am not kidding. The music is so over the top it makes you feel like you're drowning in syrup, the characters are so undeveloped and underused that you don't care about them, and so the spectacle of the film feels hollow. And as for all of the sailors on the battleships who were blown apart, shot apart, and drowned, this movie doesn't show them at all until the attack comes, so when we actually see them dying, we don't really feel much. And the special effects actually aren't as good as they should be. The whole movie is a massive Titanic wannabe about an event that took twice as many lives yet has almost no emotional connection once the actual attack comes. And all those historical inaccuracies. Be respectful to the victims for god sakes. After seeing this i had to watch Schindler's List to remind myself that it is possible to make great movies. So to sum it up Titanic-James Cameron-James Horner+Michael Bay+ Hans Zimmer + Randall Wallace- any amount of talent= Pearl Harbor. Its as bad as they say it is.