Wonderful, powerful, exciting, romantic

Rating: 10/10 (6 December 2005)

When we like a movie, my daughter and I have been known to see it more than once, but we've never seen a movie as often as we saw Pearl Harbor. When it first came out, my (then) 15-year-old daughter and I saw it 11 times in the theater. Now, 4 years later, I'm still surprised it didn't get better ratings/reviews than it did.
I know some people complain that the movie was historically inaccurate (so, maybe they should go watch a documentary), but this movie made us feel many thingsa sense of our history, patriotism, pride that our country pulled together then and optimism that it can do so again, and gratefulness to those who make our freedom possible. The flying scenes were exciting, and the bombing scenes were intense (and maybe overlong). Some of the hospital scenes were haunting, and gave a strong sense of the horror and confusion of that day.
We loved the old-fashioned love story. I don't understand why some people complain about a love story being put in the context of a movie like Pearl Harborin real life, I'm sure hundreds of the people affected by Pearl Harbor were in the midst of their own love stories. And, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett get our votes as romantic heroes any day. We still love this movie.