Poorly excuse of a movie

Rating: 3/10 (31 August 2008)

You know, every once in a while people have to make a romantic love story movie with a historic event as an excuse to make the story. Pearl Harbor is one of those movies. I bet all of the girls between 12 and 16 years old will drool with the sight of Josh Hartnett, and if you've got bad taste Ben Affleck (not that I like Hartnett that much, but if I had to choose... well, you know), in a love story movie.
Well anyway, I'm one of those people who hate that people shameless take a historic event, turn it inside out and make a love story out of it and then are still claiming it's all about the event. O sure, Pearl Harbor shows what happened so many years ago, and perhaps it's even true that during World War II there were two men madly in love with the same woman at Pearl Harbor, but if you want to show what happened there in WWII, do you think it's really necessary to show the ups and downs of two fools, blinded by love? I don't think so.
And then there's the disappointment of Ben Affleck. I didn't believe him one bit, even though I was such a foolish girl of 12 years old when I watched the movie. At one time I thought by myself: this movie can only be a bit more good, if Affleck dies. He's one of my least favorite actors, I hate watching him, I don't believe him, I don't like his looks, and I don't like the way he acts. Well, maybe that's personal, but in the end it's always personal how we think of movies, and his presence doesn't make anything good.
I'll give some credits to Josh Hartnett, because I find it kind of cute how he's doing his best to give this movie something. Something worth the trouble of watching it. O, and it was kind of funny that when the whole cinema was silent, one girl started to cry so hard that it was umbering for her as well as the audience.