How Sad

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2001)

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Yes that is my comment, but it is not a comment on Pear Harbor. It is a comment on the people who rip this movie to shreds. How sad it is that many people have forgot that real people with real lives, real loves, real hopes, and real dreams fought and gave their life for them. I know this is a forum for reviewing movies and not a forum of debate. However after watching Pearl Harbor on DVD on a Big Screen TV last night with a good sound system all I can say is WOW! This has to be one of the great movies of recent memory, MUCH better in my opinion than Harry Potter could ever hope to be.
So why is it so maligned by many of the posters here? Normally this might be considered attempting to start a debate but I feel that I am addressing real issues that have been brought up again and again by past posters in this forum.
It's not historically accurate. HUH??? Please could someone point out one major historical inaccuracy. I consider myself to quite the history buff and can find no major inaccuracies in this movie. Omissions don't count as it is impossible to show every detail of an event on the big screen and not leave parts out. An omission is not an inaccuracy unless it changes the context of fact. Mr. Bay consulted closely with many people who were actually there and had their input and the input of many historians. My suggestion to those of you who believe this movie was inaccurate is, perhaps you should reexamine your knowledge of history from a more objective viewpoint.
The love story was not important. The love story was the movie. This was not Pearl Harbor with the love story as a backdrop, this was a love story with Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid as a backdrop. War is about people. When you forget the people you forget the essence of what we fight and die for. Real people real lives, people loved people were separated people died and families and hearts were broken, that is war. War is not just one country fighting another country, for every person who dies in battle there is a story, a life and family. This movie was about those people.
The love triangle was not believable. Another HUH??? This is a very believable situation. Often times a person who loses someone will turn to someone that is already close to both of them. I have seen this happen in real life. They both thought Rafe was dead. What is it more likely for Danny and Evelyn to do, forget each other or turn to each other?
The special effects were poor. Once again HUH??? These were some of the best effects I have ever saw in a war movie. The producers went to extremes to make the effects look real, even so far as actually loading real B-25 bombers onto a real aircraft carrier and recreating the start of the Doolittle Raid. This had never been done since the real Doolittle raid nearly sixty years ago. Many of the shots include REAL aircraft and ships with CGI being used to only fill in the background. I believe some people have been watching special effects so long they don't know real when they see it.
In closing I say I loved this movie, and to those who hate this move, please watch it again with a open mind expecting a story of people and not a story of war.
There was four of us who watched this movie last night and afterwards there was not a dry eye in the room.
My rating 9 out of 10 (I've never Gave a 10)