The BEST Movie...

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2005)

This contains 2 things, 1) A response to the review by oatwich (some true historical facts), and 2) My review of Pearl Harbor
I, personally, think that oatwich's review was nuts. I do not recall the Japanese ever shooting at innocent people in the movie, considering the Nurses had military ranks, and that's what the Japanese were there for. The Doolittle Raid was not an attack on civilians. It was an attack on the military structures such as war industries, shipbuilding facilities, and power plants. In fact, Doolittle strongly reiterated that no hospitals, schools, or other civilian targets, were allowed, and got very angry when hearing that some of his men wanted to hit the Imperial Palace. Therefore, the movie portrayed those American bombers as heroes because they WERE heroes, according to the current president. So maybe the movie is not 100% accurate, but what movie is, unless it's a documentary? MOST of the movie IS historically accurate. I also do not see how one can say it was insulting to the Japanese. The movie crew was nervous on how Japan would take the movie, but they obviously liked it, considering Japan was the first or second country, where the movie made the most money. The movie was NOT disrespectful to the world war veterans, they loved the movie, got to advise in the way some of the scenes went, spent time with the cast and crew of the movie, and even cried at the "real feel" of it.
Overall, I think oatwich needs to learn to speak for himself, instead of taking it upon himself to speak for all of Pearl City and Honolulu.
Usually (even with movies that I like), I am sitting there, looking at the DVD player to see how much time is left until the movie ends, because I want to get up and do something. With this movie, I was looking to see how much time was left, because I could not WAIT to see how the movie ended! I think this is an awesome, well balanced love story and action movie (almost exactly half and half), if you are able to sit in one place for almost 3 hours, and like action and romance, I would definitely recommend this movie. :)
Also, if you watch this on DVD, when you put the second disk in, make sure you don't look at the chapters, or you'll ruin the ending. :P
(This is my favorite movie in case you couldn't tell, and I could rant on it forever, but I won't take up any more of your time here, so if you need to talk about the movie, e-mail me.)