*sigh* A huge disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2004)

*MAY HAVE SOME SPOILERS!*
WWWWolf presents: Things that bug me.
Part 1: It's a Typical Hollywood Love Story(tm). I've seen zillions of these. One more won't be amazing me in a slightest bit. Producer: "Okay, we're making a Pearl Harbor movie." Screenwriter: "Okay..." (proceeds to put the "Pearl Harbor", "Two Guys Loving The Same Girl" and "Patriotic War Imagery" modules in the screenplay writing machine, turns the crank a few times, and the machine e-mails the screenplay directly to the director)
Part 2: How many clichés from recent war movies can you *possibly* fit in one movie? Epic dying moments, crankily humorous officers, etcetera etcetera... Not only is it a clichéd love story, it's *also* a clichéd var movie!
Part 3: It doesn't end where it should, specifically, after Pearl Harbor. Okay, so there's an American guy who goes a-flyin' and drops some Zeros when they're attacking. I can take that. But if you're going to make a movie about the most humiliating defeat USA has seen in a war, why oh why did they have to specifically continue from there, showing some weird morale-raising military manoeuvers after the whole thing? "Hey, we got kicked around, but see, we lost a battle but not the war! Aren't we cool?" ... They should have just ended the movie at Admiral Yamamoto's worries about US retaliation, like in that other movie (where even that scene was done far better!).
Part 4: I don't know - to me, it didn't *seem* like a WW2 movie. Especially the latter morale-raising part. Strip off the gear and make them a bit more modern, and presto, here we have a *modern* war/action movie. The whole thing seems like a modern action movie thinly disguised as a WW2 movie. Heck, it's a *run-of-the-mill* action movie disguised as a WW2 movie.
In conclusion, it bugged me, and there are a lot better movies in the genre.