Criticism to the critics

Rating: 7/10 (30 August 2005)

I'm sorry; I do not understand why everyone hates this movie so much. Unless every single one of you are veterans of the Pearl Harbour attacks I don't see how you can so openly criticise the historical content of the movie. It was made over 40 years after the attack happened. Isn't it obvious it's not going to be a bit-by-bit re-enactment of what happened back then? If forty years on someone made a film about September 11 or the London Bombings there'll probably be just as many historical inaccuracies as Pearl Harbour. And it's not like the producers tried not to make it as accurate as possible. They interviewed over 70 Pearl Harbour Veterans and tried to weave in every account they could. If the 'Rafe' and 'Danny' characters were real, they wouldn't be doing the Doolittle Raid, that is true because of the differences in flying (fighters and bombers), but a: they wouldn't be able to end the film without the Doolittle Raid, and b: surely you can't expect them to bring in two entirely new characters at that time in the film?
I will admit, it does seem to be a little over the top with the love triangle but seriously, how many people watch documentaries compared to the amount that watch romance movies? It's a Jerry Bruckheimer film for goodness sake, of course there had to be something in it that attracted the people, not just the big explosions. But you have to see that they weren't only doing it for the romance. If you get completely immersed in the love affair off those three characters, you may get a glimpse at the emotional side of things. I wouldn't know for sure because I wasn't there but I know for sure I got caught up in the emotional side and I'm not that kind of person normally. The nurses had to be in it because of the stresses and stuff they went through when the casualties started coming in and with that many sailors and only that small amount of nurses of course there had to be some sort of romance. The nurses weren't just placed in the film because of the romance, they were also, and more importantly there for emotional circumstances.
This film wasn't meant to be a documentary, it's meant to be an entertainment film. Duh!