The most offensive movie I have ever seen.

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2001)

I saw this schlockfest last night, and I am really offended. The name Pearl Harbor means something very solemn and sacred to this country, and there is something morally wrong about taking this subject matter and turning it into a brainless soap opera/thrill ride. I don't know which was lamer; the "love triangle" or the directors' efforts at historical accuracy (They didn't even depict the Japanese Admiral's reason for the attack correctly! duh.) When Hollywood decides to do a movie about an actual historical event, they have a responsibility to depict it accurately and with some taste. What a waste of all those millions of dollars. There were so many things that grated on my nerves, like the "nurses" who always traveled in a clump and looked like Veronica Lake wannabes. Hint to the directors - check out some actual pictures of nurses in the forties. They didn't look like that! They wore their hair up and were regular people. I was hoping somebody would steal their lipstick..then we would have seen real emotion! If the makers of "Pearl Harbor" were aiming to copy "Titanic", they did at least get one aspect down -- it was a disaster, all right.