So what if it was "cheesy"??

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2003)

Hey, I'll take a cheesy but WELL done romance story anytime! You see, that's what is so good about Hollywood. Hollywood TRIES to make movies for everyone. If Hollywood only made the same historical/factual/documentary type movies, that could get boring. So, hollywood likes to spice things up a bit. Sure the romance between Jack and Rose MAY have been unrealistic, but that doesn't mean it could NEVER have happened! I've seen stranger things believe it or not. Plus, we have to remember, that NO historical movie (not even the "good ones") are 100% factually accurate. Sure, some are more accurate than others, but that's not necessarily the case in MOST movies. Most movies add more drama or romantic stories in them to make things more interesting. How "interesting" would the 1997 version of "Titanic" had been if all you saw was the ship take off and then sink?? I LIKE to know the background stories of the people in the movie, even if it IS a "sappy cheesy love story". Otherwise, it might be a bit boring. Who would even CARE about the characters if we didn't know at least a LITTLE about them? And a tragic love story is the best formula. Lovely! James Cameron was smart...VERY smart to add this in this film. He has something for the men (action, special fx), and stuff for the ladies (some good-looking guys, and a love story). There's nothing wrong with that. Sure, the dialogue wasn't "OScar-caliber"...haha...yet it won 11 oscars out of 14! A new record? Go figure! Besides, it seems like MOST of the general public enjoyed the movie...so, who cares what the dialogue was like?
I didn't see much wrong with Pearl Harbor except for the fact that the dialogue was VERY weak (10 times worse than Titanic ever was!), and it seemed to me like the main goal was to sort of RE-create another "Titanicesque" film to garner the same success Titanic had. Not many movies can touch a WIDE ranging audience like Titanic did. It might be some time before another movie does. It's the highest grossing movie to date. Another one of Pearl Harbor's weaknesses (aside from the elementary plot and lines) was that I feel like perhaps maybe this historic event hit home to many Americans, and perhaps it was a little too "close-to-home" to make a shody job of a movie about Pearl Harbor. Maybe in 30 years people wouldn't care if this movie had come out then, but there are still veterans still alive from the war, and although I'm not sure what MOST of them felt about the movie, from what I heard, a lot of them enjoyed it.