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Titolo: Une rece stupenda...PEARL HARBOR

PEARL HARBOR
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2001 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****):  * 1/2
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, using the same sensitivity that he did in 
COYOTE UGLY, turns his attention from scantily clad women who make their 
living by dancing on a bar to one of the seminal moments in our nation's 
history.  The result is that PEARL HARBOR is a lame love triangle in a 
patriotic wrapper.  It's the movie that everyone feared, incorrectly as 
it turned out, that TITANIC would be -- a big, expensive special effects 
extravaganza without a heart.  And it's the kind of movie that leaves 
viewers angry for wasting incredible amounts of their time with such 
drivel.
You'll laugh.  You'll cry.  You'll undoubtedly laugh out loud at its 
many sappy moments of ridiculous hokum.  And you probably at least feel 
like crying that such an important event in our country's history has 
been turned into a silly romance with one clichéd line after another.  
What a colossal wasted opportunity.
Buy the popcorn and go for the big tub.  You'll need something to do as 
you wait forever for the movie to get to its raison d'être, the 
destruction of most of the United States's navy at Pearl Harbor.
The movie's story concerns a pair of hotdog pilots, Rafe McCawley (Ben 
Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett), who grow up together and 
"fly" their first plane at age 9.  Once grown, they both end up as 
military pilots and in love with the same woman, Evelyn Johnson (Kate 
Beckinsale).  All of the characters are reduced to stereotypes so that 
you'll likely care little when tragedy strikes them.  Even the movie's 
sex scene, which is shot with a soap commercial gloss, is laughable.  
Sometimes the film gets so over-the-top that you begin to wonder if it 
is an intentional parody of a wartime romance.
The trite dialog includes such gems as, "You don't dogfight with a 
manual," "If I had one more night to live, I'd want to spend it with 
you," "All I ever wanted was to have a home and grow old together," and 
"Good huntin'."  After most such lines, the music is brought up 
dramatically.  The movie, with its heavy, syrupy score, frequently seems 
more like a music video than a movie.
Writer Randall Wallace (THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK) does come up with one 
good line.  When Rafe is asked by Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) if he knows 
what a "top secret mission" means, he replies that it's "the kind of 
mission where you get medals, and they send them to your relatives."
Yes, PEARL HARBOR, directed by Michael Bay (ARMAGEDDON), does have one 
of the best trailers ever.  The trailer scenes form the body of the 
movie's only successful part, the half-hour section that occurs just 
past the midpoint in this endurance contest of a picture -- it's over 
three hours long.  My advice to you is to arrive ninety minutes late 
since nothing, absolutely nothing, of interest happens until the 
Japanese Zeros arrive to obliterate our fleet.  A typical scene during 
the cinematic wasteland that is the movie's first half has Rafe stealing 
a police boat so that he can show the New York City lights to Evelyn.  
What, you will be asking yourself frequently during this period, does 
this all have to do with Pearl Harbor?  And, as you twiddle your thumbs 
waiting for something to happen, you'll keep asking yourself, "Why does 
this story have to be over three hours long?"
Responding to a compliment on his brilliance, the Japanese officer 
planning the infamous sneak attack, replies, "A brilliant man would find 
a way not to fight a war."  Which brings us to the movie's most 
intriguing revelation.  Pearl Harbor was our fault!  In a fascinating 
bit of revisionist history, the movie has the Japanese leader explain 
how they were forced into it.  Kind of makes you wonder what insights a 
Bruckheimer story about Hitler would divulge about his real motives.
If you're willing to put up with the saccharine nonsense of the first 
half, the movie's middle section -- a CGI tour de force -- will send 
chills up your spine as our boys are almost completely annihilated and 
sent to watery graves in which many still lie.  The computer generated 
effects are awesome, which is a good argument for seeing a film about 
the making of PEARL HARBOR.
"I'm not going to make it," one of the brave soldiers says at the end.  
I know just how he feels.  I barely made it through the long ordeal of 
watching the movie.
PEARL HARBOR runs a butt-numbing 3:03.
Guglielmo, 
"I'm not afraid to die!"
"Good, because I'm not afraid to kill you."

 PEARL HARBOR runs a butt-numbing 3:03.
Credo che i giudizi dei critici siano unanimi. Adesso il test finale
sara' nella performance del film fra il primo e il secondo weekend: se i
critici hanno ragione, c'e' da aspettarsi un drop-off del 60 per cento.

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Mi hai fatto venire in mente quel gioco bellissimo che mi avevi mandato,
quello che facevi il produttore :-)
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(mafe - #UIN 5304940)
I migliori film questa settimana in televisione
http://www.dude.it/televisione/index.htm

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1eu62at.3isavdvlcpcqN%unfaked...@mail.com...
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Mmm, il drop-off (ma si chiama così? Fico...) sarà molto duro, ma è normale
quando si parte così forte. Più che il giudizio della critica conta comunque
quello del pubblico, che sembra molto positiva (non come incassi, proprio
come gradimento a film visto). Per quello che conta, confermo che il film è
bruttino forte...
Colin McKenzie
http://www.caltanet.it/frm/cinema/

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Dici che se chiedo di vedere solo i 40 min dell'attacco cogli Zero e i Kate mi
fanno pagare 1/6 del biglietto?
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 RATING (0 TO ****):  * 1/2
Una recensione che ho letto io diceva più o meno:
"E' un bene che con le nuove tecnologie audio lo scoppio delle bombe si
senta così bene: ti sveglia giusto in tempo per vedere l'unica parte buona
del film......"
Ciao da Antonello

 quello che facevi il produttore :-)
Vero, bellissimo. Da qualche parte ho ancora la lista dei film che avevo
prodotto, seguendo la piu' bieca logica industriale... Sarebbe bello
poter esportare in formato testo la lista dei successi prodotti, ma non
so come fare...
Una volta esisteva un programmino per Mac che catturava i testi che
apparivano sullo schermo, anche quando erano in un programma che non
consentiva copincolla... Ricordi mica quale fosse?

 del film......"
Ahahaahahahahahahahaahaha!!!!
Quel film ha già le gambe stroncate, arriverà qui sulle ginocchia
probabilmente:)
Cap.Ripley

 consentiva copincolla... Ricordi mica quale fosse?
Un programma, no, pero' puoi fare uno screenshot ...
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magari da it.comp.macintosh ti giunge risposta (ho beccato massimo che
ti leggeva ;-) )
-- 
"Los Chinos son los unicos que no temen los fantasmas que todas las
noches a las doce nos salen de la piel"

 Un programma, no, pero' puoi fare uno screenshot ...
Uno screenshot pesa, e mica posso postarlo in questo inutile thread! :-)
(magari qualcuno mi aiuto, vedi che il marito della Vale mi ha seccato
subito)

 Pensa averli prodotti sul serio ;-)
(Per te e per gli altri che hanno SimCinema Deluxe: gli altri faranno
bene a killare tutto questo thread da ora in avanti)
Ce l'ho fatta, ecco qua la lista completa. Appena ci riesco ti posto
anche le tramine e i dati tecnici su regia, interpreti, accoglienza
critica, eccetera. Puoi notare la spremitura totale dei filoni di
successo, gli esperimenti con la combinazione nel titolo della parola
"sex" con materiali diversi e, da un certo punto in poi, la scoperta di
un fortunato filone "deprimente" contraddistinto da regie d'autore e
poche o punte star.
sky forever $39 million (success)
selumandrilla  $4 million (failure)
BOMB! $79 million (success)
mother night $33 million (failure)
oil $34 million (success)
Pizza Sex $21 million (success)
sex overdrive $27 million (success)
Sky Forever 2 - The Return $52 million (success)
BOMB! 2  $147 million (success)
The Glance of the Blind $39 million (success)
BOMB! - The 3rd Man $231 million (success)
Sky Forever 3 - The Bomb Master $40 million (failure)
BOMB! - The 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse $197 million (success)
BOMB! - The last 5 minutes $283 million (success)
BOMB! - The 666 $110 million (success)
Dry as an empty blood vessel $14 million (failure)
Tears in a grey room $12 million (success)
Illness in the Death Row $16 million (success)
BOMB! - 7 1/2 $115 million (success)
Alien Aline $46 million (success)
Mr. Tragicomic $54 million (success)
Mr. Tragicomic strikes back $91 million (success)
Mr. Tragicomic gets married $98 million (success)
Son of Mr. Tragicomic $109 million (success)
BOMB! - 8 1/2 $154 million (success)
A $37 million (success)
Farts - A Love Story $46 million (success)
BOMB! - Cat's 9th life $88 million (failure)
Mr. Tragicomic blows the horn $17 million (failure)
BOMB! - The Ultimate, Final Bang! $88 million (failure)
Teeth Eaters From Mars $40 million (success)
Tapum! $99 million (success)
Life sucks, my girl doesn't! $11 million (failure)
The musical fruit $30 million (success)

 poche o punte star.
Sei completamente pazzo :-)
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 Sei completamente pazzo :-)
io rollo e laffo... "Life sucks, my girl doesn't" e' ottimo!
(ehm... cioe'...)
Vale

 (ehm... cioe'...)
Vabbe', quello era uno smaccato tentativo di sexploitation. Mi e' andata
male. Peccato, perche' era diretto da uno bravino:
Budget: $23 million
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Meg Ryan
Music: None.
Visual effects: None.
Sound mix: Dolby
Tag line: "Suck off!"
Weeks filming: 13
Weeks released: 6
Ecco i dati tecnici (magari interessano a Van Cleef):
TV Commercials: $0 million
Movie trailers: $0 million
Magazine/Newspaper ads: $2 million
Posters: $0 million
Theaters: 1944
Domestic gross: $11 million

 Director: Stanley Kubrick
io volere sapere dove trovare questo belizimo gioco
Vale
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 io volere sapere dove trovare questo belizimo gioco
Se tu volere io inviare in attach, tanto tu avere MacIntosh.

 Se tu volere io inviare in attach, tanto tu avere MacIntosh.
dai, dai, manda :-)
N.

 dai, dai, manda :-)
e se tanto per cambiare mi ci metto anch'io, in lista?
-- 
b.

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ehehehe, io donna fortunata :-)) invia invia!
(grazie)
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