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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 9780788831218
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788831216
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
MPN: DISD23889D
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2001
Running Time: 183 minutes
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliché (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened.
For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart
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Rating:  -
It's a shame. Large, talented cast. Great locations. Lots of money spent... on everything but the script. I remember seeing previews and being really excited to see Pearl Harbor. Imagine my dissappointment when I saw the movie and learned that the movie was just BARELY about Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor isn't an appropriate title for this movie. A better title would be, "Adolecent minded adults find themselves in a trailer park type love triangle - and WWII!"
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You know, I can think of other film directors besides Michael Bay who could have done a much better job of filming Pearl Harbor, a film that had lots of potential before it was turned into an overproduced train wreck. Let's see, there's Michael Mann, Ridley Scott, Terrance Malick, heck, even Stephen Spielberg! But what did Touchstone do? Accept a horrible script and hire Michael Bay (of all people!) to direct a romantic film that just happens to be set before, during, and after the notorious attack of ... Read More
Rating:  -
Three decades after the events depicted in this story, part of my "Air Force brathood", as it were took me to the scene of the main area of drama for this movie. The older I get, the more unsettling it becomes to think of how such a beautiful place as Oahu looked during the early years of many of my early-life authority figures and neighbors...
This 2001 feature provides us with a fictional love triangle against the backdrop of one of the most cataclysmic events in American History. ... Read More
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By adding a lot more gore, including severed heads, limbs, and oozing innards, Michael Bay manages, with his 'Director's Cut', to turn his schmaltzy epic into a more credible war film, although the atrocious acting and sappy screenplay still hold the entire piece down. Racial slurs are far more prevalent, with extensive use of the "J" word, along with some non-repeatable epithets. All of which would be fine, if the film were even remotely credible as an authentic WWII period piece. Alas, by inserting very ... Read More
Rating:  -
Pearl Harbor starring Ben Affleck, and Kate Beckinsale bring a piece of America's history back to life as this two disk DVD set walks you through a dramatization of the Pearl Harbor attacks.
This is a great movie. I feel it does a really good job of showing the `sucker punch' America took in December of 1941.
Though this is a movie, it does a really good job of making us remember.
Otherwise, this film is also very entertaining with a great cast and perfect costumes finely ... Read More
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