Yeah, sort of like Oliver Stone's "JFK".

 

see another satisfied customer. not. LOL

 

How great it was of Hollywood to trivialize one of the most important moments in U.S. history.

 

I thought that Titanic did a pretty good job of mixing fiction with history, and paying a good tribute to those that lost thier lives. Pearl Harbor is just cheese, god if I saw one more sunset scene....

 

Hollywood Cheese.

 

I thought it made the main girl look like a slut. I didn't buy the whole love triangle thing...

 

We all knew it would be Hollywood Blockbuster Formula[tm], but they managed to introduce so much fluff that the actual attack was a side show (technically well done, as expected). And trying to shoehorn Doolittle's raid in was completely unnecessary.

They should concentrated on the event, done somewhat factually and just left us with something to think about: Why are we all driving Japanese supercars?

<bad one-sided joke: no flames required>.

And when you concentrate on a sailor trapped in the hull of a sinking ship and he comes up to an air pocket to take his last breath, only to mutter "This is it..."--that's less effective than having him say NOTHING. Sheesh, good directors know when to be subtle.

 

Really!!! I didn't know that...

 

Damn, we have some hard critics here...I like it. The love triangle concept in this movie is almost like in Cast Away.

 

For the definitive movie on the Doolittle raid, check out "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944). It's an old B&W but quite good, starring Spencer Tracy as Doolittle. It comes on AMC or TCM every once in a while and it may be available at Blockbuster or Amazon .com. This movie contains lots of original footage due to the fact it was released a couple of years after the actual raid.



[Edited by lvs2k on 05-29-2001 at 12:33 PM]