Films/DVD Asylum Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

---

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Films/DVD Asylum ]

---

[ Alert Moderator ]

---

Reconsidered for what?

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on August 14, 2002 at 20:40:26

In Reply to: "Pearl Harbor" Reconsidered posted by mikenyc on August 11, 2002 at 11:45:24:

C'mon Mike, that movie was a travesty. The acting was cardborad, the dialogue was pedestrian, the relationships were sappy and worst of all it played fast and loose with history (i.e., Ben Affleck comes to the rescue of the RAF). About the only thing well done in this flick were the special effects which amounts to about thirty minutes of a 3 hr movie. I knew something was up when the studio (Buena Vista) made a publicity stunt of wining & dining veterans of the REAL Pearl Harbor attack for several days, then providing them a special VIP screening just before the movie openned wide. They did this because the History channel was geared up to heavily promote the historical film to the point of running a special episode of History VS the Movies on the eve of it's premier with those same veterans making the comparisons.

Well, the veterans were polite during the program and several even liked the film, after all, Buena Vista had rolled out the red carpet for them. However, reading between the lines combined with comments of a couple of the more curmudgeonly vets made it very apparent that the movie wasn't anything like what they experienced. As for Pearl Harbor being "less complicated to understand, and more plausible" than other war films such as Midway, From Here To Eternity, Tora, Tora, Tora, etc., well, that's a stretch. If you mean by less complicated, less challenging, then I might agree, but plausible? The historical distortions in Pearl Harbor are Hollywood at it's worst!

>>> "...someday this film will get the due it deserves..." <<<

The only way that this film could get it's due, would be to refund some of the nearly $200 million dollars earned at the box-office to those who were suckered in by the hype.

>>> "...and the critics favorite punching bag, Michael Bay, perhaps, will get some respect." <<<

Can the critics help it if Pearl Harbor was a dud and the bombs hit the Bay instead? ;^)

AuPh

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

VH Audio

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---