Pearl Harbor

[Sunchaser]

Lessee here, a 3 hour movie with about 30 minutes of blow 'em up stuff and the rest is:

Boy meets girl, boy dies(but anyone with half a brain knows he is not dead), boys best friend steps into the void and knocks up the girl just prior to the return from the dead of the STAR to take part in the infamous raid by the Japs and then be a hero in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.

STAR survives Doolittle Raid but the knocker-upper dies so the STAR gets the girl and the kid and they live happily ever after.

When this one gets to TV it should run on Lifetime-Television For Women.


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When did they put this thing in here and WTF is it for?

[BBGunn]

If anyone here likes to read then I suggest Robert Stinnett's book called "Day of Deceit".  He tracked down stuff about the pre Pearl Harbor raid situation that not even the congressional investigation committees could get.  

[hblair]

I was in the main arena earlier and remember hearing someone say that it was impossible for P40's to get in the air, much less get kills(like they did in the movie), well, I just watched a lil deal on The history channel about Pearl. A lot of the things in the movie that I thought was BS apparently were true. There were 2 P40 pilots who managed to get in the air, after partying all night in officers club like in the movie, sped their car to the field, got in their planes and shot down (according to the history channel) 6-8 planes. The movie accounted for 7.

There really was a black cook who manned a machine gun, and recieved the navy cross for it too.

Interesting stuff anyway.

[Fatty]

I liked that bit HB, just the other 90 minutes to 2 hours of the movie felt like wasted time.

I don't feel ripped off, I just wish I'd been late enough to miss the first half.

[hblair]

 

Originally posted by Wingnut_0:
 Are you talking mothballs for the planes hblair?  

I was talking about the 3 ships tied together that got gas bombed.

[LaVa]

what the fuk was i saying? Yeah!!!!


wow did i type that!!!


chesssssssse...i gotta go..moe moe says so!!

[Bodhi]

I think Ghosth actually got the most out of this, or atleast walked away with the same feeling that I did.  As a warbird conservator and amateur historian, I could see an awful lot that I could pick apart, I also saw quite a bit that was very important.  But the over whelming feeling I walked away with, was hat of respect and awe for our ancestors that, along with our allies, did so much for the world at extreme personal sacrifice for themselves.

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Bodhi
-*Armageddon*-

[paintmaw]

Watch it guys , last time I said these tracers looked real ,I was called a crack head , hehe . So what your saying is its ok to take your wife ?

[Ghosth]

Not only ok, but IMO highly recomended!

[Sandman_SBM]

It's not a bad movie... You historians can stick to Tora Tora Tora... but the flight footage is dazzling...

It's worth the price of admission.  

[Hobodog]

The toejamps reminded me of FINAL COUNTDOWN!

[rosco-]

 I loved it! Gona get the dvd when its comes out. lotsa splosions and fire and bombs and bullets. The air raid siren sounding and all those spits on the field scrambling almost made me jump out of my seat.  

[Zigrat]

i really thought the movie was mediocre. it certainly didnt affect me the way SPR did, which is the best war movie I've yet to see. But i wouldnt say it completely sucked. Prolly rate it a 3 out of 5.

The fight scenes were ool tho   Another nit pick was that the spitfires were packing hispanos  

[-tronski-]

Won't open till next week in aus, but hopeing for the best.

The Zekes were real, not the Tora Tora Texan's but the Val's and Kates were the conversions from Tora.

 Tronsky

[Vulcan]

You know the attack at Pearl was almost prevented - only a case of bad timing let the Japanese get there. The timewarp/blackhole storm came back and sucked the Nimitz back to the 80's again.

Hey... ya know they didn't even mention those two Zekes the F-14s from the Nimitz shot down in this new movie. Bah! See more inaccuracies...