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Did you like Pearl Harbor (the movie)?

:nod: Yes
9 (30%)
:blah: Indifferent
10 (33.3%)
:sigh: No
11 (36.7%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Voting closed: August 24, 2002, 07:55:32 pm

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Offline Sandwich

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on: August 24, 2002, 07:52:53 pm
Since I've heard numerous and wildly differring opinions about Pearl Harbor, I wanted to take a poll and find out what you all think. So please, don't just look at this thread and move on if you've seen the movie, it only takes a second to vote. :nod:

Also, if you haven't seen the movie, don't vote! :)

I'm not including options such as "Hated 1st half, liked 2nd" simply because I want to know what your overall opinion is, not what parts you liked/didn't like. :D
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Reply #1 on: August 24, 2002, 07:58:56 pm
Plot-wise it sucked monkey-balls.
SFX wise it f00kin 0wned.
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Reply #2 on: August 24, 2002, 08:00:21 pm
I voted even though I haven't watched it. Just because you didn't want me to. :p
 

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Reply #3 on: August 24, 2002, 08:17:12 pm
Well thought out,slaps An0n, has enough lovey dovey stuff to keep the females interested and enough action to keep they terminator freaks interested.  Good acting as well.  However it is kinda long for a lovey dovey/ action movie.

Overall I give it a total of 3 1/2 stars out of 5.
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Reply #4 on: August 24, 2002, 08:18:26 pm
I'd give it 5 stars. All Ninja. Right in it's intangible face.
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Reply #5 on: August 24, 2002, 08:25:22 pm
I liked the attempt at making a love element, but would rather have had a REAL story told in the baground of the battle. Instead of just showing how real people fought and died, why not also show us how they lived? Unless that triangle was actually based on a real event... then it was an awesome movie!
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Reply #6 on: August 24, 2002, 08:43:27 pm
Never seen it, but from all that I have heard, it appears to be a  crap movie in the same manner that all the others are. Tora! Tora! Tora! is the definitive movie on the pearl harbor event; this probably sucks compared to that one. :p
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Reply #7 on: August 24, 2002, 08:50:23 pm
Yea I liked Tora! Tora! Tora! better...but the little boy and the dude that screwed his friends girl!!!!  It makes me want to cry!!!!
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Reply #8 on: August 24, 2002, 09:16:41 pm
10 minutes action.. 2 hours chick flick...
 

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Reply #9 on: August 24, 2002, 09:46:18 pm
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Never seen it, but from all that I have heard, it appears to be a  crap movie in the same manner that all the others are. Tora! Tora! Tora! is the definitive movie on the pearl harbor event; this probably sucks compared to that one. :p


CP, Tora! Tora! Tora! got hammered by the critics. It did poorly exactly because it had no story. Yeah, it was a close-to-exact rendidtion of what actually happened at Pearl Harbor, but it wasn't an entertaining story. People were expecting to be entertained and what they got was a not-so-interesting documentary.

At least, so I'm told. I never saw Tora! Tora! Tora!

But I did see Pearl Harbor and I did enjoy it.:nod:
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Reply #10 on: August 24, 2002, 11:09:45 pm
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10 minutes action.. 2 hours chick flick...
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Reply #11 on: August 24, 2002, 11:37:23 pm
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I voted even though I haven't watched it. Just because you didn't want me to. :p
 

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Reply #12 on: August 25, 2002, 05:22:59 am
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I voted even though I haven't watched it. Just because you didn't want me to. :p
 

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Reply #13 on: August 25, 2002, 08:18:34 am
well, my suggestion for how to make pearl harbor a good movie:

A) if in theatre, walk out for the first hour, then go back it ;)

B) if on tape, fast forward to the bombing scene

The first half is a chickflick, middle is the good part, and end is just...poorly done.
 

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Reply #14 on: August 25, 2002, 08:41:40 am
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Yes, that is what I have heard about it, which translates to "it's crap." :D

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CP, Tora! Tora! Tora! got hammered by the critics. It did poorly exactly because it had no story. Yeah, it was a close-to-exact rendidtion of what actually happened at Pearl Harbor, but it wasn't an entertaining story. People were expecting to be entertained and what they got was a not-so-interesting documentary.


Actually, I found it quite interesting; it is true that they could have added in a bit more on the political situation (especially on the Japanese side), but there was still enough of it to put it well above the other movies out there today. One thing that this one really got right was to not focus on some insignificant individuals (only the ones at the top), but rather on the movements of the society as a whole. This is the thing that I have heard of any other movie getting correct. Anyway, it was far, far more interesting than any stupid love story could ever have been. :p
 

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Reply #15 on: August 25, 2002, 08:54:12 am
I dunno about you guys, but i found the PH bombing scene quite entertaining...though the rest was downhill from there
 

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Reply #16 on: August 25, 2002, 09:08:56 am
I liked it, so did my wife.. Like the titantic the movie consisted of 2 VHS tapes that lasted about 3 hours... Id see it again to, can`t speak for anyone else but I think it is a must see:)
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Reply #17 on: August 25, 2002, 09:42:16 am
PH was the only movie ever I walked out on when I was watching it in the theatre... :nervous:
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Reply #18 on: August 25, 2002, 10:28:48 am
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Such wise words....:nod:

Yeah, overall, Pearl Harbor was gawdawful. It was cool when the planes flew over and blew everything up, but that didn't offset the fact that Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck were in it together. Basically, if you're a girl who's out to watch those two get killed, then see the movie. Otherwise, save your money and go watch Goldmember or something funny. ;)(Of course, maybe in a sick perverted way, watching those two get killed is funny.:devil:)
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Reply #19 on: August 25, 2002, 11:36:27 am
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PH was the only movie ever I walked out on when I was watching it in the theatre... :nervous:


The only movie I ever walked out on was Tim Buron's A Nightmare Before Christmas.

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I know that Josh Hartnett dies in PH; does he die or live in Black Hawk Down? I wanna see that movie, but I haven't had the chance yet.
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