OMG, A PEARL HARBOR THREAD! :woot:
LOL, at Danny's expression in the #5th Graphic. Are those Headers or Signatures?
As a kid, I remember my Mom would watch this movie over and over (just for the Pearl Harbor Attack) when she rented it. I liked it at first, but my attention span was short at the time and I was seriously tired of seeing it on the screen everytime I entered the room. To put it mildly, I had no cuddly warm fleeings toward the movie by the time Mom returned it to Blockbuster.
Fast forward 7/8 or some years later, I'm hopped on Hartnett-Happy Juice and decided to watch Pearl Harbor again and I LOVED IT (Amazing what a little maturity and paitence can do for you). I was just wowed, from beginning to end as I watched it on the screen of my computer.
The "Love Story", I thought, was nicely done, on both the Rafe/Evelyn and Danny/Evelyn side; But only the DannyxEvy Relationship felt really believable (like the writer had spent all his/her time on making the viewer believe that it could happen, work out). Its one of the reasons the ending of the film breaks my heart so much.
The commentary about Michael Bay knowing only how to action scenes (which in this film, are amazing) is a very slanted and overexaggerated Opinion; He handled the slower paced scenes quite well. The performances were great, even though Alfeck had a tendacy to overract in some moments (Baldwin was laying on a bit too thick as Doolittle), Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale were just awesome.
Hans Zimmer's score is very... unqiue (I.E., I enjoyed it) in the way that it doesn't really sound like its been composed by him until you watch the scene where Danny and/or Rafe's Airplane's come flying out of the smoke, and that trademark Zimmer theme comes to life.
The Biggest complaint this film has against it (aside from Ben Afleck, Bay and The Love Story), is the Historical Inaccuracy, But my WWII History is so dang on Rusty, that I didn't bother to look for it.
Lastly; Is just me, or does anyone find it funny that most of the actors in Pearl Harbor end up starring in Black Hawk Down with Josh Hartnett (Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Ewen Bremner, etc.)?
