A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
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Stars:
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Ben Affleck
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Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor." Written by
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The production budget for the film was, at the time, the largest ever given to a movie before filming started, one hundred forty million dollars. See more »
Goofs
During the Doolittle raid, as the B-25's are taking off from the Hornet they are portrayed as barely making off the deck. In reality the planes were literally leaping off the deck. The takeoff speed for the B-25 is about 80 M.P.H., the carrier sped up to about 25 M.P.H. and there was about a 40 M.P.H. wind blowing for a total of 65 M.P.H. before the planes even started rolling. They only needed about 15 M.P.H. more to become airborne. In short they were lifting off way before the calculated lift-off point. The only plane to have a close call was the one flown by Ted Lawson, the author of "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and that's because he forgot to put his flaps down. See more »
Quotes
Cole Walker:
I fought the Germans in France, and I fought 'em in the trenches. And I pray to God that nobody has to see what I saw.
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I seriously do not understand the utter hate toward this film by
critics when writing their reviews. "Historically inaccurate" or "Just
another love story" or "boring!"... If you want to see a film that is
totally historically accurate, watch a documentary for heavens sake.
This movie goes way out of proportion to what really happened that day
in Pearl Harbor, but it is a MOVIE! Get over it. It's not supposed to
be real.
The film as a whole is brilliantly written; it's not too soppy with the
romance and not too over the top with pure action. People are saying
that it's just too much shoot 'em up and too many explosions. Well, I
got news for you... They're at war! Bombs will go off and guns will be
fired from all places possible. If you want to see a movie that's not
so explosive, watch Twilight.
To me personally, character development is very important in a movie
and I believe Pearl Harbor succeeded with this. I grew attached to
individuals and felt vulnerable as a member of the audience at the best
of times. Absolutely superb watch, and I'd highly recommend it! If
you're offended by a film not being entirely accurate, steer clear and
stick to your documentaries.
9/10! Excellent!
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I seriously do not understand the utter hate toward this film by critics when writing their reviews. "Historically inaccurate" or "Just another love story" or "boring!"... If you want to see a film that is totally historically accurate, watch a documentary for heavens sake. This movie goes way out of proportion to what really happened that day in Pearl Harbor, but it is a MOVIE! Get over it. It's not supposed to be real.
The film as a whole is brilliantly written; it's not too soppy with the romance and not too over the top with pure action. People are saying that it's just too much shoot 'em up and too many explosions. Well, I got news for you... They're at war! Bombs will go off and guns will be fired from all places possible. If you want to see a movie that's not so explosive, watch Twilight.
To me personally, character development is very important in a movie and I believe Pearl Harbor succeeded with this. I grew attached to individuals and felt vulnerable as a member of the audience at the best of times. Absolutely superb watch, and I'd highly recommend it! If you're offended by a film not being entirely accurate, steer clear and stick to your documentaries.
9/10! Excellent!