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Old 01-06-2007, 07:24 PM   #43
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Pearl Harbor was a dreadful movie, no doubt, except it was saved, in my mind, by the battle scense, which were pretty well done. I watched the actual attack on Pearl a couple of times when we rented it, but the rest of it was dreck. A top european theatre FIGHTER pilot sent to the pacific theatre to fly a BOMBER to tokyo? Puh-leeze. Even so, the intial parts of the attacks on Pearl itself were pretty good.
Agreed about Pearl Harbor. It was even worse than Titanic in the sense that it ruined an historical event.

The battle scenes were great, but not enough to ever make up for the dispcable story which I considered to be exploitation and degrading to the veterans who were stationed at Pearl Harbor.
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