Based on the last decade. I’d kill for Hollywood to make movies like Pearl Harbor and Armageddon again.

Pearl Harbor film -Not about Pearl Harbor but a love story Dunkirk film -Literally about being at the Dunkirk evacuation

How would a dyslexic and a stutterer even qualify for service especially as pilots?

I personally loved this movie

What is left over is the love story because the whole scene of the attack is impressive.

1996 through 2005 was the era of corny love stories with great action. A movie where you fast forward to the action scenes. Most of the time. When I watch the titanic. I just fast forward to the sinking

At 13:15 he says Private Ryan WANTED to go home badly. Actually, he wanted to STAY and FIGHT solely BECAUSE his brothers were dead. Michael Bay should review YOU

During the attack on pearl harbour they showed some modern US destroyers, which were introduced around 1990. So historically one of the worst movies ever

Divided on this movie. The cheesy love triangle and some of their dialogue was insufferable. But then again, there were some pretty great moments in the movie, like FDR's "Do not tell me it can't be done" scene, plus the visual effects of the attack scene.

Its not a shitmovie. It has a bunch of flaws but also a bunch of qualities. Main ones being,Jon voight,the attack,the cinematography,sound and its ott ambition. Like a big,corny war movie from 1951 but technically competent. Its bad but pretty good but bad.,..but okay.

2:00 I don't blame the Japanese. I'd declare war on an American love triangle too, if I had to sit through their bullshit for three hours straight. And I'm American myself. Also, "squeezed" is the wrong word to use for that sentence. Ebert should've used "stretched" instead. But I digress.

On the plus side Kate Beckinsale looks great. That's pretty much it. They got so much wrong. 1. An American who joined the RAF doesn't get to leave the war just because his plane crashed 2. Admiral Kimmel didn't know we broke the Japanese code. 3. Admiral Kimmel never made it to the Golf Course as he headed to headquarters upon hearing of the sinking of a Japanese submarine trying to get into Pearl Harbor 4. Fighter and Bomber pilots get different training, and no pilots at Pearl Harbor took part in the Doolittle Raid 5. The B-25s each attack separate targets in Japan and went in as they took off because they didn't have enough fuel to get into a formation 6. They never replaced the machine guns with broom handles painted black because the only guns on the B-25 were the two in the top turret, and one in the nose that would be used by the bombardier. 7. There was no aerial reconnaissance of the Japanese Fleet bases before the war because we had no planes with a long enough range to reach them, and it would have been an act of war to fly over them is we did 8. Flying World War Two fighters as low in the air as the did over Pearl Harbor would have caused them to crash into things in real life 9. There was no way to listen into the radio messages of the Doolittle Raid because the radios in the planes couldn't send a voice message from Japan to Hawaii, and they weren't sending messages out anyway 10. Japanese Carrier are shown having angled flight decks which were not put on Aircraft Carriers until 1952, and by then all the Japanese Carriers had been sunk by then

It's McCawley! NOT McCrawley

Yes, in every way imaginable. A bad script, bad direction, bad acting and bad CGI effects resulted in a film that fails both as drama and history. Let us never speak of it again.

00:58 I hated the movie, but I have to say that is an amazing poster.

Personally I still liked it. It veered away from the facts, but was still a nice love story. The scenery was great and the sound excellent.

I fucking love'd this movie. Its's one of my favorit.

Tora! Tora! Tora! still did it much better! there is also the fact that not a single american pilot shot down a German aircraft during the Battle of Britain. Mainly because the eagle squadron didn't exist until AFTER the battle of britain.

Your deadpan delivery of what I assume are catchphrases rivals that of Ryan George, you make it seem super easy, barely an inconvenience.

I just don't get it. I'm not a movie connisseur and the love story in this movie is kinda crazy but I think they were just trying to show what the difficulties would be like during a war. The love story was kinda far fetched but I still liked the movie. I think people are too hard on it. Gone With The Wind isn't completely accurate historically but people don't crazy bash on that movie like they do this one. They're just movies. They are a starting point to get your interest in a particular moment in time or subject. Not everyone who watches Star Wars or Star Trek will be geniuses on the matter, but it could be something that sparks your interest to learn more. And plenty of people watch the Harry Potter movies without ever reading the books but still enjoy the movies. I'm just saying that I thought it was an enjoyable movie. It showed what happened in Pearl Harbor and what finally dragged the Americans into the war. Some parts were historically accurate and did happen but it IS a movie and have every right to be artistic with THEIR movie. It's BASED on real events and I don't think it has to be 100% accurate and gory as a war movie to get the point across. The love story just helps to carry the movie along. And even though you said none of the characters had depth, I still liked the characters and cared about them. I think they had depth. They're not Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre but they were still people that had stories.

Not to defend the film but complaining about lack of nuance after mentioning Cuba Gooding's line that subtlety mentions all he can be us a cook in the Navy at the time struck me as odd. How much less nuance did you want for that specific scene? Do you want them to spell out specifically he can only be a cook because of FDR? You are right that Miller deserves better though.

25% "critic score", but 73% public score. I never look at the critic score, they're wrong 80% of the time. Many of them give scores based on political leanings of actors and directors.

"Pearl Harbor sucked almost as much as I miss you". Haha! I've seen your review on the movie that quote is from so I'm sure you'll know what it is. Man, your reviews awesome. Love em. Keep them coming.

Pretty much every Cuba Gooding Jr. movie I've seen is defined by his race. Snow Dogs (I enjoyed it as a kid, but I hate it now), Gifted Hands (good, but it has a shadow over it because of Carson's presidential campaign), Red Tails (relies too heavily on racial stereotypes), and pretty much every other in his career. Why can't we have a Cuba Gooding Jr. movie in which his character faces obstacles that stem from interpersonal conflict, instead of institutional racism?

This movie caught me at about 10 yrs old together with Aviator.. It will always be in my heart as a great plane movie!

The father in the opening scene was hilariously awful

And for some reason he gave this a better rating than tora tora tora

It really is impossible because he was an army pilot and she was a navy nurse

I never saw it but apparently Matt stone and Trey Parker did and made a diss song about it in team America.

_Pearl Harbor_ [2001]: Does this movie suck? Yeah. It's no _Saving Private Ryan_ . But more specifically, I tried watching this in the early-'00s at home on DVD. But when that plinkly tinkly background piano music (like @ 5:22) of dreadful, poorly conveyed "sentimentality" played yet AGAIN for the umpteenth time in like the first fifteen or twenty minutes of the damned movie, I turned it off and put in some other better film to watch instead.

Whoever said this movie sucks? Who "remembers" this as being "bad"?

Feels like the dialogue was written by George Lucas.

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Great review. The screenplay and back plot were so unbelievable that it made all the other inaccuracies very intolerable. Great special effects went down the toilet because of that. Ben Affleck was very miscast. Josh H and Kate B could have worked with a better script. No depth..spot for on!

I didn't fund particularly beautiful to look at. Light is cheesy, editing is messy and ridiculous, especially during the love part (when they say goodbye to each other through the revolving door). The attack scene is well shot in general though. It looks more spontaneous, and sometimes it gets quite moving - when the Oklahoma sinks for example. After that it's bulshit again. Real bad movie, but still enjoyable.

I actually really like this movie

What if this movie was made by James Cameron

Pearl Harbor did whst it did really well. It just wasn't marketed correctly. Also I'm sad The Media Guy no longer uploads :(

Siskel knew more

Rafe and Danny are a really good duo in this film but they could've been established better.

Short answer yes it does because it’s such a horrible misrepresentation of history

This movie is actually really good

I like the ACTION but just not the love triangle

"I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot, girl."

this moviw would have been better if it was not based on real life events

Yeah, Pearl Harbour sucked. There was a little bit of good, but almost all of it sucked. I was just barely saved from watching this movie in school when the teacher proposed putting it up. Only me and 2 others in a class of 30 managed to convince the teacher not to do it.

A movie people LOVE to hate

They should have stayed in child form. Maybe goose shit ! Does this movie suck - Italian man says does my mother cook spaghetti ?

The reason that the movie was bad was because Danny died.😡

Much as I have a soft spot for Michael Bay, this is the one movie that I wouldn't even bother going back to. It's that bad.

Did Roger Ebert hate Pearl Harbor?

I know I know u are right in almost everything but I love this movie

Pearl Harbor sucked, Just a little bit more then I miss you.

Does this movie suck? In a word. Yes.

It's a great Film. Yes, it fails to mirror some historic fact correctly but i Love the patriotism and heroic actions of the characters. It is a great Film if you just want to sit back and enjoy the patriotism as well as the heroic Main chatacters

“Great visuals and sound sound design. But awful writing.” -The Last Jedi.

The storyline in this movie was so historically incorrect! The US did not assist England before the bombing or bothered whatsoever about a war fought in Europe, UNTIL the war came to them.

Short answer yes yes it is

yeah these characters need more depth - how about a whole movie each - to satisfy your need for lore - or what did you want it to be a 4 hour movie?

Well it said out to do what it said it to do... A crash grab from kids and teens. Michael Bay.

that would give the characters depth, and we can have that

This movie is not about Pearl Harbor, that’s just the title, it’s about events from Pearl Harbor so that means it’s going to have fiction and romance

The Media Guy. Like most movie critics. You are wrong...

8:15 England not Europe

This is honestly one of the most inaccurate, and biased WW2 movie that's not a low budget b-movie. I could go on for a long time on all the historical inaccuracies in this movie.

I loved Pearl Harbor!

This film's story is so so so bad that the terrible that it totally prevented me from enjoying its wonderful cinematography.

Who cares if the movie is historically inaccurate! I’m personally a boxer and I can tell you that the boxing scene is so far from realistic, but the movie isn’t about boxing, it’s a romantic movie! It’s a beautiful movie

probably one of the worst movie reviews ive seen.

I loved this movie, one of my favorite :)

I disagree I love this movie. I’m a history geek

Michael Bay is the worst director of all time. Show some respect for the veterans and read a history book.

McCauley not MCcrawley

Disagree Bring closer the point and the effect

michael bay is one of hollywoods best directors this was a good movie

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I have a soft spot for Michael Bay, some of his movies are rather decent, in my opinion. I even liked the Transformers movies. But even then, I didn't like this movie. Not even a little bit.

This is a great movie I dont care what anybody says my top 10 forsure

In addition to all this, somehow in Pearl Harbor the US planes attack Japan in broad daylight and land in China near sunset (~4 hours away at 250mph). The attack is monitored 4000 miles away in Hawaii by radio (also in daylight, cause radio bounces so well in daylight), while FDR sits in his garden in the afternoon sunshine. How freekin stupid do directors or editors think people are? Pretty freekin stupid. Here's the real timeline according to the night landing in China: Attack at 2pm local Tokyo time (month of April), Time in Hawaii at time of attack 7pm; Time in Wash DC midnight.

I thought his last name was "McCawley" not "McCrawley" but these Michael Bay haters can't be bothered with getting things right while they're trying to be high and mighty, right?

Micheal bays worst movie pearl harbour. Pearl harbour is cringey