Film · Touchstone · 2001
Pearl Harbor
20Leave it.
Leave it. The dead of that morning are not a set for a romance.
Take controlThis scores 20. Pearl Harbor cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
Pass it on
The review
Michael Bay had a subject that did not need him. Sailors died at their stations on a Sunday morning. Nurses worked in corridors. A radar reading was waved off. Any one of those is a film. This one would rather invent two boyhood friends and a nurse and let the bombs punctuate their jealousy. The attack footage is expensive. Expense is not respect.
Do not put it on for a child who does not yet know what December 7 was. Do not put it on for an adult who does, unless you are willing to talk over it. There are better accounts on this shelf, including Tora! Tora! Tora!, which is willing to be plain. Leave the triangle where it is.
Journal
Keep Pearl Harbor in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 20. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Battleship Potemkin
31 instead of 20
Battleship Potemkin is still a war film, and it scores 31 instead of 20. What you gain is courage: They refuse the meat and risk the uprising that follows on the ship.
The eight
- 3Industry
Pilots and nurses are jobs in the credits. In the film they are types who kiss.
- 2Household
Love as competition. Nobody is asked to keep a house.
- 1Piety
The morning is used. Nothing is revered except the lovers' problem.
- 3Courage
Bravery is a shot in a trailer. The real courage of that day is off somewhere behind the music.
- 2Republic
A national disaster is the obstacle in a courtship.
- 2Temperance
The spectacle is the point, and the spectacle is of ships full of men.
- 2Truth
The history is a costume. The triangle is the plot, and the triangle is false.
- 1Stewardship
What it leaves is the habit of using the dead as a backdrop. That habit is the thing to refuse.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Pearl Harbor · 20IMDb tt0213149