Not in any way to make light of the terrible, horrible tragedy that took place today, but since the attack at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center is being compared with the attack on Pearl Harbor, I shall briefly make my point by bringing it up:
Imagine, several years down the road, someone making a movie about the terribly tragedy at the World Trade Center, turning it into a pointless action movie which glamourizes the deaths of thousands of people in some action scenes (using, of course, amazing special effects), and then sugar-coating it with a fictional love story that has nothing to do with the event and suggesting that it is a more important topic to cover for most of the film than the event which it is supposed to be honoring.
Thus is the nature of "Pearl Harbor." It doesn't honor the tragedy of sixty years ago....it desensetises people to its horror and rapes its impact on the nation. This is a film spitting on the honor of our fighting boys, and it should have never been made.
zero out of ****. Less than that, even. To give it zero stars, I am suggesting that it is worthy of being even considered or watched, and I refuse to rate this film on the level of a "movie". It is betraying to a nation.
My heart and prayers go out to the loved ones of those killed in Washington and New York today.
Imagine, several years down the road, someone making a movie about the terribly tragedy at the World Trade Center, turning it into a pointless action movie which glamourizes the deaths of thousands of people in some action scenes (using, of course, amazing special effects), and then sugar-coating it with a fictional love story that has nothing to do with the event and suggesting that it is a more important topic to cover for most of the film than the event which it is supposed to be honoring.
Thus is the nature of "Pearl Harbor." It doesn't honor the tragedy of sixty years ago....it desensetises people to its horror and rapes its impact on the nation. This is a film spitting on the honor of our fighting boys, and it should have never been made.
zero out of ****. Less than that, even. To give it zero stars, I am suggesting that it is worthy of being even considered or watched, and I refuse to rate this film on the level of a "movie". It is betraying to a nation.
My heart and prayers go out to the loved ones of those killed in Washington and New York today.