re: Movies that turn 20 years old this year

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still remember watching Pearl Harbor in the theatre and thinking it's a shame that now we'll have to wait like 30 years before someone makes a good movie about it.

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I remember all the hype the film got and how they even had a gigantic premiere and outdoor screening of the film at Pearl Harbor and had all those old survivors and military people there to watch it right before it hit theaters. I thought then it was just an incredible gesture.

Then I went and saw the film and 20 minutes in, my mouth was open and I was thinking, "what the hell is this shite?" and being so confused as to what I was watching. It was terrible. It was the complete polar opposite of the theater experience I had with LOTR that same year, which was awe inspiring.

Then all I could think of when I got out of the film was how all those 80 and 90 year old pearl harbor dudes had to sit through the same shite I just saw. It actually intensified my hate for all things Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay at the time.

Is still a disaster of a film, but there are actually some parts in the second half that are entertaining.