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re: Pearl Harbor released in theaters 25 years ago today
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:34 am to Lawyered
Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:34 am to Lawyered
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It’s insanely rewatchable and a good cast
Saw this with my parents in the theater
The faith hill song is good and really hits the emotions during the credits
I was fortunate enough to watch it with my grandmother. After the movie ended, she told me the story of when she and my grandfather heard about the attack over the radio while driving home from church. All of her siblings and their spouses gathered at my great-grandparents house to listen to the radio together.
One of her brothers was stationed at Pearl at the time and witnessed the whole thing. Her other three brothers and all five of her brothers-in-law ended up serving during the war...and all of them made it home.
So, anytime this movie is on, I have that nostalgic need to watch it.
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 7:49 am to Oswald
I watched a doc on Netflix Attack on Pearl Harbor - Minute by Minute the other day. It is from 2022. It was really good. Perspective from both sides which was very interesting.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:13 am to RollTide1987
Pearl Harbor sucked. It gets so boring and cliched at times it is difficult to sit through it.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:21 am to rebelrouser
I feel like the reason it was so poorly received is because everyone felt hoodwinked. I definitely went thinking I was going to see a WWII movie and left feeling I got something completely different than what I paid for. Like going to a football game and it end up being soccer. It's not bad for what it is but that's not what the majority of movie goers expected.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:39 am to Sam Quint
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I think most people actually secretly enjoy it while claiming to hate it bc they heard everyone else say they hated it
Just like everyone "hates" Nickelback
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:44 am to Oswald
That is actually a :csb:
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:47 am to Sam Quint
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I like that movie. Come at me bros.
It was a spectacle and fun and kate beckinsale is a rocket
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:53 am to RollTide1987
i liked the movie... the love triangle was odd but Titanic was still very fresh in our memories in 2001
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:53 am to Ryan3232
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Pearl Harbor is one of those movies that I know has flaws, but I watch it every time it comes on cable. It’s a nostalgic love for me.
It was on tv the other day, and I put it on...
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:57 am to i am dan
It was one of the first movies i remember us renting on DVD years later and it being a two disc affair... I had several VHS movies that required two tapes, but never a dvd at that time.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:09 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:11 am to Roaad
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Just like Braveheart
I know the story, characters, and situations are almost completely made up
But. . .frickin FREEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMM!!!!!
Movies like this that took a lot of literary freedom with real events and people never bothered me; only the folks that treat movies like this and 300 like historical dramas with only small changes instead of acknowledging that they take HUGE ones.
Hard to blame the movies for people being too dumb to realize most of it never happened.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:15 am to skrayper
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Hard to blame the movies for people being too dumb to realize most of it never happened.
wait a minute... you mean the love triangle wasn't real?
Posted on 5/26/26 at 11:22 am to Legion of Doom
Are you telling me that there was not a youth baseball game in full swing at 7:50 am on Sunday morning in December going on during the attack?
I'm devastated.
I'm devastated.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 11:27 am to RollTide1987
I think my main problem with it is the cliched dialogue that sounds like it was written by teenagers for teenagers. There were lines in that film that would have made George Lucas second guess if a character should speak them. Like when Kate Beckinsale is describing how she met Ben Affleck on the train to her nurse friends. You'd think these girls were in middle school the way they were talking and reacting.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 12:27 pm to Sam Quint
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like that movie. Come at me bros.
I love Pearl Harbor. I get that it was incredibly sappy with the over the top romantic stuff but the movie itself was awesome. And Ben Affleck has never been known as the best actor but that low cry he lets out at the end with Josh Hartnett in his arms is gut wrenching.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 1:09 pm to Corso
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And Ben Affleck has never been known as the best actor
Ben Affleck, along with this movie, Creed, and the aforementioned Nickelback, is one of those things that just became trendy to hate.
This post was edited on 5/26/26 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:14 pm to RollTide1987
I remember seeing it in the theater. It was embarrassing. Terrible film.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:18 pm to moontigr
If only SPR had a love triangle. Could have won an Oscar.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:31 pm to saintsfan92612
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck
He was terrible in that film
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck
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