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Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale
Brand: DIS
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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Movie Review: AWESOME!
Summary: 5 Stars

You won't see more realistic aerial scenes anywhere. Superb Technicolor cinematography, clarity and color, filming angles and special effects are awesome, feels like you are there in the midst of it. In my opinion, it isn't done any better than this.

The critics panned this movie when it came out; frankly I think that's because they're too jaded. I think it's excellent!
Yes, it's a Hollywood movie, but if you liked what Hollywood did with Titanic, you'll definitely like this one. [Oddly, Titanic got all the awards, while this one was overlooked. Can't figure it.]

The story is well rounded, showing the human side of the story in various facets, the enlisted men and women, pilots, sailors, nurses, doctors, civilians doing everyday things, US President, even the Japanese. The actors are young, but that's how it was, our service men and women were young,(still are). Service-women are shown in equal measure, in the hospitals, with real-life situations.

I've read a lot of research went into it - as much as a movie of 3 hours can. No movie about an event of this magnitude will be able to cover all events, in perfect accuracy, in a few hours. So movie critics ought to lighten up.
It's said there are still bullet holes in the cement tarmac on the real harbor, evidence of the flyover shooting of our guys on the ground, portrayed in the film. *Cuba Gooding JR's part is that of a real-life serviceman.

An excellent movie and a history lesson too. I HIGHLY recommend it.

** Weird how it came out in theaters in 2001, shortly before 9/11, which has been compared to the real Pearl Harbor ever since. This movie shows you why it goes beyond the casualty statistics.

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Summary of Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]

History comes alive in the unforgettable motion picture PEARL HARBOR, the spectacular blockbuster brought to the screen by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Experience the groundbreaking special effects that place you at the center of one of the watershed events of the twentieth century, presented for the first time through the magic of Blu-ray Disc® technology! Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale star in this real-life tale of catastrophic defeat, heroic victory, personal courage and sacrifice. See the battle as never before in 1080p high definition, while the astonishing 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio will make you feel as though you're in the cockpit of your own fighter plane. The unparalleled realism of Blu-ray Disc® technology delivers a breathtaking reenactment of the "date which will live in infamy."

To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliché (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened.
br/> For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart

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