DVD : Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: AFFLECK,BEN
EAN: 9780788831218
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788831216
Label: Touchstone / Disney
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Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
MPN: DISD23889D
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2001
Running Time: 183 minutes
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005
Amazon.com:
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 clich茅 (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.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: 
- Very good movie, a favorite, mixture of friendship, love and war.
This movie has always been one of my favorites.
It tells and shows a lot of things and in some moments it can even make me drop a tear. It is a very good movie but also very sad.
It is definitely a must see , and i can nothing else but recommend it!
- Andreas
Rating: 
- Icckk
This movie is absurdly bad. A white elephant. From the start, when you see Alec Baldwin, as an Army Air Corps officer, ordering a couple of US Army pilots to Britain to fight Germans in British RAF fighters, you know this flick is BS. America was a neutral in 1940, no US armed service personel were ever sent that year or the next to fight in the British air force. There was an American squadron that saw service flying British fighters in the Battle of Britain, but they were all volunteer mercenaries, … Read More
Rating: - Horrible movie
While I have little regard for Roger Ebert’s opinion on movies or anything else, he did pretty much nail this movie by dismissing it as the story of how the Japanese Navy interrupted a love triangle. This movie is an incredible trivialization of such an important historical event.
It is also a fictional version. Doris Miller’s actions were heroic, but he did not shoot down any Japanese planes. The pilots on whom the characters played by Ben “Aflac” and the other actor whose name escapes me were … Read More
Rating: - Pearl Harbor
Even though there is alot of Hollywood in this movie there is alot of truth to it. I learned alot by watching it - history repeats itself in a way.
Rating: - James Cameron,YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be honest,I really don’t care what the critics or the people who gave
nothing but praise to James Cameron’s god-awful Titanic but literally
bashed this FAR SUPERIOR MOVIE to bits think.Blasphemy,you may say.But
not when you really examine both films.The whole point behind the true
tragic stroy of the Titanic is what the ship’s creators boasted in real
life history,’God Himself cannot sink this ship.’But Cameron totally
blunders this by having everyone taking God’s … Read More
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