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Post by janntosh on May 25, 2021 13:39:34 GMT
Disney's attempt at combining the successes of Titanic and Saving Private Ryan. Didn't seem to work out. Though it wasn't a "bomb" like some people claim  |
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Post by politicidal on May 25, 2021 14:14:12 GMT
Used to hate it but am mostly indifferent to it. The actual attack sequence is spectacular though;no disrespect meant to the dead  . If they trimmed the running time down and didn't focus so much on the love story, it may had fared better. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on May 25, 2021 15:15:36 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on May 25, 2021 15:46:21 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on May 25, 2021 17:14:53 GMT
I think I mentioned this in another thread about the film, but the most stupid thing about the whole film wasn't really the love story, but Ben Affleck being in the Eagle Squadron, then a Pearl Harbor defender in a P40 but then somehow becoming a bomber pilot for Doolittle's Raiders. I guess he somehow qualified for multi engine aircraft and bomber school in the few months between Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. I could be wrong, but I dont think the US had a pilot shortage, more like an aircraft shortage of modern types at the time. Most of our airplanes at the time were either functionally uncompetitive (P-39 Airacobra) or completely obsolete (i.e. Douglas Devastator) in 1941 compared to the Axis aircraft. Obviously we had some good planes, but we didn't have enough of them. I actually didn't mind the love story too much, it's a fairly typical old Hollywood thing to have a love story intermeshed with a war story to draw in a wider audience.
I think the actual attack sequence was well done, Battleship Row seemed to be correctly modeled/rendered. I've been reading Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll right now and the US was completely unprepared for an attack, even Nimitz was baffled about how completely devastated the fleet was after he was briefed for his new appointment as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. It wasn't public knowledge for quite some time about how bad we were off after December 7.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 25, 2021 17:30:47 GMT
Saw it in the theater, haven't seen it again. Before the movie started, we were talking about how Dan Aykroyd only did bad movies these days. When Aykroyd showed up we started laughing, that was probably the most fun I had watching the movie.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on May 25, 2021 20:21:08 GMT
I've said it on another thread and I'll repeat here - There is a much better movie in there, you just need to edit out much of the comedy and rearrange some scenes.
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Post by JudgeJuryDredd on May 25, 2021 20:22:00 GMT
Also, in the 20 years since its release I have to ask - why is Ben Affleck smiling on the poster and everyone else looks serious? Odd message.
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. If they trimmed the running time down and didn't focus so much on the love story, it may had fared better.
