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![]() "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote: I'd put "Pearl Harbor" up against anything for sheer Hollywood stupidity. Sure, there have been plenty of crappy aviation B-movies made, but P H was crappiness on a grand scale. I recall much talk about the efforts at historical accuracy during production of "Pearl Harbor". It was absolute garbage. Navy nurses giving Army pilots physicals, monitoring voice transmissions in Hawaii from the Doolittle raid, misspelling Mitchel Field, and many more. Even errors in simple physics. Remember when our heroes were trying to rescue sailors from the overturned battleship after the attack? They're working well above the water level in the calm harbor, they had just cut through a small section of the remarkably thin hull. A few sailors reached hands through the hole, they were grasped by the rescuers as water bubbled up through the hole, drowning the sailors. Why is the water rising inside the ship? That kind of stuff is what convinces me the movie business is composed of people who flunked 8th grade science...and history...and, well, practically everything. What I hated most about "Pearl Harbor" was the ghastly, anachronistic dialog: "I'm not anxious to die, just anxious to matter." What is that, a Peace Corps volunteer? Not for one second could I believe that these were people of the times. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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