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  • Full Pearl Harbor Trailer (3 minutes) Gave me goosebumps.. can't wait

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.

 #44656  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I have serious doubts about a war movie that earned a PG-13 rating. War is not a PG-13 subject.</div>

 #44658  by Oracle
 
<div style='font: bold 12pt "Comic Sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>How they spread one attack into an entire movie, I don't know. Another glorified American sham :)</div>
 #44660  by Chockboard
 
<div style='font: 10pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>The preview of the movie I wrote for my school newspaper:

Pearl Harbor is certainly balancing on a precarious ledge. It has the potential of being another U-571 or The Patriot; namely a war movie that borders on rewriting history for the sake of entertainment. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay promise that historical accuracy is the highest priority on their list. However, this is a Hollywood movie. The actual plot revolves around two friends (played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) from Tennessee who join the army and end up falling in love with the same nurse. The battle of Pearl Harbor and later Jimmy Dolittle's raid on Tokyo only serve as a backdrop for the fictional story. Obviously, something dramatic like a love triangle needs to be thrown in since documentaries aren't marketable.

Also of note is the fact that not a single Hawaiian or local-looking person was shown in the trailer. Nor were any Asians seen besides The Dastardly Japanese. Bay wouldn't want to confuse the film-going public, after all. And as long as the special effects are real pretty and the movie's entertaining, who cares, right? Watching the trailer, one gets the feeling that if you're going to this movie looking for a history lesson, you'll need to look elsewhere.</div>

 #44661  by Lox
 
<div style='font: bold 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>If someone goes to this movie for anything other than entertainment, then they deserve to be beaten with a stick.</div>

 #44662  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>....what Lox said...Everyone should know better to than to go to a Hollywood summer blockbuster for a history lesson (though I don't think everyone *does* know it)...</div>

 #44663  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I kind of wonder about that too. Oh well, I guess this means no bullets to the head...ah well...</div>
 #44664  by Tessian
 
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion, Modern; text-align: left; '>As long as they don't rewrite history or make glorified I don't mind</div>

 #44676  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>But how good will that entertainment be?</div>

 #44678  by Lox
 
<div style='font: bold 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Pretty damned good I would think. :)</div>

 #44679  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>true, but I don't think the bombing of Pearl Harbor was all that gruesome really...</div>

 #44684  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Nah, just a few soldiers blown the fuck up. Not gruesome at all...</div>

 #44693  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>well, yeah, but it was a harbor bombing, not man-to-man fighting like Private Ryan. yeah, there were plenty of deaths but it was basically planes blowing up ships</div>

 #44695  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>See people. Look at Gentz. This is the problem with America's education system. ;)</div>

 #44697  by El Kabong
 
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Between the two of you I can see why the nation is in a decline...</div>

 #44698  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Please. This coming from someone who thinks he's better than me.</div>

 #44703  by Ganath
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hush now, all you're doing is confirming what Kabong said.</div>
 #44706  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>The trailer's full of golden cliché lines like "a country in its finest hour". Yeah, nothing says courage and valor like melting tens of thousands of completely innocent people with the push of a button from far away.</div>
 #44708  by Torgo
 
<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>On the one hand, it has great people working on it. Michael Bay has his kick-ass cinematography, Hans Zimmer is doing the score, and Randall Wallace(who also did Braveheart) wrote the screenplay.

On the other hand, it's being produced by drama master Jerry Bruckheimer, responsible for heart-wrencing films such as Armageddon and Top Gun.</div>

 #44711  by Crono
 
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I'm kinda pissed that they were forced to lower it from an "R" rating. I mean, little toddlers don't go for those kinda movies to begin with, so let's allow some realism in there.</div>

 #44712  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>I'm not saying that people didn't die, I'm just saying that it can be shown in a fairly non-grotesque fashion without sacrificing too much realism</div>

 #44721  by S.Cody2
 
<div style='font: 11pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>Drama queen, more like it. :)</div>

 #44726  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Ish, shut up, take shrooms, squegee your brain. *ennngh ehhh* *ennnggh ehhhh*</div>

 #44727  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Don't bother. Ish can't comprehend large words like "grotesque", "sacrificing", and "die".</div>

 #44730  by ManaMan
 
<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica, Modern; text-align: left; '>WTF?</div>

 #44731  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.ResonatorSoft.com/cgi-bin/st ... m3u">Great Times on Drugs</a>

Go download some Bill Hicks off of Napster or something? Or listen to this...</div>

 #44733  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Which is not the type of war movie I'm interested in seeing. I have no desire to see gore, but I think it's a movie's job to show what it was like. Explosions from a distance don't do that.</div>

 #44735  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Who the fu--? HUSH? You dare tell the Great One to hush?</div>

 #44736  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>You can show the Allies invading Normandy in a non-grotesque fashion too, but it wouldn't be as real...but I see what you're trying to get at...</div>

 #44737  by Liathional
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>In order to promote this film in Japan, they have to focus on promoting the love story..... Even the poster was changed. Don't want to know how much of the film is edited off.........</div>

 #44738  by Liathional
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Shut up.</div>

 #44742  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>heh. the "die" part was a nice touch. i like it : )</div>

 #44743  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I'm just saying it'd be easier to keep a film about Pearl Harbor PG-13 than a film about Normandy</div>

 #44744  by Gentz
 
<div style='font: 11pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>"It's a movie's job to show what it was like?" Heh. Tell that to most film-makers : )</div>

 #44745  by Kupek
 
<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Which is why I probably won't see this movie.</div>

 #44748  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Hell, even the older war movies used a lot of planes because of the fact.</div>

 #44749  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>The country in its finest hour? The US lost the battle of Pearl Harbor.</div>

 #44755  by Ishamael
 
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif", Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I can't believe you are talking to me with that fairy name....</div>

 #44756  by SineSwiper
 
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>You mean they actually sent it to Japan?</div>

 #44761  by Liathional
 
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>As funny sounding as it is, yes..... And they expect the film to do well.... *shrug*</div>