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Not a movie but series: Band of Brothers is only 10 episodes (just got loaded onto Netflix and is on HBO Max) and is one of the highest rated shows on IMDB. It’s my favorite show of all time (well tied with Jericho). Can’t recommend it enough.
War movies to check out: - The Great Escape. Inspired by a real life prison escape from a Nazi POW camp. - Glory. Follows the experiences of one of the most famous African American regiments in the Civil War. - Flags of Our Father + Letters from Iwo Jima. Both films tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima but one is from the American side, the other from the Japanese. - Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
Watch “Tora! Tora! Tora!” if you want a classic (and good) war movie about the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. It’s three hours long though, with most of it as setup, so be prepared.
The things this movie got right: 1. We were attacked at Pearl Harbor 2. The Arizona did sink 3. A Flight of 16 US Army Air Corps B-25 bombers did perform a raid on Tokyo by flying off the deck of the USS Hornet (the 17th Bombardment Group originally out of Oregon) 4. Petty Officer Second Class Doris Miller (Cuba Gooding's character) was real and did take up a anti-aircraft gun position during the battle.
Both of my grandparents were Pearl Harbor survivors. My grandfather was in the navy and heard the continuous ringing of a church bell that morning. He saw the planes in the sky and ran on foot to his navy ship. He said he ran through a large field and could see the pilots grinning at him while trying to shoot him because they were so close to the ground. My grandmother went with her two sons into an underground tunnel and witnessed the USS Arizona sinking before she went in the tunnel. My grandparents didn’t know if each other had survived for 6 weeks.
The ship that blew up at 23:52 was the USS Arizona. Of the 1,512 people onboard when the Arizona exploded 1,177 of them died. I'm planning to travel to pearl harbor next year in July to pay my respects to those lost their lives. May all those poor souls rest in peace 😔
My brother-in-laws best friend since kindergarten, Sean, was in the navy and stationed in San Diego. He was on his way back to base one night when he was hit and killed by a drunk driver. He was only 20 years old. His car was totaled, leaving his absolutely heartbroken and devastated 19 year old wife and their three month old baby without a vehicle and without much guidance or help. She was a complete and total mess and her parents couldn’t travel to be with her immediately, as her mother had just had surgery related to her breast cancer she had at the time. When my brother-in-law heard about his best friends death, he bought a plane ticket and got to California as soon as he could. He knew he needed to be there to help his best friends wife and baby, who were already struggling in San Diego as it was, before Sean’s death. Sean and his wife rented a U-HAUL just a month before his death, packed everything they owned, including ALL the things you need for a new baby, and they made their way to San Diego from Kentucky. They had to stop along the way since they had a newborn and since it was such a long drive, but things were going smoothly and they were excited to get to California. They even arrived a day before expected, and stayed in a hotel since their new home on base wasn’t going to be available until the next day. When they woke up the next morning, their U-HAUL, and every single thing they owned and needed, was gone. The U-HAUL was stolen from the hotel parking lot. They didn’t even have a car seat for their baby. A 19 and 20 year old, a brand new baby, and they were across the country, away from everybody they knew, everything they needed and wanted was gone from their wedding album to the baby’s crib. This was not how they wanted to start their new life. The Navy was incredible and helped them SO much, but I know it was still a very stressful time on their young lives. Fast forward a month, and that’s when Sean was killed. My BIL flew out there immediately, as I stated, but also flew out once things settled down so he could drive her and her baby home from California with the things they had acquired since their first U-Haul was stolen. She was so young, so depressed, and so lost. There was no way he was allowing her and a newborn to pack up their home and drive across the country by themselves. He became very attached to the baby and committed himself to helping her navigate life once she was back home. Her depression was really bad and he started grocery shopping for her here and there, cooking her some dinners, sometimes watching the baby so she could rest, etc. He even went to church with her to give her strength. He knew his best friend, Sean, would have done the same for him. He dedicated his life and all his free time to her and her baby, and as time went on, their friendship and companionship, and shared grief began to change into something more. They ended up falling in love and, getting married, and having two children together. They’ve been married since 1996, almost 30 years. A LOT of people think this is weird and wrong of my BIL for marrying his best friends wife, but many also look at it and think Sean would be happy his best friend is taking care of his wife. It’s always a huge story we have to explain when someone finds out about Sean, but we don’t mind. I witnessed their love and it was real. I get to witness her love with my BIL, and it too is real.
From here to Eternity is another one, it 's about the soldiers right before Pearl Harbor. It has an all star cast Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Donna Reed, and Deborah Kerr. One of my favorite movies, it is like Casablanca, every scene works, and every one so perfectly casted.
Funny Story: Back when this came out on VHS my sister was working at Blockbuster and had a disgruntled coworker pull one of the funniest stunts I've seen. He found out that morning he was being let go at the end of his shift so he spent the entire shift checking out the hordes of excited customers looking for Pearl Harbor. You see, Pearl Harbor is a 3 hour movie and VHS copies of film usually got about 90 minutes of good quality footage, but it can be extended to 2 hours with lower quality. Anyways, suffice to say Pearl Harbor came with 2 90 minute VHS cassettes. This coworker spent his shift making sure he gave everyone doubles of the same VHS. That way they would be at home watching the new Josh Hartnett movie and are devastated to watch the attack on Pearl Harbor, and when they go to watch the exciting conclusion it's just Pearl Harbor being attacked again. Or maybe folks would get part 2 and be a little confused why we are starting with a Japanese victory and the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, only to reach the end and wonder why the main actors are dead halfway through and then the credits roll. Honestly one of the funniest yet shittiest tricks ever IMO. I have no idea about the complete aftermath, all I know is my sister and her co-workers spent the next week fielding refunds and angry customers. So kind of a dick move on his part.
One of the few movies where the trailer was better then the film, I remember watching this in theaters being hyped but ended up being pissed off. TORA TORA TORA much much better Pearl Harbor movie (and more accurate).
I remember renting this movie, and also being pissed off. What a painful waste of perfectly good U.S. Currency. This movie is hot garbage. Tora Tora Tora! is the WWII movie you want to see. The only worthy thing about Pearl Harbor, is Kate Beckinsale. She is the perfect sweet & sexy RN. Other than that, this movie, should be permanently forgotten.
War movies to check out: - The Great Escape. Inspired by a real life prison escape from a Nazi POW camp. - Glory. Follows the experiences of one of the most famous African American regiments in the Civil War. - Flag of Our Fathers + Letters from Iwo Jima. Both films tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima but one is from the American side, the other from the Japanese. - Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
- Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars. ONE OF THE BEST UNDERRATED!!!
Thin Red Line, set during the latter part of the Guadalcanal campaign involving the US Army and Come & See, from the eyes of a Belarusian boy who witnesses atrocities committed by the Germans.
War veterans saw this and they got really pissed off at Michael Bay for turning a real world tragic event into a love story, as well as being inaccurate.
You don't think that young soldiers in 1941 didn't lose loved ones on December 7th? There's nothing wrong with churning out a love story in the middle of a historic event that we all know what happens.
@@RyoHazuki224 Wait, but he's talking about these same young soldiers being the ones that were disappointed and disliked it. In fact, one of the two pilots that the movie's main characters were based off of even disliked this film, if I recall. If anyone has a right to dislike this movie, and has the legitimacy to say it's bad, it's Pearl Harbor veterans.
Titanic while also suffering from fictional love story blues, also had a character assassination of a historic figure that was so bad that the director James Cameron actually had to go to the hometown of that figure and apologize.
I remember watching this movie in theaters in 2001 with my wife, what a mistake that was. It felt like a worse Titanic, really. Gooding Jr. did a good job portraying Doris Miller, but that's all I can give it.
I cant stop thinking about the movie "Team America World Police" with this movie, the part where he is driving a motorcycle down the road, thinking of the girl, reminiscing. Anyone else?
The problem with this movie is that due to the recent success of James Cameron's Titanic at the time, they tried to replicate the same formula here, i.e. combine a tragedy with a love story and it didn't work well in this case, I think if Michael Bay concentrated more on the historical fact, leaving aside all that romance, it would have worked better, since the attack scene is very well done.
The much better movie about Pearl Harbor is 1970's "Tora, Tora, Tora". With a Japanese director directing the Japanese scenes, and an American director directing the American scenes. Because there were none left in the world, they actually built 70 WWII era Japanese warplanes (in flying condition) for this movie. They also built a perfect reconstruction of a Japanese battleship and a Japanese aircraft carrier, which were constructed on stilts at low tide in the ocean. At high tide, they appeared to be out in deep water. You seldom see production values like this! Review this movie and I will really respect you!
The definite movie about Pearl Harbor remains "Tora! Tora! Tora!" from 1970 (the same year "Patton" came out, which you already reacted to). It was a US-Japanese co-production with two entirely seperate crews (under directors Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda/Kinji Fukasaku respectively), each covering one of the opposing sides, both given about equal screentime. Its way more historicall accurate than this one. The 2001-Film has enjoyable action, is undoubtly well made and certainly looks good, and features a great Score by Hans Zimmer. And I really like the preperation scenes showing both sides preparing for war (having Mako (who would go on voicing General Iroh in the first two seasons of "Avatar: The last Airbender" before passing away) as Admiral Yamamoto certainly helps). But it would have been better off if it had concentrated on the War more and ditched the Love Triagle.
So yeah..this is a movie and not a documentary. I LOVED history class throughout high school and no I don’t really remember a lot of details anymore, lol. However, this movie is and will forever be one of my favourite movies along with “Titanic”. Key word earlier being MOVIE. It’s history mixed with a love story--my MOVIE weakness. It’s not that we movie lovers are trying to belittle/glamourise actual events…there are documentaries available for more accurate facts. 🤷🏻♀️
This movie still has some good moments despite the tedious love story and irritating inaccuracies. I recommend watching Tora Tora Tora. Thats the good Pearl harbor movie.
My fiancee is japanese. She threw up after watch this "movie", while I couldn't move from the sofa, my muscles were paralyzed. Michael Bay, goddamn you...
Ovaj film je grozan. Sorry ItsAPrimate, never really liked this one!! It works more as a comedy than a war movie for me. I would recommend Paths of Glory, Hacksaw Ridge, Letters from Iwo Jima, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Thin Red Line, and the original All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), I have heard good things of the movie, Glory, too!
I used to really like this film but iv come to realise why everyone doesnt like it. it really is only good for the action, the love story isn't good at all and doesn't make sense and the amount of historical inaccuracies too, not to mention how our main characters fought in Europe (well only one did), defended Pearl Harbour AND attacked Japan in the Doolittle raid? nah
To make matters worse, he was not eligible to fight in the RAF since he was in the US Army Air Corps. And he could not go to Europe to fight because the USA was neutral. Had he gone, he would have lost his US citizenship.
@@fallenhero4550Yeah, that's fair to ask. For me, it's a number of reasons. I can summarize them, with the first being that I'm someone who cares about historical accuracy, and this movie is far, far too lacking there. Even Pearl Harbor veterans disliked this movie when it was made. However, a movie can be historically inaccurate and entertaining. This movie isn't at all, for me. It drags on with a 3 hour runtime, and only 1 of those 3 hours actually is the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Add in a romance storyline that I don't care about, and this movie feels like a Titanic clone in several ways.
@@graememclaren2635 Fair enough and thank you for the answer, I understand the movie isn't great for many and I see it's faults but it's one of those guilty pleasure movies for me along with Armageddon.
@@fallenhero4550me too lol. This is actually one of my favorites but it’s a little nostalgia in there as well that tips it. Armageddon is another great one though. Also gone in 60 seconds. I feel like those 3 get either weirdly blasted or people like them a lot.
Being that my great grandfather is a US veteran, it's always hard for me to watch war movies without getting emotional but this is actually one of my favorite ones next to Fury and Hacksaw Ridge
If your interested in a 1980s mini series check out WINDS OF WAR and then WAR AND REMEMBRANCE , based on the books by the same names by Herman Wouk. Back in those days primetime tv through ABC, NBC and CBS still ruled the airwaves and these miniseries they came out with were epic.
I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark When he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point And that’s an awful lot girl And now, now you’ve gone away And all I’m trying to say is Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
P.O, strongly standby that the movie Midway is a more accurate representation of what happens during the battle of the pacific. If you done your history and than watch Midway…….it’s pretty accurate. Midway does tie into Pearl Harbor to some degree but more focus on the Navy side of things.
This movie pulled a “Hunger games”, it’s supposed to be a war tragedy, but they turned it into a spectacle where one woman plays with the heart strings of 2 best friends since birth, basically brothers.
If anything its a tragic love story For a half decent little known Cuba Gooding Jr film you should check out Gladiator (1992) and for probably his best role Men of Honour (2000)
I think it’s because everyone wants a movie where the good guys win. That’s why so much if this movie focuses on AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack. You really need to dedicate the whole movie to the attack, and then it’s hard to have a movie with a happy ending.
I forgot this movie existed. But yea the “romance” plot or whatever is pretty lame, I think the only part I liked of this movie was when the harbor is attacked and they fight back. Everything else is just kind of meh
31:27 how the HELL did you react to this movie and not even show or mention the freaking ending???? Are you serious???? Rafe and Evelyn are shown together two years later with their son, Danny, whom they named after the boys biological father.
I was super excited to see it when it was announced, but it was one of the most boring movies I've seen since Titanic. Such a letdown. Hacksaw Ridge & Dunkirk were WAY better
This is one of the dumbest films i ever watched, but one good thing it did was nail the tone of the attack. The shock, awe, grief, sorrow, desperation, etc was done fairly well actuality. Just not very accurate historically
It's a bad, overly dramatic, historically inaccurate film is what it is. If you want to see a much better film about the attack on Pearl Harbor, watch _Tora! Tora! Tora!_ (1970).
Is it a war movie or a love story? Neither, it's a cinematic bowel movement. Before seeing this film, I had never walked out of a movie in my life. If I pay for a movie ticket, good or bad, I stay all the way through. But this vile p.o.s. was the exception. I was so disgusted by the tidal wave of stupidity in this movie, that I walked out. This movie COMPLETELY depended on special effects to carry it. The acting, the directing and in particular the writing are abysmal. It is talentless hack movie-making at its worst. "The Room" is so bad, it's funny. "Plan 9" is a joke. "Pearl Harbor" was just BAD.
The part where Alec Baldwin informs Rafe about being accepted into the Eagle Squadron never happened. In real life, he would have to leave the USAAC and live as private citizen in Canada then train for the RCAF before being shipped to Britain. When he shows at the British airfield wearing his officers pink and green, he would’ve violated the US’s neutrality. Lastly, the markings for the aircraft are wrong and are that of Polish squadrons.
I know a lot about History, world traveled, visited all 50 States, before I was 36. I did not serve, valid health issues, yet my Dad (Cold War, USAF) and other relatives and friends have or are in our Military service. (I’m 54 years) One of the first things that annoyed me, seeing this film 20 years past in cinema: the open montage on “the war” - there is a clip of a US Sherman tank, firing, end of the street, a very distinctive two towered Cathedral…in Koln/Cologne Germany where our military would not reach and fight until Spring 1945…I know Koln, several visits - and, the montage verbal goes on about the War staring in 1939…Which moron didn’t research their film clips??? The two boys, in youth, and the red plane at the farm…the plane would have been cloth and wood structure not metal, if the boys who turn into the “Heroes” in 1941, few metal planes like that in the early 1930’s. The actual pilots who did get off the airfield near Pearl Harbor, and did Ariel-combat with the Japanese, their names and skills are known -not these two! Cuba G’s character was real, noted and heroic!! General Doolittle, President F.D.R. and some others are real… And, as a blood doner, 98 pints of O+, if you donate blood,…you can feel fine, if you are used to doing - I tried to mow my lawn in an Ohio summer after donating, I had to stop, half the yard; you are cautioned not to stress, after. These Guys, take a pint out, I’m going out to the wrecked fleet and save the day… Yes, I have some issues with this film. Visit actual Pearl Harbor. Visit battlefields, and military cemeteries. Donate blood if you are able. Serve in military, if you are able. I was annoyed by Michael Bay’s film, I have avoided all his other efforts.
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor, I miss you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot, girl, and now, now you've gone away, and all I'm trying to say, is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you. I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, he was terrible in that film, I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part, he's way better than Ben Affleck, and now, all I can think about is your smile, and that shitty movie too, Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you. Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? I guess Pearl Harbor sucked, just a little bit more than I miss you.
Battleships at the time was named after the US States many returned to service, repaired and upgraded excluding two; Arizona and Oklahoma. This movie was filmed at my home city for the funeral scene and for the launching of B-25 Bombers and Japanese planes. Should check out Midway (2019) that ones a enjoyable watch.
Bro why are you watching the worst old movies?😂 You got so many classics see. Here are a few: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) Cool Hand Luke (1967) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Papillon (1973) The Sting (1973) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Another thing to think about.. This movie was released a few months before 9/11. And DVD release a little before Christmas. I couldn't afford movies before 911 cuz my husband was in boot camp actually, and then literally right after he was deployed. I saw this movie after he got his deployment so it's always been very emotional. Now it's just nostalgic cuz I'm divorced
It wasn’t good from what I have heard and I understand why but can anyone at least admit that before those critics and others that expressed dissapointment with it saw it expected it to be good and if they knew Michael bay made a couple of good films before
@@JoshuaDay0550 I never said you couldn't like this movie. You can. I can dislike it. It's not about it being a documentary, it's about it having some accuracy. The fact is, Saving Private Ryan made veterans leave the theater because of how real it felt. Pearl Harbor made them leave the theater because of how inaccurate it was to what they experienced.
if there’s one thing this film does alright despite having modern looking ships every other shot and having this love story stuff, is the chaos it depicts when the attack happens. This is one of my favourites w private Ryan for action, I think some other good ones are (don’t quote me on this, titles bit fuzzy) a bridge too far, dunkirk, and darkest hour which follows winston Churchill up to his world famous speech. I recommend those very much if you like war films and branching out into those areas
bro just casuwlly watched my childhood movie ... me and my grandma loved thid movie and so did my grandpa ..... i love them so much dude his movie was so crazy dawg it taughht me alot also as a young kid
It's a film that becomes more insulting the more you know about the actual events it attempts to depict. If you have a love of history, things that bastardize it tend to really piss you off, because *A.* the film makers are lying to your face, and *B.* people who don't know the real history will walk away from the theatre thinking what they just saw was accurate. This is also why a lot of Civil War era historians really dislike films like Gods and Generals, though that one is even more egregious in that it attempts to outright rewrite history by pushing a Lost Cause narrative.
@DovahFett my thing is, it's a movie. With any movie they take creative liberties. I dont expect any movie about a true event to be 100% accurate or close to it. They gotta put stuff in there to make people want to pay & go see it. If people want 100% accuracy, they should watch a documentary about the event and not a blockbuster movie.
@@AthenaAthena but that really didn't work now did it! a lot of people just didn't go to see this movie because it's 3 hours long and most of it isn't the actual events of Pearl Harbor, it doesn't even end for another hour or something. and while most movies take liberties, this one just actually lies heavily.
@@AthenaAthena It's nice to say it is just a movie but a historical event this important should not be fictionalized. I am a history professor and all too often I have had students tell me they learned a lot about Pearl Harbor by watching this movie. I always disabuse them of this notion by pointing out that they know less about it now than before they watched this hideous film. If he wanted to make a fictional version, the title should have been different.
@robin3307 I don't agree with y'all at all. Also, that's a chance to educate younger generations on movies. Let them know that a lot of movies that reference historical events have creative liberties in them.
This is easily one of the best movies ever, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this movie because this is my mother’s favorite movie, we probably watched it together hundreds of times, she still has the hard cover disk case to this day. Thank you for the reaction to it.
The movie is bad. I'm sorry. When Affleck is asked by his friend what is going on, and he responds, "I think World War II just started," I can say there are at least two problems in that line. First, the war had been going on for two years. Second, it was not called World War II at that time. I can also point out that women in the military could not wear makeup on duty (unlike Pearl Harbor, the movie) and no medical person was killed in the attack since the Japanese made it a point to avoid the hospital. I could go on and on.
Always felt bad for Afflecks character him coming back to find out his girl is dating his friend after he’s presumed dead. I wouldn’t even know how to begin to process that
In spite of some cringe dialogue I actually like this movie. The attack scenes are horrifying and made me understand the reality of that day more than I ever had before. It was my parents 9/11 in that it made them truly realize their world was no longer safe.
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Not a movie but series: Band of Brothers is only 10 episodes (just got loaded onto Netflix and is on HBO Max) and is one of the highest rated shows on IMDB. It’s my favorite show of all time (well tied with Jericho). Can’t recommend it enough.
War movies to check out:
- The Great Escape. Inspired by a real life prison escape from a Nazi POW camp.
- Glory. Follows the experiences of one of the most famous African American regiments in the Civil War.
- Flags of Our Father + Letters from Iwo Jima. Both films tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima but one is from the American side, the other from the Japanese.
- Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
The movie battleship
Planes by Pixar
Planes fire and rescue by Pixar
@thedoctor4327 All great suggestions, especially Master & Commander, that movie doesn’t get enough love.
Watch “Tora! Tora! Tora!” if you want a classic (and good) war movie about the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. It’s three hours long though, with most of it as setup, so be prepared.
The things this movie got right:
1. We were attacked at Pearl Harbor
2. The Arizona did sink
3. A Flight of 16 US Army Air Corps B-25 bombers did perform a raid on Tokyo by flying off the deck of the USS Hornet (the 17th Bombardment Group originally out of Oregon)
4. Petty Officer Second Class Doris Miller (Cuba Gooding's character) was real and did take up a anti-aircraft gun position during the battle.
Both of my grandparents were Pearl Harbor survivors. My grandfather was in the navy and heard the continuous ringing of a church bell that morning. He saw the planes in the sky and ran on foot to his navy ship. He said he ran through a large field and could see the pilots grinning at him while trying to shoot him because they were so close to the ground. My grandmother went with her two sons into an underground tunnel and witnessed the USS Arizona sinking before she went in the tunnel. My grandparents didn’t know if each other had survived for 6 weeks.
The ship that blew up at 23:52 was the USS Arizona.
Of the 1,512 people onboard when the Arizona exploded 1,177 of them died.
I'm planning to travel to pearl harbor next year in July to pay my respects to those lost their lives.
May all those poor souls rest in peace 😔
USS Arizona(BB-39) Accounts For Close To ½ The Casualties From December 7!!
My brother-in-laws best friend since kindergarten, Sean, was in the navy and stationed in San Diego. He was on his way back to base one night when he was hit and killed by a drunk driver. He was only 20 years old.
His car was totaled, leaving his absolutely heartbroken and devastated 19 year old wife and their three month old baby without a vehicle and without much guidance or help. She was a complete and total mess and her parents couldn’t travel to be with her immediately, as her mother had just had surgery related to her breast cancer she had at the time. When my brother-in-law heard about his best friends death, he bought a plane ticket and got to California as soon as he could. He knew he needed to be there to help his best friends wife and baby, who were already struggling in San Diego as it was, before Sean’s death.
Sean and his wife rented a U-HAUL just a month before his death, packed everything they owned, including ALL the things you need for a new baby, and they made their way to San Diego from Kentucky. They had to stop along the way since they had a newborn and since it was such a long drive, but things were going smoothly and they were excited to get to California. They even arrived a day before expected, and stayed in a hotel since their new home on base wasn’t going to be available until the next day.
When they woke up the next morning, their U-HAUL, and every single thing they owned and needed, was gone. The U-HAUL was stolen from the hotel parking lot. They didn’t even have a car seat for their baby. A 19 and 20 year old, a brand new baby, and they were across the country, away from everybody they knew, everything they needed and wanted was gone from their wedding album to the baby’s crib. This was not how they wanted to start their new life.
The Navy was incredible and helped them SO much, but I know it was still a very stressful time on their young lives. Fast forward a month, and that’s when Sean was killed.
My BIL flew out there immediately, as I stated, but also flew out once things settled down so he could drive her and her baby home from California with the things they had acquired since their first U-Haul was stolen. She was so young, so depressed, and so lost. There was no way he was allowing her and a newborn to pack up their home and drive across the country by themselves.
He became very attached to the baby and committed himself to helping her navigate life once she was back home. Her depression was really bad and he started grocery shopping for her here and there, cooking her some dinners, sometimes watching the baby so she could rest, etc. He even went to church with her to give her strength. He knew his best friend, Sean, would have done the same for him.
He dedicated his life and all his free time to her and her baby, and as time went on, their friendship and companionship, and shared grief began to change into something more. They ended up falling in love and, getting married, and having two children together. They’ve been married since 1996, almost 30 years.
A LOT of people think this is weird and wrong of my BIL for marrying his best friends wife, but many also look at it and think Sean would be happy his best friend is taking care of his wife.
It’s always a huge story we have to explain when someone finds out about Sean, but we don’t mind. I witnessed their love and it was real. I get to witness her love with my BIL, and it too is real.
After watching pearl again since 2001, i forgot how good the movie is
A good movie about Pearl Harbor that is historically accurate is Tora, Tora, Tora. You should watch that movie sometime.
From here to Eternity is another one, it 's about the soldiers right before Pearl Harbor. It has an all star cast Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Donna Reed, and Deborah Kerr. One of my favorite movies, it is like Casablanca, every scene works, and every one so perfectly casted.
Funny Story: Back when this came out on VHS my sister was working at Blockbuster and had a disgruntled coworker pull one of the funniest stunts I've seen. He found out that morning he was being let go at the end of his shift so he spent the entire shift checking out the hordes of excited customers looking for Pearl Harbor. You see, Pearl Harbor is a 3 hour movie and VHS copies of film usually got about 90 minutes of good quality footage, but it can be extended to 2 hours with lower quality. Anyways, suffice to say Pearl Harbor came with 2 90 minute VHS cassettes. This coworker spent his shift making sure he gave everyone doubles of the same VHS. That way they would be at home watching the new Josh Hartnett movie and are devastated to watch the attack on Pearl Harbor, and when they go to watch the exciting conclusion it's just Pearl Harbor being attacked again. Or maybe folks would get part 2 and be a little confused why we are starting with a Japanese victory and the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, only to reach the end and wonder why the main actors are dead halfway through and then the credits roll. Honestly one of the funniest yet shittiest tricks ever IMO.
I have no idea about the complete aftermath, all I know is my sister and her co-workers spent the next week fielding refunds and angry customers. So kind of a dick move on his part.
One of the few movies where the trailer was better then the film, I remember watching this in theaters being hyped but ended up being pissed off. TORA TORA TORA much much better Pearl Harbor movie (and more accurate).
TORA TORA TORA my grandfather showed me that great movie
I remember renting this movie, and also being pissed off. What a painful waste of perfectly good U.S. Currency. This movie is hot garbage.
Tora Tora Tora! is the WWII movie you want to see. The only worthy thing about Pearl Harbor, is Kate Beckinsale. She is the perfect sweet & sexy RN. Other than that, this movie, should be permanently forgotten.
I always thought the same, the trailer is impressive and you felt you were going to see a great movie and it turned out to be the opposite.
War movies to check out:
- The Great Escape. Inspired by a real life prison escape from a Nazi POW camp.
- Glory. Follows the experiences of one of the most famous African American regiments in the Civil War.
- Flag of Our Fathers + Letters from Iwo Jima. Both films tell the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima but one is from the American side, the other from the Japanese.
- Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
- Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World. About a British warship hunting a French warship during the Napoleonic Wars. ONE OF THE BEST UNDERRATED!!!
Thin Red Line, set during the latter part of the Guadalcanal campaign involving the US Army and Come & See, from the eyes of a Belarusian boy who witnesses atrocities committed by the Germans.
War veterans saw this and they got really pissed off at Michael Bay for turning a real world tragic event into a love story, as well as being inaccurate.
You don't think that young soldiers in 1941 didn't lose loved ones on December 7th? There's nothing wrong with churning out a love story in the middle of a historic event that we all know what happens.
@RyoHazuki224 I agree. I think people are being way too hard on this movie. 😕
@@RyoHazuki224 Wait, but he's talking about these same young soldiers being the ones that were disappointed and disliked it. In fact, one of the two pilots that the movie's main characters were based off of even disliked this film, if I recall. If anyone has a right to dislike this movie, and has the legitimacy to say it's bad, it's Pearl Harbor veterans.
Titanic while also suffering from fictional love story blues, also had a character assassination of a historic figure that was so bad that the director James Cameron actually had to go to the hometown of that figure and apologize.
@@RyoHazuki224 not you gaslighting veteran feelings about the war they fought
I remember watching this movie in theaters in 2001 with my wife, what a mistake that was. It felt like a worse Titanic, really. Gooding Jr. did a good job portraying Doris Miller, but that's all I can give it.
Feel like a movie of just Doris Miller’s experiences before, during and afterwards would have made for a much better movie
Doris Miller grew up in Waco, Texas, the same city as me. He was a well known hero when I was in school.
Band of Brothers is one of the greatest things ever put to film.
I cant stop thinking about the movie "Team America World Police" with this movie, the part where he is driving a motorcycle down the road, thinking of the girl, reminiscing. Anyone else?
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
The problem with this movie is that due to the recent success of James Cameron's Titanic at the time, they tried to replicate the same formula here, i.e. combine a tragedy with a love story and it didn't work well in this case, I think if Michael Bay concentrated more on the historical fact, leaving aside all that romance, it would have worked better, since the attack scene is very well done.
Team America World Police answers your thumbnail question 😂 watch it sometime
“I guess Pearl Harbor sucked, just a little more, than i miss you.”
The much better movie about Pearl Harbor is 1970's "Tora, Tora, Tora". With a Japanese director directing the Japanese scenes, and an American director directing the American scenes. Because there were none left in the world, they actually built 70 WWII era Japanese warplanes (in flying condition) for this movie. They also built a perfect reconstruction of a Japanese battleship and a Japanese aircraft carrier, which were constructed on stilts at low tide in the ocean. At high tide, they appeared to be out in deep water. You seldom see production values like this! Review this movie and I will really respect you!
The definite movie about Pearl Harbor remains "Tora! Tora! Tora!" from 1970 (the same year "Patton" came out, which you already reacted to). It was a US-Japanese co-production with two entirely seperate crews (under directors Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda/Kinji Fukasaku respectively), each covering one of the opposing sides, both given about equal screentime. Its way more historicall accurate than this one.
The 2001-Film has enjoyable action, is undoubtly well made and certainly looks good, and features a great Score by Hans Zimmer. And I really like the preperation scenes showing both sides preparing for war (having Mako (who would go on voicing General Iroh in the first two seasons of "Avatar: The last Airbender" before passing away) as Admiral Yamamoto certainly helps). But it would have been better off if it had concentrated on the War more and ditched the Love Triagle.
So yeah..this is a movie and not a documentary. I LOVED history class throughout high school and no I don’t really remember a lot of details anymore, lol. However, this movie is and will forever be one of my favourite movies along with “Titanic”.
Key word earlier being MOVIE. It’s history mixed with a love story--my MOVIE weakness. It’s not that we movie lovers are trying to belittle/glamourise actual events…there are documentaries available for more accurate facts. 🤷🏻♀️
This movie still has some good moments despite the tedious love story and irritating inaccuracies. I recommend watching Tora Tora Tora. Thats the good Pearl harbor movie.
She was a very popular actress back then. I forgot all about her. Has anybody seen her in anything in the past ten or so years?
The first guy that crashed on the mechanics runway was Alaric from the Vampire Diaries.
My fiancee is japanese. She threw up after watch this "movie", while I couldn't move from the sofa, my muscles were paralyzed. Michael Bay, goddamn you...
Ovaj film je grozan. Sorry ItsAPrimate, never really liked this one!! It works more as a comedy than a war movie for me. I would recommend Paths of Glory, Hacksaw Ridge, Letters from Iwo Jima, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Thin Red Line, and the original All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), I have heard good things of the movie, Glory, too!
I used to really like this film but iv come to realise why everyone doesnt like it. it really is only good for the action, the love story isn't good at all and doesn't make sense and the amount of historical inaccuracies too, not to mention how our main characters fought in Europe (well only one did), defended Pearl Harbour AND attacked Japan in the Doolittle raid? nah
To make matters worse, he was not eligible to fight in the RAF since he was in the US Army Air Corps. And he could not go to Europe to fight because the USA was neutral. Had he gone, he would have lost his US citizenship.
@@shaynemhopkins what a stupid excuse, a movie about a historical events has to be historically accurate.
31:10 I was 100% sure you would make that comment… like everyone would reading Michael Bay in the credits 👍🏻😂😂😂
It's a mistake
As someone who dislikes this movie deeply, I can at least give it this. No one can say that this movie wasn't made 🤣
Can I ask why you don't like the movie?
@@fallenhero4550Yeah, that's fair to ask. For me, it's a number of reasons. I can summarize them, with the first being that I'm someone who cares about historical accuracy, and this movie is far, far too lacking there. Even Pearl Harbor veterans disliked this movie when it was made. However, a movie can be historically inaccurate and entertaining. This movie isn't at all, for me. It drags on with a 3 hour runtime, and only 1 of those 3 hours actually is the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Add in a romance storyline that I don't care about, and this movie feels like a Titanic clone in several ways.
@@graememclaren2635 Fair enough and thank you for the answer, I understand the movie isn't great for many and I see it's faults but it's one of those guilty pleasure movies for me along with Armageddon.
@@fallenhero4550me too lol. This is actually one of my favorites but it’s a little nostalgia in there as well that tips it. Armageddon is another great one though. Also gone in 60 seconds. I feel like those 3 get either weirdly blasted or people like them a lot.
This is the most civilised disagreement in a comment section I have ever seen. I think I will screen shot it an frame it.
Crazy that a Pearl Harbor movie came out only a few months before 9/11…the other day that will live in infamy
Next war movie you should watch is Wind Talkers from WWII it’s a good war movie
Band of brothers pleaseeeee
My high school librarian was in Pearl Harbor.
The song from Team America is all anyone needs to review this movie.
The easiest way to describe how the movie is is the very beginning of the movie up when its all happy then goes to shit
12:15 Red Two finally cut the chatter and got some kills😂👍
Being that my great grandfather is a US veteran, it's always hard for me to watch war movies without getting emotional but this is actually one of my favorite ones next to Fury and Hacksaw Ridge
If your interested in a 1980s mini series check out WINDS OF WAR and then WAR AND REMEMBRANCE , based on the books by the same names by Herman Wouk. Back in those days primetime tv through ABC, NBC and CBS still ruled the airwaves and these miniseries they came out with were epic.
Primate for next war movie it should be midway. It would be be the perfect war movie to jump into after this one
I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
And that’s an awful lot girl
And now, now you’ve gone away
And all I’m trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
P.O, strongly standby that the movie Midway is a more accurate representation of what happens during the battle of the pacific. If you done your history and than watch Midway…….it’s pretty accurate. Midway does tie into Pearl Harbor to some degree but more focus on the Navy side of things.
It’s both a war movie and a love story and it’s a great movie
Act of valor and tears of the sun are all Great War movies too.
Hey man check out the movie Black Rain (1989) by Ridley Scott
It is an underrated gem
Like his magnum opus.
"Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you!" Que piano medley
Say what you want about the movie but I love this movie.
This movie pulled a “Hunger games”, it’s supposed to be a war tragedy, but they turned it into a spectacle where one woman plays with the heart strings of 2 best friends since birth, basically brothers.
If anything its a tragic love story
For a half decent little known Cuba Gooding Jr film you should check out Gladiator (1992) and for probably his best role Men of Honour (2000)
Michael Bay didn’t do this event justice
I think it’s because everyone wants a movie where the good guys win. That’s why so much if this movie focuses on AFTER the Pearl Harbor attack. You really need to dedicate the whole movie to the attack, and then it’s hard to have a movie with a happy ending.
I forgot this movie existed. But yea the “romance” plot or whatever is pretty lame, I think the only part I liked of this movie was when the harbor is attacked and they fight back. Everything else is just kind of meh
You'd love the movie Red Tails
It's a crappy love story.
And a crappy movie.
Like Titanic, most people go into it with intention of seeing the historic event and then they get hit with a fictional love story.
Despite all that, the war fighting scenes is one the best effects and sequence. Compare to Midway, this is masterpiece
@@leejun8955which midway? Because the latest one was probably one of the most historically accurate war film to date.
@@Mini_Hayley Roland Emmerich's
Watch Greyhound
Tom hanks movie he is a Destroyer captain that's fighting the German Wolfpack
31:27 how the HELL did you react to this movie and not even show or mention the freaking ending???? Are you serious???? Rafe and Evelyn are shown together two years later with their son, Danny, whom they named after the boys biological father.
my great grandma witnessed pearl harbor she lived around there she was about 10-15 miles away
I was super excited to see it when it was announced, but it was one of the most boring movies I've seen since Titanic. Such a letdown. Hacksaw Ridge & Dunkirk were WAY better
You have to react to this movie called tron.
This is one of the dumbest films i ever watched, but one good thing it did was nail the tone of the attack. The shock, awe, grief, sorrow, desperation, etc was done fairly well actuality. Just not very accurate historically
hope u react to midway too
It's a bad, overly dramatic, historically inaccurate film is what it is. If you want to see a much better film about the attack on Pearl Harbor, watch _Tora! Tora! Tora!_ (1970).
Is it a war movie or a love story? Neither, it's a cinematic bowel movement. Before seeing this film, I had never walked out of a movie in my life. If I pay for a movie ticket, good or bad, I stay all the way through. But this vile p.o.s. was the exception. I was so disgusted by the tidal wave of stupidity in this movie, that I walked out. This movie COMPLETELY depended on special effects to carry it. The acting, the directing and in particular the writing are abysmal. It is talentless hack movie-making at its worst. "The Room" is so bad, it's funny. "Plan 9" is a joke. "Pearl Harbor" was just BAD.
The part where Alec Baldwin informs Rafe about being accepted into the Eagle Squadron never happened. In real life, he would have to leave the USAAC and live as private citizen in Canada then train for the RCAF before being shipped to Britain. When he shows at the British airfield wearing his officers pink and green, he would’ve violated the US’s neutrality. Lastly, the markings for the aircraft are wrong and are that of Polish squadrons.
I love this movie its one of my faves ❤
Finally, one of the first to actually do this movie reaction on UA-cam! Lol
This movie is nonsense, you come way from it thinking the US won at Pearl. Good movie about Peral Harbour attack is Tora Tora Tora
I know a lot about History, world traveled, visited all 50 States, before I was 36. I did not serve, valid health issues, yet my Dad (Cold War, USAF) and other relatives and friends have or are in our Military service. (I’m 54 years)
One of the first things that annoyed me, seeing this film 20 years past in cinema: the open montage on “the war” - there is a clip of a US Sherman tank, firing, end of the street, a very distinctive two towered Cathedral…in Koln/Cologne Germany where our military would not reach and fight until Spring 1945…I know Koln, several visits - and, the montage verbal goes on about the War staring in 1939…Which moron didn’t research their film clips??? The two boys, in youth, and the red plane at the farm…the plane would have been cloth and wood structure not metal, if the boys who turn into the “Heroes” in 1941, few metal planes like that in the early 1930’s. The actual pilots who did get off the airfield near Pearl Harbor, and did Ariel-combat with the Japanese, their names and skills are known -not these two! Cuba G’s character was real, noted and heroic!! General Doolittle, President F.D.R. and some others are real…
And, as a blood doner, 98 pints of O+, if you donate blood,…you can feel fine, if you are used to doing - I tried to mow my lawn in an Ohio summer after donating, I had to stop, half the yard; you are cautioned not to stress, after. These Guys, take a pint out, I’m going out to the wrecked fleet and save the day…
Yes, I have some issues with this film. Visit actual Pearl Harbor. Visit battlefields, and military cemeteries. Donate blood if you are able. Serve in military, if you are able.
I was annoyed by Michael Bay’s film, I have avoided all his other efforts.
I enjoyed yur reaction video it would be nice to be reacting to south central
Thanks!
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
when he made Pearl Harbor,
I miss you more than that movie missed the point,
and that's an awful lot, girl,
and now, now you've gone away,
and all I'm trying to say,
is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
he was terrible in that film,
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
he's way better than Ben Affleck,
and now, all I can think about is your smile,
and that shitty movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked,
just a little bit more than I miss you.
Battleships at the time was named after the US States many returned to service, repaired and upgraded excluding two; Arizona and Oklahoma. This movie was filmed at my home city for the funeral scene and for the launching of B-25 Bombers and Japanese planes.
Should check out Midway (2019) that ones a enjoyable watch.
Bro why are you watching the worst old movies?😂
You got so many classics see. Here are a few:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Papillon (1973)
The Sting (1973)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Another thing to think about.. This movie was released a few months before 9/11. And DVD release a little before Christmas. I couldn't afford movies before 911 cuz my husband was in boot camp actually, and then literally right after he was deployed. I saw this movie after he got his deployment so it's always been very emotional. Now it's just nostalgic cuz I'm divorced
It’s such a bad movie with one of the greatest war scenes lol
It's brutal, but unfortunately it is reality. We need to know what happened.
It wasn’t good from what I have heard and I understand why but can anyone at least admit that before those critics and others that expressed dissapointment with it saw it expected it to be good and if they knew Michael bay made a couple of good films before
Pearl Harbor is alright. But Tora, Tora, Tora is a superior and more historically accurate portrayal of the attack.
Last war movie I watched was a couple months ago. I got hacksaw ridge from the library
This film is terrible 😭
How?
@@SLITHERISA big thing for a lot of people, myself included, is the many historical inaccuracies.
@@graememclaren2635 this isnt a documentary lol yall need to just stop.
@@JoshuaDay0550 I never said you couldn't like this movie. You can. I can dislike it. It's not about it being a documentary, it's about it having some accuracy. The fact is, Saving Private Ryan made veterans leave the theater because of how real it felt. Pearl Harbor made them leave the theater because of how inaccurate it was to what they experienced.
@@SLITHERIS Just the utter disrespect to the actual soldiers that went through it.
Ben assfleck’s acting.
if there’s one thing this film does alright despite having modern looking ships every other shot and having this love story stuff, is the chaos it depicts when the attack happens.
This is one of my favourites w private Ryan for action, I think some other good ones are (don’t quote me on this, titles bit fuzzy) a bridge too far, dunkirk, and darkest hour which follows winston Churchill up to his world famous speech. I recommend those very much if you like war films and branching out into those areas
Love Story easy, it was the most overrated battle in history
I watched this when I visited there. It’s a good movie for the time
The love story wasn't even any good. The two leading men are the exact same character. No wonder she's ambivalent.
It's also very inappropriate.
Enjoy your reactions!!
Thanks!
decent movie bro. not the best but you gotta see it just to say ive seen it if you know what i mean
Some countries it's basically mandatory for the brother or family member to take the wife in and be their wife if the husband dies
bro just casuwlly watched my childhood movie ... me and my grandma loved thid movie and so did my grandpa ..... i love them so much dude his movie was so crazy dawg it taughht me alot also as a young kid
You can have morning sickness at any time of the day. Also, I didn't realize so many people disliked this movie.......I don't think it's that bad.
It's a film that becomes more insulting the more you know about the actual events it attempts to depict. If you have a love of history, things that bastardize it tend to really piss you off, because *A.* the film makers are lying to your face, and *B.* people who don't know the real history will walk away from the theatre thinking what they just saw was accurate. This is also why a lot of Civil War era historians really dislike films like Gods and Generals, though that one is even more egregious in that it attempts to outright rewrite history by pushing a Lost Cause narrative.
@DovahFett my thing is, it's a movie. With any movie they take creative liberties. I dont expect any movie about a true event to be 100% accurate or close to it. They gotta put stuff in there to make people want to pay & go see it. If people want 100% accuracy, they should watch a documentary about the event and not a blockbuster movie.
@@AthenaAthena but that really didn't work now did it! a lot of people just didn't go to see this movie because it's 3 hours long and most of it isn't the actual events of Pearl Harbor, it doesn't even end for another hour or something. and while most movies take liberties, this one just actually lies heavily.
@@AthenaAthena It's nice to say it is just a movie but a historical event this important should not be fictionalized. I am a history professor and all too often I have had students tell me they learned a lot about Pearl Harbor by watching this movie. I always disabuse them of this notion by pointing out that they know less about it now than before they watched this hideous film. If he wanted to make a fictional version, the title should have been different.
@robin3307 I don't agree with y'all at all. Also, that's a chance to educate younger generations on movies. Let them know that a lot of movies that reference historical events have creative liberties in them.
It’s a shitty movie, that’s what it is
This is easily one of the best movies ever, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this movie because this is my mother’s favorite movie, we probably watched it together hundreds of times, she still has the hard cover disk case to this day. Thank you for the reaction to it.
The movie is bad. I'm sorry. When Affleck is asked by his friend what is going on, and he responds, "I think World War II just started," I can say there are at least two problems in that line. First, the war had been going on for two years. Second, it was not called World War II at that time. I can also point out that women in the military could not wear makeup on duty (unlike Pearl Harbor, the movie) and no medical person was killed in the attack since the Japanese made it a point to avoid the hospital. I could go on and on.
@@robin3307 I respect your opinion.
Great movie
Always felt bad for Afflecks character him coming back to find out his girl is dating his friend after he’s presumed dead. I wouldn’t even know how to begin to process that
Yeah same
Love this movie remember watching it first time in middle in class what a movie
In spite of some cringe dialogue I actually like this movie. The attack scenes are horrifying and made me understand the reality of that day more than I ever had before. It was my parents 9/11 in that it made them truly realize their world was no longer safe.