Re: (OT) Pearl Harbor was; Re: Final Fantasy

No Doubt we could all sit here and name war movies from all over the
world 
but that's not really the point.

The point here is that millions of dollars are spent making a movie
which 
is based on all the indicators is going to be crap. The two guys 
responsible for this film Jerry Bruckheimer and Micheal Bay basically 
'style' their way through their films giving little substance to the 
stories they are telling (Top Gun and Armageddon are two examples). For 
once they appear to have a decent story and what's the plan, use a young

couple and their romance to grab the audience, like I said this displays

just how poorly the film makers regard their potential audience.

Unless there's Tit and Bum, the leading man's balls clicking from side
to 
side in time with the soundtrack and a whole sleigh ride of effect shots

then Bruckheimer and Bay will shoehorn them in at the expense of the
story 
and make it look good too.

For a WWII film with a difference check out -Grave of the Fireflies. A 
Japanese animated flick.

Or for 'Human Drama' that figures so prominently in the marketing of
'Pearl 
Harbor' check out a made for BBC TV affair called 'All the King's Men' (
I 
think?) the story about a company raised on the King's estate during
WWI, 
went to the Dardanelles and never came home.

Derek

That's it for me :)

Derek Fulton
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