On 11 Jul 2001, at 17:37, Brett Coster wrote:
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> "Pearl Harbor" has about 25 minutes of great flying action, using my
> favourite aeroplane - the Curtiss P40N /Kittyhawk IV - and some great
> Spitfire flying. The other 2.5 hours are not really worth it. If anyone
> wants to start a thread picking this film to pieces I'll happily jump in.
> Wouldn't even consider this as a video rental. 0.5 Joshes, and that only for
> the flying.
>
here's a few things, some obvious, some not so obvious.
SPOILERS (as if i can "spoil" this pos any more than it already is)
1) Jimmy Doolittle was not the crass boor he's made out to be by
Alec Baldwin (i haven't seen him act so bad since 'The Shadow').
he was portrayed very badly by the (i won't dignify what they did by
calling it film) makers;
2) FDR did not rise to his feet when told of the attack and demand
that a retaliatory strike against Japan be formed. and it is a
horrendous disservice to the memory of some fine Americans such
as Marshall, Leahy, Stimson and Knox to suggest that they were
in any way defeatest.shocked at what happened, yes, but never as
pusillanimous as portrayed in this pos (i mean movie);
3) no nurses were killed at Pearl Harbor;
4) no pilots were killed during the raid on Tokyo, or died in a crash
landing;
5) Adm Yammamoto never said "I fear we have awaked a sleeping
giant." Toshiro Mifune did say that in "Tora, Tora, Tora", but
Yammamoto never did.
john
