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| Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition) | 
| Actors: Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, Colm Feore, William Fichtner
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1937 reviews
Sales Rank: 1374
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 183 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: DISD23889D
ISBN: 0788831216
UPC: 786936164282
EAN: 9780788831218
ASIN: B00003CXTG
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: December 4, 2001
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To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliche (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened. For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005
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 Totally Pleased with my purchase!!!!! November 13, 2008
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 Quite Possibly the Best War Movie I've ever seen October 22, 2008
Good actors good plot great picture. That's Pearl Harbor in a nut shell.
It was about the best war movie I'd ever seen. And I usually don't even like movies about war especially world war 2. But this movie was great it had good actors and actress's in it and really aside from the civilians who die in the Pearl Harbor bombing only one good guy dies. This is much better then allot of the war movies I've seen in the past like "Enemy At The Gates", "Hamburger Hill", "Red Dawn", and "The Longest Day" (quite possibly the most boring war movie ever created). It is much much more then just a bunch of stupid world war 2 battles.
Why are there so many haters in our world???? October 17, 2008
I just don't understand how this movie got so much criticism and thumbs-down remarks. This is by far my favorite movie up-to-date, and it takes a really super movie to get me to say it's my favorite. Alot of people said it was mushy and that the love triangle was unrealistic. Some reviews went as far as to say that the action sequences and the bombing were way too fictional and computerized.....
To begin with, let me just say that the World War II era fascinates me and I have read an enormous amount of literature (all true stories) from that time period. I also had a grandfather who fought during World War II who told me an endless amount of first-hand stories when he was still alive...... I've read and heard the stories, I know the facts.... what Pearl Harbor portrays in both the fight scenes and personal lives of the characters is historically correct. And the love triangle is not unrealistic. Things like that happened and still happen all the time. It is real life. It is reality.
So.... you haters need to stop hatin' and take this movie for what it is-- a heartwarming story of courage, patriotism, and true love that is vanishing more and more in our world of today.
ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME! and... TO HELL WITH ALL OF YOU WHO TREAT IT SO TERRIBLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! September 14, 2008
I can't believe the way all of you treat this WONDERFUL film. WELL TO HELL WITH ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU BETTER GET READY CAUSE HERE IT COMES. Pearl Harbor is one of the GREATEST films of all time.The acting is WONDERFUL. The special effects are...INCREDIBLE!!!!!The attack on pearl harbor...TERRIFYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And Ben Affleck... PERFECT ACTOR!!!!!!!!!!!That's right,I ADMIT IT! I LOVE THIS FILM!!!!!!!!!!!AND TORA TORA TORA IS AN OLD OUTDATED PIECE OF JUNK!SO...HOW DOES THAT GRAB YA?
 Was This Movie Really Necessary? September 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hollywood cynicism knows no bounds in this "Titanic Meets Tora! Tora! Tora!" rehash. "Pearl Harbor" was made specifically for viewers too young to remember the Oscar-winning "From Here to Eternity." The producers could have saved a fortune by reissuing director Fred Zimmerman's 1953 classic - thus sparing us three hours of bad cinema. Nearly as embarrassing as the 1982 fiasco "Inchon."
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