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Plot: A dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the series of American blunders that allowed it to happen.
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MCT:September 27, 2008My favorite Pearl Harbor Movie of all time. Based on the records obtained after World War II from the Japanese, this movie show's the great steps taken by Japan and it's Military Leader's to Attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and to inflict as much damage upon the U.S. Pacific Fleet as possible. Adm. Yamamoto was correct about America, this attack woke up a sleeping giant and in less then 4 years the war in the Pacific was over. In the end two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, resulting in Japan finally surrendering to the United States, thus ending World War II.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
The true telling of the events of December 7, 1941.
If you want the real facts of what happened see this and stay away from 2001's Pearl Harbour.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
This movie gives a highly accurate account of Battle of Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately the movie making technology in 1970 was not advanced enough to show the visual impact the Battle had on the actual eye witnesses. It?s as if they made a movie about the September 11 attack on New York City and never showed the World Trade Towers collapsing. The central event in the actual Battle was the explosion of the USS Arizona. Since the actual footage of the explosion was recorded on black and white film and this movie was in color they couldn?t use it. Colorization was still over ten years off. With today?s computer graphics technology it could be done but it was not available 35 years ago. They did an excellent job telling the human drama leading up to the battle by showing both the Japanese and American points of view. However they glossed over the Japanese atrocities in Asia that caused the split in U.S.-Japanese relations and they only had one scene showing the signing of the German-Japanese treaty. They did show the many warnings that were ignored by the American government and how the Japanese failed to issue a declaration of war before the attack. The best part of the movie was the attack on Hickam Field and the destruction of all the American airplanes. The aerial photography showing the Japanese planes flying over Hawaii was also good. Some parts of the attacks on the Navy ships was good since they used actual U.S. Navy ships, but you could tell that the explosions were off-camera and that they weren?t really blowing anything up. If they could have shown the battleships actually being destroyed this would have been an excellent movie but due to budget and technology they were limited as to what they could do. Overall the story was well told and well acted.
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MCT:July 8, 2008
great movie, brilliantly done, and superd visuals, a little on the long side, but if you are looking for a great war flick that is entertaining and histrically acurate, this movie is rockin!
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MCT:July 6, 2008Maybe not perfect, but a damn fine attempt. Sure, Pearl Harbor might be superior in the production & FX departments, but a sappy, depressing love story makes it all go to shit, a'la Titanic. Kudos to these guys for sticking to what matters.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
It's a classic in one sense with its great cast, but the film strangely doesn't live up to the epic feel it is going for.
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MCT:January 16, 2008Oh my God, this movie sucked balls! That's right. It's a movie that's old that I hate. What? I can have an opinion.
First I have to state something. I promised that I would mark it one start lower than it really was because Gary from work loves this movie. Here's where I kind of screwed myself. Gary likes a lot of movies that I like, but that's because he likes them because they are war films. I like movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 because they are objectively amazing films. So I simply assumed that Tora! Tora! Tora! would be one of them. But then this movie ended up sucking really badly. And here's why.
This really isn't a movie. There isn't a protagonist. There isn't an antagonist. There aren't characters really. This is literally just a telling of how the bombing of Pearl Harbor came about. Now, if I saw this on the History Channel, I would give it five stars because the budget is fantastic and the cinematography is half way decent. But f*ck, guys, I don't care about having a soulless, text-book telling of Pearl Harbor. This movie is just spectacle and that doesn't sit right with me. I mean, you have Martin Balsam for God's sake.
But I feel like I should point this out. Akira Kurosawa got fired from this movie. I can imagine why. He was probably actually trying to make a fantastic, emotional film out of this and what they wanted was non-confrontation between the American and Japanese directors. This might be one of the harder things that I have to review because I was just bored through the entire thing. I was just watching for the first two hours (that's right, the movie is clocks in at 2:20+) and just screaming "Bomb them already." And once they bomb Pearl Harbor (sorry for ruining the ending), it's just explosions for a long time and people acting shocked how this could happen. I don't know how they could be shocked because they discuss how this is going to happen the entire film. Literally, most of the movie is a flash of a man's name and then that guy talking to a lot of people about how perfect Pearl Harbor is as a target. What kind of scriptwriting is that? I totally envisioned this military buff just sitting there over his book of tactics pointing out how inaccurate every other Pearl Harbor movie was. Sorry, but if I want to learn about Pearl Harbor, I'll read a textbook. Sh*t. I have a history minor and I was still bored sh*tless. Boo on you movie! Boo on you! You and Gary belong together.
Instead of Tora! Tora! Tora!, it should have been Tora :( Tora :( Tora:( -
MCT:December 7, 2007
My husband decided to buy this DVD and rewatch it for the millionth time in honor of the men and women who fought during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I'm not normally into classics but it was historically accurate and well made.
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MCT:October 28, 2007
Excellent action sequences and in a totally different class to Pearl Harbor, which dealt with the same subject. Marred by studio/production politics that resulted in too many cooks and weighed it down with many, many minutes of talking heads 'n' shoulders and lacklustre dialogue.
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MCT:August 20, 2007
The first movie ever shot simultaneously by two directors with two casts and two languages. Amazing accomplishment for it's time!
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NO! Romantic, political, self-indulgent CRAP!
And I really hate it when the female romantic lead is idealized in that sort of "I'm a moral angel inspiring you to find love and joy and courage" sort of way. Well, I guess that doesn't explain it, because those words could describe an excellent character, but I'm just, ick, kind of offended, in addition to just being like "OH COME ONE" and totally bored. -
MCT:June 3, 2007
This movie is great because it doesn't have any kind of love story, so it can focus on more historical facts. Good special effects for the early 70s..
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MCT:June 2, 2007
I real true story about the events that lead to the attach on Pearl Harbor as told on both sides from the American aspect and the Japanese aspect, you won't find a better telling of this story than this one.
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MCT:May 27, 2007
One of my dad's favorites and mine as well. Loved to watch it with him when he was alive. God Bless You Dad!
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MCT:May 17, 2007It's always good to see war movies from different perspectives, like from the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. A great flick.
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MCT:May 14, 2007
Probably as true as a movie can make history as this story of the "Day of Infamy" is told from the Japan and the U.S. points of view.
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MCT:May 11, 2007
It's not that I like war, I like history. And the surprise attack on American forces by the Empire of Japan is history this nation will never forget. Though released in 1970, this well made, well directed film of war puts you inside the minds of the actual participants who lived through that "date that will live in infamy"! Only a few films rival this epic. They are "The Longest Day", "Saving Private Ryan", and "Blackhawk Down". War is hell, so fel our American history, "Tora, Tora, Tora" is a classic great.
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MCT:April 27, 2007
I prefer this MUCH over the Perl Harbor movie released a few years back. There is NO romantic story yarned into this flick, all facts and the true story of how Japan hit us hard in '41!
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MCT:April 16, 2007
This is a great movie of Pearl Harbor, this has the realist special affects before computer graphics came about.
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