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DVD : Pearl Harbor - The Director's Cut (Four-Disc Vista Series) |
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: AFFLECK,BEN
EAN: 9780788832994
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788832999
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 02, 2002
Running Time: 183 minutes
Sales Rank: 31919
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 2001
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Description:
PEARL HARBOR: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT Vista Series DVD is the most extensive exploration of moviemaking ever presented. Four discs showcase more than 60 new shots in the film and over 12 hours of new special features. There's never been anything like it before. History comes alive in the unforgettable epic motion picture PEARL HARBOR, the spectacular blockbuster brought to the screen by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Astounding visual and audio effects put you at the center of the event that changed the world -- that early Sunday morning in paradise when warplanes screamed across the peaceful skies of Pearl Harbor and jolted America into World War II. This real-life tale of catastrophic defeat, heroic victory, and personal courage focuses on the war's devastating impact on two daring young pilots, Ben Affleck (ARMAGEDDON) and Josh Hartnett (BLACK HAWK DOWN), and a beautiful, dedicated nurse, Kate Beckinsale (SERENDIPITY). PEARL HARBOR is extraordinary moviemaking -- a breathtaking reenactment of the "date which will live in infamy" and a heartfelt tribute to the men and women who lived it.
Amazon.com:
Sometimes bigger is actually better. Nearly matching the size of director Michael Bay's ego, this massive four-disc set is a veritable Pearl Harbor archive, and ironically, Bay's film remains the least interesting component. It's a purely conventional Hollywood take on the tragedy, using a clichéd love triangle between two ace pilots (Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck) and a Pearl Harbor nurse (Kate Beckinsale) as an "intimate" means of spectacularly re-creating the attack that thrust America into World War II. The director's cut adds little to the previous DVD release, apart from authentic R-rated carnage during the Japanese raid, and minor expansion of the Hartnett-Beckinsale romance. Commentaries range from superfluous (Bay and film historian Jeanine Basinger) to highly entertaining (Ben Affleck and costars) and technically informative (primary production team), and a spirited examination of visual effects (with Bay and ILM supervisor Eric Brevig) is guaranteed to fascinate anyone interested in physical effects and CGI. A broad "making of" documentary is noteworthy for one-time viewing, while abundant historical records make this a valuable compilation of definitive materials.
The History Channel's "One Hour over Tokyo" and "Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor" provide depth that Bay's movie lacks, and Charles Kiselyak's interactive timeline is arguably the finest feature included, providing an in-depth historical perspective on U.S.-Japan relations. Even a brief reenactment of a Pearl Harbor nurse's journal is moving in a way that Bay's film can only try to be, while the "Interactive Attack Sequence" provides a multifaceted exploration of the entire production process (a highly educational feature for aspiring filmmakers). All in all, these four discs offer an admirable balance between Bay's technically impressive but ill-conceived epic and a thorough, fitting tribute to those who endured hell on that fateful Sunday in 1941. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
This movie has always been one of my favorites.
It tells and shows a lot of things and in some moments it can even make me drop a tear. It is a very good movie but also very sad.
It is definitely a must see , and i can nothing else but recommend it!
- Andreas
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This movie is absurdly bad. A white elephant. From the start, when you see Alec Baldwin, as an Army Air Corps officer, ordering a couple of US Army pilots to Britain to fight Germans in British RAF fighters, you know this flick is BS. America was a neutral in 1940, no US armed service personel were ever sent that year or the next to fight in the British air force. There was an American squadron that saw service flying British fighters in the Battle of Britain, but they were all volunteer mercenaries, who showed up in the UK dressed in civies. The only thing the US gov't would have done was to refrain from cancelling their visas, and let them go over. The two aforementioned pilots whom Baldwin sends, Afleck and that other guy, then proceed through the movie, through every major aviation event of the war, like they're Batman and Robin; reaching their climax as participants in the Dolittle Raid (which, it turns out, is Baldwin's role, which heightens the bogus nature of this "historical" production) They romance parts are a real tedious chore to have to put up with, the HOT stuff that From Here to Eternity provided and still provides this is not. There is not a Burt Lancaster or Donna Reed or Sinatra to be found among this pathetic High School drama class calibre cast. The Maudlin atmosphere is so strong that one is forced to notice further slop handling of details on the part of the producers. Like when they have an Army officer wearing a Khaki barracks cap with his Olive shirt. ... Read More
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While I have little regard for Roger Ebert's opinion on movies or anything else, he did pretty much nail this movie by dismissing it as the story of how the Japanese Navy interrupted a love triangle. This movie is an incredible trivialization of such an important historical event.
It is also a fictional version. Doris Miller's actions were heroic, but he did not shoot down any Japanese planes. The pilots on whom the characters played by Ben "Aflac" and the other actor whose name escapes me were based did not down three Japanese planes by playing chicken with them. The attacking Japanese planes did not zip in and out and around ships and buildings like Star Wars TIE fighters.
But why am I even bothering to go into this much detail? The movie is horrible. Leave it at that.
Rating: -
Even though there is alot of Hollywood in this movie there is alot of truth to it. I learned alot by watching it - history repeats itself in a way.
Rating: -
To be honest,I really don't care what the critics or the people who gave
nothing but praise to James Cameron's god-awful Titanic but literally
bashed this FAR SUPERIOR MOVIE to bits think.Blasphemy,you may say.But
not when you really examine both films.The whole point behind the true
tragic stroy of the Titanic is what the ship's creators boasted in real
life history,'God Himself cannot sink this ship.'But Cameron totally
blunders this by having everyone taking God's name in vain left and
right while the boat is going down.When in real life history,they were
all singing: Nearer my God to thee.And not only that,Cameron tries to
make us feel all broken when Leonardo Dicaprio's character kicks the
bucket,but when you really analize it from a realistic,not to mention
moral,point of view he deliberately took advantage of Kate Winslet's
character who is already engaged to Billy Zane's character.True,Zane's
character does try to go about winning Kate's heart in the wrong way
with materials.But all Kate had to do was tell him in the right way
I want your love not what your money can buy.So,in all honesty Leo is
in fact the REAL VILLAIN.At least in PEARL HARBOR,the love triangle
was handled much better.Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale's characters
fall hopelessely in love with each other during extremely troubled
times.But at least,Ben's character is noble enough not to try to ... Read More
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