Pearl Harbor - The Director's Cut (Four-Disc Vista Series) | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1945 reviews
Sales Rank: 22659
Format: Anamorphic, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 183 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD24584D
ISBN: 0788832999
UPC: 786936168532
EAN: 9780788832994
ASIN: B00005Q3TZ
Theatrical Release Date: May 25, 2001
Release Date: July 2, 2002
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 07/02/2002 Run time: 184 minutes Rating: R
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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 cliched 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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 Very good movie, a favorite, mixture of friendship, love and war. December 31, 2008
Andreas E. Nielsen (MN, USA / Denmark)
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
 Icckk December 24, 2008
L. Peyronnin (Flagstaff, AZ United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. This was never done, and in all the old war flicks, that were made decades ago by guys who actually lived thru the war, you never see an army guy wearing a Khaki cap with an olive shirt, shear sloppiness. The director, back when this was released, bragged about the time and resources spent on producing the special effects "this movie is all about special effects" I remember him saying. Yeah, and apparently not about accuratly recounting history. Even then, the much ballywhod special effects are a dissapointment. You want to see a still competant film account of Pearl Harbor? Check out Tora!Tora!Tora! It still stands and delivers as a representatiion of these events. Want the weeks leading up to Pearl Harbor presented as sultry times for romance? Then go for the eforementioned From Here to Eternity. Stay away from this turkey. By the way, this system will not let me publish this review without punching in at least one star for it, it does not even deserve that.
Horrible movie December 23, 2008
Mark Wilsonwood (Grapevine, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Pearl Harbor December 20, 2008
D. Lamb (Illinois)
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.
James Cameron,YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! December 18, 2008
Sylvia T. Bosarge (Mobile,AL. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 take
away her virginity until they can get married.And when his plane is
shot down,Ben is presumed dead.This naturally tears up not only Kate's
heart but Josh Hartnett's as well,who plays Ben's best friend since
they were kids.Though Josh does indeed do wrong by getting Kate's
character pregnant when they're not even married.He does finally
realize the error of his ways and is torn not only for his love
for Kate but also the brotherly-type love that he has for Ben,
especially when it turns out that Ben is not dead at all.The
movie does have profanity in it,including God's name in vain,
so parents be warned ahead of time before you decide to let
your children watch it.But still keep in mind PEARL HARBOR
does have a lot of redemptive qualities in it.Which is the
LEAST THING I can say for James Cameron's awful dreck!
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