tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246301260943127814.post7512492516105121159..comments2023-12-04T16:36:17.878-06:00Comments on long journey home: Pearl HarborDavid Finlaysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13777087169060713857noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246301260943127814.post-12935890708171282802011-06-10T01:49:45.494-05:002011-06-10T01:49:45.494-05:00Fin!
The events of Pearl Harbor changed America ...Fin!<br /> The events of Pearl Harbor changed America forever. In my mind it is as close a thing to an epic that we have in American Culture. It didn't occur over 40 years like Troy, but it was of those proportions... epic that is. <br />This movie didn't represent American culture during that time.It was some just some modern people dressed in old fashions. The music was wrong and the dances were wrong. People danced the two step, yo. And Glenn Miller was the Man. There was like one Glenn Miller song.Anyway... and they smoked like chimneys.<br />The other stuff.. Decaprio was mismatched for her she needed someone else..less hyperactive. He doesn't seem that way now, I guess he grew out of it.<br />Saving PR some good stuff in it.<br />But I can't see a veteran captain of North Africa and Frickin Anzio having his squad fall apart like that because of some nutt job clerical corporal. and if he had been an English teacher(which they injected so he could wax sappy about the condition human)he could have spoken French.<br />The machine gun nest and the little french girl scene. Endangered the whole mission.Gestafalushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06177427352816873546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246301260943127814.post-41864955483269771402009-11-09T22:09:49.003-06:002009-11-09T22:09:49.003-06:00Pearl Harbor is amazing and made quite an impact o...Pearl Harbor is amazing and made quite an impact on me. We were able to stay on Hickam AFB and see the buildings there. <br /><br />I went to the BG Veterans Day parade on Saturday and met a survivor from Pearl Harbor that lives in BG. He was gracious and kind.Dionnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246301260943127814.post-89501471529136612472009-11-04T12:35:30.258-06:002009-11-04T12:35:30.258-06:00I think it would have been a better movie if they ...I think it would have been a better movie if they had focused on the people that really lived.<br /><br />The movie Saving Private Ryan was a story about D-Day and the days that followed. The characters are all fictitious. The first twenty minutes of the movie of the actual landing made an impact on me.<br /><br />There wasn't a love story in it - thank goodness. Compare Saving Private Ryan to Band of Brothers and Brothers wins out hands down. Band of Brothers is so much better because it depicted what really happened to real people.<br /><br />I'd one day like to visit Pearl Harbor.David Finlaysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777087169060713857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246301260943127814.post-71257287355639952252009-11-04T11:59:41.632-06:002009-11-04T11:59:41.632-06:00I couldn't agree more with your assessment/rev...I couldn't agree more with your assessment/review. I can remember being unimpressed with how Titanic came together and what was "missing". I probably enjoyed Pearl Harbor a little more...mainly because I am fascinated with that time period. <br /><br />I was able to visit the Arizona Memorial several years ago and listen to a survivor of the bombing. There are a wealth of stories out there that are disappearing daily. This is one "chick" that would be fine without the big romance in those movies. :)<br /><br />DionneDionnenoreply@blogger.com