The Main Thing That Ruined "Pearl Harbor" for Me...

[Triumph]

What a horrible movie ... made all the worse by Kate Beckinsale. This is the reason why the movie (if you can call it that) was ruined.

I dunno, that scene where Cuba Gooding holds the captain's hand while he dies, and Cuba says something incredibly cheesey like, "I'll get them for you, Skipper!" was pretty much the point that I knew nothing could redeem it.

The only thing worse than this movie, is nerds who write an entire paper to explain parabolic motion.

 

[Paratus]

Yup Kate Beckinsale ruined it for me too.



Because she didn't get nekkid.

 

[Queasy]

This is what ruined it for me pretty much

 

[marvdmartian]

Yup Kate Beckinsale ruined it for me too.



Because she didn't get nekkid.

And the fact that Jaime King died AND didn't get nekkid!! D:

 

[gar3555]

THAT! THAT! That is what ruined it for you. of all the scenes in that dung pile of a movie, that scene ruined it for you. Are you nuts? That whole movie should be erased from existence, and all the cast members removed from this earth for that abortion of a film.



ahem...what were we talking about again?

 

[Kaido]

I snapped this in Plex (XBMC for Mac) last year:

http://img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/3/8/1/f_Picture3m_8032bba.png

Hint: Look to the left 😀

 

[techs]

The military flaw is they showed the torpedoes with the add on wooden fins and the fins stayed on the torpedos all the way to the ships.

In fact, the wooden fins were designed to only keep the torpedo from going to far down on initial contact with the water, preventing them from hitting the ocean floor. They fins were designed to break off when they hit the water.

 

[KillerCharlie]

omg so awesome that this exists

Wow, that uses 5th grade math and physics....

 

[IronWing]

I wish the Nazis hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor, then we wouldn't have had to nuke Tokyo.

 

[JD50]

People actually care about this kind of thing? Pathetic.

 

[jersiq]

Wow, that uses 5th grade math and physics....

...and despite attempts to be highbrow, is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors.

 

[BoomerD]

I actually LIKED the movie...in spite of the love story...in spite of some of the minor inaccuracies...I LIKE Pearl Harbor movies.
They feed my dislike/distrust for all things Japanese.
(even though I've liked MOST of the Japanese people I've ever met.)

 

[Turin39789]

http://www.cisci.net/movies/film_296/scene_0/Pearl_Harbor.pdf

I was reading and scrolling through that document and randomly thought about this... in the part where the basic description parts ... and he says "However, did he has/b] to make cut backs in the physic plausibility?

that's what ruined it for me.

 

[AbAbber2k]

I wish the Nazis hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor, then we wouldn't have had to nuke Tokyo.

I was going to correct you on where we dropped nukes... then I re-read your post and LOL'd.

 

[sivart]

i was walking along and randomly thought about this... in the part where the japanese planes are dropping bombs on our ships in pearl harbor and dropping torpedoes in the water, etc., there was a part where a plane dropped a bomb over a ship and the perspective is RIGHT behind the bomb... and the bomb went straight down to the ship... it didn't go diagonally, it went straight down.

that's what ruined it for me.

go to 1:55 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1niwxQgoY

What ruined it for me is that when FDR spoke to the nation about this tragedy for the first time, he didn't give a "Shout Out" to his friends first.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504202.html

.... I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you....

 

[Nik]

I was reading and scrolling through that document and randomly thought about this... in the part where the basic description parts ... and he says "However, did he has/b] to make cut backs in the physic plausibility?

that's what ruined it for me.

HAHAHA

Agreed.

 

[IronWing]

I was going to correct you on where we dropped nukes... then I re-read your post and LOL'd.

I stole it from a Nemesis1 thread. :sneaky:

 

[dwell]

Ben Affleck is enough to ruin it for anyone.

 

[Bateluer]

I would have said Ben Affleck.

 

[CallMeJoe]

It's all those elitists who can't just watch a movie and not nitpick every little thing wrong with it. Like movies based on history and you see those people say it wasn't good cus certain parts weren't historically accurate. It's a freaking movie. It's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to entertain.

Pearl Harbor failed accuracy and entertainment.

 

[iGas]

Because film makers are teh cool that they don't need to lean high school science.

 

[iGas]

Ben Affleck is enough to ruin it for anyone.

I third the motion.

 

[Numenorean]

http://www.cisci.net/movies/film_296/scene_0/Pearl_Harbor.pdf

it's explained for you on here... near the bottom

I stopped taking that seriously once I got to this line:

"However, did he has to make cut backs in the physic plausibility?"

At that point, I don't think whoever wrote it is intelligent enough to be an sort of authority on physics.

 

[feralkid]

It's all those elitists who can't just watch a movie and not nitpick every little thing wrong with it. Like movies based on history and you see those people say it wasn't good cus certain parts weren't historically accurate. It's a freaking movie. It's not supposed to be accurate. It's supposed to entertain.

Actually they likely spent a lot of money on research to ensure historical accuracy.

Someone just fucked up.

 

[mugs]

Actually they likely spent a lot of money on research to ensure historical accuracy.

Someone just fucked up.

I'm pretty sure they just watched Tora! Tora! Tora! and copied it nearly scene for scene with the exception of the added love story in Pearl Harbor.

Isn't eits the guy who was pissed off that Ice Age 3's subtitle wasn't scientifically accurate? What an odd fellow.