[OT] Still Re: [LoGH] Pearl Harbor (off-topic about war movies)
devans@uneb.edu
Wed, 30 May 2001 09:31:06 -0500
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Other than the obvious Hollowooding of history (points of which have been
WELL COVERED by the erudite members of this List) the best way to see this
movie is, IMHO, to arrive an hour late.
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My intention is to keep a watch handy throughout my first viewing; I'd
heard it was more like 80 minutes.
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Still, the best war movie covering Pearl Harbor is STILL "Tora! Tora!
Tora!" IMHO (I have it on DVD and it so rules!) but for an "epic" wanna-be,
the movie was OK.
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Please note that this is one of my ten favorite movies of all time,
probably within the top five, so I hope you'll bear with me. It's recently
been decried as 'soft' and 'Americanizing' on the Japanese, and playing
fast and loose with some historical parts. It was more than half Hollywood.
Just, IMNSHO, something they got pretty damn good.
That out of the way, a second part of the query on Pearl Harbor in LoGH,
besides 'sneak' attacks, would be concerning 'fighters'.
In all the battles I've seen, the fighters are launched only when in
gunnery range. Without particulars becoming spoilers, are there any battles
where the fighters are launched outside the range of guns/missles to close
with the enemy's fleet before the ships can 'get into it'?
The_Beast
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