Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790760674 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790760673 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 08, 2001 Running Time: 278 minutes Sales Rank: 3177 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1978
Description: Depicts the lives and loves of military personnel before, during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Rating: - A 70's miniseries soap opera, with great f/x (even though they stole them from "Tora,Tora,Tora")
Yes this is just a big soap opera, and most of the stories are just filler to set up the attack,but there is a strong feeling of a throw back to films of bygone days here that makes me like this even though i know it stinks. The attack last longer in this than it did in real life, and they keep leaping from it to some more soap opera filler that get very annoying after a while. The cast is ok but with all the corny line they have it's not really fair to say they are not good , they do what they can. I grew up in the 70's and these miniseries were a steady T.V. diet of the time,so some of my fondness for this mess is because it takes me back to younger days, and as such some will like it for that others will be less kind .
Rating: - Real, unpretentious action! Question: Where's the DVD reissue?
In watching this movie, I saw and felt the feelings of a people immersed in everyday and ordinary things just before the horrible events ensued. My honest opinion of this movie, in spite of it's warts or short-commings, is that it ranks very well alongside Midway and Tora Tora Tora. I can see them reissued in a three volume DVD set, if that day will ever come. One could judge this movie by todays (2006) spoiled standards and afford to be over-critical, and scornful just becouse it may not have the pretentious, glossy, computer-generated actions, token characters in their designated areas, and stale repititious performances or historical revisions. No, never, I liked this movie becouse it was honest and convincingly, real any day compared to the now-stale, (and molded) cheese of Pearl Harbor (2001)
Everything else aside! This movie deserves DVD reissue and is in sore need of it. The state of VHS ... Read More
Rating: - Moving Mini-series
I will admit at times that the story is a bit overdone. But overall I really enjoyed this story or series of stories. Most of the war epics I have seen spend a lot of time on special effects over actual characterization and story. I personally did not see that Ben Affleck movie because I think that he is a terrible and over-rated actor! I enjoyed this movie because the stories all touched a nerve. I loved Angie Dickenson's character. This is saying a lot considering that I am not a fan of hers! I have met people that are a little like all of the characters in this movie. I give it five stars because frankly, any movie made 20 or more years ago is probably better than the stuff I have seen produced today.
Rating: - A sneak attack on the viewer...
This has to be one of the saddest attempts to bring the Pearl Harbor attack to the screen that I have ever witnessed. Part of that sadness comes from so many good actors trying their best, but ultimately in vain, to save this turkey.
The names just leap out at you; Robert Wagner, Dennis Weaver, Angie Dickinson, Lesley Ann Warren, Brian Dennehy, Richard Anderson, Adam Arkin, Marion Ross, and others. You'd think with a cast like that, the project would be a real winner. Apparently, that's what the producers thought as well, which is why the entire enterprise is practically on auto-pilot, left to direct itself.
Large chunks of footage from the classic film "Tora! Tora! Tora!" are inserted ham-fistedly in a precursor to the near-criminal lifting of an entire action segment of "Clear and Present Danger" in an episode of "JAG". Even worse, the producers were too lazy to add subtitles for the Japanese ... Read More
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