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Pearl
Film
FilmPG-132001
Pearl Harbor
Directed by Michael Bay
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. From TMDB
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Pearl Harbor is a 2001 drama war film, directed by Michael Bay, starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale.
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60 of 247 · most liked firstFYI, it’s Cuba Gooding Jr’s character in the movie Pearl Harbor—that’s whose name Trump wants stripped from the Navy vessel. Petty Officer Doris "Dorie" Miller, a janitor—the only roles they let Black people have—rose up to man stationary guns to protect his country when Japan attacked Pear Harbor.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apart from Longest Day, Bridge too Far and BOTRK that's a fairly unimaginative list. For my money, the original Dunkirk film, for all its ahistorical indulgences ... is much better than the 2017 one. And Pearl Harbor should not be on any list of great films ever. www.thetimes.com/article/a4bc...
negative · AI labelView post →He was talking about the movie Pearl Harbor. Not the bombing of Pearl Harbor. - Karoline Leavitt in her next briefing
neutral · AI labelView post →I did something crazy today. I found a movie on cable with commercials and just watched it. If you thought EVERY white man was in Oppenheimer, you should watch Pearl Harbor. It has every white man AND Cuba Gooding Jr.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's December 7th. Never forget that Pearl Harbor bombed at the box office -- a movie that will live in infamy. Truly awful.
negative · AI labelView post →the treasure that is archive dot org is so powerful. was looking for a completely unrelated japanese movie but i found a guy posting THE TRUTH ABOUT PEARL HARBOR (tag: conspiracy)
neutral · AI labelView post →The classic example in my subfield is probably Admiral Yamamoto’s “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” after Pearl Harbor which was literally made up for the 1970 film Tora Tora Tora! but is now taken as a serious historical quote.
neutral · AI labelView post →Miyazaki movie about the worlds most adorable attack on Pearl Harbor, “Toturo Toturo Toturo”
neutral · AI labelView post →In the 1970 film "Tora! Tora! Tora!," about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto says, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve." It's repeated in the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor." There's no evidence he ever said that. Ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →You all thought Mr. Enter bringing up 9/11 in his Turning Red review was batshit insane? Here is Star Giant Productions talking about the fucking Pearl Harbor attacks in his Rugrats Movie review and blames it entirely on a fictional character.
neutral · AI labelView post →The first hour is basically just historical exposition and there is noooo way you would get away with it in a modern movie (maybe a TV series) but after 50 years it holds up surprisingly well as a 101 guide to ‘Why Pearl Harbor?’
neutral · AI labelView post →Miller was played by Cuba Gooding Jr in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie btw
neutral · AI labelView post →Shortly before the film was finished, the theatre manager interrupted with an announcement that all servicemen had been called to their units immediately. When we left the theatre, I saw the headline: JAPS BOMB PEARL HARBOR.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite Ebert sentence for a 1.5 star review: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours". This opening paragraph should be framed.
positive · AI labelView post →Well, this sucks. Can only surmise voters hadn't seen many films. PEARL HARBOR? WTF? FWIW I'd have replaced some of these with eg, COME AND SEE, THE ASCENT, WENT THE DAY WELL?, THE BIG RED ONE, CROSS OF IRON, BLACK BOOK, IN WHICH WE SERVE, MINISTRY OF FEAR, ROME OPEN CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH etc
negative · AI labelView post →Just FYI, my grandfather was a movie theatre usher in Texas when he signed up after Pearl Harbor. He wasn't a "warfighter" or whatever that shit is. He was an American boy with an immigrant family from a small town.
neutral · AI labelView post →These brief images are from the 2001 movie 'Pearl Harbor' which is arguably Michael Bay's 2nd biggest puff piece after this.
negative · AI labelView post →Tora! Tora! Tora! is amazing. The aircraft stunt work gets plenty of well deserved praise, but so much else is excellent too. The film is methodical and ends up being a time capsule of 1970's understanding of the attack on Pearl Harbor. "Third wave" nonsense and apocryphal Yamamoto quote aside.
neutral · AI labelView post →I simply do not believe anyone can watch the Pearl Harbor movie with the absurdly good looking Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck, and Kate Beckinsale in one sitting. We are one hour and twenty five minutes into this movie, and Pearl Harbor hasn’t even happened yet. It’s literally just been hot people drama
negative · AI labelView post →Writer: George Lucas Director: Ron Howard Score: James Horner (Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, etc.) Willow is a ✨fantastic✨ film, for these and many more specific reasons. If you appreciate the Fantasy genre, you will NOT regret screening it for yourself.
neutral · AI labelView post →So, a really bad Hollywood movie about Pearl Harbor can include a plot line about the racism that existed in the US Navy, but the professors can't touch it. I see.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently the UK’s top ten favourite Second World War films do not include ‘Went the Day Well?’, but they do include ‘Pearl Harbor’. I’m going outside now. Apologies in advance if you hear distant howls of despair billowing in from a south-westerly direction. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
negative · AI labelView post →One last take of Marilyn for Clash by Night (1952). Trivia: in the original 1941 Broadway version of Clifford Odets’ play, Tallulah Bankhead played the role that Barbara Stanwyck would take in the film. The drama opened just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently when Michael Bay made Pearl Harbor, the plan was to make an Oscar-cal film with none of Bay's normal crazy bullshit, a much more restrained and respectful picture, real cinema; by lunch the first day they were just making another crazy Michael Bay movie, dude can't help himself. Anyway,
neutral · AI labelView post →So basically I think this has to be Christmas of 1940 based on the author’s age and other notable events (Red Ryder BB gun debuts in 1940 and I’m gonna guess the movie does NOT happen immediately post-Pearl Harbor)
neutral · AI labelView post →So, I’m watching “Pearl Harbor” (yea, that one) and one thing is clear. We really deserve a better movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor. #HATM
negative · AI labelView post →President Zelenskyy hugs the Chief of Intelligence Vasyl Malyuk who planned the complex Drone operation against 3 Russian Air bases where 40 strategic bombers were destroyed. It's been described as "Russia's Pearl Harbor" and straight from a Bond Movie. You hold the Cards Zelenskyy. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦
neutral · AI labelView post →3 of 6: He asked me what my motive was. I replied, "Justice. Doing what's right." He shook my hand again. I felt good from it. He didn't know who Doris Miller was, but when I talked about Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2001 movie "Pearl Harbor," then he knew.
neutral · AI labelView post →President Franklin D. Roosevelt watched The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) en route to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on July 24, 1944. The movie was viewed in Adm. William D. Leahy's cabin and the president's daily diary notes it was selected by FDR.
neutral · AI labelView post →Am I wrong that at least one person on this planet went to see “Raising Arizona” thinking it was a movie about Pearl Harbor?
neutral · AI labelView post →At 8, it's a *controversial* choice, the film that killed war films for a decade, Pearl Harbor...
negative · AI labelView post →Highly recommend this short film "Illusions". Julie Dash is saying so much about the power of film, images and how Black people are represented in American film. Images that are projected around the world and shaping others ideas. The film is set in Hollywood after Pearl Harbor, during WWII. 🎬🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah. Who would have thought the Titanic might actually sink at the end of the movie? Or Hitler dies in the Reichskanzlei? Japan attacks Pearl Harbor? Oppenheimer build the A-bomb? All these spoilers in (history-)books...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie. A lesser known sci-fi flick from 1980. A modern aircraft carrier mysteriously goes back in time and arrives 1 day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. They are divided on whether or not they should interfere with history.
neutral · AI labelView post →If this happens, there better be an EO on Sunday, January 21, 2029 directing the Navy to change it back. Dorie Miller was a true hero played by Cuba Gooding Jr in the movie Pearl Harbor. Hero 🇺🇸 > 5x Draft Dodger
neutral · AI labelView post →What historical anachronisms have you seen from periodical movies featuring modern technology?. In Pearl Harbor (2001): from one scene where the nurses are on a transport ship, you can see the USS Arizona memorial in the background (wasn't built until after the war in 1962) if you look closely even though the movie is set in WWII. That's not the only historical anachronism I've seen: a speed boat during a romance scene (not available until 1950s) plus incorrect aircraft variants (too modern for…
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor. A movie which will live in infamy.
negative · AI labelView post →Read Rachel Maddow's book "Prequel." It's scary to realize how powerful the Nazi "America First" movement was in this country until the attack on Pearl Harbor. And it went way beyond talk. There were plans in the works to assassinate FDR and Jewish film industry executives. /1
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a war film rubbish. "Pearl Harbor"
negative · AI labelView post →In the movie Pearl Harbor he was played by Cuba Gooding. He was truly an American Hero. Hegseth and Trump couldn't hold a candle to him. They are both Racist.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a joke. A line from a movie, a comedy, spoken by John Belushi. It’s funny because the American audience knew the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor.
neutral · AI labelView post →in december i went on @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social with my cohosts @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world and @thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social to talk about the wretched michael bay movie PEARL HARBOR (2001) with @jkass99.bsky.social. haven’t been able to stop thinking about cum parachutes since
negative · AI labelView post →I love the 2019 Midway movie, but every battleship in Pearl Harbor at the beginning of the movie is a Pennsylvania class ship.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Pardon me baby while I go out and sink a battleship." "Scrap the stuff about the Japanese spy with the Kodak..." This movie was filmed four months before Pearl Harbor. #IWakeUpScreaming #TheNoirCollective
neutral · AI labelView post →The amazing thing is, while Hollywood often screws this up and follows a film like TITANIC with PEARL HARBOR, the pulp hero wave of the 1990s actually led to great/fun/interesting movies. THE ROCKETEER, THE MASK OF ZORRO, DARKMAN, DICK TRACY and (arguably) THE PHANTOM and THE SHADOW kick ass.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pearl Harbor (2003) #film #art #illustration
neutral · AI labelView post →Love that classic 1970s movie about Pearl Harbor, "Trans, Trans, Trans"
neutral · AI labelView post →From a historian’s POV I think Tora Tora Tora! still stands up very strongly as a very decent attempt to explain why Pearl Harbor happened - the kind of film that would never be made today (maybe as a mini-series).
neutral · AI labelView post →For our PATREON SUPPORTERS ONLY: the latest episode of MICHAEL ON MICHAEL, with @ztul.bsky.social watching Michael Bay's fourth film PEARL HARBOR and having... well, having some sort of time. www.patreon.com/posts/michae...
neutral · AI labelView post →in high school my teacher tried to show us Tora! Tora! Tora! but it wasn't available. A classmate goes "hey Coach when are we gonna watch Pearl Harbor?" He looked her dead in the eyes and goes "We're not! Cuz it's a bad movie."
neutral · AI labelView post →His character is prominently displayed in the film Pearl Harbor, played to perfection by Cuba Gooding,Jr. Good on Hollywood on that one for not ignoring this key moment in history. That was 25yrs ago. We’ve regressed. So yeah, let’s put a draft dodging rich kid’s name on a ship instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →An historical note: "Akagi" is the password used when breaking the code for the vault. Akagi was a Japanese battleship involved in the Pearl Harbor attack. It is the second reference to Pearl Harbor in the movie. #FrightClub #DieHard
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking forward to when Secretary of Making Sure Movies Aren't Woke or whatever Jon Voight declares Michael Bay's 2001 film "Pearl Harbor" the US government's only officially recognized account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love it in a period film like PEARL HARBOR when the dudes have physiques with abs that just were not a thing on human male bodies in the 1940s. Jack Lalanne didn't have abs.
positive · AI labelView post →He was played by Cuba Gooding Jr in the film Pearl Harbor. He was a hero, who volunteered to serve his country. Meanwhile, the sloppy fat dude with chronic bone spurs……
neutral · AI labelView post →Tora! Tora! Tora! Watch it you can find it. Great movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
positive · AI labelView post →Honky Tonk (1941) was the movie playing at the Hickam Air Force Base theater on December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
neutral · AI labelView post →in my competing film (along the lines of "Gunfight at the OK Corral", "Pearl Harbor" and "Emily Maitlis interviewing Prince Andrew" this will become one of the standard set texts reinterpreted by every auteur), Andy Bell formerly of Ride will be played by Andy Bell formerly of Erasure.
neutral · AI labelView post →As much as Michael Bay wasn't a good fit for a From Here to Eternity + Tora! Tora! Tora! + Titanic mashup and it being his worst movie by far, Pearl Harbor still visually mogs most similarly-budgeted American films from the past decade
negative · AI labelView post →I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point, and that's an awful lot girl
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