Reviews

I'm not a mysogin. I love women.... BUT NOT IN A GUY'S MOVIE !!! Pearl Harbor disappointed me from start to finish because it looked to me that the love story was more important than the attack and it spoiled all the fascination of watching a dramatic historic event that changed so many lives.

I should have known that when there is a woman in the top billing of an action movie, we are bound to see scenes that slow down the rhythm of the movie and the power of the scenario, in a rough environment. Same darn thing, in From Here to Eternity.

Of course Pearl Harbor, the movie, is a disaster in itself, from start to finish and I didn't get the emotions that comes out everytime I watch Tora ! Tora ! Tora ! It doesn't come out real, the acting is poor and the SFX didn't come out so great in my book.

I did enjoy the popcorn, though.

In 1962, I was 19 years old. So, don,t ask me if I can relate to the movie American Graffiti. Music, emotions, friends, drive-ins, THAT WAS MY LIFE.. . and many scenes remind me of that good time, before making adult decisions.

Darn, Curt leaves friends and family to persue studies in the East. I left friends and family to start my carreer as a jounalist in a small town weekly newspaper in 1963. And YES, I sured danced to music and songs provided by a real little musical groups. The Platters were standard fare for slow dances. Those sock ups dances in gymnasiums were soooooo full of different kinds of emotions. My Wolfman Jack was Joey Reynolds, then a fast talking DJ, at WKBW, in Buffalo, that came in strong at night in Montreal. And yes, I went back years later to my old high school to walk in the halls, like Curt, and remember ... remember friends that I still had and those that had moved into their own world of responsabilities and out of mine. All the songs in me movie can stick to something I lived listening to them, as they came out, got airplay and made me dance or fall in love, if not both. My Mel'S Drive In was a A & W drive in and, yes, in our gang there was a 1957 Chevrolet, with a boosted motor under the hood. Milner would have loved to drive it. I could go on and on.... Don't ask me if it's a great movie. For me, it's a window on my youth and, darn, did I have a great time. So, for me, the movie is GREAT !. I always watch it with a broad smile on my face. No nostalgia goose bumps for me. Life is great also today but when I watch American Graffiti, I have the immense pleasure of reliving my teenage years and enjoy the magic of them, with all my heart and soul. Thanks Lucas !!!!

Good movie. Not the best but a enough to make me jump on my seat often enough. I think it's impossible to compare it to Romero's Dawn of the dead because his version and the new one fall in different categories.

It had to be more visual and have more plots because at the time, you didn't have that Surround Sound and state of the art FX. As most movies today, the sound as become important, more important sometimes than the dialogue. That would explain the many close ups of gun firing, door slamming, bombing, sounds of vehicles moving and other noises necessary to exploit the surround sound effects. Of course the plot is basic in many ways and is surely not very original but does not take away the claustrophobic effect and the fear among the protagonists. The main purpose of the movie is to scare us (mostly by sounds and surprising close ups) and it does right thru the end, as long as you play along with the characters and not spend your time thinking about the Romera version. One advice : don't leave the theater BEFORE the end of the credits.