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Pearl Harbor (2001)
An insult to the veterans
This film was not just a sappy love story which used a handful of battle scenes to promote itself as a war movie, it was also an insult to those who actually fought in the battle and a wasted opportunity to teach their grandchildren about a turning point in our history. 80% of the film involves a predictable love triangle set as a period piece, the remaining 20% consists of a dumbed-down history lesson and implausible action sequences. Some have commented that the battle scenes were good, I totally disagree. The dogfights look like something from a science fiction film and a number of ridiculous inaccuracies ruin the film for anyone who knows a thing about the battle or the weapons of the era. For example they have our Hero (Ben Afflek) dodging and outrunning swarms of zeros in a P-40 Warhawk. Although the Warhawk was used effectively against Zeroes in Burma it could neither outturn nor outrun the Zero. The resulting dogfight looks more like Star Wars than real air combat.
First Knight (1995)
King Arthur's tale made into uninteresting film.
This is a painfully bad retelling of the Arthurian Legend. The bad guys use crossbow pistols and wear black leather ala Road Warrior, The good guys look like a high school production of Camelot. Camelot itself looks like part of Disneyland.
The story centers around Richard Gere as an unappealing Lancelot, Sean Connery as a doddering Arthur and Julia Ormond (Guenevere) who, despite being the high point of the film, is completely unable to convince us that she has any affection for the wizened Arthur.
Bad guys grimace, music sweeps heroically, rousing speaches and predictability ensue, followed by a forgettable conclusion.
Not worth it even for fans of the genre.