In Reply to: Good review! posted by clarkjohnsen on May 24, 2001 at 11:49:12:
all Americans from any heritage. The battle scenes are so realisticly recreated, albeit with lots of computer graphics, that one feels like they're watching a news reel of some sort.Face it, the sailors and civilians were pretty much sitting ducks/fish in a barrel for the 300 Japanese fighter planes and in the movie, everyone's fair game. Kind of like the opening beach scene in S.P.R.. Definitely not sugar coated.
After the big scene and as an American, I was pissed that we waited 3.5 years to drop only two Atomic Bombs. This movie gets the blood boiling and probably doesn't do anything productive for US/Japan relations.
I mean, I don't think I'd be sitting in one of our AMC Movie Theatres in Japan watching a movie about the Atomic Bombs that were dropped on their cities, should one ever be made to this caliber.
There were evidently a few scenes supposedly excised from the Asian/Euro marktets, among them, a monologue by the actress at end and evidently a comment by a Japanese Fighter pilot where he states he'll start doing civilian soft targets should he run out of military ones. Since I kept running up to the booth to make sure the film was feeding properly (3:20 run time w/trailers) I might have missed that part, but don't recall seeing in last night. The monologue was pretty tame, though.
Have fun.
Chris
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- Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Chris Garrett 14:44:02 05/24/01 (50)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Dmitry 17:25:11 05/24/01 (40)
- And do not forget to... - Jeff Lessard 13:46:33 05/27/01 (0)
- Yes I would have.... - Chris Garrett 22:15:51 05/24/01 (1)
- Re: Yes I would have.... - Dmitry 22:39:13 05/24/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Rick Bennett 18:23:25 05/24/01 (33)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Dmitry 22:24:14 05/24/01 (32)
- a bit of history.... - late 12:06:15 05/25/01 (3)
- Re: a bit of history.... - Bruce from DC 13:14:46 05/26/01 (1)
- that's what he said, and he usually meant what he said - late 16:21:47 05/26/01 (0)
- Re: a bit of history.... - Dmitry 13:12:12 05/25/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Nick 04:02:42 05/25/01 (27)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Victor Khomenko 08:00:09 05/25/01 (26)
- Saved Japanese lives also - SR 11:52:42 05/25/01 (7)
- arrogant and patronizing. - Mellson 15:33:31 06/02/01 (3)
- Re: arrogant and patronizing. - SR 18:31:49 06/02/01 (2)
- The way u explain your stupidity.. - Mellson 12:41:51 06/03/01 (1)
- Stupidity ? - SR 11:42:22 06/04/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Dmitry 09:32:31 05/25/01 (16)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Victor Khomenko 10:01:50 05/25/01 (15)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Dmitry 13:09:36 05/25/01 (14)
- Re: 'the most horrid invention in history'... - gnat 02:11:00 05/26/01 (3)
- Meant to ask you... - Victor Khomenko 09:09:36 05/26/01 (2)
- Re: sorry countryman,... - gnat 09:15:58 05/26/01 (1)
- Then ask your daughter! - Victor Khomenko 09:54:14 05/26/01 (0)
- Dilemas - Victor Khomenko 15:10:46 05/25/01 (9)
- Re: Lemmas, more like :)) - Dmitry 20:42:22 05/25/01 (0)
- nuclear policy - late 20:32:13 05/25/01 (7)
- Never satisfied - Bruce from DC 14:01:05 05/26/01 (6)
- August 15 1940- a seemingly insignificant date. - john dem 17:44:02 05/26/01 (3)
- Supposedly........ - Chris Garrett 02:21:44 05/29/01 (2)
- Re: Supposedly........ - john dem 06:03:22 05/29/01 (0)
- stimulus/response - late 16:42:12 05/26/01 (1)
- way off topic here, but so what . . . - Bruce from DC 17:34:21 05/26/01 (0)
- Ouch!- That felt like a nail getting hit on the head! - john dem 08:30:17 05/25/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Victor Khomenko 17:58:52 05/24/01 (2)
- Hi Victor - caa 21:17:25 05/24/01 (1)
- Re: Hi Victor - Victor Khomenko 22:30:57 05/24/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Rich S. 16:52:51 05/24/01 (0)
- Re: Actually, by 'natives' I was referring to.... - Big Billy 16:04:35 05/24/01 (4)
- Why, because he was pissed the Japs killed thousands - EdM 16:13:27 05/24/01 (3)
- Re: Why, because he was pissed the Japs killed thousands - Nick 04:18:43 05/25/01 (1)
- Re: Why, because he was pissed the Japs killed thousands - Rich S. 06:36:00 05/25/01 (0)
- Eat me. - Big Billy 19:29:28 05/24/01 (0)