Word: harborers
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's contention that Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay is "his generation's Spielberg or Lucas" is as laughable as some of the awful dialogue in that movie [CINEMA, June 4]. When Bay's camera isn't mooning over the three bland lead performances, it is wrapped in the American flag, always the first refuge of the terminally unimaginative...
Apparently there is no end to the self-absorption and arrogance of the movie industry's big names. "You start with a little idea and make it happen," said Bruckheimer. Pearl Harbor "a little idea"? Exploiting the attack is bad enough, but by describing it according to its utility to him and his movie, Bruckheimer demeans and insults its victims as well. LEN DIAMOND Westminster, Calif...
...haven't already seen pearl harbor, make sure to do so when it opens at your local theater. Not because it's a great film, which (though I'm no movie critic) it isn't, but because after spending more than two hours watching a sappy love story bracket a burst of high-tech pyrotechnics, you can reflect on the deep grip that World War II continues to have on our imagination...
...wave of books, films and remembrances of the "Good War" and those who fought in it. The European theater got its respect first, notably in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Saving Private Ryan, but the war in the Pacific and its aftermath is getting its own. In addition to Pearl Harbor, we have seen two recent Pulitzer prize-winning histories?Herbert P. Bix's biography of Hirohito and John W. Dower's magnificent analysis of Japan's postwar reconstruction. And in recent weeks, Ghost Soldiers, a reconstruction of a daring 1945 raid to free the last survivors of the Bataan death...
...else, the professor could try a different approach. He could tell some good lies - not hard for college professors, who often harbor an inner Indiana Jones...