Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, Colm Feore, Kate Beckinsale, William Fichtner
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
Composer: Hans Zimmer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 183 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Way Better Than Expected!
Summary: 5 Stars

I caught this movie on HD cable over the weekend and was blown away by how good it is! The acting was first class and the special effects were phenomenal. The story revolves around Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett who are best friends and both fall in love with Kate Beckensdale. Many people (myself included) thought that this would be a rip-off of the Leo DeCaprio/Kate Winslet story of Titanic. It is nothing of the sort. Though Affleck and Harnett are love rivals, they remain true friends throughout.

The story is loaded with several little subplots that happen during the attack and Beckensdale's character has some awesome scenes as a nurse trying to deal with all the wounded and being a calming influence on many fatally injured.

The story does not end with the attack but continues with a daring mission undertaken by Harnett and Affleck with an extraordinary performance by Alec Baldwin as their leader and trainer. The actor that portrays FDR is also excellent and has some great moments of his own. Each of these actors could easily have won an Oscar for their performance. Try not to miss this one while it is still free on cable!

DVD Review: Great story and picture quality
Summary: 4 Stars

I've watched this movie a number of times via standard DVD format and now Blu Ray. This is a really nice movie to showcase your Blu Ray player and HD TV, I thought the picture and sound quality was astounding, and I'm fussy.

DVD Review: Dissapointing Blu Ray
Summary: 2 Stars

The two stars are for the Japanese approach into Pearl Harbor and the action torpedo sequence. The rest of the plot is worthless! On the Blu Ray version the images are not what I had expected, there is no DTS Sound, and what happened with all the extra features from the original dvd? Same dissapointing plots as Titanic, and Black Hawk Down. Hope the Patriot doesn't dissapoint me when I go see it in blu ray.

DVD Review: An average story on a great format.
Summary: 3 Stars

A unrealistic love story combined with a poor historical account. Randal once again screws up history.Modern day liberals paying great American military heroes.

DVD Review: Pearl Harbor (Blu-ray)
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a movie I thought would benefit from being Blu-ray and I was right. Although most of the older titles are a waste of money to have in Blu-ray this movie is not that old and the images were fantastic.

Description of Pearl Harbor [Blu-ray]

History comes alive in the unforgettable motion picture PEARL HARBOR, the spectacular blockbuster brought to the screen by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Experience the groundbreaking special effects that place you at the center of one of the watershed events of the twentieth century, presented for the first time through the magic of Blu-ray Disc? technology! Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale star in this real-life tale of catastrophic defeat, heroic victory, personal courage and sacrifice. See the battle as never before in 1080p high definition, while the astonishing 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio will make you feel as though you're in the cockpit of your own fighter plane. The unparalleled realism of Blu-ray Disc? technology delivers a breathtaking reenactment of the "date which will live in infamy."

To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay's epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and clich? (some affectionate, some stale) you've ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened.
br/> For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress--he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance--the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England--works, thanks to their charm. They're no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they're pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor--from Cuba Gooding Jr.'s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight's able impersonation of FDR--is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. --Mark Englehart

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