Pearl Harbor [VHS]

I’ve seen this movie before and loved it. And recently my daughter did a project in school on wwII and decided to watch this multiple times.

Some of the reviewers have a problem with the love story aspect of the film. They’re likely men who want a straight war movie that follows a well-documented historical theme. This was never intended to be a documentary-type movie. It was written to show how the war affected Americans-friends, lovers, families-they all suffered losses due to the war. You can’t have a complete war film without spotlighting how the war affects those who stayed behind and the losses they also dealt with.It did seem as though the writer tried to cram in as much focus as he could on a variety of important points: a black man’s contributions, how nurses stepped up in a crisis and experienced their own version of war, the insufficiencies of information to the nation’s leaders, etc. If all we ever see is the military and its fighting and we don’t see the repercussions of the war back home, we haven’t seen the whole story. Yes, the dialog and behaviors seem cheesy to modern viewers who don’t want to buy those cheesy friendships and love triangles. But they existed then, as they do now. The only part of that which aggravated me is Affleck’s character coming back “from the dead” and acting like a spoilt little boy because the love of his life and his best friend ended up in a romance. She tried to explain to him “we thought you were dead” and he still thought she should have-what? Been psychic enough to know he’d show back up? I’ve never cared much for Affleck as an actor and his character’s self-confidence in this movie was rather arrogant.The action sequences were very realistic, the harbor full of floating bodies of dead sailors, the ships burning, sinking, many survivors wounded beyond recognition, the nurses overwhelmed. At one point a young nurse is told to do something and she stands there and cries “I don’t know what to do”. I remember watching the movie when it first came out and I thought at the time that the director was very ambitious to try and deal with a love story and a war story at the same time, weaving the two together. At times it worked. How do you shift from a warm, fuzzy love story to the horror of war? Not easy.I think people would have been more comfortable with the movie had it gone heavily as a romantic drama with a war background or a straight war movie. The sense of nostalgia is overall very romantic, farm boy best friends grow up and go to war together, naïve Americans clucking over the war in Europe but not affected by it at home, the immediate patriotism after the attack on Pearl. The movie is not with its flaws. The back and forth between romance and war has you feeling jacked around like a ping pong game but if you can live with that, overall it’s worth watching. The film did an excellent job of portraying the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. If the reality of that day was anything like in the movie, all I can say is God bless those souls.

Reloaded this several times. Double checked and reconnected to the network. The network and the Apple TV box all worked perfect. The film still continued to freeze in. The video would disappear. Finally, in frustration, bought the video through Apple plus and it worked perfectly. I’ve tried to reach out to Amazon for a refund on this rental; all I get are messages that drop me into automated message strings that provide no way to contact Amazon. I’m hoping someone through Amazon reads this and provides us with a way to get that refund. UPDATE … Amazon, saw this, and issued a refund, while contacting me about the refund. I don’t expect perfection from any company but when mistakes are made, I expect them to take responsibility. Nicely done, Amazon!

I can't wait to watch this powerful movie.

Loved getting this movie in DVD format. Previously had it in VHS.

Super long.

I love buying online. Excellent speedy delivery. packaged well, 100% Happy. By the way, the Movie is Awesome !! Thank you.

While I do have the standard def 60th Anniversary edition of this movie, this will not be a side by side comparison between the two, and since enough opinions have been ventured regarding the story line's accuracy, opinions on acting et all, this review will focus only upon the actual quality of the transfer to Blu Ray.VIDEO.... The video imaging is quite clean throughout the film with no artifacting in any place that I could notice. With the many action scenes, stair stepping of some of the images might have prevailed but I saw none. Thus, I was pretty pleased with what I saw. Color imaging is, for most of the scenes, very warm yet not overly so. There was nothing artificial appearing in the transfer to Blu Ray. There is only the very slightest of small grain which was barely noticeable in a few scenes and would not be noticed at all if you weren't actually looking for it. The Mbps rate varied greatly from the low twenties to 40Mbps but I would say that the average rate was in the high 20's. Contrast was very good and neither overly sharp or soft. Small details in areas like a characters hair could easily be discerned and blacks appeared to be rich and true.Keep in mind, however, that the quality of what you see and hear is also dependent upon the quality of the TV monitor you are watching on as well as the home theater set up you are using. The monitor I use is a fairly new Panasonic ZT 65" plasma and the amps, speakers, cables, BluRay player and Surround Processor I use are hi end esoteric gear to provide me with a more realistic and objective perspective.AUDIO.... The audio provided is a lossless LCPM track that provided very clean and transparent dialogue and soundtrack. All audio levels were properly set and balanced so there should be no reason to have to play roller coaster with your remote's volume control. The 5.1 audio is one that I wish had been offered as a 7.1 audio option. There is very good use of all of your surround speakers with a goodly amount of panning between the front and rear channels as well as left and right channels. When planes come from behind you and pan forward from the rear speakers, it is a treat. Especially during the battle scenes, there is a nice amount of discreet channeling for foley effects and the like. Dialogue was almost wholly from the center channel speaker.EXTRAS.... There are no new extras on this blu ray and all of them can be found on the Standard Def 2 disc set that I own. These include a documentary on how this film made it to the screen, an interesting History channel doc on the 'Unsung Heros', a music video and trailer. Unfortunately, there is also a preview of the many blu rays from this company. I really do hate these as they take up room on the Blu Ray disc itself and make you pay for their advertising. They also allow less room for other extras as well as more compression of the film you are actually paying for resulting in a loss of actual filmic quality. The standard def disc had a definite bibliography that the Blu Ray does not, probably sacrificed to the advertising of other films.All in all, the standard def version was pretty good even with a lossy DTS 5.1 audio so I do not think that there is a night and difference between the two movie formats. Never the less, the Blu Ray is really of high quality and very well worth having in your collection.I do hope that this review, which focused solely upon the quality of the actual transfer to Blu Ray has been of some help to you in deciding your purchase. All of my reviews are of this nature and I hope they can be of HELP to you as well.Thanks for reading.

Great film and actor lm very happy with the seller and product

The film itself is a tad corny, but the technical presentation is fantastic and worth the purchase alone. Just over 3 hours in run time. Great entertainment for a small price.

Was good fast flowing movie and worth watching.

A very good family movie

Slowly replacing my dvds with blu ray, nice to see the old films in blu ray, worth paying the bit extra for