Couple of good movies on Pearl Harbor and Midway (considered the turning point in the pacific war.) Pearl movie is 2004, there was another made years ago but can't remember it...Midway is an oldie 1976 with all the big time actors of that era..and much better movie than Pearl, imo..


Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war film that mixes action and romantic drama elements, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner.


Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid. Some special prints were made from the color negatives using the recently re-introduced Technicolor dye imbibition printing process. Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $449,220,945 at the world wide box office[2] and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

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Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway and in the US on video as The Battle of Midway,[2] is a 1976 Technicolor war film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford.[3][4] The music score was by John Williams and the cinematography by Harry Stradling, Jr. The film features an international cast of superstars including Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirō Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, James Shigeta, Pat Morita, Robert Ito and Christina Kokubo, among others.

The soundtrack used Sensurround to augment the physical sensation of engine noise, explosions, crashes and gunfire.

The other movie you were thinking of about Pearl Harbor might be Tora Tora Tora? One of my favorites was From Here to Eternity. Course Pearl Harbor was a bit in the background of that movie.

Yep, that's it...Yamamoto's quote is used...

Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatises the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an ensemble cast, including Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E.G. Marshall, James Whitmore and Jason Robards. The film uses Isoroku Yamamoto's famous quote, saying the attacks would only serve to "... awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve", although it may have been apocryphal. The title is the Japanese code-word used to indicate that complete surprise was achieved. It literally means "Tiger, Tiger, Tiger".


From here to eternity beach kiss scene...all us old farts remember that scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6AGM-LxGY

I've always thought that the way to tell whether a movie is really good one or not is by how many scenes you can remember and I can remember a lot of scenes in From Here to Eternity. The kiss while the surf is rolling in was just one. The most famous to be sure.

have seen 'midway' who knows how many times...i still think tho of all the military movies i've seen, mr. roberts is my favorite.


while talking about military....my youngest told me today he would be 'on the bush' after school. i told him he might want to re-phrase that in future when talking about his next duty station!! :D his text in reply?? 'it has a landing strip too'.

kids


some of the 'bribery' that saves us from attack:

http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/cv...CVN%2077).aspx

Yikes, almost choked on my beer when i saw George Bush:eek:, after i gathered myself i saw the H.W..:tro:

yeah, maybe they'd name a minesweeper after junior. i don't think they have canoes.