Posted by Karma at ppp-209-142-9-139.17.softcom.net on May 27, 2001 at 03:07:31:
In Reply to: This one's for the Raiders posted by BrianLynch on May 26, 2001 at 12:54:17:
: : As for the love story, it is not wasting time if you ask me. Many people fell in love during the war, and who knows how many love triangles there may have been. People fall in love all the time regardless of a war or not. Why is that so hard for you to grasp.
: Probably because it was done at a daytime soap opera level. "I have to go back to Bobby, I love him, but I'll never see another sunset without thinking of you". Ah yes, real people falling in love indeed.
: Shoulda had Ben rewrite the damn thing.
: :Besides it took some of the focus off of what was going to happen as well as it showed the reality of being in love with someone and then having them taken from you to fight a war.
: This movie showed no reality. It was fun, but reality is not, IS NOT what this movie showed. Although I did talk to my Grandpa and he did say the attack on Pearl Harbor really DID have quick, MTV style jump cuts and the go'get'em flyboy pilots really DID say annoying catchphrases as they knocked Storm Troopers, I mean, Japs out of the air.
: :That is what happened back then and it showed real emotion.
: Again, the actors did a great job with what has handed to them, sure, but "real emotion"? Well, I guess it was a movie for the masses, and, well, hello, mass.
: :If you thought that it was like Titanic, that is your problem. You need to keep an open mind, and relax and just enjoy things. Don'tbe so damn uptight.
: Ah yes, a quick and doomed love affair set against the back drop of one of history's biggest tragedies. Why WOULD he think of TITANIC? You know who also thought of TITANIC? Everyone making it. Everyone funding it.
: Although it was much cooler because, like, where TITANIC had the stupidity of ending a movie about a tragedy with the actual tragedy, Michael Bay knew that people didn't want to leave depressed and shit, so he showed us that those fly boys ain't takin' no guff from no dirty japs!
: Upon hearing this, James Cameron has stated he's going to refilm TITANIC'S ending and have Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates go back to that stupid ice berg and get revenge with baseball bats and flame throwers.
: Shoulda made a movie about Affleck and Ackroyd's characters. They were sweet. They coulda WHOOOPS killed the President and had to pretend he's alive, and put Voight's body in all sorts of wacky situations. Just a thought.
See! This is exactly why I only want to write comedies, thrillers, and horrors.