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This show is hilarious!
Just fabulous.
Terrible
Not terrible!
A lovely and wonderful anime.
Great Show!
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Especially New Jersey. Remember, that's the state that arrested a Pennsylvania State Trooper for having his service sidearm unloaded and locked in the trunk. When the PA Governor asked the NJ Governor to have the charges dropped, The NJ Governor said "No," so the PA Governor told him anyone coming into PA to arrest the charged cop would be arrested for kidnapping and assault.
..Joe
Remember: if God gave the world an enema, he'd stick it in NJ.
What civilians were in Japan that weren't Japanese? they were terribly xenophobic, and any that weren't allies (and hence enemies of the Western Alliance) were indeed prisoners of war. It was believed that they would have been killed when the US invaded. They weren't civilians- US prisoners of war were soldiers- not civilians
And sorry about the other- typing faster than I was thinking. Should have been "you can blame the Liberals' uber-god, FDR..."
..Joe
What does that have to do with civilians in Japan?
For the Nisei interned during the war, you can than the Liberals' uber-god, FDR. He even knew it was unconstitutional (and hence, illegal) but did it anyway.
..Joe
Holga BECAME the daughter's mother. She raised her and nurtured her. It was natural to bring her back.
..Joe
Initially Nicole Kidman (53 at the time) was cast in the part but she left the project. Carey Mulligan was then selected. She might not be old enough, but she certainly has chops enough for the acting.
...Joe
As I stated elsewhere, that's like saying Syphilis is better that Gonorrhea.
Midway was about as historically accurate as this junk, and didn't have Kate Beckinsale or Jaime King to look at.
..Joe
Because it never happened. Only one person associated with the hospital died, and he was on his way TO the hospital, not AT the hospital. The Japanese did not bomb the hospital at all.
Why not show the IJN bombing an orphanage full of Hawaiian children? Same effect, and also not true...
It was just more Bay false sympathy.
..Joe
"I'm sure the families of the veterans all loved the movie"
And you'd be wrong. Most of the veterans hated it for it's lack of authenticity.
..Joe
For me, it was the ludicrous Doolittle Raid inclusion. This is from an earlier post of mine on this site:
"NO fighter pilot would ever be selected to fly a B-25 bomber for a never-before tried secret mission. It took place almost 5 months after the events of Pearl Harbor, and almost nothing depicted in the movie actually happened during the raid, except they did actually bomb Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Kobe and Osaka. (Though the movie shows only Tokyo being bombed.) THAT BS was pure Michael Bay, and the Alec Baldwin character was nothing like the real James Doolittle."
It would have just been stupid to have fighter pilots in bombers. The movie insinuated that the raid took place quite soon after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Having the 2 main characters take off and attack the IJN place is a slap in the face to Welch and Taylor, the two pilots who actually did that. Imagine a true sports movie showing someone catching the winning touchdown, and them naming him differently.
The scene where the airmen fought the Japanese planes from the ground after they crashed was pure nonsense. Never happened. Why put it in?
"It has the same inspiring effect on viewers."
It shouldn't. America at this time was an isolationist country. We wanted no part of the European or Asian war. People don't get that at the same time as the Pearl Harbor attack, we also lost Wake Island and it was the start of the loss of the entire Philippines. It WAS a very dark time for the US: we feared we would be invaded by the Japanese, and as we didn't have a strong military, people thought we were likely to lose.
Anyone that knows history DOES believe that the movie stumbled and fell, and badly. One can state that it was only trying to convey the spirit of the attack, but then, with all the terrible alterations to history, why not use Australian Aborigines for all the actors? It would have been no worse than all the pissing on history that shown, and would still fit into Bay's narrative.
..Joe
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