The Movie Pearl Harbour was the first time i noticed Josh the hottie...It was a brilliant movie, the special effects and story line adn bombing all seemed so real!! My eyes were sticked to the screen the whole time. It was a movie that had facts, romance and the works in...but the romance, hey...bad stuff!! I liked Rave alot! He was like the strong one of the two of them and so protective of his Best friend Danny. Danny was the 'good, realistic, down to earth guy' and Rave the 'adrenalin addicted and focussed on his dreams'. The action they made together, and how the worked together and how these best friends did everything for each other was special to both of them!! What was also good about the movie is it wasn't just focused on the love scenes...but the history of what happend at Pearl Harbour The sinking ships had a glimpse of Titanic in...but was good. The way The nurse that 'cursed' the two best friends, didn't like her...i liked her with Rave, their personalities fitted, she was a hard to get and Danny was this calm 'no worries' guy.. When Rave 'died' and Danny got all mixed up with her...i mean come on...there are milluions of woman, why his best friend's love of his life.. I was happy when Rave returned, didn't like Danny with her (probably that devil called 'jealousy') but when Danny died, i died!! Josh Hartnett was the first guy that got me crying in a movie!! He's got talent!!

Give the movie a total A!!

Bea-Hêlêne (age 18)

Ok, I really liked the storyline. It didn't really explain why all of the men got stuck in the Arizona (the ship). It is because there was a
contest between the ships' bands and the Arizona's won. Their reward was that the crew got to sleep in late, and so many of them met their watery grave stuck in the ship. I think the fighting scene/etc...was very realistic. The love story between them really could have happened, and I must admit I'm a hopeless romantic so I loved it :] I cried at the end, I really didn't want Danny to die, because I like him so much and it was so sad, I am glad that atleast he knew before he died that he was a father. But if you think about it - don't you think he would have fought even harder and had even more spirit if he knew that he was going to be a father? I don't know it was just a thought of mine...I think he had a lot of morale anyways! I loved the movie just about until Danny died, but if you think about it that was realistic too. If he hadn't died then it would have been a constant thing between him and Rafe (sp??). And would he just go home; lovey dovey? I don't know...I really kinda wanted him to live though and maybe have Rafe die ... I'm so meeean!

-mindy- (age 13)
ps - I give the movie an A- overall :]

Pearl Harbor

Josh Hartnett lives, loves, flies and dies as the Japanese Empire attacks the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor at the beginning of World War II.

Same goes for Hollywood-Star Ben Affleck, except for the fact that he doesn't die, even though it looks as if he had died at least twice. But, as we know ever since we saw the well-remembered Sci-Fi spectacle "Armageddon", Ben Affleck has got nine lives at the very least!
On top of that, both, Josh and Ben, who star as the lifelong friends Rafe (Affleck, what's "Rafe" for a name anyway?) and Danny (Hartnett) fall for the same woman; Evelyn, the cutest nurse ever to be seen on screen or in war (Kate Beckinsale).
If anyone expects a gripping lovestory, they'll be disappointed, though. The story's is well known, since it has occurred like thousands of times in various movies: The actual hero (in this case that should be Ben Affleck) falls for the beautiful and innocent, but nevertheless would-be tough young woman (Beckinsale), then leaves her to play the hero he's supposed to be and finally is believed to be dead, after he has crashed into the icy english sea during a fight against the enemy (the Germans).
But, naturally, the thought of his one true and everlasting love keeps him alive, until he's rescued (by a french guy).
In the meantime, however, his best friend (Hartnett) and his adored love, who believe him to be dead, begin an affair, while she still cries her eyes out over her hero and is torn between a bad conscience and sympathy for the best friend, who, unfortunately, falls deeply in love with her for the first time ever in his young life - and, as we will find out about two hours and a massacre later, for the last time.
It makes no wonder that the hero (let's call him Rafe), who returns after some months he has had to spend abroad, is somewhat dissappointed when he has to find out that his best friend and the woman he loves so desperately have paired up. He refuses, of course, to listen to either one of them, instead of that he decides to be unforgiving and starts a fight with his no-longer-best-friend Danny in a cocktail bar.
Unfortunately, the three if them don't have the time to solve their problem, because the very morning after the fateful night of Rafe's return, Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japanese fighters and the hell brakes loose.
It follow loads of scenes with screaming, dying people, breath-taking special effects and heroic acts from Rafe and Danny, who afterwards are being send on a mission to revenge the Pearl Harbor attack by dropping some bombs over Japan as an act of gratitude from their Commander (Alec Baldwin).
However; before they leave for their mission, from which they're not expected to return, Evelyn seeks out Rafe to tell him that she's pregnant with a baby from Danny, which Danny doesn't know and is not supposed to know.
So Rafe and Danny, who has no clue that he's going to be a daddy, leave for their mission, during which they both make a mess of their fighters at the Japanese coast and Danny is finally killed by some bullets from a Japanese's machine-gun. Rafe returns his friend's body to America, makes his peace with Evelyn and they bring up hers and Danny's child, who they call Danny (how very original!).

"Pearl Harbor", that's "Titanic"-XXL. Not only that both actresses are actually english and named Kate, also the movies are basically the same:
A love story leads to a tragic climax, in which at least one ship sinks and a lot of people die; but in "Pearl" there is more tragic, there are more ships sinking and it's even more schmalzy, because the hero doesn't even finish the thing properly and dies, but leaves that part of the job to his best mate, who's actually the cutest guy in there. What a mess! The only person in the whole movie who makes at least some of its scenes worth their money (the money spent on the production, as well as the money one has to spend to enter the movie theater), has to die in the end, because they have to get rid of him somehow, since the two true lovers can't be kept apart just because Evelyn awaits a baby from another man. And what would fit a man like Danny better than a heroic death, which he chooses to rescue his very best friend, who, at least, cries his eyes out over Danny afterwards. (Wow! The first truly moving scene in a movie that was supposed to be gripping, shaking and shocking all the time!).
And, of course, our hero Rafe gets everything: the woman, the kid, the honor; and he lives happily ever after with the woman he has loved from the start and the reincarnation of his lost best friend - the kid named "Danny". Wow! What a plot!

"Pearl Harbor" is a movie full of heros; pilots, who fight a losing battle against the superior forces of the enemy. Men, who drive to a small airport, while being shot at and who, finally, seek revenge, even though it might cost their lives. But, at least, people like that existed, whereas one can doubt that at least the government was as heroic as it is shown in the movie.
Today it is still unsure if the attack was as unexpected as it is shown in the film, or if maybe all the warnings concerning a possible attack on Pearl Harbor were ingnored on purpose, while President Roosevelt took the risk of an attack to have a reason for entering World War II.
Aspects like that are being blotted out completely, of course, since the film doesn't want to explain what happened, but rather show it; in full length and tragic and with an imagery that can rather make you laugh:
The Japanese superiors rather look like the Imperials in Star Wars, clad in dark clothes, plotting to attack secretly with their "Death Star" - the only thing that missed was the Imperial March Music.
In contrast to that, the American president (who is not the one that ignores the warnings about the attack, in the first place, that job's left to some no-name General), is a hero, just like everyone else, who believes everything to be possible and even stands up out of his wheelchair, even though he has been lame for years. (Oh yeah! Run, Forrest, run!)
While the Americans are shown for more than fourty minutes, crying, dying and fighting desperately during the attack on Pearl Harbor, you don't see one person die when Ben Affleck and his companions attack Japan later on, quite to the contrary: The "Japs" make both fighters crash and kill the character in the movie who has the audience's sympathy from the very moment he appears on screen: Danny Walker.
Certainly, the attack on Pearl Habor was one of the most violent and shocking acts of warfare in the history of the U.S., but the good-and-bad imagery in the movie is so obvious that it rather fits a fairy tale.

Pearl Harbor doesn't lay importance on facts, but rather on what's good for a gripping story. If you can choose between truth and legend, always show the legend - wow, that's entertainment! Too bad, though, that the story is so long and the dialogues are so poorly written that it really begins to bore you after an hour or so.
(If Ben Affleck and Alec Balwin had kept on talking the patriotic stuff their were talking all the time I swear I would have thrown up!)

At least, Josh Hartnett does a good job. He's really the one that makes the movie worth seeing it (if that's possible). His role is the one with at least a bit of depth and his acting proves once more that he is really up to it.
Kate Beckinsale once said about him that he is special, because he has this certain "prickling appeal"; and in "Pearl Harbor" this becomes more visible than ever before:
the very moment Josh appears on screen, he draws the attention to him. I now really understand for the first time, why girls scream at the sight of him or what people mean when they are talking about that certain appeal of his. Josh Hartnett is special, he's got that certain aura that makes one want to see more of him.
And his character, Danny, is the cute, even a little complex guy in there, who makes Rafe look rather pale next to him.
I wouldn't state that Ben Affleck is not up to it, either, but he can do better, as he has shown before.
The fact that he can't really convince in "Pearl Harbor" is probably a result of his character's flattness:
A typical tragic hero, who suffers from war and a dissappointment in love, but who wins everything in the end and who has just such a huge amount of text in the script that I wonder how Ben Affleck could cope. How did he manage not to screw up with those two most frequently used sentences of his: "Evelyn, I love you" and "Evelyn, you are so beautiful."? Man, am I impressed!
And Kate Beckinsale just seems to get the best out of it all the time:
"Oh, Rafe's dead, let's try on Danny, then. Oh my God, Danny's dead, well, there's Rafe who has resurrected after all."

And the non-dramatic, non-romantic rest of the movie is patriotic beyond anything Hollywood has ever produced so far, which is not only visible in the imagery of the actual attack, but already in the very beginning when Rafe and Danny are still kids who fly their self-made airplane against Germany "for America!".
The figure that stands for the patriotic american hero is Alec Baldwin, of course, who would crash and die together with his fighter, if he knew that there was no way of escaping the enemy.
In terms of patriotism and glorification of the American government as the innocent peace-loving victims who only wanted to prevent a second world war, "Pearl Harbor" is indeed something that has never been there before; Hollywood has this time outmached itsself.
Who would not want to be a citizen of a land as glorious as this, which has "suffered, but won strength", as Kate Beckinsale basically states in the end?

Of course, the movie had its highlights, though.
Yes, believe it or not, there were scenes I really liked.
Like this wonderful half of an hour in which Danny and Evelyn share their own beautiful, and actually romantic, love-story; in which there are wonderfully shot pictures, such as their flight in the sunset or their night between the parachutes. This is cinema at its best:
Beautiful pictures and the right measure of romance and, most important, text!
I also liked the funny scenes, like when Rafe breaks his nose while trying to impress Evelyn or when he hurts himself again, when he tries to open that bottle of champaign. (Don't get me wrong, this is not because I like Ben Affleck getting hurt!)
And I liked the actually cute romance between that young nurse and her stuttering pilot and the way Josh Hartnett looked when he came stumbling backwards out of the beach bar, after Ben Affleck had hit him in the face.
Yeah, I liked Josh in there, I liked the way he looked, the way he played and especially that he was the calm one, who was just trying to survive and to bear the things he saw and experienced, instead of playing the hero all the time. That's what makes him look more human than anyone of all the other "heros" in there.
And the way he stays in the background during most of the film and the things we get to know about him along the way, make Danny the actual star of "Pearl Harbor".
Pitty he has to die in the end, but if it hadn't been him, the whole thing would only have been half as sad, because Danny's the one who has our sympathy, really, he's the one people cry about.

All in all "Pearl Harbor" means being bored nearly three hours, only interrupted by a few bright moments with Josh and a scene of good drama when he dies in the end.
"Pearl Harbor" rather lays importance on special effects than on a well-written, truthful and convincing story.
The whole movie leads towards Danny's death, who insistantly refuses to die and release the unnerved and totally knackered spectator from three hours of boredom and tearing one's hair about american patriotism.

-Annie, BJPE team

Contrary to what the critics say, Pearl Harbour is an excellent film. The basic plot of the film, is that Ben Affleck, and Josh Hartnett are involved in the bombing at Pearl Harbour, and Kate Beckinsale plays the in-between woman. If I say too much about the plot though, it's gonna TOTALLY ruin it! Although, now saying that, throughoutthe film, me and my mate predicted it ALL the way through.I would actually have to say that this film ranks along side with Titanic, in the soppy region. I was close to tears at the end, wow! i can't believe I admitted that!?) It is the sort of movie that can leave you thinking about it for hours.
Now, down to the good stuff, hehe. On a scale of 1 to 10 on the Josh gorgeous scale, this movie would rate on a 10!!!! I'm so desperate for more, (now this is sad but true) I went on the Best Josh Page, and printed out all the pics, THATS how cute he is in this film! If you need, (now I can't say short, due to the fact this films 3 hours long, but hey, I'm not complaining!) a Josh fix, then this is MORE than adequate! Finally, on the scale of 1-10, I'd give Pearl Harbour a 9/10, due to the fact I now envy Kate Beckinsale sooooooooooooo much, (hint hint).
Go see this film, it's excellent.

Kaia Proudfoot

Dear fan of Josh,
I am Wubing, 20 male from Singapore. I am a die hard X-MEN fan. I am not always into the warfare as I dislike violence and bloody scences.
But after I gambled my SG$8.00 recently on Pearl Harbor, I love it so much, not just the cast, but the whole mood. Though some of my friends dislike Ben turning into Rambo the end, but I think the story some how had to end this way.
Some of my friends said that the love triangle between Josh and Ben and Kate are too long winded...but I think it is okie.
Man, after I watched this movie, I had a hard time looking for the website cos I kept on typing PEARL HARBOUR instead of PEARL HARBOR.
Well fans of Josh, I will definetly watch the movie again and this time, I gotta plead the cinema to give me a banner or a poster of this dramatic movie that make my life changed....
It is sad I couldn't took part in the contest in the PH website to win the posters cos I am situated in Singapore. I hope I could oneday...
Take care and I really wish Josh and Ben becomes more famous after this wonderful movie - By the way, Singapore 8Days magazine is featuring Pearl Harbor on the cover with Josh...check it at this link
Last of all, Josh is very handsome and he act very well.

Wubing from Singapore
Storm Xpress - my website

The movie was great. It showed a lot about the history of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Plus the love triangle with Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck and Kate Beckisale was unforgettable!! Josh Hartnett is completely HOT!! The acting was great(especially Josh!) I'd go see it again if I had the chance to. I don't want to tell those who haven't seen it too much, but if you haven't seen it yet, GO SEE IT!!! It was a great movie!!

~Melissa

I loved Pearl Harbor. I have so many pictures of josh from that movie in my room that you can hardly see any wall. I cried so hard when josh died that I used a half of a box of tissues. I was even crying about 20 minutes after the movie was over. I love josh so much and if you are reading this josh I love you and your acting. (anonymous)