Jamie-86
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Every summer, we expect one of the awaited blockbusters to be a turkey. Be it The Avengers of M:I-2, it helps maintain the balance. However, with Pearl Harbor something has gone seriously wrong.
The opening sequences are a reasonably engaging mix of humour and romance, but it soon becomes clear that director Bay is quite content with the sheer shallowness of his leading characters to build his action framework over them. Big mistake. The total lack of sympathy that Affleck, Beckinsale and Hartnett evoke means that you really don't care if any of them get blown to bits.
These are all reasonably standard summer blockbuster mistakes. In the characterisation department it always appears that the scriptwriter has been out making the tea. But what really grates is its sheer, irritating patriotism. The Americans are seen as a saintly race who it seems were attacked totally out of the blue by the Japanese, who according to the film are just plain evil. Every time we see them, the sinister movie pipes up and we see them rubbing their hands together with glee as they plot the attack. It is truly insulting. The rest of the film is unceasing flag-waving and propaganda, with the basic message that the war was won solely because of the Americans. And that whole, trivial Nuclear Holocaust thingy is not-so subtly deleted from the narrative, in order to ensure that the Americans come out looking like the good guys and the sole saviours of the free world. It is quite frankly laughable.
The effects are the thing, of course, and for a moment you actually believe that you haven't wasted your ticket fare. But even that becomes very samey after a while and you realise that you have been sat there for one and a half hours, your left buttock is about to drop off, and you're still only halfway through.
The opening sequences are a reasonably engaging mix of humour and romance, but it soon becomes clear that director Bay is quite content with the sheer shallowness of his leading characters to build his action framework over them. Big mistake. The total lack of sympathy that Affleck, Beckinsale and Hartnett evoke means that you really don't care if any of them get blown to bits.
These are all reasonably standard summer blockbuster mistakes. In the characterisation department it always appears that the scriptwriter has been out making the tea. But what really grates is its sheer, irritating patriotism. The Americans are seen as a saintly race who it seems were attacked totally out of the blue by the Japanese, who according to the film are just plain evil. Every time we see them, the sinister movie pipes up and we see them rubbing their hands together with glee as they plot the attack. It is truly insulting. The rest of the film is unceasing flag-waving and propaganda, with the basic message that the war was won solely because of the Americans. And that whole, trivial Nuclear Holocaust thingy is not-so subtly deleted from the narrative, in order to ensure that the Americans come out looking like the good guys and the sole saviours of the free world. It is quite frankly laughable.
The effects are the thing, of course, and for a moment you actually believe that you haven't wasted your ticket fare. But even that becomes very samey after a while and you realise that you have been sat there for one and a half hours, your left buttock is about to drop off, and you're still only halfway through.
This movie fully deserves the classic status it has achieved. It is the kind of experience that reaffirms your belief in the art of movie-making. From the first scene director Sam Mendes demonstrates that he has total control over all the characters and all the elements of the story.
The story centres around nobody Lester Burnham (the always magnificent Kevin Spacey) who is ridiculously bored with his life. Expendable in his job and ignored by his family he proceeds to have a midlife crisis which affects all around him. He develops a crush on his daughter's friend (Mena Suvari, playing the nymphet role to perfection) and starts changing his life to follow his dreams.
The film manages the almost impossible task of displaying true humour and then ending with an emotional note but you can't see the join. "American Beauty" is a finely crafted piece of cinema and it fully deserves to sweep the board at the Oscars.
The story centres around nobody Lester Burnham (the always magnificent Kevin Spacey) who is ridiculously bored with his life. Expendable in his job and ignored by his family he proceeds to have a midlife crisis which affects all around him. He develops a crush on his daughter's friend (Mena Suvari, playing the nymphet role to perfection) and starts changing his life to follow his dreams.
The film manages the almost impossible task of displaying true humour and then ending with an emotional note but you can't see the join. "American Beauty" is a finely crafted piece of cinema and it fully deserves to sweep the board at the Oscars.