I bought it well over a year ago. I had at that time waited for the director's cut to be released. I didn't want to see it in anything other than its most graphic form, and that it was! The movie...Pearl Harbor. Finding time to sit and watch a three hour movie was difficult for me, but this one was great though every minute! The characters were very well developed. Historical facts were adhered to well. The scenes of the attack were graphic, but tasteful. I couldn't help but to cry. Best of all, it did not end with the attack on Pearl Harbor, as many of the other movies I've seen on this subject did. It went on to show the American attack on Tokyo in retaliation. I have heard that, to the surprise of many, this movie was also a big hit in Japan. This doesn't surprise me, since the Japanese leaders and pilots were treated with a good degree of dignity and respect. This brings about my one single rant about the movie. Why weren't the German fighter pilots given the same consideration? About midway trough the first part of the movie, Rafe goes off to join a British regiment for American pilots. When he is shot down (he does survive), a big dramatic issue is made of it, but nothing of the sort is done for the many German pilots that he shot down prior to this.Yeah, I know, they are (supposedly) Nazis. Not the nicest guys in the world, but still... Didn't these guys have wives, girfriends, children or other family that would feel the pain of their deaths just as much as the families of our guys? Were they not still human beings? *sigh* I suppose that if we could truly realize this, we would find better ways of solving our political differences and power struggles than fighting wars... With my single rant finished, I give you pictures of the two gorgeous male lead characters.
