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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (14391)	5/25/2001 10:15:52 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 22706

Just got back from seeing the first showing, in Waikiki, of "Pearl Harbor" The good news was the Band, "Big Time Operator" that played for our meeting in San Diego, was clearly recognizable in the Nightclub sequence. All of my dancing friends were cut out, but I expected that. The "Pearl Harbor" attack was outstanding. It was worth going to see the sequence. Since the "Titanic" filming, we are getting a lot of shots of people hanging on to ships going down, but this whole setup was amazing. Unfortunately, that sequence is in the middle of one of the worst war movie scripts I have ever seen. How they could spend this much money on a movie and not bother to get a decent script is beyond me. Every cliché from WWII "B" war movies is there. Alec Baldwin as Doolittle was a joke. It got to the point that I was saying the next line to myself before Baldwin got it out. As far as "history" goes, they did a worse job than most war movies have done recently. I was annoyed at the "DC" sequences that never happened. The scene with Roosevelt at a conference in the White House demanding a raid on Tokyo was a total fabrication. Although Jon Voight as the President was outstanding, IMO. "Tora, Tora, Tora!" at least got the Oahu radar station right. This film has the station located in an underground bunker instead of on a Oahu hilltop as it really was. My final recommendation? See it for the action sequence.