First of all, the 3-hour film is just too long; the story it was telling needed at most about 2-hours. The storyline and characters are cookie-cutter cliches, and never really have any true character growth.
Even the dialogue seemed unoriginal and forced. Those criticisms aside, the film did manage to provide a rather interesting recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor, even if it massaged history just a tad. The score, provided by Hans Zimmer and five other people, based on the CD's liner notes is a whole other can of worms. Consisting primarily of two major "love" themes, both are played out with strings and piano, and while effective in creating an emotion, the score as heard in the film suffers from repetitive-stress syndrome.
Thematically, the main romantic cues owe much to Ennio Morricone and John Barry , but still retain the Zimmer sensibility of pushing just the right buttons to be effective. Occasionally accentuated with a female soloist or a soft choir, you can already get a sense of the repetitiveness of the score. Now imagine how it works in the film, where they pad out over 2 hours of this stuff!
The score finally gets a bit more interesting with "Attack," where percussion and heavy string octaves signify the Japanese preparing to attack. But the use of a choral mass at the end of the track is quite effective.
Of course, there were a few action cues in the film that didn't show up on the album that might have been nice to include, but I'm not really desperate to hear them again. Bulk Beef Diamond Member. Aug 14, 5, 0 Do you mean the music they play during the trailers? Oct 9, 2, 2 The main theme is: How do you take a tragic historical event, with much loss of life and consequences that changed the earth, and turn it into another sappy love movie like Titanic to make sure the guys will bring their chicks to see it and you make double the profit.
Oh yeah there was a few explosions in it too! Nov 30, 1, 0 0. At least I think that's what it was called. Just type in Pearl Harbor into the search. SpecialEd Platinum Member. Jul 18, 2, 0 0. Sep 12, 4, 1 May 1, 6, 1 0. It's typical Jerry Bruckheimer trash. There is no point other than forming a product that can be wrapped, packaged and sold to a mass audience for maximum revenues. Jejunum Golden Member. Jun 19, 1, 0 Try looking for Journey to the Line.
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