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Title: Pearl Harbor "Titanic"-ized
Review: "Titanic" took a dramatic event and overlaid a stupid love story (the stupidest since, well, "Love Story"); "Pearl Harbor" does the same to the Day of Infamy. For the most part, though, "Titanic" got its history straight. "Pearl Harbor" is loaded with howlers. The ultimate is FDR standing up to get the Doolittle mission approved, but there are others. I had no idea that America had guided missile cruisers in 1941, but there they are being blasted by the Japanese. Nothing took off from Ford Island, but our heros manage to do it anyway. Doolittle didn't take on any fighter jocks for his mission (he had own own cadre of bomber hotshots), but somehow he does here. The list goes on, and that doesn't even count the mistakes on the Japanese side. What did they get right? Well, the Japanese attacked and it was on December 7, 1941. After that, they're kind of shaky.
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