Pearl Harbor

So, I seem to remember this is a Michael Bay film... But all I've seen is Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett trying to pick up chicks... and no explosions... This movie sucks...

But I suppose, this movie is worthy of being mocked on the Team America soundtrack, so I guess that should have tipped me off...

FYI: the Supermarine Spitfire is an attractive airplane.

Isn't a wing-man's job to keep the enemies off of the leader's tail? Because Affleck's wingman informed him of the gob of enemies on his tail, and didn't get around to doing anything about it... worst wingman ever... Got his ass shot down... and apparently got his ass killed. or not... he did get top billing, so I probably could have guess, had I cared...

and now Hartnett and Affleck are fighting... who wins in that scenario? Everyone...

halfway through the movie, and really the only thing that has blown up is one German bomber... I'm dissapointed Michael Bay... although the Japanese are launching right now... so that might change shortly

oh shit... they've blown of Cuba Gooding Jr's hat... I guess that means he's pissed now... and they killed the cap'n... shit's on now....

Dude needs to learn to lead his targets... and i'm pretty sure he just strafed the shit out of the side of a neighboring ship with that twin 50-cal... but he shot down a Jap... Big damn hero...

and they're using M1928 Thompsons... AKA Drum mag, ribbed barrel, large flash-hider, bolt handle on the top of the receiver... rather than the M1 Thompson...

Jury's still out on the attractiveness of the P40 and the Zero... Although the P40 does look a lot better in the air than sitting on the tarmac. The P40 does seem to have the edge in survivability, though. Mitsubishi in their quest for speed and maneuverability declined to add armor or self-sealing fuel tanks to the Zeros...

and now there's some random crap no one cares about in between the attack on Pearl Harbor and Doolittle's raid...

I'm wondering about the whole 467 feet of runway thing for taking a B-25s off the deck of a carrier. The deck of an aircraft carrier is decently elevated off the sea... so, you'd get a bit of extra space to gather speed before you hit the ocean... granted that I wouldn't want to be the one launching a heavier-than-air plane off the front of a huge honking ship with insufficient airspeed to actually fly... Taking a ground-based bomber off of the deck of an aircraft carrier takes some incredible balls... that's really all I have to say about that topic...

and I can only think of Homer Simpson's alter ego when they keep yelling "Max Power" when they're taking off...

So we'll see how this depiction of the Doolittle raid compares to the movie "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", which had, with only a little bit of exagerration, about 30 seconds of footage of the actual bombing range, with the rest of the movie dealing with training, some random love story, and the air crews evading capture after they land in China...

Well Michael Bay was true to form, making the Tokyo Raid more dynamic, having all the bombers bunched together, and using the Hollywood axiom of "Anything is bettter with bigger explosions". And add in a good dose of illogic, such as flying just over the level of the explosions, and you've got yourself a pretty good raid going on... But I guess it worked for the Japanese when they flew almost at ground level earlier in the attack.

And they didn't specifically call out potentially the best named aircraft ever: The Ruptured Duck.