I think the problem with
Pearl Harbor was that Bay was trying to make it his version of
Titanic (love story over big effects movie) but missed that in
Titanic the event is what brings the two together and then threatens them. In
Pearl Harbor you know the movie isn't over for a long while after the raid itself, which means Kate can't die in it, and you know Ben and Josh aren't going to die in the raid itself because then you'd be coasting the entire Doolittle Raid with the B plot already resolved.
Not to mention the entire B plot is impossible because it relies on Ben being listed as killed in action in a situation where he was missing in action.
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Originally Posted by funkychinaman
I'll give him a break on the first Transformers movie. As I said before, it was close to being about as good as we could expect from a live-action Transformers movie. (Seeing the GI Joe movie only made it look better.)
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I don't know, you'd think that he'd get the core "it's about robots fighting" part down a bit better and have less of the boring puny humans and extremely awkward physical comedy. Plus the confuso-cam fight scenes where it seem the cameraman is the third combatant are entirely his fault.