{"id":48972,"date":"2026-05-01T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48972"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:10:46","slug":"why-michael-bays-much-derided-pearl-harbor-deserves-a-second-look-on-its-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48972","title":{"rendered":"Why Michael Bay\u2019s much derided Pearl Harbor deserves a second look on its 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Pearl Harbor<\/em> was released 25 years ago this month, it became a byword for a certain kind of ultra-crass, ultra-commercial Hollywood filmmaking.<\/p>\n

Critics sharpened their knives, the film stacked up six Golden Raspberry Award nominations, and Team America: World Police<\/em><\/span> honoured it with a diss track featuring the lyrics: \u201cI miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor<\/em> \/ I miss you more than that movie missed the point and that\u2019s an awful lot, girl.\u201d<\/div>\n

But viewed today, is Pearl Harbor<\/em> really so unforgivably terrible?<\/p>\n

While nobody is arguing for a Heaven\u2019s Gate<\/em>-style reassessment \u2013 it is still ultra-crass and ultra-commercial \u2013 with hindsight, it is easier to see why it became a worldwide box office hit, winning an Oscar for best sound editing.<\/p>\n

Based on a script by Randall Wallace (Braveheart<\/em>) and featuring a mixture of real and fictional characters, the film is set in the run-up to the 1941 Japanese attack that brought the US into World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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