Okay, so my checklist of faults looks like this for ‘Pearl Harbor’…
Jap planes painted in the wrong colors AGAIN…
Wireless head set used by ‘Earl’ in the tower….did they even exist back then?
NO MENTION of the Nevada’s attempted run out the harbor entrance
NO MENTION (tho someone said they filmed but did not use it) of the USS WARD firing on a mini sub outside the harbor
NO MENTION of a flight of B-17’s coming in from stateside
Aircraft engine sounds were HORRIBLE…sounded like Cessnas played back at higher speed!
USS Missouri used in background shots in one scene (or more) TECHNICALLY wrong but tolerable I guess…
“P-40’s can’t out run Zeroes…so don’t try!”?? WRONG…early P-40 models such as were at Pearl that morning were at LEAST equal to the A6M2’s IF NOT FASTER ( I show a speed of 345 MPH for B/C model P-40’s at 15,000 ft compared to a max speed at sea level for the A6M2 of 282 MPH, 331 MPH at 15,000 ft)..and we all know Allison engines ran better down low.
The Flak barrage over Tokyo at the end…as I recall, the Japs barely got off a shot at the B-25’s…the movie makes it look like they were B-17’s being shot at over Schweinfurt or Regensburg by EVERY gun available…WRONG..
The INCREDIBLY SIMPLE task of coding the American Eagle squadron planes with the historically accurate ‘XR-‘…but they messed up again…instead they used ‘RF-‘
Dare we mention how they showed the Jap fleet approaching Hawaii in Nimitz class carriers, but they went to great pains in some scenes to make the Lexington (the one now used as a museum in Texas) look more like the ‘Hornet’ that launched the Doolittle attack?
Some of this could be construed as nitpicky, but if you’re gonna do a historic film, TRY to make it as accurate as possible….glaring errors WILL show up and be picked up by the audience….in this case ‘Tora Tora’ had WAY less glaring errors than ‘PH’ did…maybe they should have watched ‘Tora Tora’ before they started filming….
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