As overblown as this is as a history lesson, the actual physical filmmaking is very impressive stuff. That huge gimbal of the Oklahoma capsizing is real movie magic.
@@ryans413 if you would like an accurate retelling of the events I’d highly recommend Montemayor’s video. I appreciate Bay’s attempt to evoke the spirit and not the letter of the day, but it turns it into war porn. The attack in the film lasts twice as long as it did in real life, there were nowhere near as many planes, the Oklahoma had capsized by the time the Arizona was destroyed, the Japanese did not strafe civilians… I could go on, but you get my point I hope 🤞🏽.
@@chrisparkes like I said some of it is stylized if it was told 100% to the tee it boor people you need to inject some excitement why’ll keeping the true story elements. Everyone loves Titanic my self included but half the movie is fiction with sprinkles non fiction in there. And even that film is stylized for entertainment too. Lots of stuff didn’t happened so ramped up like the movie Titanic shows. A Night To Remember is more of a accurate film but it’s kinda boring. People just hate Pearl Harbour because Micheal Bay directed it.
At the 2:34 mark, the Japanese torpedo-bombs had wood fins added to them so the could be dropped in the shallow 60ft depth of Pearl Harbor and not hit the sea floor. Pretty sneaky smart.
The fact that they used Kidd/Spruance class destroyers to represent the other ships and the fact there was a scene showing a modern us carrier group as well as an American carrier representing a Japanese one. absolutely realistic
I've often wondered... The attack on Pearl Harbor was more or less a last-minute addition to Japan's larger offensive throughout the Pacific, and one which Yamamoto was not actually fully on-board with due to the high risk and the immense amount of fuel it would consume. One of the things that ultimately convinced the Japanese that it might be worthwhile was the Battle of Taranto (1940), where the British carried out a fairly similar attack against the Regia Marina (the Italian navy), and in one night wiped out half of her battleships, freeing up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and essentially giving Britain naval superiority in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the war. Italy entering the war really comes down to one man's decision, Mussolini's. And he was by no means compelled to enter the war, and his own military advisors were telling him that Italy would not be ready for a general European war until 1945. It's really not hard at all to imagine a scenario where, say, Italo Balbo manages to not die in an accident and so is able to talk to his mentor and convince Mussolini that Italy entering a general European war might go as well for Mussolini as it did for Luigi Cardona in 1915. Mussolini decides that Salazar in Portugal and Franco in Spain might have the right of it, and decides to remain neutral. In addition to the _vast_ effects a neutral Italy could have had on the European theater, it might have meant no Pearl Harbor, too...which may have had the overall effect of making the Pacific war shorter (due to an intact American navy) even as the European war might be longer (no North Africa campaign to bleed the Axis of men and material for Barbarossa, which therefore might get further, though I seriously doubt the Nazis could take out the Soviets even with this boon). And a shorter Pacific war but longer European war means that instead of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it's Hamburg or Munich who get the A-bomb...
Yamamoto was a decent strategist but the reality is that Naguomo (Who commanded the carrier fleet for the Pearl Harbor attack) was skittish. Had he launched the third wave and hit the infrastructure of the base, it would have been MUCH worse. Pearl Harbor was a brutal attack but the Japanese failed to achieve their overall objectives. Honestly I have to disagree with the Atomic Bomb speculation. Europe wasn't going to be an A-Bomb target. You have to look at the kind of military the Germans and Italians had. If they were truly overwhelmed, they surrendered in combat. There are endless examples of that. The Japanese on the other hand literally fought to the "last man". There are many examples of this throughout the various battles we had on the islands. Truman was horribly conflicted about the use of this kind of weapon. He knew that people just wanted the war to be done and over with. If we had invaded Japan, the war most likely would have dragged on until 1946 or longer and probably would have cost another 2 million lives. The bombs were a way to shorten and end the war.
@@UAL012 _Europe wasn't going to be an A-Bomb target._ Throughout the entirety of the Manhattan Project, until Germany actually surrender, Germany was the _presumed_ target by everyone who knew about it, up to and including the President. Japan wasn't even considered as a target until after Germany had been defeated. _If they were truly overwhelmed, they surrendered in combat._ But Germany didn't surrender as a nation and continued trying to fight it out until after Hitler killed himself, and he made it necessary for the Soviets to take Berlin by siege rather than even entertain the possibility of surrender even though any and every military planner in Germany knew that the war unwinnable by the time the Soviets even entered Germany, nevermind reached Berlin. In a scenario with the war in Europe dragging on for an extra 6 months due to the Nazis doing slightly better, it is completely believable that German cities could be nuked.
_Tora Tora Tora_ is still the better Pearl Harbor movie. History up front, not relegated to the backdrop for some soppy love triangle, and the best depiction of the Pearl Harbor attack ever filmed. Leaves this offering for dead.
Tora Tora Tora is that WW-II film based on Pearl Harbor which's not only 100% accurately correct, but even the political events in both JAPAN & USA prior to the war r shown very accurately !
@Pranesh Ramchandran Don't forget, Japanese and American filmmakers worked on their side's part of the film separately and put it together in editing. It is truly a great film.
That Scene’s an Esther Shocker Because at 1:24 , battleship USS Arizona had just been destroyed right after that Japanese dive bomber plane, released a 2000 pound bomb down onto it, which caused it to explode inside the ammunition, dump and sinking it.
During filming of this scene Micheal Bay absolutely lost it on a crew member that put themselves right in harms way. He went absolutely ape s**t. The scene were it show the explosion of the four Navel ships parked beside each other I guess right before they were about to blow up some explosives there were crew members still on the ship when they weren’t supposed to be and Bay lost it so hard.
What's also funny is when, in Tora! Tora! Tora!, a band aboard a battleship try to finish performing their song as soon as possible once the Japanese are beginning their attack upon Pearl Harbor.
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Honestly all these battleships in pearl harbour is consider one of the few older US warship at the time of WW2. but it is still part of the pride of early US fleet. However most of their advance ships isnt there such as north carolina, dakota and IOWA(which wasn't complete yet at that time) thus all in all, I dont see any loss from the US except the crew.
I mean the Japanese missed the way more valuable Aircraft carriers which would later cripple their own navy in Midway , they did huge damage but not where it mattered as the war would show later ;Battleships were less crucial in naval battles than expected
They were supposed to hit the fuel depots but glory hunting was a big problem with the Japs in ww2. Hitting the fuel refinery would have been a massive blow to our FOB.
I suppose back when the film was made the Arizona exploding was an impressive effect. But it's really underwhelming now; especially when you consider that this single explosion was responsible for half of all the casualties at Pearl that day; 1,177 of the 1,512 crewmen on board.
0:19 In reality, the destroyers clustered together in Pearl Harbor were never targeted. They were left untouched as the Japanese pilots wanted to go for the battleships.
0:55 after just watching the Battlefield V Pacific trailer. At the very end felt like EA completely ripped off this moment. Though I’m not comparing these two but both are terrible.
A lot of historical inaccuracies in this sequence. The handful of destroyers that were moored together in the first initial bombing look like DDGs that date back to 80's. Hell @2:27, you can clearly see Missouri with her Tomahawk cruise missile launchers a little bit obscured by the smoke and haze.
Yeah there’s a story, idk if it’s true or not, but there’s a story about some of Hitlers top generals that killed themselves when Hitler declared war on the USA. They just immediately knew it was over
Roosevelt drew the dumb japs into a trap, just so he could get into a conflict with Hitler, as per requested by Churchill. Once again, the claws of the international bankers have extended their war to Europe
Just think, if the Americans had gotten into the war earlier to help the allies (as requested and warned) this may well of not happened, but I guess they were too comfortable sitting at home eating apple pie.
I'm not prejudice but, if my grandma had not survived Pearl... I would not have been able to serve in the USMC and help make AMERICA'S presence known in the middle East. I will forever Salute The GREATEST GENERATION!
My great-grandfather spent some time in Pearl Harbor. He came back home to Utah before the attack happened. If he stayed a little longer, he would have been one of those lost lives.
@@Rex-mr8bw Granted. I was there, but I can sleep at night knowing my grandkids don't have to worry about getting blown out of the highrise they're working in.
Totally unprovoked attack but also so stupid. There was no way that Japan could ever be successful in taking on both the military and industrial might of the United States back then.
Thats why they did this. They were trying to knock us out in one swift strike. Killing blow. Keep us out until they were finished conquering Asia. By the time we got back in the fight they’d have been too strong to stop and we’d have no choice but to settle. Luckily that didn’t happen
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yeah. they look like Kidd-class destroyers unless I'm mistaken. Edit: Actually, just checked and they're Spruance-class destroyers. 1980s-era warships. c'mon, Mike. where was your historical consultant?
Well some of them got destroyed during the war. so how could they put the original USA WW2 ships in here. Heck the USS Arizona is under Pearl to this day.
