Sixty years on, Hollywood has revisited the war propaganda film, with new stars, new special effects, and the same story.

Starting a bit Great Waldo Pepper, Pearl Harbor is the usual preachery on the brave young boys and girls who live and love under the shadow of mean nasty countries who don't take kindly to being shoved around by the US.

Historical experts will no doubt tell us that this is another revisionist tale of sense of ill-usage felt by those who instigate a situation, they probably won't bother pointing out that the studios spent a HUGE amount of money to create a big-screen, glossy telling of a very pedestrian, oh-so-expected two-boys-and-a-girl story.

Sigh. With so many great stories out there, deserving of attention, why waste money on this bit of ordinary self-stroking? Not everything has to be of great artistic merit, but why trot out the hoary old cliches?

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