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Darth Brooks · 06-05-06, 10:24 PM

At least with U-571 they used something that at least looked like a german submarine (I'm wondering where the lounge was too). In Pearl Harbor, both sides apparently used modern slant deck aricraft carriers. Before anyone makes any excuses, consider the size of the budget on Pearl Harbor. 1/10,000 of the budget could have been used on good looking models/cgi for the carriers. The japanese carriers were ugly beasts so it was an opportunity lost to do something interesting on screen.

Instead we have Alec Baldwin lecturing Ben Affleck next to the steam catapults on the WHAT? 1941 era carrier!

And when did FIGHTER pilots join BOMBER squadrons flying aircraft they never trained for????

06-05-06, 10:24 PM	#15
Darth Brooks Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 13 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	At least with U-571 they used something that at least looked like a german submarine (I'm wondering where the lounge was too). In Pearl Harbor, both sides apparently used modern slant deck aricraft carriers. Before anyone makes any excuses, consider the size of the budget on Pearl Harbor. 1/10,000 of the budget could have been used on good looking models/cgi for the carriers. The japanese carriers were ugly beasts so it was an opportunity lost to do something interesting on screen. Instead we have Alec Baldwin lecturing Ben Affleck next to the steam catapults on the WHAT? 1941 era carrier! And when did FIGHTER pilots join BOMBER squadrons flying aircraft they never trained for???? __________________ I\'ll get a sigature later - it\'ll be brilliant.