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Show | MAY 30, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY MOVIE B3 COURIER Wardley DENISE lion! — at their subject and produced a dumb, soul-. | Roosevelt, | " our outside patio READY FOR HORSES & FAMILY LIFE Very Well Maintained, Approx 3,000 Sq. Ft, 5 Bed, 3 Bath, Large Country Kitchen, Sunny Walk-out Basement, Possible Mother-in-Law Apt, Recently Remodied, Approx. 0.92 Acre Horse Property ONLY $254,500! Closed on Mondays i 435-657-1100. 98 South Main | Heber MOUNTAIN RETREAT Custom Built Log Sided Rambler, Approx 3,000 Sq: Ft., Well Insulated, 5 Bed, 3:5 Bath, Formal Dining & Living Rooms, Panoramic Views; Wooded 1 Acre Lot, 2 Car Garage with Workshop $239,000 Alec Baldwin Cuba Gooding Te, Dan Aykroyd, Mako aad Pete 6 m Sizemore, | pretty : Ratheg: ail JUST LISTED much phoning Bay- : ay Rs in Unobstructed views! Over roles that have Ben Affleck as pilot Rafe McCawley in in Touchstone little Rafe falls for Navy nurse Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale, who gives an uncharacteristically numb performance). Their romance is shattered after Rafe is presumed dead in the Battle of Britain, where he’d joined a U.S. squadron. : Both now stationed at Pearl Pearl Harbor, half an acre. 4-year new home with lots of extras. 2-storey plus full basement. Valley Hills View dimen- Pictures' Pearl Harbor. $100. treating people so) The star of as secondary Pearl Harbor to explosions worked just fine in T he is the Agawiaute attack sequence, a Rock and Armageddon. Those combination of live explosions and movies bordered on live-action cardigital effects. There’s a handful of toons. gripping images of sailors on sinkBut Bay and Bruckheimer. are ing ships, but the battle isn’t terribly now dealing in something bigger artful or original.in capturing the ‘than a terrorist siege on Alcatraz or horrors of war. even a planet-killing asteroid. Their The violence is sanitized for sake subject is real, fresh in the collective of a PG-13 rating. memory and vital in recent world Bay and Bruckheimer also pad an history. eye on political correctness to avoid You can’t tell the story of Pea7l offending Japanese audiences. Harbor without blowing a lot of Japan’s rulers are treated superfithings up, but with so much money cially and sympathetically as leaders to burn, the filmmakers could have who feel compelled to attack to prechanneled a little more to script and serve their way of life. character development. For all its feebleness, Pearl Ben Affleck is at his most borHarbor will have audiences lined up ing as Rafe McCawley, who trains around the block. Disney has maras a fighter pilot with childhood keted the stuffing out of the movie, buddy Danny Walker (Josh making it seem like a patriotic duty Hartnett, going toe-to-toe with to see it. Affleck for dullness). | That’s.the real offense. released. Home. Landscaping in progress with lots of room to add your own touch! ASKING $389,000. CALL RUTH ROBARDS 435-654-7444 Cie smart cer 1s worth a hiniand baud: —H.L. Menken WASATCH COUNTY by Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, is rated PG-13 for sustained intense war sequences, images of the wounded, brief sensuality and some language. Running time: 182 minutes. 7 A ei a aw as Col. Jimmy Doolittle, and as those on war- | CEB EER OS Jon Voight as LF ra ok Fon on their characters are as flat and stereotyped The or | include faces the filmmakers plaster posters. ~ landmark building or payers authentic| humanity. The } recruitment of our _ rivals. Supporting — offers: almost no sense of in the comfort educed $239,500. muster friends — 118 actors. list- | the),.movie Maintenance Free Exterior _ any kinship, as that delivers | the cinematic | equivalent of shell shock. - For all the ed, Lunch or Dinner 2 Pantries e Air Conditioned ¢ Fully Landscaped _ Sprinklered ¢ 2 Car Garage @ R.V. Pad 44 less behemoth » never VALUE ~ Approximately 3200 Square Feet Finished | | bloat and bilge. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay flung $135 million — $135 mik- UNBELIEVABLE 5 Bedrooms e 2.5 Baths e Gourmet Kitchen with 18 Ty mM "I | my far more productive than watching the nearly three hours of dreck that precedes them. _ Pearl Harbor may well be the ultimate modern example of Hollywood back into circulation. Guess whose arms she circulates into? And guess who turns up alive in Pearl Harbor barely a day before the Japanese attack? | The script by Randall Wallace is forced and foolish, an Fe soap opera. The first half of Pearl Harbor is spent on Rafe and Danny’s tedious friendship and their monotonous relationships with Evelyn. There’s no spark between Beckinsale and either leading man, 1 while Affleck and Hartnett fora casual ~ Wasatch eee 5Source for News Be smart. Write us. letters@wasatchcountycourier.com | TI Hunting for your name in the 10plus minutes of end credits would be three months and she needs to get © ’ ble of listing most of us in the cred- its. Please joinus Harbor, Danny and Evelyn commiserate. Next thing you know, Evelyn’s friends are telling her to move on with her life, that it’s been all of 7 every American to turn out for their movie. After all, they took the trou- 654-1199 ~ or 1-800-574-1006 Email me: denise@sold.wardleygmac.com . T fie pe ae of Pearl Harbor have good reason to expect practically. PECK A leader in Sales in. Wasatch County since 1988 - Pear! Harbor ~ Bombs | DAVID GERMAIN “AP MOVIE WRITER OPEN! GMAC (@gmac REVIEW BY PATIO NOW |