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“Tora Tora Tora” was great. “Pearl Harbor” was a waste of time and money. Real airplanes doing real flying beats Star Wars computer animations every time.

I never saw "Pearl Harbor," but they did have real airplanes in that movie. The local (Nampa, ID) WWII museum rented theirs out to the filmmakers and used the proceeds to expand and improve the facility.

http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/

http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/media/53

[norwaypinesavage]

"I never saw "Pearl Harbor," but they did have real airplanes in that movie."

'Pearl Harbor' did, indeed use some real airplanes. In fact, I believe they even had at least one real Zero, while 'Tora Tora Tora' used painted Corsairs. However, 'Pearl Harbor' used completely unrealistic computer animations of dog fights and other acrobatics that, in my view, made the entire flying scenes seem phony.