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Reviews
A Separate Peace (2004)
I can't compare it
to the 1972 version (which I have not seen). But I can't agree that there is no suggestion of a homosexual love interest in this movie. The director didn't beat you over the head with it, but the signs were pretty obviously there--or at least it was obvious to me.
Not being familiar with the novel it's based on, I can't say how well this film stuck to that story. There did seem to be quite a lot of loose ends that were never satisfactorily tied up (or even loosely laid back into place). But I found no faults with the location or the actors. A good piece of work, though not stellar by any stretch of the imagination.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Eye candy galore, but not much else
A good-looking cast and decent special effects, but the plot skips hither and yon like a kangaroo on crack, and don't even get me started on all the historical glitches, inaccuracies, and downright fabrications! "Tora! Tora! Tora!", even if it's now 30 years old, remains the best treatment (plot-wise and historically) of the Pearl Harbor débâcle.