Michael Bay completely misjudged the historical dimension of his film project. But the artistic flop had one advantage for the director: the catastrophic kitsch “Armageddon” suddenly seemed like a masterpiece.
In retrospect, it seems like a really crazy decision to turn the story of “Pearl Harbor” into a Michael Bay-directed love story starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale. But that was 2001. James Cameron had just broken box office records by turning the Titanic disaster into a romance between Leonardo DiCaprio…
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