PEARL HARBOR is what happens if Michael Bay wants to make TITANIC and everybody around him says, ‘OK, you should definitely go for it bro!’”

We kick off the back half of our year-long trek through 2001's cinema monuments with one of the most dreadful blockbusters of the 21st century. And we welcome back a special guest, Justin of “Unvarnished,” to help us parse through the history.

If PEARL HARBOR’s greatest offenses were its historical inaccuracies, that’d be one thing. But the best performance in this movie comes from a character that could have easily been written out of the movie. It’s a Michael Bay masterclass, is what I’m trying to say.

(This shit was nominated for FOUR Oscars and actually won one!!!)

We dive into some actual history about the events of Pearl Harbor and World War II before a rather complicated discus ...