I remeber watching Pearl Harbor and being both amazed and nauseous. Amazed at the special effects and attention to detail during most of the battle scenes and nauseated at the love story, the screenplay and the dumbed down revisionist history portrayed in the film.

For me (and other I suspect) Tora, Tora, Tora–from a historical perspective–has been the definitive and favored version of the events of Pearl Harbor on film, but the battle scenes and special effects were generally pretty cheesy even for its time. So the idea occured to me what if these two movies could be effectively combined into one cohesive story? This is my first large scale attempt at a fan edit.

I’ve generally cut out all the story of PH and used only the battle scenes. So most of the story is told using TTT until the attack begins. I’ve kept a couple key battle scenes from TTT (such as the B-17s attempting to land during the attack and the sub attack), but generlly most of the battle scenes are from PH.

I also discovered that TTT has very little background music so iv’e tried to add in several Hans Zimmer soundtracks to help with consistancy. I discovered that the PH soundtrack and The Last Samuri soundtrack are nearly identical.

I have used the DVD release of TTT and the director’s cut DVD release of PH. I’m using Vegas 6 for video editing and FXHome to modify the few battle scenes i’m keeping from TTT. Nothing extreme, just adding a few more explosions, tracers, muzzle flashes, etc.

I’m interested in any opinions or advice anyone has and I’d love to upload some clips if someone will point me in the right direction…

Thanks,