> If a movie had the power to change my thoughts and feelings toward the war, the issue would not be with the movie but with my own lack of being able to think on my own. I'm not going to watch a movie and assume that everything in it is gospel.

Point taken, but that wasn't really my concern. Attending a KKK meeting won't convert me, but that doesn't mean I'd support such a thing by going. Granted, this is an extreme analogy that dwarfs the issue of the Pearl Harbor movie, but the principle holds, for me anyway.

> ...because I have a feeling I'll be internally groaning at the plot.

Musicals have never been about plot, although certainly the best ones have had strong ones. I won't be so presumptuous as to say that plot don't matter in a musical -- it does -- but feeling, emotion take up more of the spotlight. If the emotional center of the film is truthful and powerful at its core, an otherwise formulaic plot becomes something profound. Case in point: West Side Story, based on one of Shakespeare's worst and certainly most recycled plays, yet one of the most powerful musicals ever made.

But, then, like I said in a later post, none of that needs to matter. Even if Moulin Rouge is complete garbage, its patronage is important if we are ever going to see any musicals, good or bad, out of Hollywood for the *next* twenty years.

> In conclusion, am I taking the opposite viewpoint as you are? No, I'm not. I'm merely pointing out my reasons for semi-disagreeing with you.

I respect that...

> Ell"Shrek RULED, by the way"myruh

...and yes it did.