Tag Archives: hawaii

Sands of Iwo Jima

IMDB Rating: 7.10
3100 votes

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John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker's CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.
Actors
Sgt. John M. StrykerJohn Wayne
Pfc. Peter ConwayJohn Agar
Pfc. Al ThomasForrest Tucker
Also posted in 1949, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

IMDB Rating: 7.90
16848 votes

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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
Actors
Peter BretterJason Segel
Aldous SnowRussell Brand
Brian BretterBill Hader
Also posted in 2008, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Snakes on a Plane

IMDB Rating: 6.70
38082 votes

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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive.
Actors
Neville FlynnSamuel L. Jackson
Claire MillerJulianna Margulies
Sean JonesNathan Phillips
Also posted in 2006, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Big Bounce

IMDB Rating: 4.80
4943 votes

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Surfer/drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Wilson) makes his way to Hawaii and lands a job caring for an Walter Crewes (Freeman), a judge on the island. His new gig leads to an involvement with an beautiful, enterprising woman (Foster), who's really the lover of a real estate tycoon (Sinise) - a shady businessman and longtime rival of Judge Crewes. Ryan, naturally, has to choose between the woman, the money, or the honorable path.
Actors
Jack RyanOwen Wilson
Hawaiian PriestButch Helemano
Bob Rogers, Jr.Charlie Sheen
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

50 First Dates

IMDB Rating: 6.80
28572 votes

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Henry Roth (Sandler) is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. He leaves the playboy life behind after he falls for Lucy (Barrymore), who suffers from short-term memory loss. Since she can never remember meeting him, Henry has to romance Lucy every single day and hope that she falls for him.
Actors
Henry RothAdam Sandler
Lucy WhitmoreDrew Barrymore
UlaRob Schneider
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (4)

Punch-Drunk Love

IMDB Rating: 7.40
27906 votes

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Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a small business owner with seven sisters whose abuse has kept him alone and unable to fall in love. When a harmonium and a mysterious woman (Emily Watson) enter his life, his romantic journey begins.
Actors
Barry EganAdam Sandler
Lena LeonardEmily Watson
Lena LeonardEmily Watson
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Lilo & Stitch

IMDB Rating: 7.10
15898 votes

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In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation. The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded on Hawaii, experiment #626 can't actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again. But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as dog, gives him the name Stitch and actually causes an emotional development in the little beast. Her dysfunctional family, consisting only of Lilo and her sister Nani, is about to be ripped apart by social worker Cobra Bubbles. Stitch as the new family member brings quite some action into all their lifes, and after a while, not even Pleakley and Dr. Jookiba can recognize their former target. But how shall they bring the news of failure to the Grand Councilwoman without being punished?
Actors
LiloDaveigh Chase
Genetic Experiment 626/'Stitch'Chris Sanders
NaniTia Carrere
Also posted in 2002, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Pearl Harbor

IMDB Rating: 5.30
52048 votes

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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.
Actors
Capt. Rafe McCawleyBen Affleck
Capt. Danny WalkerJosh Hartnett
Nurse Lt. Evelyn JohnsonKate Beckinsale
Also posted in 2001, Action, Drama, Romance, War | Comments (24)
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