Interesting to hear about the De Espona deal... Unfortunately, when people heard that Michael Bay was doing the "Pearl Harbor" deal, (and having seen "Armageddon" and "The Rock", or whatever it was called) it was a foregone conclusion that it would be heavy action special effects but low on the acting end. It's not the actors fault, it's just the way Bay makes his movies. He DID get the 40's "look" down extremely well, better than most people expected, but didn't fully learn from James Cameron's "Titanic" that for all the great history and special effects, you still need to have real character depth and motivated actors with good scripts...