wrongfullyaccuzd

Last week, for the first and hopefully last time, I saw "Pearl Harbor". The questionable call I want your comments on is not whether or not the movie should have ever been made, although I think that's a very valid question. It's something that happened in the movie.

If you haven't seen it and care to not be spoiled, do not read on.

If you haven't seen it, I will try to explain the situation.



OK so Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett are best friends since childhood. They both join the USAF. Affleck meets Kate Beckinsale and they fall in love. Affleck volunteers to go fight for the British RAF in France. He dies there.

To get over the death of Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale fall in love and hook up. Couple months later, it turns out Affleck didn't actually die and he shows up. Beckinsale tells him "Oh, shit, I thought you were dead, I moved on to Hartnett." Hartnett comes over and he and Affleck fight but since they're friends, they both get over it and get themelves assigned to a special mission to Japan. Right before they go, Beckinsale tells Affleck "I'm pregnant with Hartnett's kid, but don't tell him, he doesn't need the distraction right before you go on this big mission."

So they go to Japan, Hartnett gets shot and he's dying on the ground in Affleck's arms. They're doing the whole "I'm sorry," "Don't die," thing, when the Questionable Call occurs. Affleck says "You can't die, Hartnett, you're going to be a daddy." Hartnett's dying words are "No, Affleck, you are."

So he took it pretty graciously. But the question is, should Affleck have told him? The guy is seconds away from dying, do you tell him he's leaving a kid behind? Give him the joy of knowing that? Or making him even sadder that not only is he about to die, but he'll never meet his kid?

I had to think about this for awhile afterwards. What do you guys think?

Also, other questionable calls you can think of from other movies are welcome for discussion.