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Post by edrotondaro on Nov 10, 2019 20:31:09 GMT -6
Hi gang:
Has anyone had a chance to see the new movie on Midway? I am curious to see if the story is up to date with the most current research on the battle. I have to admit, the planes and ships look spot on thanks to CGI and Woody Harrelson sure as hell looks like Nimitz.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Nov 11, 2019 9:42:52 GMT -6
Hi gang: Has anyone had a chance to see the new movie on Midway? I am curious to see if the story is up to date with the most current research on the battle. I have to admit, the planes and ships look spot on thanks to CGI and Woody Harrelson sure as hell looks like Nimitz. Hi Ed: I haven't seen the movie yet, waiting for it to get to my Fire Sticks. It looked interesting from the Trailer. I am certain C. Wade McClusky might find it interesting, or John Thach.
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Post by edrotondaro on Nov 27, 2019 16:39:14 GMT -6
Hi:
I do believe that both men are deceased.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Nov 27, 2019 16:45:26 GMT -6
Hi: I do believe that both men are deceased. Yes they are, but they would still have enjoyed it.
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Post by bcoopactual on Dec 4, 2019 19:53:41 GMT -6
Hi gang: Has anyone had a chance to see the new movie on Midway? I am curious to see if the story is up to date with the most current research on the battle. I have to admit, the planes and ships look spot on thanks to CGI and Woody Harrelson sure as hell looks like Nimitz. I've seen it. Overall I would give it at least 3.5, maybe almost 4 stars out of 5. I enjoyed it. It really should be called Enterprise though instead of Midway. The movie shows the perspective of Enterprise and its crew through the first six months of the war. That is why you see the scenes for Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid ( Enterprise escorted Hornet) in the trailers. Midway is just the climatic third of the movie. Yorktown veterans or fans might be miffed. The ship has only brief appearances, mostly centered around the story of it being patched up in drydock and returned to battle in only 3 days. VAdm Fletcher isn't shown at all. There aren't a lot of glaring inaccuracies. One thing that is noticable is how compressed everything is. The ships are much closer together, the planes are bunched up and drop their weapons lower than in reality but that is just the nature of putting large scale events on a single screen. Same principle for why starship battles in science fiction TV/movies always seem to occur at point blank range with the ships almost touching. Also Torpedo 6 is shown making it's attack prior to Torpedo 8 and I think in real life that was reversed. So problems with historical accuracy are more about what was left out of the film entirely instead of things that were shown that didn't really happen that way. Overall, this is definitely Not Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor and I recommend going to see it.
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Post by director on Dec 30, 2019 1:30:29 GMT -6
I have to agree that the movie centers almost entirely on the 'Enterprise', but - as they start with Pearl Harbor - expanding it to cover all three carriers might have made it into an all-day event. So... regrettable, but maybe not avoidable. There is a lot of 'As you know...' dialog ('As you know, dive bombers can sink carriers,' 'As you know, our torpedoes don't work,' 'As you know, Japan can't win a long war,' etc and so forth). But given that the movie has to deliver a lot of background information so that a layman audience can grasp the whats and whys, stilted speech-ey dialog is sort of unavoidable. So... it's hard for me to see what they could have done better without another hour of run-time.
Does make me want to go see 'Tora!Tora!Tora!' again. And the other 'Midway', whose John Williams score is still a favorite piece of music for me.
The cast is terrific, in my opinion.
I enjoyed it - once I got over my squirming, horrified fascination during the Pearl Harbor attack. The scenes shot from the viewpoint of the pilots are particularly good and the CGI, while noticeable, is not actually bad. I'm glad I saw it, which I cannot say about Michael Bay's eyeball-searing crater of suck. (I'm trying to think of a movie worse than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor atrocity and I'm failing - I've seen 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' and even that shows more care and planning, so saying 'Midway' is better simply does not convey how vastly much better it is.)
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