Posted on 06/28/2019 5:31:10 AM PDT by C19fan
Rest of the movie sucked.
Ping!
Ending would have been the same...just delayed.
Japan could not out-produce the US.
Excellent review of this at combinedfleet.com.
He went on: 'I don't like really that we in our day and time still kind of are patriotic nationwide. We should all be patriotic as humans and try to figure a way out to save this planet. Right now, politically, it's America against the rest of the world. It's the Muslims against the Western World; it's the Russians against the West. It's become very, very nationalistic in the last 10 years, which I don't really like because that means that there are maybe wars on the horizon.
'For me, that's also a reason why I wanted to make a movie about Midway. It's the right movie at the right time because the movie doesn't really, like, talk about politics very much. It talks about strategy, and you realize all of a sudden that mistakes were made on both sides. They're all normal human beings, and none of these people in the movie started the war. Politicians started the war.
'For me, that was the interesting part about it. That's why I really tried to also be very honest about how we portrayed the Japanese. If they're not full-fledged characters -- just the enemy -- then I think it would be the wrong movie.'
*****
This really sounds like it's gonna be a watered down version of history.
Will Smith to play FDR.
I remember when our guys were sinking the Akagi and other Jap carriers, the audience cheered.
When I see that Woody Harrelson is in it I don’t go.
I couldn't agree more.
Ugh. I’ll call it unwatchable NOW.
Expect Homo, feminine, Internment Camp, and other politically correct story lines.
Good God.
It is the "go to" book about Midway, written for general audience and historians alike. A good read, and considered a classic. Used copies can be had for under $5.
I congratulate YOU. Very few people realize that in truth Japanese Admiral Nagumo killed Japan’s chance of winning the war.
Without the dry docks, machine shops and oil storage farm, the U.S. Navy would have been driven to our West Coast. There would have been no U.S. base in the central Pacific from which to launch the Midway fleet or the Doolittle Tokyo raid.
It was Nagumo’s decision to kill the THIRD wave that gave the U.S. time to recover and thus to win.
Ditto that although I didn’t see it, just read about how stupidly inaccurate it was; now this??? Here’s a great Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo
Told from the Japanese perspective.
the war may have had a different ending.
If Japan had wiped out the fuel storage on Pearl the Manhattan project would have began even sooner.
The battles would have been fought differently but the ending would have been the same. We might have dropped the bomb a couple of months earlier.
Japanese interned in “concentration camps”
Was already covered in Midway 1976.
Not to mention all the aircraft and experienced pilots.
Was there a scene with a Starbucks coffee cup in it?
Wait. So you’re saying Ben Affleck didn’t shoot down a bunch of Zeroes on Dec 7 and then also fly one of Doolittle’s bombers?
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