Abundant CGI, a good cast, and direction by Roland Emmerich assure that the film will be competent, fast-paced, and heavy on action, while likely to have stilted dialog, thin characterization, and historical inaccuracies. My guess is that it will be watchable and unapologetic about a great American victory.
I will. Payback for the Pearl attack.
I’m going to see it. I’d like to know more about it.
no.
saw the trailer. forced one-liners are cringe-worthy.
we need a conservative, non-hollywood movie studio in the US that doesn’t focus strictly on religious themed movies (you need more then just one theme)
i love movies... but not when they’re used as propaganda vehicles. i’d love to rip movie production out of the hands of the left.
BFL
It looks too woke
This is how the war in the Pacific went:
—Japs threw a hissyfit because we didn’t honor their short jap azzes.
—Yamamoto warned them not to mess cause we’d come back and kick their short jap azzes in six months.
—We came back in six months and kicked their short jap azzes.
The Japanese have gotten a lot wiser and taller since.
I am always afraid the CGI guys will go too crazy with their effects. The trailer SBD attack scenes look too crowded, too many planes too close together and they look cartoonish, like the battles in that 300 flick. And CGI does not need to look cartoonish.
I went to see Pearl Harbor and walked out. Thought the SFX in Tora were better. Did not like the cardboard acting or sub storyline in the original Midway but the attack scenes were decent. Best recent war flick...Fury.
An absolute must. It looks great as when I was a kid, I saw Midway in the movie theater. Charlton Heston and company did a great job.
One way or another, those communist scum will frame this movie as a subtle pronouncement that WWII was unnecessarily imposed on the japs by us...
Naturally the "hate-America" message will be wrapped in enormous action scenes that mesmerize today's serfs... It will be the same propaganda social justice pattern that has been used, post-1960, when re-making some of those old great-movies...
As an example, all the remakes about the American Indians were a very successful revisionist campaign to reinvent American Indian history and image...
IMHO, you should never watch a remake unless you can watch all the earlier versions in a reverse sequence, starting with the latest version... Remember what they (John 8:12-30 and Mulder) said...
Nope. Made up pearl clutching Hollywood “drammer” is not for me.
The trailer I saw looked like a bad parody of a war movie. Hyperbolic patriotism and masculinity.
The miracle of Midway was that normal Americans, normal ordinary people, found the resources of courage and initiative to transform the balance of power in the Pacific in a day.
The wife and I are both retired military and we both have a keen interest in military history. We’ll be there that weekend, if not opening night, to see if they got the broad outlines (it’s Hollywood, so I never get too picky about particulars when it comes to these films) right and to enjoy what we both hope will be a good tale.
Odds are the Japanese will not be called “Japs” like they were in the ‘76 version.
Let’s hope its better than that last Pearl Harbor movie, which was a complete dud.
Yes
Hadn’t heard a thing about it. I wonder if it’s some small independent film. If Clint Eastwood is director id go.
Did you go see it? Here is a review by a Military Times editor.
https://twitter.com/simkinsjourno/status/1192672574477492225
He rated it -27/5 stars.
Midway 2019 is FAR superior to Midway 1976. Saw it Sunday. Midway 2019 is not only a great war film, it’s a great movie, period.
It’s historically accurate, offers interesting character studies of dive bomber hero Richard Best and military intelligence commander Ed Layton, and it incorporates the key new research from “Shattered Sword.”
And there’s no political correctness or apologist taints. “Japs” is uttered quite a bit, and why not? That all happened.
Midway 2019 is a story of American exceptionalism, determination, and heroism. It depicts the forbidding landscape and dire straits of late 1941 and the first half of 1942. It tells the tale brilliantly of how we created one of WW2’s three “hinges of fate.”
It shows how we got knocked down, got off the mat, and then delivered a haymaker that crippled a literal evil empire.
Against all odds, the underdog USA, our citizen pilots and sailors, triumphed in one of the greatest victories of all time. And that’s what this movie shows.