Is anyone going to see the Midway Movie that is coming out Vets Day Weekend?

27 Oct 2019 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

Is so(or Not) Why?

[Darth Mall]

BFL

[atc23]

It looks too woke

[Born to Conserve]

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.

[xkaydet65]

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.

[Do_Tar]

Thanks for the link to “The Battle of Midway 1942 from the Japanese Perspective”. That was pretty interesting. Sent me down the YouTube rabbit hole for an hour or so.

[romanesq]

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.

[SuperLuminal]

In today's Hollywood, any "historical" movie about America, including the specifics of WWII, will most certainly be used as a subtle attack on those magnificent former-American values and patriotism...

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...

[rivercat]

Oh please, Tora, Tora, Tora was was a cheesy fake-history movie.

[doorgunner69]

Only saw Midway, and later Wake, in the dark. Them were not sight-seeing flights, for sure.

[pa_dweller]

Probably -- but, I'm going to spoil it: I'm going to do a deep study of the battle and surrounding events beforehand.

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Read this one? Shattered Sword

[clive bitterman]

Was that old movie “Wing and a Prayer” with Don Ameche? I always thought it was about Midway but it might have been about the Battle of the Coral Sea.

[robowombat]

Do you mean the 2010 HBO production?

[davidb56]

Im sorry, I just remembered it wasn’t Midway Island we landed on, it was Wake Island. I remember it was so small I was wondering how much runway we needed. it was in 1973.

[j.havenfarm]

I thought the battle scene was great. It’s the only depiction I’ve seen of what my friend who was on deck on the Arizona described—- the ship being lifted out of the water by the blast. Except for the 10 minute battle scene, not so good

[pfflier]

For those old people who haven’t kept track, the movie also shows the Japanese carriers correctly - turns out they weren’t caught with their entire air wings on deck. See the YouTube vid I posted above.

The first book I read as a kid about the battle of Midway was Walter Lord's Incredible Victory.

As a military brat, that book inspired me to enlist and to try to be as dedicated to honor and sacrifice over self as the Torpedo 8 fliers were.

I did have the pleasure of meeting George Gay at an airshow at Miramar many years ago.

[TXnMA]

I'm already partway though the second lecture -- and it is just what I was looking for!

THANK YOU!!!

TXnMA
  

[Rockingham]

Superhero action will not be a feature of Midway. Dramatic explosions, unusual camera angles, and thrilling aerial maneuvers and combat are more what I have in mind. Hollywood knows that such sequences have appeal that transcend language and cultural barriers. And seeing Americans clobber the Japanese will be especially satisfying to the several billion people in Asia who have dismal cultural memories of Japanese conduct during WW II. Contrary to what many Americans are taught to assume, most people around the world like and admire us.

[OldMissileer]

I don’t know, is Matt Damon or Ben Aflec in it? If either one of those guys are in it then it’s a NO.

I don’t buy either one of them in anything.

The worst part of the movie was those two started the movie flying P-40s then, low and behold, they were instantly certified to fly B-25s for Doolittle. What crap.

Only in Hollis Wood (an obscure reference to a certain movie).

[2ndDivisionVet]

Uh, because it was made by Hollywood in 2019?

[Fledermaus]

They made a 1976 movie called “Midway” with an all star cast: Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchem, and many others including a lot of TV actors.

It was pretty good.