Posted on 11/08/2019 10:58:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
Imagine, you know someone who doesn’t know anything about WW2, and you had to explain how the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the significance of Doolittle’s raid, the odds the US was up against the Japanese, how Intel helped us win the battle of Midway, and just how crazy, non-politically correct, and determined the Greatest Generation was - all in 2 hours.
That’s the movie Midway in a nutshell.
Wow. A lot of work, and it’s real stuff, not packed with CG.
Wooden! *rimshot*
Does the new movie have sounds that resonate strongly in your chest cavity?
There is a new theater set up with shaking seats, water effects, etc. I am going to see the movie tomorrow and may try that.
Oh, and the producer didn’t charge anything for his time. (Although I’m sure that his company charged whatever time his employees put into it.)
The work was funded by the government of England. They told the producer “There is all this footage in the archives, and we want you to do something special with it for the 100th anniversary of the end of the war. Will you accept?”
“So I accepted - and didn’t even know what we had. And it had to be something special. I couldn’t just use the same ten clips that everyone else has used for every WW I documentary”.
It took them something like 100 hours to figure out how to process a minute of old film into black and white so it had the proper speed, the right lighting, getting rid of the imperfections, etc. They didn’t even know if it could be done.
(Okay - I’m off my soap box!)
In Sensurround!
I just watched the trailer. The CGI looks fake. The 1976 film looked real. Was the trailer untrue to the movie?
The movie MidWay is based mostly on battle accounts written by the Japanese officer Lt Cdr Fuchida. The old movie repeats the fiction Fuchida created to justify the defeat.
I have watched the old movie so many times, my wife can quote lines. I'll have to go see this one
In the trailer, the CGI looks very fake, compared to the real battle footage in the 1970 version.
Was that a problem in the actual film?
I thought the CGI was pretty good - a bit too many tracer rounds, but overall pretty good. You really felt like you were in the aircraft during much of the movie, not just watching the aircraft.
Thanks - my Dad was there on a destroyer.
Take your rain coat :)
China is all about making the Japanese look as terrible as possible - I can see why they would back this film even if it does make the USA look good.
“At the end of WW I, the Germans felt like they were being punished for starting the war....”
“If the Allies had enforced the rules of the Versailles Treaty as soon as Hitler had increased his army, WW 2 would not have happened....”
“The Germans were only taking the land that had been taken from them after WW 1.....”
Excellent arguments based on solid evidence can be made for every one of those claims. (In the case of #3, that would have been true up to the point that Hitler invaded Poland - which, yes, was the official start of WW II in Europe, so...)
Regards,
Great book. I had trouble getting it from my Library, because it wasn’t on audiobook and I didn’t want to buy it and not read it (I have problems reading...my eyes can’t do it well)
But they finally had one, and the audiobook came out...eventually paperback which made it affordable.
Great book. The Aleutians were no feint...:). (I’m sold on that)
Yeah, Captain Marvel was running the opposite way (actually about 27% by audience) when Rotten Tomatoes took down the scoring.
Seem they didn't like fans disrespecting their authoritah.
Check who posted it.
Take your rain coat :)
Yeah, I’m wondering about what special effects they might have for a naval battle. I’m sure my kid will love it, though but I might get sea sick. Ha Ha.
Thanks - my Dad was there on a destroyer.
Interesting. My grandfather was on a destroyer for three years during the Pacific War. From Alaska to Australia and a lot of points in between. But not at Midway, though.
My Dad served in both theaters - Europe and the Pacific. Truly our ancestors were the greatest generation.
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