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‘Midway’ celebrates heroism with an old-fashioned approach to the epic war drama
LA Times ^
| Nov 8, 2019
| By KENNETH TURAN FILM CRITIC
Posted on 11/09/2019 1:06:36 AM PST by 11th_VA
Midway is so square, so old-school and old-fashioned, it almost feels avant-garde. Ambiguity is not its goal, nor is nihilism its motivating philosophy. It aims to celebrate heroism, sacrifice, determination and grit, and if you dont like that it really does not care.
Though its appearing some 70 years after the epochal World War II battle it re-creates and more than 40 years after a Hollywood film with the same name on the same subject this Midway, as directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Wes Tooke, pays no attention to the notion that times have changed...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleofmidway; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; midway; pinko; pinkoreview; worldwareleven
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To: BradyLS
I just downloaded the movie from piratebay. It looks like a cartoon with the cgi as the cgi is not as good as it could have been. I cannot believe they cast Woody Harrelson as Chester Nimitz. He sounds like Woody from the tv show ‘Cheers’.
It is like Alec Baldwin as Jimmy Doolittle in the ‘Pearl Harbor’ movie.
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posted on
11/09/2019 7:54:39 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....)
To: minnesota_bound
Dislike Harrelson and was afraid his role would make the movie unwatchable.
Same with CGI, hate the cartoonish look. Millennials seems to be at home with it, after a lifetime of cartoons and anime.
What a shock!
To: doorgunner69
The movie looked like this to me : )
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posted on
11/09/2019 10:37:02 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....)
To: 4everontheRight
I just dont care for the cheapness of CG there is 'cheap' CG and there is expensive CG.
It just depends how much detail you want to put into the software models. Detail takes time and money. I'd guess that various levels of detail were shown to the producers and they said, "Whoa! That there is good enough!"
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posted on
11/10/2019 3:55:36 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: POWG
It cost me $20 with the ticket and snacks but it was totally worth it.That's cheaper than a 'Branson' show!
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posted on
11/10/2019 3:58:19 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: billyboy15
We got busted the first (and only) time we tried it.
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posted on
11/10/2019 3:59:24 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Pollster1
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but the Japanese attack wasn’t a surprise; once we started the oil embargo, war was inevitable. Japan wasn’t going to turn the clock back a few centuries.
It was no coincidence that oil was the focus of their initial thrust; the war with the US was to secure it (with a defensive ring in the Pacific).
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posted on
11/10/2019 5:13:33 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2
Im no conspiracy theorist, but the Japanese attack wasnt a surprise; once we started the oil embargo, war was inevitable.HMMMmmm
Just WHY did we do THAT??
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posted on
11/10/2019 4:19:43 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Just WHY did we do THAT??
*******
The usual suspects that’ve swallowed that particular spunk haven’t ever heard of the Rape of Nanking.
Or that Japan started actively preparing for war with the US in 1920.
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posted on
11/10/2019 4:21:36 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: musicman
Saw it today too. Outstanding. Fabulous action. None of the namby-pamby crap we usually have to sit through. No clingy women, hidden gay couples, etc. Just intense war. Really needs to be seen on the big screen. Men finding the courage to do what was needed.
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posted on
11/10/2019 4:39:26 PM PST
by
Himyar
(Comes A Stillness)
To: billyboy15
Its simply not urgent and besides that there is no better place than my home to kick back watch movies or otherwise be entertained.
I don't mind the price, but in my area, every theater is infused with a large amount of "teens" who kind of ruin it. I carry, but don't need to put myself into situations.
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posted on
11/10/2019 8:42:26 PM PST
by
Aut Pax Aut Bellum
(Eric Ciaramella is the Whistle Blower. Shhh!)
To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum
Hadn’t. Even thought of the distractions you mentioned.that would kill it for me regardless. Of cost.
To: Elsie
I’m not blaming the US for the war, I’m just pointing out that war was inevitable - and we knew. Americans (volunteers) were fighting the Japanese in China in US-made planes, and the Japanese had already attacked the Panay four years earlier.
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posted on
11/11/2019 3:49:41 AM PST
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: kearnyirish2
Im not blaming the US for the war,I didn't think you were.
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posted on
11/11/2019 4:13:11 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: hardspunned
Yeah. My father "neglected" my mother from 1942 through 1945, courtesy of Uncle Sam. He was slated to take part in the invasion of Japan, but The Bomb saved him. Sorry, I have no sympathy for the folks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs saved my father's life.
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posted on
11/17/2019 6:16:31 PM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
(Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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