‘Midway’ celebrates heroism with an old-fashioned approach to the epic war drama

LA Times ^ | Nov 8, 2019 | By KENNETH TURAN FILM CRITIC

[minnesota_bound]

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.

[doorgunner69]

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!

[minnesota_bound]

The movie looked like this to me : )

[Elsie]

I just don’t 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!"

[Elsie]

It cost me $20 with the ticket and snacks but it was totally worth it.

That's cheaper than a 'Branson' show!

[Elsie]

We got busted the first (and only) time we tried it.

[kearnyirish2]

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).

[Elsie]

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but the Japanese attack wasn’t a surprise; once we started the oil embargo, war was inevitable.

HMMMmmm…

Just WHY did we do THAT??

[Grimmy]

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.

[Himyar]

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.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

It’s 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.

[billyboy15]

Hadn’t. Even thought of the distractions you mentioned.that would kill it for me regardless. Of cost.

[kearnyirish2]

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.

[Elsie]

I’m not blaming the US for the war,

I didn't think you were.

[JoeFromSidney]

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.