Midway 2019 #1 at the Box Office!

Box Office Mojo ^ | 11-10-2019 | Box Office Mojo

[Calif Conservative]

Heading into the weekend we were anticipating a top ten that would deliver around $110 million, as it turns out the top ten currently falls just short of a combined $100 million as Lionsgate's Midway delivered a surprise #1 finish, topping WB's Doctor Sleep, which slipped to second and well below expectations.

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At the top of the weekend box office is Lionsgate's Midway, finishing ahead of expectations with an estimated $17.5 million from 3,242 locations. The film also scored an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and should expect a strong performance over Veteran's Day tomorrow that should push the film's four-day gross over $20 million.

[rlmorel]

Hmmm.

They didn’t dedicate it to the Japanese who captured the American naval pilots who ditched during the Battle of Midway, tortured them for information, then bound them in chains and threw them over the side fully conscious while the crew looked on...did they?

I don’t mind recognizing that there were enemy personnel on all sides who were moral and compassionate when it was called for, because it is true that there were. I just have distaste for virtue signalling and accepting a moral equivalency.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for that explanation. When you said “when one comes along that celebrates American heroism, it deserves to be supported” I agree wholeheartedly.

[Calif Conservative]

There were four at the actual battle of Midway, the 4 that that USA killed.

So it is correct to say there were 4 Japanese carriers in the active battle zone

Zuiho — and the main invasion force — never got close enough to the actual kill zone where the combat took place

the US admirals withdrew back towards Pearl Harbor to avoid a night engagement on June 4th

The Japanese advanced with the main fleet briefly during the night — hoping to lure the US carriers —

but IJN realized their battleships and any carrier with the main invasion fleet would be vulnerable to both the US carriers as well as the attack aircraft on the atoll — so they slunk back to Japan at daylight on June 5

[Zathras]

I hope Matt didn’t wreck “Ford vs Ferrari”!
I’ve been waiting for it for 6 months.
Always wanted a Mk1 GT40 in the garage.

[Spktyr]

Perhaps not, but they did talk to their friends in the service about their fears (again, this fact is in their writings) and some of that is going to be in the film.

[rlmorel]

LOL...always, except for...”The Next One”!

[gaijin]

[rlmorel]

GMTA, BuffaloJack. I wrote this post sometime back:

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The scale of the battle was huge. The stakes were high. The sub-plots were astounding.

Halsey, itching for a fight, taking the bait, and through a common clerical error which threw gasoline on the fire, ends up to his dying days fighting what he viewed as slander by people who questioned his actions, all under the shadow of the words "The world wonders".

On the other side, almost simultaneously, the Davids of the US Navy in Taffy3 against the Goliaths of the Imperial Japanese Navy and their battleships, darting in, really, the unbelievable parallel to "The Charge of the Light Brigade".

The destroyers of Taffy 3 with bones in their teeth sailed directly at the Japanese battlewagons, their five inch guns like the sabres of the Light Brigade being flashed in the air, they "Volley'd and thunder'd" like hooves, as the superstructures of the battleships flashed with impacts. They sailed under full steam to what many of them, like the calvary in Tennyson's poem, assumed was going to be their certain death..."Someone had blunder'd".

Halsey, in full pursuit to the north, gets the communication from his boss who is trying to discreetly ask what Halsey was up to without ruffling his feathers, ending with Halsey losing it on the bridge of the New Jersey and throwing his hat to the floor in white hot anger and shame as "All the world wonder'd" in Hawaii what was going on.

You could not make this up.

And then, Typhoon Cobra just a month or two later.

With the way they could use computer graphics to recreate that, with the real, unadulterated story line from history, that would be quite the production.

"The Battle of Leyte Gulf".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“God has watched out for the United States from Plymouth Rock onward”

He seems to have gone to sleep sometime around 2008.

[Spktyr]

In *some* cases (aside from heavy seas), WW2 carrier aviators would use a sort of ‘pop-up’ maneuver to land if they knew they were coming in too fast and didn’t want to go around. It was an attempt to (more or less) stall and drop the plane on the deck - there’s a video on YouTube of that.

As for the bombed civilian - didn’t one of the Raiders who crashed in China actually record that happening in his memoirs?

[Spktyr]

Yes, and now you’re using eyesearing font size and BOLD to repeat yourself. UGh.

[Disambiguator]

I will be seeing “Ford vs Ferrari” on its opening night this Friday. I wonder how it will fare?

[Calif Conservative]

God never sleeps - we just need to perceive His wisdom

[Dacula]

I watched all of the episodes and was instantly hooked. Be sure to check other videos from Montemayor.

EVERYONE HERE will LOVE this Midway analysis.

Annoyingly, my stupid link starts you midway through, but manually you can start from the beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&t=0s

No super graphics, but in 5 minutes I think you will be drawn in, and held to the finish.

Makes it all really clear, 5 million views.

[Bull Snipe]

My Dad was on Yorktown at Midway and West Virginia at Leyte Gulf.

[be-baw]

Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes currently has Midway with 42/92 critic/audience scores. If I use scores to decide what to watch, I always go with audience scores.

[Irish Eyes]

“Shattered Sword “, thanks I have been trying to remember the name of that book for the last week. I heard it was excellent.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Many years ago, I used to play a computer game called Midway by Avalon Hill company. It was a mostly real time mostly text game. In that game, the Zuiho and the main invasion force were there. On occasion, the scout planes would locate it.

My goal was to sink the main four and then go for the ultimate goal of sinking the Zuiho with either US task force. I only got her once.

[gaijin]

Aha..!

I see you are correct.

I see that years ago I also saw his best-ever PEARL HARBOR analysis, and that one, too, was just stellar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cz9gtMTeI

The best Pearl Harbor analysis I ever saw, I had simply lost the link.

THANK YOU for leading me back to that great net place.

[91B40]

The Dauntless dive bomber. Along with the PBY Catalina, a history-changing weapons system.