Posted on 11/11/2019 10:47:29 AM PST by 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.
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Best imagery I have ever read. If you do not write for a living....you should.
Stirring stuff. That.
FREEP on!
I always thought the subplot involving Matt Garth (Heston)'s son was annoying and totally unrelated to the rest of the movie. It aggravated me enough that I eventually used a dubbing VHS recorder to snip out the offending few minutes. So much better!
I don’t know. The previews looked like pixels blowing up pixels. Not particularly inspiring.
Yorktown: from “Shattered Sword” — truly a gallant lady.
This always makes me tear up, and it’s happening again while I transcribe this:
“At 0501 Yorktown finally sank. It had been apparent during the dawn hours that her end was near. Finally, at 0443 she had turned completely onto her port beams, revealing her deep wounds.”
“For some time she just lay there, like an exhausted, harpooned whale.”
“Then the stern began to lower, until at last, gallant Yorktown lifted her bow ever so slightly, and slid beath the waves, descending gracefully three miles to the seabed, carrying 57 dead with her.”
“There she would lie in sepulchral darkness for nearly 56 years until rediscovered in 1998 by an undersea expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard.”
“The Battle of Midway was over.”
THANK YOU for leading me back to that great net place.
My pleasure sir.
I would like to see more battle synopsis like his.
Okay, that does it. I’m going looking for Shattered Sword.
did you have an alternative to CGI for ships that are either at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or no longer exist?
Yes good way to put it. IMO It was virtue signaling.
why would we dedicate a movie to Japanese men who fought against our boys? They started it.
A combination of detailed models and full-sized recreations of sections of the ships, i.e. real steel.
If great CGI is stopping you from seeking this movie — clearly Midway 2019 isn’t for you and probably never will be
There were elements within the Imperial Army that did not know until the last days (or months) of the war how badly the Imperial Navy had been set back at Midway.
I HATEHATEHATE CGI - and I loved Midway.
It was terrific - go see it.
totally agree, I’m not a huge fan of CGI — but it’s just a film tool, like light and darkness and acting. When nothing else will do, sometimes you simply need CGI.
and you’re completely spot on — this is a great film, one of the greatest war films ever. Just a great movie, period.
Midway 2019 is gripping, and it really captures the “citizen-soldier” the regular people toiling in fields, in jungles, on ships, in airplanes, at factories.
This movie is one of the best depictions ever of The Great Generation of “effete bourgeoisie” who beat the samurai warriors of Imperial Japan and the uber-mensch of Nazi Germany — and saved the world entire.
Funny you said that --I can completely relate.
In some cases it can help but I think in most cases it detracts from a story.
The model I have in mind is a little like when computer first started featuring very many choices of font:
For a time very often people generated documents, simply to play around with the fonts, it seemed.
I think CGI is a bit like that, at least Pearl Harbor from ~12 years or so ago was like that:
Visually impressive, and suuuuuuper stupid.
Thankfully, this time things went consirably less stupidly.
Check out his Imperial Japanese Navy website as well: www.combinedfleet.com
Pistol whipping?
Put down the pipe!
Patton struck one soldier on the helmet with the gloves he was holding in his hand. Another he struck on the shoulders with his gloves.
IIRC one soldier had a habit of reporting for sick call for any little thing. Every sniffle, stubbed toe, hangnail...anything.
The other was a known malingerer who had several write ups and was basically pulling a Klinger, trying to be sent back to the rear.
In any event Patton self reported both incidents. After contacting Gen Marshall Ike decided to take care of it administratively.
Washington Post “journalist” Drew Pearson reported the story, adding salacious “details” that never occurred.
In a book review published more than forty years after Pearson’s death, journalist Jack Shafer called Pearson “one of the skuzziest journalists to ever write a story.”
William F. Buckley Jr. declared himself “the founder of The National Committee to Horsewhip Drew Pearson”.
In any event Patton spent much more time among the infantrymen than any other officer of his rank.
He would show up out of nowhere and start talking to small groups of infantry. Slapping them on the back, telling how proud he was of them, how the world depended on them. He would talk small unit tactics and safety.
He also wrote more letters to the families of his soldiers than any other General.
When I was growing up one of my neighbors had served in 3rd army.
On his living room mantle were the only two momentoes of the war he displayed.
One was his Purple Heart, the other was a handwritten letter from Patton telling his parents he had been wounded. The letter praised him as a fine example of American manhood and promised their son would be back with his unit fighting the enemy as soon as he had healed. He was buried with his Purple Heart and that letter.
He thought the world of Patton as did most of the men who served under Patton.
Patton knew men responded to larger than life figures so he played one.
Ike and Bradley both picked Pattons brain before every planned operation.
Patton tried to warn Ike about the hedgerow country and was ignored. He also tried to warn Bradley and Ike about Bastogne but was again ignored.
Call him an ass if you want. He was right more often than wrong.
Besides, Operation Chariot was in March, 1942.
Patton entered the war during Operation Torch in NOVEMBER, 1942.
It would be 8 months before any English soldier heard of George Patton at the time of Chariot.
Did you purposely skew your timeline?
My dad was one of the engineer ratings called back on board when the Captain decided that she could be saved. He was onboard in one of the engine rooms when she was torpedoed. Afterwards, all of the Yorktown engineers with names starting with A through M, were ordered to the USS West Virginia. Those snipes with last names starting with N through Z were sent to USS California.
“ I mean Downton abbey”
Yep that danged old downtown abbey has got the wife all riled up and watchin that high fallutin pBS station! Bunch of limey long hairs if in you ask me!!
LOL!!!
My dad was on West Virginia at Surigao Strait.
Yorktown’s crew was incredibly heroic and she was one tough carrier. And to be patched up in 3 days, going back out with the repair crews still on board after being briefly in drydock at Pearl Harbor - what an odyssey.
Yorktown’s loss is always a depressing remembrance - but if she wasn’t present at Midway, that battle could easily have ended much differently because of the ineffective dive- and torpedo-bombers from Hornet, which literally didn’t hit anything all day.
Truly a gallant lady with an incredible crew, including your dad. She was part of an amazing tale.
this is probably the last photo taken of her
https://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/NH-95576.jpg
an account from a sailor who watched her vanish
https://www.navyhistory.org/2012/06/photographer-remembers-sinking-of-uss-yorktown-cv-5/
“We were all crying at this time” as Yorktown sank.
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