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"Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 6/30/2019 10:28:08 PM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8OsSdXEGc

OK, it looks like a chilling follow up to "that other movie" (not to mention the trailer for a EA game's DLC), but I admit that I'm curious.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 6/30/2019 11:03:05 PM   
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The trailer is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8OsSdXEGc

OK, it looks like a chilling follow up to "that other movie" (not to mention the trailer for a EA game's DLC), but I admit that I'm curious.


Saw this earlier this week. Also, "Dauntless" is coming out soon too-there's trailers for that. Both look 'meh' with the CGI on "Dauntless" seemingly dated.

Tom Hanks' "Greyhound" comes out next March (2020). Haven't seen trailers for that yet, but I have higher hopes for a quality production with his involvement.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 2:44:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe it's just me, but, somehow this looks like all it's bringing to the audience, is viloence porn. Graphically violent imagery. I'm unconvinced that this will be any real equal to the film I watched with my father so long ago in the theatre.

I just watched the much better Midway with my fiance the other night. THAT movie is the only 'Midway' I'm likely to want to see.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 5:00:38 AM   
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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 6:23:15 AM   
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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 12:13:00 PM   
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Still on of the best war-movie (not only as regards to WWII) ever. No thanks I'm done with these serial remake, reboot, prequel, sequel and so on...

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 12:38:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Woody Harrelson is a good actor but I can't see him as Nimitz either. Looking at the trailer it would appear this movie is misnamed. I wonder if they threw in some Wake Island parts. Everything else is there.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 1:18:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		People saying its not historically accurate - maybe, but trailer looks so. Disagreements between PH and Washington naval intelligence, Doolittle raid, Marshall and Gilbert raids, ensign Gay celebrating in the water, etc. Japanese CV's looked accurate from trailer. I'm sure the CGI with all the planes blowing up is a little over the top but I'm super excited for this.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 1:38:30 PM   
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I'll probably watch it on Netflix when/if it comes out there.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 1:56:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		I mean it won't be perfect, but I guess I'm sick of watching war movies from 40-50 years ago that have aged terribly and have terrible actors. We've had some really good authentic and historical WW2 movies/miniseires in past 15 years: Hacksaw Ridge, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, Fury, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, etc. I'm not gonna settle for having to watch Battle of the Bulge from 1965 or Midway from the 70's just because people have nostalgia. Most old movies don't even use the right props; the Battle of the Bulge using US Tanks to represent Tigers was all time cringeworthy.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 2:23:27 PM   
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Not all 21st century films are bad.

But I'll pick acting over eye candy EVERY time.

Sadly, I've watched most of the great actors die off. They just ain't available any more.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 3:08:15 PM   
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I mean it won't be perfect, but I guess I'm sick of watching war movies from 40-50 years ago that have aged terribly and have terrible actors. We've had some really good authentic and historical WW2 movies/miniseires in past 15 years: Hacksaw Ridge, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, Fury, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, etc. I'm not gonna settle for having to watch Battle of the Bulge from 1965 or Midway from the 70's just because people have nostalgia. Most old movies don't even use the right props; the Battle of the Bulge using US Tanks to represent Tigers was all time cringeworthy.


Good points all, Bamilus. I agree.

Don't forget the vapid and self-serving (and totally unnecessary) love story in Midway. As well as the use of stock footage of F6F Hellcats interspersed with F4F Wildcats in deck landing sequences. Before the Hellcats existed.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 4:37:16 PM   
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Watching this again seeing the Japanese planes strafing the civilians (looks like a hospital area) is highly untrue. So I'm doubting the historical accuracy right off the bat!


You might find it hard to find Koreans or Chinese that would be shocked.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 5:08:52 PM   
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I mean it won't be perfect, but I guess I'm sick of watching war movies from 40-50 years ago that have aged terribly and have terrible actors. We've had some really good authentic and historical WW2 movies/miniseires in past 15 years: Hacksaw Ridge, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, Fury, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, etc. I'm not gonna settle for having to watch Battle of the Bulge from 1965 or Midway from the 70's just because people have nostalgia. Most old movies don't even use the right props; the Battle of the Bulge using US Tanks to represent Tigers was all time cringeworthy.


You mean 'The Fighting Seebees' wasn't accurate???

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 5:21:36 PM   
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History is well documented on this subject so we will see.

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But who's history? Are you in the Fuchida camp or Parschall and Tully? I didn't see the carrier decks choc full of aircraft which was promising.


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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 5:50:04 PM   
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Watching this again seeing the Japanese planes strafing the civilians (looks like a hospital area) is highly untrue. So I'm doubting the historical accuracy right off the bat!


Japanese planes strafed many civilian buildings on December 7th 1941 including the civilian airport and a sugar refinery. They might not have intentionally targeted these but many civilians died in Pearl Harbor so it's not exactly unrealistic.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 5:55:03 PM   
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....Midway were well documented from the U.S. and the Japanese perspectives.
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Yes, but when the versions of at least one key element of the battle are diametrically opposed to each other - then both can't be right!




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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 6:46:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry but the Japs did strafe civilians. This article while it is taken from Luftwaffe pilots shows how much “fun” these Germans had in killing civilians, I am sure the Japs felt the same way.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 7:58:58 PM   
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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 8:19:32 PM   
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I mean it won't be perfect, but I guess I'm sick of watching war movies from 40-50 years ago that have aged terribly and have terrible actors. We've had some really good authentic and historical WW2 movies/miniseires in past 15 years: Hacksaw Ridge, The Pacific, Band of Brothers, Fury, Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, etc. I'm not gonna settle for having to watch Battle of the Bulge from 1965 or Midway from the 70's just because people have nostalgia. Most old movies don't even use the right props; the Battle of the Bulge using US Tanks to represent Tigers was all time cringeworthy.

For some people nostalgia > everything else

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/1/2019 10:32:46 PM   
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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/2/2019 1:32:28 AM   
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They also strafed the Honolulu airport, John Rogers field, resulting in another civilian death.

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/2/2019 1:41:59 AM   
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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/3/2019 1:29:47 AM   
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AF is running short of water. :)

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RE: "Midway" by Roland Emmerich - 7/3/2019 2:45:24 PM   
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The Japanese attacked sugar mills at Waipahu, near MCAS Ewa, and Wahiawa resulting in 5 civilian deaths and 23 wounded. None of those were from AA or ground fire of any sort.

They also strafed the Honolulu airport, John Rogers field, resulting in another civilian death.


I don't doubt this information, but can you provide a source?

The whole "the Japanese didn't target civilians in Pearl Harbor, they were too professional-minded for that" is a silly argument. Their actions resulted in the death of many civilians during the attack. Let alone the intentional civilian bombing campaign in China and their horrendous human rights record in occupied Manchuko / Nanking / Indochina / Philippines, etc., etc..

At best the Japanese were ambivalent towards civilian casualties that they inflicted. At worst, they were genocidal maniacs. There's nothing in their track record of behavior in WWII (and before) that makes me want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

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