Larry Allen
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Oh man, Chris …. I can't wait to see those …. color me GREEN with envy. ^&grin
Looking forward to seeing your treasures.
--- LaRRy
Movie: BATTLE OF MIDWAY (1 Viewer)
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Oh man, Chris …. I can't wait to see those …. color me GREEN with envy. ^&grin
Looking forward to seeing your treasures.
--- LaRRy
This is an interview with director Roland Emmerich.
Link: https://www.military.com/off-duty/2...alls-wwii-epic-midway.html?ESRC=dod_190607.nl
Link: https://www.military.com/off-duty/2...alls-wwii-epic-midway.html?ESRC=dod_190607.nl
Beaufighter
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I am lighting candles & praying hard that they do not jack it up like “Red Tails”!!!
Go Flight!
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With todays technology, this fine cast and director, it can become an extraordinary film! I am also lighting candles and praying the same prayer Beau...
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I sure hope so but I am still traumatized by “Pearl Harbor” & “Red Tails”. Hope they do not make an over dramatized love scene too. Curious what actor will be playing Ensign George Gay watching the battle from his dingy as well as who Dennis Quaid will be portraying? Still, I am really looking forward to it’s release.
Tally Ho,
Beau
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Looks to be a lot of info/ground that the makers are trying to cover. Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, may not leave much time to cover Midway in all it's glory. Would rather the movie just cover the battle proper than trying to recount all that went before. Too much info, too little screen time for it all. -- Al
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I agree Al, they should have made the film with it more concentrating on Midway, not all the other battles. I also have concerns about the director making this movie Roland Emmerich as he directed the Independence Day movies which in my opinion were over the top and poorly made.
Tom
This is from an interview with Emmerich that I think I posted earlier elsewhere:
"Well, first of all, there's nothing left. None of these ships are in their wartime condition. Even when you have some aircraft carrier sitting around, like one in Alameda and one in, I think, South Carolina or in New York, they were altered in the '60s. The flight deck is totally different, et cetera, et cetera. And then they have actually put modern technology in some of the flak turrets.
So we knew from the very beginning we had to build everything. The biggest problem we had was that we had make this indoors because we have to shoot everything with bluescreen in order to constantly have the light to change. So that's what we did. We went to Montreal, where they have a very, very big stage, and built a flight deck or part of a flight deck.
We had to build the planes because even like some Douglas SBDs around, but they're also altered. They have to be altered because otherwise nobody would be allowed to fly them. There are no TBDs anywhere because they probably threw all these planes away because they were not such good planes.
So, we had to pretty much create everything. When you can create everything, then naturally you can be absolutely exact. Our aircraft carriers, both Japanese and Enterprise and the Hornet, what you see is super correct because there's endless research material, photographs and stuff.
I did the production design with the same gentleman who also did "The Patriot," Kirk Petruccelli. He's very, very good in recreating historic stuff. He's very into research.
Then, really, I had to work with a lot of organizations. There's a roundtable group about Midway will all kind of people who have a lot of information who helped us to get this all right.
It's a relatively perfect re-creation of everything."
source: military.com
"Well, first of all, there's nothing left. None of these ships are in their wartime condition. Even when you have some aircraft carrier sitting around, like one in Alameda and one in, I think, South Carolina or in New York, they were altered in the '60s. The flight deck is totally different, et cetera, et cetera. And then they have actually put modern technology in some of the flak turrets.
So we knew from the very beginning we had to build everything. The biggest problem we had was that we had make this indoors because we have to shoot everything with bluescreen in order to constantly have the light to change. So that's what we did. We went to Montreal, where they have a very, very big stage, and built a flight deck or part of a flight deck.
We had to build the planes because even like some Douglas SBDs around, but they're also altered. They have to be altered because otherwise nobody would be allowed to fly them. There are no TBDs anywhere because they probably threw all these planes away because they were not such good planes.
So, we had to pretty much create everything. When you can create everything, then naturally you can be absolutely exact. Our aircraft carriers, both Japanese and Enterprise and the Hornet, what you see is super correct because there's endless research material, photographs and stuff.
I did the production design with the same gentleman who also did "The Patriot," Kirk Petruccelli. He's very, very good in recreating historic stuff. He's very into research.
Then, really, I had to work with a lot of organizations. There's a roundtable group about Midway will all kind of people who have a lot of information who helped us to get this all right.
It's a relatively perfect re-creation of everything."
source: military.com
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Hopefully with the amazing special effects there days it wont resemble a strobe lite speed video game -Pearl harbor air battles etc,,lets have lingering detail shots etc -tora etc,,not done for the 13 year old mind,,when is the release?,,,ok nov
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If they make the Japanese carriers look like that, it proves the point of all of us skeptics. The enclosed hurricane bow, and the shape of the island, make it look like a post-modernization Essex-class carrier.
I think I'll stick with reading about the battle.
Prost!
Brad
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Brad,
I believe that the Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi Bay gets rented out to movie studios, so that might be the “inspiration” for the rendering of the vessel in the poster. A little surprised that no one mentioned the 4-bladed prop, and, apparently, wing-mounted machine-guns on the Dauntless dive-bombers. It’s times like this when I wish Hollywood would surrender replica management, unconditionally, and simply yield the work to the Japanese!
-Moe
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All that I’m gonna say is that some of those planes were exhibiting some very unconventional flight characteristics!
-Moe