Movie: BATTLE OF MIDWAY (1 Viewer)

Looks like they tried to get the basic history right. Special effects looks good IMO. Like the fact they will have something about Dick Best, only US pilot to score two hits on two carriers in the same day. He never flew again due to a medical condition, not expected to live a yr but lived many decades after. I can appreciate not everyone will like the movie but I'm looking fwd to it. Anything that highlights what our men and women accomplished during the war with today's public gets a plus from me. Just my thoughts. Chris

Pic of Dick Best and his wingman in my library.

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Terp152 said:
Looks like they tried to get the basic history right. Special effects looks good IMO. Like the fact they will have something about Dick Best, only US pilot to score two hits on two carriers in the same day. He never flew again due to a medical condition, not expected to live a yr but lived many decades after. I can appreciate not everyone will like the movie but I'm looking fwd to it. Anything that highlights what our men and women accomplished during the war with today's public gets a plus from me. Just my thoughts. Chris

Pic of Dick Best and his wingman in my library.

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Dick Best and a Dauntless, an unbeatable combination. :salute:: -- Al
 
..Fellow collectors, I believe in everyones opinion.. And if you do not want to see the movie, and want to pass on it, that would be okay.. Me I will bring my nephew and a few friends and see the movie, and will tell them some of the content would be an exageration, done the hollywood way... But the battle did happen, the Doolittle raid did happen as a response to the attacks that Japan did to the United States.. Do some reading, and find out for themselves the bravery of all that was there and the sacrifice of so many... I will try to trigger the curiosity within my nephew and all, the history that was made. Through Blood, Courage, and the luck of most in surviving it. If not for this movie, that curiosity would be less.. They would be playing video games and the sort.. Instead of knowing, quute possibly having them pause, for a moment.. And say Wow!! That generation has to be greatly admired!!.
The movie is made the hollywood way, but hopefully it will be a trigger them to a history to be researched, A History being learned and remembered. Instead of being bypassed, and possibly forgotten by the generations that is coming...
 
I will reserve judgement until I see it, but if the critics hate it then it will most likely be great.
 
I’m going with my nephew., but told him we’re watching a documentary about it first.
 
I don't generally see movies based on reviews and will see this one today or tomorrow. The review linked below gave it three stars and was generally positive. Chris
 
"Despite being widely panned, Roland Emmerich’s $100 million WWII epic “Midway” is heading for the No. 1 slot at the U.S. box office this weekend with an estimated $17.5 million for Lionsgate.

That’s significantly ahead of early tracking’s $13 million prediction. Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Ed Skrein, Nick Jonas, Patrick Wilson, Darren Criss, Aaron Eckhart, Mandy Moore, and Dennis Quaid star in the independent film about the famed battle in the Pacific.

The film is coming out ahead of the Stephen King adaptation “Doctor Sleep” which is headed for a $13.5 million opening. That Mike Flanagan-directed film has scored very good reviews overall."





source: darkhorizons.com
 
Saw the movie today and thought it well done. Many details accurate as far as I can tell from reading a number of books on the topic. I know one of the rivet counter boys will tell me Nimitz is shown smoking the wrong brand of cigarettes. {eek3} Speaking of details, the aviator thrown off the Jap(anese) ship was tied to 5 gal water cans, not an anchor. Thought the small details such as the carrier post-battle FOD walk effective. I don't know about naval aviation/carrier landings, but do know a couple of things about a crab landing and the scenes look good.

The twin engine bombers attacking the US carriers referred to in an earlier post were depicting a Jap(anese) counter strike from the Feb '42 raid on the Marshall's, not Midway. Dick Best is the main character of the movie. I spoke with the artist RG Smith's (now deceased) daughter. She told me she met Best's daughter at sqdn reunions. No relevance to the movie.

Think the movie a good portrayal of one, maybe THE most, of the most important US naval battles in history. CGI mostly good. Ship spacing not realistic as someone previously mentioned. But it is a movie and has to entertain.

Rochfort and Layton were key to this victory. They became embroiled in USN intelligence political infighting. Rochfort was assigned to command a floating dry dock and Layton commanded an anit-submarine net depot later in the war. Military bureaucracies can be vindictive and petty.

Just my thoughts. Chris

Pic of Dick Best and his wingman in my library.

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.. Saw it today, most were upper generation 40-70.. It was 90 percent capacity. An empty seat here and there, but not too many.. Most clapped after the movie, so I have to say it.. If you do miss the movie, you are kinda missing out, of what ever buzz that happened.
With me when I saw it with my nephew and friends, I was glad that instead of movies that the force is with you, and the white walkers of game of thrones ( I do enjoy both). There is this movie that is history, not necessarily 80 to 100 percent accurate, but good enough to entice someone to reach for a history book.. And is that not a win??
 
29 Let's Go said:
Too much computer graphics.

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The best and most accurate I have ever seen,,98% they finally about got it right,,perfect special effects,,Midway 76 a great example of non graphics,,pc drivel and Plagerized film
 
Just back from seeing it. I enjoyed it a lot.
Decently accurate but not fully. Armaments aren’t too accurate. Torpedo bombers would never get off the deck with torpedos and fully loaded with bombs. Also, not a hellcat or Corsair in the movie at all which I found odd. But all in all, ignorable mistakes for 2 hrs of an entertaining war movie!
 
zblang said:
Just back from seeing it. I enjoyed it a lot.
Decently accurate but not fully. Armaments aren’t too accurate. Torpedo bombers would never get off the deck with torpedos and fully loaded with bombs. Also, not a hellcat or Corsair in the movie at all which I found odd. But all in all, ignorable mistakes for 2 hrs of an entertaining war movie!
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Zach, Midway was fought long before either the Hellcat or Corsair made their combat debuts. The correct USN fighters would have been F4F Wildcats, with some USMC landbased fighters to include the F2A Buffalos. -- Al
 
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