Midway - a new Roland Emmerich's movie...

[Trak-Tor]

...set to be released on November 8th, 2019

 

 

Quite a lot of aircraft in there...

 

www.imdb.com - Midway

 

Juraj

Edited July 1, 2019 by Trak-Tor

[Dave Williams]

Yeah.  I’m having a hard time warming up to this.  Looks like another overblown CGI spectacle.

[robertmro]

I hate to be negative but it looks like a video game to me. I wish Hollywood would go back to using miniatures. 

I hope Peter Jackson finally makes his Dambusters which will probably have better VFX.  

[D.B. Andrus]

Rated LoDM* - (not suitable for accuracy buffs)

 

* Lots 'o Dramatic Music

[ade rowlands]

2 hours ago, D.B. Andrus said:

Rated LoDM* - (not suitable for accuracy buffs)

 

* Lots 'o Dramatic Music

 

Music so loud and dramatic you can’t gear the cast talking. Seems to be a trend in TV and movies of late. 

[vince14]

That looks like utter steaming pile of dog turd.

[LSP_Ron]

Swing..... and a miss.

 

 

[John1]

I’ll skip the movie and read Shattered Sword again.  

[CATCplSlade]

Roland Emmerich is a hack. Why they let him touch this topic is beyond me. This is the turd responsible for Independence Day, 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow.

 

DOOMED FROM THE START!

[MikeC]

15 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

Yeah.  I’m having a hard time warming up to this.  Looks like another overblown CGI spectacle.

 

14 hours ago, D.B. Andrus said:

Rated LoDM* - (not suitable for accuracy buffs)

 

* Lots 'o Dramatic Music

 

10 hours ago, vince14 said:

That looks like utter steaming pile of dog turd.

 

Yes indeed.  I'll definitely pass on this.  Makes one appreciate the 1976 Charlton Heston et al film all the more.

[Markjames1968]

looked ok to me, airplanes and action on a big screen , what's not too like? I'm sure it wont be an Oscar winner, or for that matter particularly historically accurate, but when else do we see Dauntlesses etc on the big screen?

[Bstarr3]

I'll definitely go to see this. It will be overblown, overly dramatic, and there will be historical and technical inaccuracies that aren't even necessary to the story. But, on the other hand, pew pew pew! Vroooom!

[Big Tex]

The original Midway movie was an attempt to capture what Tora Tora Tora brought to the screen. But, it was a failure.  To much melodrama and not enough factual history. To this day, I still don't care about "Tom's" girlfriend! LOL!  As for this new movie, the CGI thing looks a bit much, but can be tolerable if what they portray is factual, like Tora Tora Tora did, and not a melodramatic nightmare, much akin to Pearl Harbor with Afleck and Baldwin.  I guess we'll see. By the way, Tora Tora Tora is 100% accurate. The vignette stories in it are straight from Gordon Prang's books, At Dawn We Slept and Tora Tora Tora.  The same for the Longest Day by Cornelious Ryan! All the little side stories in it, are based on actual accounts. Actual accounts make for better movies when it comes to stories about war.

Edited July 2, 2019 by Big Tex

[esarmstrong]

This looks like the sequel to Pearl Harbor.  Persons wanting accuracy without the phony melodrama need not attend.  The ridiculous scenes of Zeros flying between trees at about ten feet off the ground to strafe pedestrians is just more than I can bare...

[CATCplSlade]

12 hours ago, Markjames1968 said:

looked ok to me, airplanes and action on a big screen , what's not too like? I'm sure it wont be an Oscar winner, or for that matter particularly historically accurate, but when else do we see Dauntlesses etc on the big screen?

 

Oh, I don't know. Maybe the movie 'Dauntless'?