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Love to see a Proper Remake of the worst naval aviation film of all time. Midway. Sans fictional plot lines and doing a proper job crediting the superb Yorktown/Fletcher performance and depicting the complete fiasco occurring on the flag bridge of the Enterprise that is deflating to the Spruence and Halsey mythology. Then I'd also like to see a proper depiction (without the wartime propganda) of the Phillipine aerial debacle in late 1941-early 1942. Lot's of inherent human drama and tragedy. Would be a tear jerker. And done from both sides like Tora Tora Tora the benchmark film for such a treatment. Wait this is Hollywood, what was I thinking. Having done TTT, there will never be a another, proper remake or making because they already know what sells compared to what is historically accurate.
Good idea - just don't forget the Phillipine Air Force contribution; also a film dealing with the Jap. conquest of the Netherlands E. Indies would be welcome.
Love to see a movie about Steiger and "Charlie Brown" including how they met years later.
Or a film about "Watson's Whizzers". That would have some real cool moments!
I just read a bit about WW and the intrigue, stealing, bribing and escaping with machines was just fascinating. Great stuff for a film.
and depicting the complete fiasco occurring on the flag bridge of the Enterprise that is deflating to the Spruence and Halsey mythology.
Wasn't the fiasco having to do with the Hornet? Using the wrong heading with only VT-8 finding the Japanese fleet and paying the ultimate price. Not to mention the loss of aircraft on the flight back and the "delibrate" falsifing of records that may have led to those pilots in the water being left to their death because search planes were looking in the wrong area...