Horrible CGI scenes!

[Wildcat]

One of my biggest gripes with the new Midway movie is that not a single Wildcat is seen throughout the movie.

 

[SaparotRob]

One of my biggest gripes with the new Midway movie is that not a single Wildcat is seen throughout the movie.

What?

 

[GrauGeist]

What?

Yep.

Lots of mistakes with the CGI aircraft (visually and/or quantity/type), but the biggest, are no F4Fs.

I am sure that Terry was devastated about that, too.

 

[Jagdflieger]

One of my biggest gripes with the new Midway movie is that not a single Wildcat is seen throughout the movie.

That's probably why they titled the add-on movie "Dauntless"

 

[SaparotRob]

Yep.

Lots of mistakes with the CGI aircraft (visually and/or quantity/type), but the biggest, are no F4Fs.

I am sure that Terry was devastated about that, too.

I'm guessing you're referring to the quantity of B-26 squadrons present in the trailer. I thought there were a lot of them.

 

[GrauGeist]

I'm guessing you're referring to the quantity of B-26 squadrons present in the trailer. I thought there were a lot of them.

Yeah...the four that actually attacked the Japanese fleet were painted differently, too.
Also missing was Suzie-Q's flight down the Akagi's deck and the one B-26's "kamikaze" attack, narrowly missing the Akagi's bridge as it plunged into the ocean.
In the scenes shown prior to the battle of Midway, the "meatball" was missing from the US insignias - those were removed in May '42, after the battle of Coral Sea.
The Doolittle raid saw the B-25s packed on the Hornet's deck, not qued, as the movie showed, plus the B-25s in the Doolittle said didn't have the upper turrets seen in the movie, those were B-25Js they rendered.
Many more gaffs, too many to list here, but they could have done much better...

 

[Wildcat]

Yep.

Lots of mistakes with the CGI aircraft (visually and/or quantity/type), but the biggest, are no F4Fs.

I am sure that Terry was devastated about that, too.

I for one was looking forward to some Wildcat action...

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

One of my biggest gripes with the new Midway movie is that not a single Wildcat is seen throughout the movie.

 

[JDCAVE]

So the film is good enough? Is on my to watch list (anytime I have time) but to watch an awful one...

I couldn't finish watching the trailer! I didn't like the Dunkirk movie either.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree about Dunkirk. It seamed to me they were trying to make some "Art Nouveau" project instead of a movie

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

I couldn't finish watching the trailer! I didn't like the Dunkirk movie either.

Well, I do like Dunkirk! But I very much like Nolan's films, so maybe not impartial.

 

[SaparotRob]

Yeah...the four that actually attacked the Japanese fleet were painted differently, too.
Also missing was Suzie-Q's flight down the Akagi's deck and the one B-26's "kamikaze" attack, narrowly missing the Akagi's bridge as it plunged into the ocean.
In the scenes shown prior to the battle of Midway, the "meatball" was missing from the US insignias - those were removed in May '42, after the battle of Coral Sea.
The Doolittle raid saw the B-25s packed on the Hornet's deck, not qued, as the movie showed, plus the B-25s in the Doolittle said didn't have the upper turrets seen in the movie, those were B-25Js they rendered.
Many more gaffs, too many to list here, but they could have done much better...

It's amazing how much better the actual stories are than the crap they come up with.

 

[GrauGeist]

It's amazing how much better the actual stories are than the crap they come up with.

I totally agree - the entire battle of Midway from start to finish had amazing acts of heroism and more. There is absolutely zero reasons to embellish anything.

And this holds true to any movie regarding any battle, to be honest.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Dunkirk... I had high hopes

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

No Wildcats in Midway?! That's like no hobbits in Lord of the Rings. "Make 'em all elves, no one will notice."

 

[GrauGeist]

No Wildcats in Midway?! That's like no hobbits in Lord of the Rings. "Make 'em all elves, no one will notice."

Or "paint all the German triplanes red so the movie viewers will know they're German"

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Or "paint all the German triplanes red so the movie viewers will know they're German"

"Ye gods, Guv'nor, how many bloody Red Barons do they have?!"

 

[GrauGeist]

When I read the Flyboys' director comment, I about choked.
You know he was full of chit - it was cheaper and easier to render all the DR.Is the same than provide the colorful and unique coloring that they were actually painted.
I also noticed that the other Imperial types were noticeably lacking the "lozenge" camo, too.
But for CGI rendering a "skin" over a digital airframe, the lozenge could have easily been templated and replicated (like they did with the DR.I) - lazy bastards, the lot of 'em.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I read the Flyboys' director comment, I about choked.
You know he was full of chit - it was cheaper and easier to render all the DR.Is the same than provide the colorful and unique coloring that they were actually painted.
I also noticed that the other Imperial types were noticeably lacking the "lozenge" camo, too.
But for CGI rendering a "skin" over a digital airframe, the lozenge could have easily been templated and replicated (like they did with the DR.I) - lazy bastards, the lot of 'em.

That's laughably bad. They were running down to a couple of megabytes on budget?

 

[Casor]

There are a good few howlers in The Battle of Britain, the Stukas are obviously models, the Spitfires are a mixed bag of mainly later models and some blown up on the ground were obviously made of wood and canvas. My uncle who was in the RAF said the acting was "hammed up" but in some respects we dont know what reality was. Both Dowding and Goering were more eccentric in real life than they were portrayed. Overall as a movie it got most of the important points of the battle across, whereas the Spitfire sequence in "Dunkirk" was just nonsense.

Renowned scale modeler Dave Platt made the Stuka models for the movie.