What Is The Last Movie/Show You Saw? (1 Viewer)

We don't get Midway till January.....

michael rauls said:

Sounds like it's better than I thought it would be but then I thought it would be a total dumpster fire.
Did they really forget the f4fs or did I misunderstand that part?
That's kinda like pizza with no cheese.......I guess it's still pizza but it's really missing something.

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Nope, you got it right. Not a Wildcat to be seen. Sad.

tomo pauk said:

No F4Fs whatsoever.
No Aichi Val's either. No Hornet and it's air group.
Japanese AA gives impression of US AA of 1944. Why twin 25mm guns, no triples at all?

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Yep, no Vals.

As far as the missing Hornet air group - I guess they could only squeeze so much into a 2 hour movie and I think they tried to hit the high points, some would agree or disagree how important showing the Hornet was, they should have just mentioned it along the way. They did include the sinking of the Wasp which I thought was interesting.

No mention of VMF-221 and the Brewster Buffalo

Capt. Vick said:

Nope, you got it right. Not a Wildcat to be seen. Sad.

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I guess someone remembered the line from Flight of the Intruder - "Fighter Pilots make movies, Bomber Pilots make history."

FLYBOYJ said:

Yep, no Vals.

As far as the missing Hornet air group - I guess they could only squeeze so much into a 2 hour movie and I think they tried to hit the high points, some would agree or disagree how important showing the Hornet was, they should have just mentioned it along the way. They did include the sinking of the Wasp which I thought was interesting.

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Had they just mentioned the Pearl and Dolittle raid in the intro, there is a good 40 minutes left for portraing of the 'rest' of the battle, as well as other people and hardware that took part. Not just that Yorktown was a subject of Japanese attacks, but his bombers killed Soryu.

No mention of VMF-221 and the Brewster Buffalo

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Yes indeed.

Like a said, a good first draft

Capt. Vick said:

Take all of this with a grain of salt as I am one of the silly people that liked Pearl Harbor.

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Oh Jim...............….

NFL...

Blade Runner 2049 or something......

The Current War - pretty good representation of the Edison (DC) vs Tesla/Westinghouse (AC) controversy. Very steam punk stylized. Obviously shot in Europe for many scenes (a lot of sequences in/around trains, which were all Euro-prototype...) The CGI scenes of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893 ("White City") are great.
Sorry, no aircraft! LOL!

Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893 ("White City")

I would see it just for that! First became interested in it after reading "Devil and the White City". Amazing achievement! I would recommend anyone with even a passing interest to take a look at what (and who) was there.

Midway (the previous was Dunkirk which not even three genuine Spits could salvage.)

Short version: it is not terrible. But then it HAD to be immensely-vastly-cosmically better than the atrocious 1976 atrocity that included jet aircraft and a Forrestal class carrier. CGI in the new one ranges from marginal to not bad. Neither of the characters I knew (Jimmy Doolittle and Dick Best) are very accurately portrayed but neither are they...terrible. (Think: fould-mouthed alec baldwin as General Jimmy in the egregious "Pearl Harbor.")

The Joker. Good but dark. Definitely not the feel good movie of the year. Has alot of implied societal statements/ observations so it's not just a basic Batman spinoff movie like I thought it would be.
Gonna catch Midway this weekend. That's the one im really looking forward to.

Barrett said:

Midway (the previous was Dunkirk which not even three genuine Spits could salvage.)

Short version: it is not terrible. But then it HAD to be immensely-vastly-cosmically better than the atrocious 1976 atrocity that included jet aircraft and a Forrestal class carrier. CGI in the new one ranges from marginal to not bad. Neither of the characters I knew (Jimmy Doolittle and Dick Best) are very accurately portrayed but neither are they...terrible. (Think: fould-mouthed alec baldwin as General Jimmy in the egregious "Pearl Harbor.")

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For all its appearant shortcomings that have been enumerated hear I'm still really looking forward to Midway. My Grandfather worked at Douglas durring the war( most of his life actually) and built SBDs.
I was all about SBDs as a kid( still my favorite plane). I was only 11 when the first Midway came out so I actually liked it at the time but I've seen it again since and lets just say I'm hoping this one is markedly better. Sounds like it is.

Funny story about the first Midway movie, when I was invited to see it (I was just as much as an aviation junkie as I am now, even as a little kid), I was so excited that I wanted to look my best...so I cut my own hair! With predictable results, and much to my parents chagrin, I attended with my crooked bangs and even saluted the movie poster on the way out! Oh boy...

European Champions Cup Rugby...

I actually enjoyed it. I was expecting a somewhat Pearl Harbor type movie but this was much better (a single pilot flies spitfires in the Battle of Britain, P-40s at Pearl Harbor, B-25s over Tokyo? give me a break). I thought the CG was good, sometimes a bit out of perspective (it looked like the Japanese planes were flying through the trees in Honolulu) but did a good job of putting you on the deck and showing the chaos of the Arizona during the attack. It basically was a Cliff's notes version of history from cause of war (Japan was dependent on oil from America, but didn't say America shut off oil due to invasion of China), through the Battle of Midway. As such, it had to eliminate a lot and only could show their selected high spots. Things hit that were not commonly known; Admiral Halsey's Shingles (a terrible, painful disease for older people), the cause of the war, miracle of the repair of the Yorktown, early attacks from Midway B-17s, B-26s, and TBFs causing interruption of flight ops (I don't think they showed any TBFs though), a B-26 almost crashing into the island of the Akagi, lousy, rotten American torpedoes, John Ford on the island photographing the attack, the inexperience of the B-26 and maybe the TBF crews on launching torpedoes too far away (which probably wouldn't have worked anyway), the tender box of the enclosed Japanese hanger decks and the associated fires. Things missed; only four B-26s were involve (they showed at least six), B-26s were not level bombers but torpedo bombers, a B-26 that flew down the flight deck of the Akagi machine gunning the crew (I'm sure time would not let them but it would have made an exciting shot), the statement that the B-26 that almost hit the Akagi had stuck flight controls because Amercans were too soft for that (by that time, the Battle of the Coral Sea had been fought, the TBFs had fatally pressed home their attacks, three B-26s had penetrated to weapon release points with the one mentioned above having flown over flight deck of the Akagi).

While that attack did not cause any damage, other that a plane or two shot down and some men were lost, it did critically affect the timing of Japanese operations, maybe fatally, and I'm sure certainly shocked the Japanese.

There were other cinematic liberties taken.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie, certainly more than I expected. I'm sure people responsible for the picture were probably aware the books "Shattered Sword" and "The First Team".