Midway (movie 2019)

[Gambit21]

What else would it be???

 

I’m going this weekend - $6.00 matinee.

I’ll watch a few episodes of Sponge Bob Square Pants first to get me in correct frame of mind.

[Feathered_IV]

Watch the 2019 film Greyhound Attack on YouTube before you go to set your expectations to rock bottom.  

[Rei-sen]

Actually, it wasn't too bad. I expected worse. Yeah, too much CGI, cartoonish explosions like it's Fast n Furious, but overall, not bad.

By the way, I know what would be the first thing I'm gonna try when we get SBD Dauntless and a carrier in IL-2 GB?

 

Also got a nice little badge when I purchased the tickets at the counter.

Edited November 9, 2019 by Arthur-A

[DetCord12B]

The thumbnail looks like its some sort of spoof or comedy.

[Cybermat47]

1 hour ago, DetCord12B said:

The thumbnail looks like its some sort of spoof or comedy.

Well, it is made by the guy who replaced the dark nuclear themes of Godzilla with Matthew Broderick saying “that’s a lot of fish”, so you just have to expect that.

[DetCord12B]

1 hour ago, [Pb]Cybermat47 said:

Well, it is made by the guy who replaced the dark nuclear themes of Godzilla with Matthew Broderick saying “that’s a lot of fish”, so you just have to expect that.

 

That sounds absolutely awful.

[Gambit21]

There is just too much wrong with this movie to even begin...

 

Even if we left it at "where the F#&*K are the Wildcats?...that would be enough form a tome.

 

CG bullcrap...not caring how airplanes actually fly...or even giving us a proper tip of the iceberg as far as what transpired that morning...basically every way you can mess up a movie, this piece of tripe was guilty off...down to sound...awful sound editing.

 

That said I went knowing what I was getting myself into and I got what I was expecting... and it least it wasn't full of toxic agenda-driven horse $hit like most movies nowadays.

My wife loved it.

 

 

Next stop, Ford vs Ferrari...as an auto racing fan I somehow have hopes for that one.

[MiloMorai]

Gambit 99% of those who watch the movie wouldn't  have a clue about what we would see as wrong/incorrect.

[INVADER_WARHAWK]

A bit unrelated , but why Pearl harbour has so much bad reputation ?

I know , mixing war with this romance wasnt a grea idea , but I dont find the war part of the film bad at all .

The combat scenes were way too good for this reputation (although not perfect ) at my opinion .

[JtD]

So, is Godzilla in the Midway movie or not?

[TWC_Ace]

14 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

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Next stop, Ford vs Ferrari...as an auto racing fan I somehow have hopes for that one.

I think its not even near Rush

[Poochnboo]

2 hours ago, INVADER_WARHAWK said:

A bit unrelated , but why Pearl harbour has so much bad reputation ?

I know , mixing war with this romance wasnt a grea idea , but I dont find the war part of the film bad at all .

The combat scenes were way too good for this reputation (although not perfect ) at my opinion .

If you are really into history as much as I am, then the romance part of the story was far from being what is wrong with this film. Obviously you aren't , and that's fine. But it drives me crazy when Ben Affleck is leaving, all done up in his Army Air Corps dress uniform. He tells the girlfriend, "The Air Corps is sending me to England to fly with the Eagle Squadron."

WTF! The Eagle Squadron wasn't comprised of U.S. military pilots! That would been like declaring war on Germany. We were neutral for Crissakes! They were mostly civilians who left the country and headed for Canada to join the Canadian Air Force. What they did was actually against the law, here, and some who tried to get there were arrested. The U.S. government made it known that any Americans going off to fight for a foriegn nation would lose their citizenship. So that part, right there, is just plain stupid! The scene where the British officer tells Affleck, "Are all Americans pilots as good as you. If they are, God help anyone who goes to war with the United States." That scene is cringe worthy and embarrassing. 

And they gathered all of the fighter pilots who were at Pearl Harbor and sent them back to the states to fly B-25's!!? Really? We had no qualified bomber pilots at the time? Again, plain stupid. As a matter of fact, one of the pilots who got into the air that day was George Welch. He continued flying fighters during the war, obviuosly. He went on to be an ace in P-38's and was killed in the 1950's testing the F-100 for North American Aviation. 

Pearl Harbor is frigging awful!

I won't be seeing Midway 'til it's on my Kodi or on Netflix. That should be next year some time. I can wait. 

[Gambit21]

4 hours ago, =VARP=Tvrdi said:

I think its not even near Rush

 

Rush wasn't anything near what it could have/should been, so not really a benchmark to shoot for IMO.

[MiloMorai]

Eagle squadron was active from 19 September 1940 to 29 September 1942.

 

Captain Don Gentile was a pilot with 133 Squadron, claiming two air victories, and by March 1944 had become the 4th Fighter Group's top ace in World War II, with 22 aerial kills.

Colonel Chesley "Pete" Peterson had 130 sorties with the Eagle Squadrons and became the youngest squadron commander in the RAF. When the Eagle Squadrons were transferred to the 4th Fighter Group, Peterson became the group's executive officer, succeeding to command of the group in April 1943, and becoming at 23 the youngest (at the time) colonel in the USAAF.

Colonel Donald Blakeslee was a pilot in 121 and 133 Squadrons during 1942, making 120 sorties and claiming three aerial kills. He became deputy commander of the 4th Fighter Group under Chesley Peterson, then commanded the group from January to October 1944

[RedKestrel]

21 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

There is just too much wrong with this movie to even begin...

 

Even if we left it at "where the F#&*K are the Wildcats?...that would be enough form a tome.

 

CG bullcrap...not caring how airplanes actually fly...or even giving us a proper tip of the iceberg as far as what transpired that morning...basically every way you can mess up a movie, this piece of tripe was guilty off...down to sound...awful sound editing.

 

That said I went knowing what I was getting myself into and I got what I was expecting... and it least it wasn't full of toxic agenda-driven horse $hit like most movies nowadays.

My wife loved it.

 

 

Next stop, Ford vs Ferrari...as an auto racing fan I somehow have hopes for that one.

Did they seriously make a movie about Midway without Wildcats??? 

[Gambit21]

2 minutes ago, RedKestrel said:

Did they seriously make a movie about Midway without Wildcats??? 

 

Yep

Pathetic.

[RedKestrel]

Just now, Gambit21 said:

 

Yep

Pathetic.

I can't wait until they do a prequel at Coral Sea and leave out the aircraft carriers, LMAO. 

[Gambit21]

18 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

Gambit 99% of those who watch the movie wouldn't  have a clue about what we would see as wrong/incorrect.

 

I'm aware of that...the other people I saw the movie with for example.

That doesn't change anything however.

[Amiral_Crapaud]

12 minutes ago, RedKestrel said:

Did they seriously make a movie about Midway without Wildcats??? 

Well, no TF-16 fighter saw action over the KB (considering the VF-6 detachment never engaged because of a SNAFU & the VF-8 met an ignominious end in the middle of nowhere) so it's rather understandable. The only action a handful of pilots had was when they got released by their FDO to go and try to help Yorktown, but even then the movie being about Enterprise, it's a bit moot. Honestly, it's not so much a movie about Midway than a love letter to Enterprise. Well, why not, better than nothing I'll say.

I am alright with that. There will be other movies about Wildcats and Thach's heroics someday. On the other hand, I hardly expect TBDs to feature anymore anywhere after this one.... Their first time might be their last time ever too! Just for this, I can't really hate what they did with that movie.

[6./ZG26_Custard]

8 hours ago, INVADER_WARHAWK said:

A bit unrelated , but why Pearl harbour has so much bad reputation ?

Two words....Hammer down.

 

This turgid pile of claptrap is without doubt in my top 3 worst "mainstream" war movies of all time. The other 2 being the god awful Red Tails and that pathetic excuse of a film Fury.

[cripplehawk]

I saw the Midway film....It's not bad. Way better then THAT film in 2001....But if your looking for something like "Das Boot" or the "Thin Red Line". You will be disappointed.

But some of the Aerial sequences are over the top.

[Gambit21]

31 minutes ago, cripplehawk said:

 

But some of the Aerial sequences are over the top.

 

Yeah...just when planes are in the air...other than that it's a fine film.

[ST_Catchov]

On 11/11/2019 at 10:51 AM, Gambit21 said:

 

My wife loved it.

 

 

LOL. There's money in them dames. Sexy guys. Heroism. Stoicism. CGI everywhere and Woody's hairpiece. Artistic license I think it's called. Been going on since D.W. Griffith.

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

Can't wait for PTO to come out for IL-2 Greatest Battles!!! Midway was a great movie.

[No105_Swoose]

Midway was #1 at the box office in ticket sales last weekend.  I saw it with my wife Friday.  Sure, it had a lot of inaccuracies, especially with the CGI, but they got the basic facts mostly correct.  I liked how they showed the importance of the intelligence officers Layton and Rochfort.  The movie was far better than Pearl Harbor (2001) and Midway (1976) in my opinion.  It was good, rousing entertainment and, like many others on the forum, really makes me want the PTO as the next theater for IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles.

Edited November 13, 2019 by No105_Swoose