Midway

[flenna]

I just saw this online, I hope it as good as the trailers. I don’t go to the theater much anymore (the last movie for me was They Shall Not Grow Old) but I may go see this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8OsSdXEGc

[chadbag]

For me it is too obviously CGI.

Hopefully they get the actual story right.

[ABNAK]

For me it is too obviously CGI.

Hopefully they get the actual story right.

I have to agree.

My grandfather, a WWII USMC vet who fought in the Solomon Islands campaign, took me to see the original in "Sensurround" back when it came out in 1976. Just he and I on a summer evening. This new movie will have to go a L-O-N-G way to match that!

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

This looks like the same tech that was used in that Flying Tigers movie. Part of me wonders if it is Chinese interests trying to sour our relationship with Japan. Gives me PTSD from watching "Pearl Harbor" when the lead chick describes the attack as "all this happened'.

[Slater]

I think it pretty much has to be CGI to get the SBD's, TBM's, Wildcats, etc. correct and in the correct numbers. Not to mention the various American and Japanese ships. I'm okay with CGI if it looks at least somewhat realistic.

[MegademiC]

For me it is too obviously CGI.

Hopefully they get the actual story right.

Nothing ruins a movie like bad special effect.

Parts of that looked like a cartoon.

[BoringGuy45]

Honestly, I'm not really impressed by the trailer.

There really hasn't been any truly good war movies since Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, or The Great Raid. Since then, war movies have either changed soldiers into victims by focusing more on their PTSD and struggles after going home rather than the actual war, or they are simply vehicles for special effects, which is what Midway appears to be.

[JulyAZ]

Honestly, I'm not really impressed by the trailer.

There really hasn't been any truly good war movies since Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, or The Great Raid. Since then, war movies have either changed soldiers into victims by focusing more on their PTSD and struggles after going home rather than the actual war, or they are simply vehicles for special effects, which is what Midway appears to be.

The Long Road Home on Hulu, is a mini series, movie-esqe was the best war feature I’ve probably ever seen. And it’s recent.


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[Slater]

Too bad "Danger Close" doesn't seem to be destined for American theatres:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441881...1?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Firefly]

I hate the PTSD spiel. For a lot of people, if you just shut up and listen, the worst times of their life were the best. They were young, everything meant life or death, and the people they were with, despite how time may have changed them since; were at their most authentic then.

I was talking to someone today who said just once more; he’d like to have ham and mothers with Tabasco sauce and red kool aid, but even if you replicated everything just so.....it wouldn’t be the same.

He wouldn’t be 18 again.
Everyone has, if you’ve ever worked a martial profession, that one really bad day.

But unlike the Joker, it’s not going to just upset your life. It’s not going to totally destroy who you were. I think it’s that mental armchair psychology porn that normies get off on by being able to categorize someone.

I’d rather focus on how people made the most of it. I mean with technology now, I find it obscene we don’t let people just say what they want to say. We want to focus on the guilt or the gunfire.

But for some people its just being sweaty and eating and drinking lukewarm kool aid that I find more interesting. It simply wasn’t our time. All we get is a window glimpse because....

We weren’t there, man