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Offline Maverick

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Re: Midway
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2014, 11:15:40 AM »
Big big brass ones  :salute
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Re: Midway
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2014, 11:22:31 AM »
Quote from: Slate on June 05, 2014, 08:49:02 AM
   If you had seen the movie on the Big Screen in the 70's with your Dad you would have just been blown away and not knit picked the details. "Were we better than the Japs or just luckier"   :salute

Wow. We must be about the same age because I think I did see it with my Dad and I think it was on father's day.

He (RIP) and I used to also play the Avalon Hill game by the same name.
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Re: Midway
« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2014, 01:33:11 PM »
I love the movie "Midway" -- it is one of my favorite movies of all time.  Yes, it has some incorrect plane types in snippets of historical footage here and there, but I'd rather have real footage with incorrect aircraft than Hollywood, stupidly unrealistic CGI like we typically get today.

Also, it has the cast of doom:  Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Robert Wagner, Toshiro Mifune, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Tom Selleck, even Ponch (Erik Estrada).

The only other movie that I know of that has such an amazing cast is "A Bridge Too Far" (another of my favorite movies of all time):  Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Edward Fox, Michael Cane, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Maximilian Schell, Elliott Gould, Liv Ullmann.
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Re: Midway
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2014, 01:36:18 PM »
By the way, you can fight the battle of Midway in frame 2 of the upcoming Scenario:

http://pacificwar.wordpress.com/battle-for-midway/
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Re: Midway
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2014, 05:14:51 PM »
in the movie nobody answers that question--but i say we were both--smarter because we found a way to see if midway was the target--luckier that the jap plane that found our fleet had a broken radio and could not radio it's location..and that the jap pilots thought they already sunk the yorktown
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Re: Midway
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2014, 05:24:35 PM »
Quote from: Slate on June 05, 2014, 08:49:02 AM
  If you had seen the movie on the Big Screen in the 70's with your Dad you would have just been blown away and not knit picked the details. "Were we better than the Japs or just luckier"   :salute

I was 18 when it came out. What was the special effect it boasted Sensaround Sound or something? I have to admit the sounds were fantastic but even at 18 having started on my WWII reading binge about age 11 or so.. I was nitpicking the plane types too.  :D

Quote from: PJ_Godzilla on June 05, 2014, 11:22:31 AM
He (RIP) and I used to also play the Avalon Hill game by the same name.

I used to love that game Zilla!  :aok
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