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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2019, 10:10:41 AM »
Quote from: Shifty on March 19, 2019, 10:18:47 PM
Honestly, I thought the first Midway was kind of corny and not well made. plus there were too many scenes straight up taken from Tora Tora Tora. I'm hoping they do a better job this time.

Tora Tora Tora, quality would be an improvement.

It had scenes from 100 movies, but the acting and the music...along with the human drama conveyed...made it one of my all-time favorite movies.   It is riveting in spite of its flaws. 
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2019, 10:11:28 AM »
Quote from: Devil 505 on March 19, 2019, 10:23:24 PM
Sure it can - by most movies. The original is awful.

You guys are crazy.   It is one of my top five favorite films.   It was also a box office smash. 
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2019, 10:27:52 AM »
Quote from: Vraciu on March 20, 2019, 10:10:41 AM
It had scenes from 100 movies, but the acting and the music...along with the human drama conveyed...made it one of my all-time favorite movies.   It is riveting in spite of its flaws.

Not knocking you, to each their own. I remember going to the theater and seeing it in I believe they called it Sensaround. No doubt it was full of great actors, but it was far from their best performances. One thing that I caught the first time I saw it was Henry Fonda telling Hal Holbrook, "I miss the flat lands." As he went on about his childhood home and a lake you could wade across during the rainy season. Nimitz grew up in Fredericksburg TX, in the Hill Country, it's not the flat lands and you don't wade across anything there during the rainy season. I enjoyed the actual flying and fighting part of the movie, but the rest was terrible.
 
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2019, 10:34:17 AM »
Quote from: Shifty on March 20, 2019, 10:27:52 AM
Not knocking you, to each their own. I remember going to the theater and seeing it in I believe they called it Sensaround. No doubt it was full of great actors, but it was far from their best performances. One thing that I caught the first time I saw it was Henry Fonda telling Hal Holbrook, "I miss the flat lands." As he went on about his childhood home and a lake you could wade across during the rainy season. Nimitz grew up in Fredericksburg TX, in the Hill Country, it's not the flat lands and you don't wade across anything there during the rainy season. I enjoyed the actual flying and fighting part of the movie, but the rest was terrible.
 

I often wondered about that scene myself.   

I love this movie.   I saw it in the theater when I was three years old and still remember that experience.   

The music was great.   I used to reenact the opening scene in preschool with my friends.   Ha ha.   I know.

Anytime it was on HBO we were all glued to the tv.   
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2019, 12:16:24 PM »
If any of you get the chance to visit Fredericksburg TX... do so. The Pacific War Museum there is excellent. There is a lot of great things to see in that town. You can actually see a beach head with Jap foxholes and LVTs. Several aircraft and a real PT boat there also.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2019, 12:35:56 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on March 20, 2019, 12:16:24 PM
If any of you get the chance to visit Fredericksburg TX... do so. The Pacific War Museum there is excellent. There is a lot of great things to see in that town. You can actually see a beach head with Jap foxholes and LVTs. Several aircraft and a real PT boat there also.

It used to be much better.   When it was housed in the Steamboat Hotel it had a lot more exhibits than now.  I don’t know why they changed (reduced) what was displayed after they expanded the museum.

I love Fredericksburg.  Enchanted Rock is just up the road.  An amazing place. 
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2019, 03:29:53 PM »
Yup the Hill Country is our playground.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2019, 03:32:01 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on March 20, 2019, 03:29:53 PM
Yup the Hill Country is our playground.

Hellz yeah!
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2019, 09:59:17 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on March 20, 2019, 12:16:24 PM
If any of you get the chance to visit Fredericksburg TX... do so. The Pacific War Museum there is excellent. There is a lot of great things to see in that town. You can actually see a beach head with Jap foxholes and LVTs. Several aircraft and a real PT boat there also.

Yes it is well worth the visit and awesome place, Shuff forgot to mention they also have the very Japanese Midget Sub that washed up on the beach following the Pearl Harbor raid.

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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2019, 10:19:01 PM »
Quote from: Shifty on March 20, 2019, 09:59:17 PM
Yes it is well worth the visit and awesome place, Shuff forgot to mention they also have the very Japanese Midget Sub that washed up on the beach following the Pearl Harbor raid.

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Yes indeed. Too much stuff to mention. Very enjoyable and informative.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2019, 12:07:08 AM »
Midway in US theaters November 8, 2019.

https://youtu.be/5EdMZOiMz64           
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #26 on: March 29, 2019, 08:44:40 AM »
Quote from: donna43 on March 21, 2019, 12:07:08 AM
Midway in US theaters November 8, 2019.

https://youtu.be/5EdMZOiMz64           

Thanks for the link, from the looks of it not a lot of attention to technical detail. Looks like another stinker in the works.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #27 on: March 29, 2019, 09:08:40 AM »
If it is anything like Dunkirk, it is going to be terrible.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2019, 06:36:07 AM »
Quote from: Meatwad on March 19, 2019, 09:20:01 PM
It will be ruined with a hollywood type love story that has no place in the movie
I heard they are making an all women cast version of tora tora tora, following the success of Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 11.

Saving Private Ryan is next.
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Re: Midway Movie
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2019, 09:49:11 AM »
Quote from: Brooke on March 19, 2019, 11:17:00 PM
I love the original Midway.  I just ignore the corny love story.

It has the cast of doom:  Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Tom Selleck, Eric Estrada

About a year ago, I ran into Hal Holebrook at a nursery near where we both live.  We had a nice chat.

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