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#4480311 - 06/28/19 01:01 AM HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)  
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Really gonna need Hollyweird to stop remaking classic movies just to make them worse than the original. The CGI looks HORRID.... and of all directors, they give this to Roland Emmerich....SERIOUSLY?!?!


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#4480313 - 06/28/19 01:17 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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Oh man! I had such high hopes for this film. Really, that looks friggin awful. I see Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Tokyo bombing. The Midway battle, alone, wasn't enough to fill up a two hour movie?
Gotta admit that I'm a bit dissapointed by that preview. Thought I'd be running out to see it the day it's released. I'll wait til I can rent it.


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#4480314 - 06/28/19 01:17 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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Mark my words, this will be just as cheesy and bombastic as “Pearl Harbor”.


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Seriously, that looks like a game intro from 2002.

#4480316 - 06/28/19 01:26 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Mark my words, this will be just as cheesy and bombastic as “Pearl Harbor”.



Stupid love triangle aside, I actually don't mind "Pearl Harbor" its obviously not historically accurate but at least they used a few real warbirds, this looks like early 2000s computer graphics at best.

#4480322 - 06/28/19 02:52 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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Not the least bit surprised it is this crappy considering what I saw about who was involved before the trailer came out.


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#4480355 - 06/28/19 10:35 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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I see this film being a box office flop not only because of the niche subject matter but because it just looks horrible based on the trailer.


Maybe the studio should have hired Chris Nolan instead to make this? He hit it out of the park with "Dunkirk".


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#4480357 - 06/28/19 11:01 AM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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I rather watch Sound of Music instead.

#4480375 - 06/28/19 01:21 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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Looks good to me, but I fully expected SimHQ to generally hate it. LOL
I’ll probably see it in the theater.


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#4480379 - 06/28/19 01:31 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: Raw Kryptonite]  
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Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite
Looks good to me, but I fully expected SimHQ to generally hate it. LOL
I’ll probably see it in the theater.



I don't think anyone on SimHQ is expecting any kind of "high brow" deep intellectual interpretation of Midway but I think its perfectly reasonable to expect a war movie to not look like a frenetic video game and to not have the obligatory cliche love story.

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#4480382 - 06/28/19 01:51 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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The cgi looks fine to me, but who knows, it may still be in production since it doesn’t come out until Nov. As for love story, maybe there is one. All I saw was a little girl and Mandy Moore, I guess living on base. It wouldn’t be out of place since soldiers have families and loved ones. How well it’s presented remains to be seen, but I don’t see any reason to be negative about it.


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#4480383 - 06/28/19 02:06 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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Having read the comments before watching the video I was expecting much worse. Clearly it's CGI but I thought it looked allright.

And the credits revealed it has Woody in it, so that's not all bad biggrin

I'm more interested in this than 99% of the other movies.


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#4480389 - 06/28/19 02:27 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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I guess I'm going to have to get use to the, over the top, CGI images of modern film making. That's just the way it is now. I was hoping to see at least one real SBD roll over into a dive. And as usual, the tie fighter CGI mechanics, of the airplanes. The Zero's flying down the street two feet off of the ground look as though they were taken right out of "Pearl Harbor."
And that isn't on base housing. You can be in Honolulu and see the naval base. It made security, there, rather difficult. Spies working out of the Japanese embassy on Oahu used to go on a hill, near the base, sit down with some lunch, and watch the goings on there. They would take note of the times that the PBY patrols would leave and come back, how many ships in the harbor...etc...
But I was expecting a more realistic approach. Hoping, anyway. Doesn't look like it.


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#4480392 - 06/28/19 02:34 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: reconmercs]  
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I agree 100% with Pooch.


There is nothing made in Hollywood today that comes close to movies like "A Bridge Too Far", "Patton" or "Tora, Tora, Tora" in terms of staying as close to historical fact as possible and not having to rely on a constant bombardment of over the top action scenes.

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I don't mind CGI, there aren't enough WWII birds of enough types, especially not Japanese, flying to stage a real air battle using just real aircraft.

But CGI doesn't have to mean unrealistic maneuvers and flying. The strafing down the street at treetop level for example, utterly ridiculous.


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I don't care I still want to see it. The original Midway movie was... Not great.


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To each his own, I thought the 1976 Midway was great.


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#4480417 - 06/28/19 04:23 PM Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019) [Re: ArgonV]  
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Originally Posted by ArgonV
I don't care I still want to see it. The original Midway movie was... Not great.


Yeah, the side stories in particular had a whole lot to be desired.
Great cast, but fairly crappy otherwise.


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Meh. Just play some 1943 and get the same experience, except you get to call the shots:


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The 1970’s Midway film absolutely proves that having a great cast means nothing if your script sucks.


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