#4480440 - 06/28/19 05:24 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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I didn't like the 70's version, at all. They used too much old WW2 combat film that has been seen in movies since the forties, for Pete's sake. Lots of scenes of Hellcats taking off from Essex class carriers. And for the big dogfight over Midway they used the scene fron "The Battle of Britain!" Geez! The guy who played Heston's son was way too whiny, for my taste. The whole, "You won't help my Japanese girlfriend! I hate you!" crap was a bit much. The kids a FIGHTER PILOT! Please. I was hoping that this was the film that would do it right.
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#4480449 - 06/28/19 06:01 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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Midway and other important WW2 battles are the kind of subject matter that would be handled much better by crowdfunded indie efforts rather than low common denominator focussed Hollywood. Ding! Ding! We have a winner ladies and gentlemen. Having said that, I have NO CLUE how Chris Nolan managed to make his "Dunkirk" film a box office hit in the US. That guy must be an alien with super powers or something.
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#4480545 - 06/29/19 04:51 AM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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Recon, to tell you the truth, that other one titled "Dauntless" doesn't seem to be telling the true story at all. That whole thing with the SBD's getting creamed and the Admiral turning on the lights so they could make it back is pure bullshite. Didn't happen. The U.S. air groups at Midway did not return at night time. I don't know how well they are sticking to the story of Midway in "Midway" just yet. The woman you saw with the little girl is playing the wife of Commander Dick Best who was the squadron C.O. of the SBD's aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. So, at least that is true. One of the things that bothers me is the need to show the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo. They have to fill up the two hours with constant frenetic action. I would like to see some build up. Maybe some training being done, maybe some scenes of life aboard the carriers. What was going on behind the scenes where the code breakers were working. Like "Tora Tora Tora." I guess today's audiences don't want that. A film has to begin with an action packed scene or people get bored. Well, we'll see. But, I'm not as anxious to see it as when I'd first heard about the project.
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#4480546 - 06/29/19 04:55 AM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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Oh, and by the way, I think that Catch-22 showed how to do CGI airplanes scenes the right way. They looked real, and didn't do anything that a real B-25 couldn't do. It was very convincing.
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#4480725 - 06/30/19 12:28 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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Why am I thinking another 'Red Tails' type movie?
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4480732 - 06/30/19 01:00 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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Why am I thinking another 'Red Tails' type movie? You would be correct sir. It seems current day Hollywood CANNOT make a war movie without relying on endless explosions and over-done action scenes and also without any cliché dialogue.
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#4489338 - 09/13/19 01:11 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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#4489345 - 09/13/19 01:35 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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It looks like the sequel to "Pearl Harbor" that nobody asked for.
Now that is a perfect description!!
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#4489353 - 09/13/19 02:58 PM
Re: HOLY CRAPPY CGI BATMAN (Midway 2019)
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The needless love triangle in war films is just about as old as making war films, as is including an actress to share the center stage.
Even my beloved Wings had to be re-written before shooting to include Clara Bow, as she was (literally) the "It girl" and the studios wanted her in the film to increase box office.
That they did it as good as it could be done is neither here nor there...they still had to do it, and it really didn't add to the story one bit.
Indeed, the formula was invented right there and has been repeated over and over again, except the Wings approach where at the end of the war the love interest and the protagonist don't wind up together has been abandoned. I think how they ended the film wound up paying off her inclusion.
Caveat: Yes, I know that Clara Bow wasn't written as a love triangle; she was the girl with a crush and the object of romantic dispute wasn't even shown after the first two minutes, but it still remains.
The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events. More dumb stuff at http://www.darts-page.comFrom Laser: "The forum is the place where combat (real time) flight simulator fans come to play turn based strategy combat."
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