@drfarls @KevinMKruse @waitmanb @pptsapper So…finally saw the Midway remake last night. I can at least say it was *NOT* as bad as Pearl Harbor. That is an admittedly low bar. The 1976 version is still superior in most respects. Ok, from what I saw…
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020
…about 40 minutes should have been cut. We didn’t need a lengthy refresher on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid, and the padding muddled the story rather than explaining it. Much of the CGI looked very 1990’s and was distracting. Waaaaaay too many shots of Japanese….
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020
…warplanes strafing everybody in sight. Also far too many kills on said Japanese warplanes being made by rear gunners on Dauntless dive bombers. Clunky,hackneyed cliched characters and dialogue. On the plus side, some of the distant shots of AAA fire on parabolic arcs…
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020
,…from a Japanese cruiser looked very good. SBD bomb release detail was good. Shots of diving down into a flak maelstrom from the carriers seemed a bit overdone (from what was shown, nobody could have survived the dive attempt), but I cannot say for sure.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020
Final shot of attack on the 4th and final carrier was total Hollywood bullshit where bomb is released far too low and Richard Best flies the SBD through giant explosion like he is Evel Knievel. I actually laughed out loud. Typical Emmerich schtick.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020
So, not as howlingly bad as Pearl Harbor, and was respectful of the Japanese side of things, which was welcome. I’m getting tired of the “Sleeping giant” Yamamoto quote, tho. Wasn’t a complete waste of the evening, but would not bother watching it again.
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) February 19, 2020