Posted on 11/10/2019 5:56:14 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Very will done and presented. Was kind of disappointed the they didn't cover the Sinking of the USS Yorktown very much. Didn't really demonize any side (US OR Japanese) just showed Military Men doing their jobs. All in all at great movie. Really showed what war is really like.
Yep. Looks like a good one. 91% audience approval. Word of mouth will make this one a hit. America hating critics hate it though. Ha ha.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/midway_2019
As I understand it, the post-Marshalls scene where Bruno Gaido shot down an attacking bomber from the backseat of his plane aboard the Enterprise actually happened. It seems like the kind of thing that would have been fabricated to pump up the drama, but it was real.
“Dropping the bomb was the right thing to do. These people would have not surrendered.”
I read a book some years ago where several Japanese historians concurred that it was the proper deciskon.
“BTW, you would like my book “Halsey’s Bluff.”
I’ll have to read that. I’m a big fan of alternate history.
It’s troublng to read China helped finance the movie...
I thought the 1976 movie would have been one of the greatest war movies of all time but for the attempt to turn it into a chick flick by inserting a soap-opera subplot.
And, obviously, their concentration on sinking the battleships instead of or including our carriers was either bad luck, bad intelligence or outdated thinking by not realizing this would be a carrier war by navys was just as huge.
In the coverage of the loss of the Yorktown was there anything about the sinking of the Hammann.? There are good real time film of the event and the destroyer sank in four minutes and its depth charges exploded adding to the casualties of the crew who had gone over the side.
The end of WWII aside: had the bomb not been dropped on Japan, nuclear weapons would almost certainly have been used later in the context of the Cold War. WWII had normalized area bombing of cities. Nuclear weapons would have been viewed, at least up until first use, as a natural progression. It was the shock of seeing what actually happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki that changed the perception.
“As I understand it, the post-Marshalls scene where Bruno Gaido shot down an attacking bomber from the backseat of his plane aboard the Enterprise actually happened. It seems like the kind of thing that would have been fabricated to pump up the drama, but it was real.”
I read the book “Eagle Against the Sun” many years ago and it mentioned what Bruno Gaido did, plus him and the pilot being thrown overboard after being captured.
https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Against-Sun-American-Japan/dp/0394741013
This is an excellent book if you want to read about the war in the Pacific. It faulted the Japanese for making the Midway overly complex just to capture three islands (Midway, Attu, and Kiska).
If not for the bombs, Japan would have been divided like Korea and Germany, with the likely result a Civil War between “Red” North Japan and US-backed South Japan.
“Isn’t that worth a hot diggety damn?”
Hard to believe the same Roland Emmerich guy who Directed this made that stupid Climate Change Movie and destroyed his own Independence Day Franchise with that idiotic Sequel.
Come to think of it, even Ridley Scott screwed the pooch with his last two Alien themed Movies. James Cameron wrapped it up so well with Aliens.
“I plan on going to see this movie today.”
This movie did a great job in its attention to detail. Watch at the start of the movie and look at Yamamoto’s left hand. It is missing two fingers as he lost it in the Russo-Japanese War. Then watch the sailors receiving medals in May 1942. For a second you can see a black sailor in line. That is Doris “Dorie” Miller receiving his medal for heroism on December 7.
He was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Pearl Harbor" . (He's way better than Ben Affleck)
They were ordered to attack any carriers that might be there as well. Cant attack what isn’t there.
Probably because she didn't sink until June 7, after taking torpedos on June 6. The last Japanese carriers went down on June 5.
“I have a good friend who’s Korean. Stories he’s told me...combined with many other things I’ve seen,heard and read...indicate that the Japanese richly deserved to be demonized”
If you have not seen the movie there are scenes which show Japanese brutality against American sailors and Chinese guerrilla fighters.
They didn’t show the sinking of the Yorktown and Hammann. Once it was hit it dropped out of the picture.
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