I saw it the first night out and was wondering why I had not seen a Freeper comment on it.
I could not believe what I was seeing. A movie, from Hollywood, that was straight forward patriotic, celebrating courage and raw masculinity of the American Fighting MAN without somehow injecting a “woke” aspect to the film. What?!?! I kept expecting the other shoe to drop. It never did. Man, someone in Hollyweird is getting canned or banned over this one.
Overall I found the movie to be the kind of entertainment that I used to enjoy in movies. From a historical accuracy standpoint, it left some things out. I would have liked Thatch to have had a role in the movie since his fighter tactics were so innovative.
Having said that, it had to cram a lot of history into two hours (Pearl-Doolittle-Coral-Sea-Midway) and I understood why some of the detail had to make the cutting room floor. But what it did tell was very accurate. The casting was good (Harelson as Nimitz was weird. Half expected ole Chester to break out the bong). But still, Woody did a good job.
The movie at the theater is too loud and overwhelming. I like to watch it at home. Will look forward to this one.
It’s troublng to read China helped finance the movie...
In the credits at the begining of the film, there is a co-produced credit for a Chinese company. I was wondering what their angle was going to be. It comes in with the depictions of the aftermath of the Doolittle raid. The Japanese were brutal.