Apparently Hollywood decided they needed to make an updated movie about the Battle of Midway.
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I was 9 when the original movie came out in 1976. My dad took me to see it at the old Tower theater that was in Houston, maybe in the Greenway area? That movie was my Star Wars before Star Wars ever came out, considering my life-long love of WWII warbirds. Only saw it that one time (although I do recall on the trip we took to DisneyWorld later that same year, I saw the movie on a marquee when we were stopped in the New Orleans area and my dad shot down the idea of seeing it again).
The 1976 movie was full of archival footage that was flat out wrong - there were no Hellcats, Helldivers, Corsairs, and especially Panthers available in 1942. The Panther is clearly visible at the end when Charleton Heston crashes his Dauntless into the aircraft carrier deck, and we see a nose cone of a jet fighter come rolling out of the conflagration. The movie also had a great musical score by John Williams, the theme for which the Fighting Texas Aggie Band plays at nearly every football game. But to its discredit, it features a completely unnecessary love story that I hope this new movie does not attempt to recreate.
From watching that trailer, it appears that the movie should be quite long, as it looks to cover events from Pearl Harbor through the Doolittle raid and then Midway. Visually it looks quite good. But the guy who made the movie has been kind of all over the map in terms of quality - I love The Patriot (historically not that accurate though it may be) and Independence Day, but loathed the Independence Day sequel and 10000 BC. I just hope this movie is closer to The Patriot than 10000 BC.
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I was 9 when the original movie came out in 1976. My dad took me to see it at the old Tower theater that was in Houston, maybe in the Greenway area? That movie was my Star Wars before Star Wars ever came out, considering my life-long love of WWII warbirds. Only saw it that one time (although I do recall on the trip we took to DisneyWorld later that same year, I saw the movie on a marquee when we were stopped in the New Orleans area and my dad shot down the idea of seeing it again).
The 1976 movie was full of archival footage that was flat out wrong - there were no Hellcats, Helldivers, Corsairs, and especially Panthers available in 1942. The Panther is clearly visible at the end when Charleton Heston crashes his Dauntless into the aircraft carrier deck, and we see a nose cone of a jet fighter come rolling out of the conflagration. The movie also had a great musical score by John Williams, the theme for which the Fighting Texas Aggie Band plays at nearly every football game. But to its discredit, it features a completely unnecessary love story that I hope this new movie does not attempt to recreate.
From watching that trailer, it appears that the movie should be quite long, as it looks to cover events from Pearl Harbor through the Doolittle raid and then Midway. Visually it looks quite good. But the guy who made the movie has been kind of all over the map in terms of quality - I love The Patriot (historically not that accurate though it may be) and Independence Day, but loathed the Independence Day sequel and 10000 BC. I just hope this movie is closer to The Patriot than 10000 BC.