Slightly off topic - New Midway movie

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Nemo121

Oh come on Windtalkers wasn't nearly as bad as The Movie That Shall Not Be Named.... We didn't get treated to scenes of WW2 US troops carrying M16s etc in WindTalkers whereas in TMTSNBN we had modern day Aegis ships being bombed by Kates and Vals * sigh*

The ONLY good thing with that movie when I saw it in the cinema was that when one of the main characters did finally die on-screen and a girl started crying the audience, rightly, mocked her and laughed. Ah, cynicism, thou warmest my cold, dead heart [:D]

Of course, in the other Midway movie, we did have Bf 109 and He 111 aircraft, and at least one angled-deck CV... not to mention other historical inaccuracies ...

[pmelheck1]

I think a movie about Midway would be great if it was about the battle and not with all the issues of a certain Disney war movie.  My big concern is how Hollywood depicts military folks.  A lot of movies made by Hollywood portray military folks and operations in a very negative light.  If the movie is about Midway rather than more attacks on the greatest generation that would be great.

[John Lansford]

I remember coming out of the theater after watching TMTSNBN and thinking "they had decades to do it right, and we get this?".  Midway, IMO, doesn't need another movie; the one that we already remember is good enough.  Let's see the destroyers take on Kurita's force off of Leyte, or a movie on the saving of the Franklin, or perhaps the last cruise of the Houston and how her crew suffered as POW's.  How about a movie about the Aaron Ward and the ordeal she suffered from multiple kamikaze hits?  The voyage of the tanker Ohio to Malta would be a great movie IMO as well.
 
Nah, the know-nothings in Hollywood will go with something easy rather than try and actually inform people while entertaining them at the same time.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

I can see the crowds already forming up in front of the cinemas, all want to see:



The voyage of the tanker Ohio to Malta
In 3d


[:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I can see the crowds already forming up in front of the cinemas, all want to see:



The voyage of the tanker Ohio to Malta
In 3d


[:D]

But those fuel hoses. My God, man (erm-woman), they're COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE SCREEN! Wow!

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I can see the crowds already forming up in front of the cinemas, all want to see:



The voyage of the tanker Ohio to Malta
In 3d


[:D]

But those fuel hoses. My God, man (erm-woman), they're COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE SCREEN! Wow!

I know what the Japanese audience wants to happen next *snickers*

[Cribtop]

Our only hope is that HBO decides to do something more after the success of BoB and The Pacific. Hollywood will screw up Midway and doesn't know the other battles mentioned even happened.

[tocaff]

If time is money then how can you expect to have Hollywood spend time doing research on a historical subject?  Besides there aren't to many of the guys left who would be decent consultants.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: tocaff

If time is money then how can you expect to have Hollywood spend time doing research on a historical subject?  Besides there aren't to many of the guys left who would be decent consultants.

Let me phrase is that way. How much research is needed for not puting M-16s into a ww2 movie ? Or having those Japanese planes in the right colour ? I dont expect it to be perfect and a nerd fest but at least somehow belivable.Those M-16 where insults of lazyness and expected stupidity of the audience.

Well on the other side my friend thought I am nuts when I said after watching Private Ryan "Hey, those werent Panthers, infact those where self propeled artillery pieces"

[The Gnome]

I am cringing at the thought of Sylvester Stalone playing Fletcher, flying his P-51D off of the Nimitz to fight the japanese himself, bails out into the midst of the Japanese and procedes to singlehandedly defeat them all shirtless, with an M-60 and hand grenades.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled

ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

I've started to hear rumors that Warner Bros. is thinking about making a new Battle of Midway movie. I'm feeling a few butterflys in my stomach, but I'm not sure if those are the beginnings of fanboy excitement or nausea at how badly Hollyweird could screw this up.

My only hope for something decent is that one of the writers for The Pacific is supposedly involved.

My chief dread is that they are already boasting about it being in 3D.

Mike

P.S. Instead of retreading Midway, why couldn't they try something new, like Leyte Gulf.

Knowing Hollywood, it will probably be a story about 2 young Ensigns who were boyhood friend and both falling in love with a Japanese girl who was put into an internment camp. One night the Ensigns realized that they were more then just "friends". The movie will have 1-1/2 hours about how the Ensigns deal with their personal issues, 15 minutes explaining the significants of "Midway", and 30 minutes of things blowing up.

Warspite1

Tut Tut.. based on the rubbish that was the storyline in TFTSNBN, you've missed an important element of the new Midway plot Charbroiled. Prior to taking part in Midway, the two ensigns fought with the Royal Navy. One personally sank the Bismarck with a well aimed shot from his 40mm gun, after the shells from KGV and Rodney all hopelessly missed their target. Prior to this, his fellow volunteer took part in the same battle. He was on Ark Royal and was so enraged by the incompetence of the first wave of FAA Swordfish pilots, he commandeered a stringbag, took it aloft and singlehandedly launched the torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder and sent her sailing toward his buddy [8|].

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I am cringing at the thought of Sylvester Stalone playing Fletcher, flying his P-51D off of the Nimitz to fight the japanese himself, bails out into the midst of the Japanese and procedes to singlehandedly defeat them all shirtless, with an M-60 and hand grenades.

Give him a Thompson and this will be an awesome movie.With a final showdown against a Katana wielding Nagumo and sneaky sniper Genda.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Panther Bait
My chief dread is that they are already boasting about it being in 3D.

sigh...

[opens drawer, extracts wakizashi. Pens elaborate script on rice paper and opens up shirt...]

Oh, Boy of the Chicken--in what is becoming a common experience to your Posts--I about spewed my Cola in laughter after reading this...

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Nemo121

Oh come on Windtalkers wasn't nearly as bad as The Movie That Shall Not Be Named.... We didn't get treated to scenes of WW2 US troops carrying M16s etc in WindTalkers whereas in TMTSNBN we had modern day Aegis ships being bombed by Kates and Vals * sigh*

The ONLY good thing with that movie when I saw it in the cinema was that when one of the main characters did finally die on-screen and a girl started crying the audience, rightly, mocked her and laughed. Ah, cynicism, thou warmest my cold, dead heart [:D]

Of course, in the other Midway movie, we did have Bf 109 and He 111 aircraft, and at least one angled-deck CV... not to mention other historical inaccuracies ...

My wife was in the hospital yesterday and I came upon Midway. Watched the last 45 minutes of it and just shook my head. Try watching that movie NOW after reading Shattered Sword! My wife couldn't understand why I was laughing and complaining about the 'new' version of the truth as presented in that fine book.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Tut Tut.. based on the rubbish that was the storyline in TFTSNBN, you've missed an important element of the new Midway plot Charbroiled. Prior to taking part in Midway, the two ensigns fought with the Royal Navy. One personally sank the Bismarck with a well aimed shot from his 40mm gun, after the shells from KGV and Rodney all hopelessly missed their target. Prior to this, his fellow volunteer took part in the same battle. He was on Ark Royal and was so enraged by the incompetence of the first wave of FAA Swordfish pilots, he commandeered a stringbag, took it aloft and singlehandedly launched the torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder and sent her sailing toward his buddy [8|].

Oh, I can outdo that for ridiculous, outlandish implausibility! Get this...in the movie, a biplane - ha ha ha ha ha! - manages to score a crippling hit on Bismarck!

How's that for an imagination?!

[John 3rd]

Obviously the Rebel in a Canoe is an Allied Fan Boy...

[The Gnome]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I am cringing at the thought of Sylvester Stalone playing Fletcher, flying his P-51D off of the Nimitz to fight the japanese himself, bails out into the midst of the Japanese and procedes to singlehandedly defeat them all shirtless, with an M-60 and hand grenades.

Give him a Thompson and this will be an awesome movie.With a final showdown against a Katana wielding Nagumo and sneaky sniper Genda.

That is spot-on hysterical

He needs some goofy catch phrase as the movie ends though, maybe floating away from the destroyed and burning IJN Fleet he mutters something like "Gotcha Sucka's".

[TOMLABEL]

Maybe the new Midway movie can tell the whole story of the VF8 and VB8 fiasco.

Hey, I think Alec Baldwin would be perfect in playing the role of Stanhope Ring![:D][:D][:D]

TOMLABEL

[Onime No Kyo]

Question, hypothetical, one....why has no one ever made a movie about the battles in The Slot. If I were navy I would be rightly upset that the whole narrative is about the Marines.

[Onime No Kyo]

Tom, your avatar is laboring under some severe top-hamper. [:D]