Merged: The Movies Thread

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Sunny apparently watches around 600 movies a year.

I hope I'm invited to the inaugural SunnySide Film Festival.

lol i probably do. Certain movies I might watch 5-10 times a year (sin city, good bad ugly, kung fu hustle, black dynamite, tarantinos, scorcese, cohen bros etc)

I have always loved movies and think films and movies are amazing. but I am a huge pot head as well and at the end of the day since I was 16 or so, I turn on my mood lighting, light some candles, smoke some amazing green and get lost in an amazing story. I shut my brain off completely. Its like meditation for me.

plus i dont really watch tv.

Midway (2019) - watched this last night ... it was fucking horrible. The acting was shit, the accents were laughable and while it did try to stick to the actual facts of midway i much more preferred a midway documentary series i watched a few months ago vs this.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

lol i probably do. Certain movies I might watch 5-10 times a year (sin city, good bad ugly, kung fu hustle, black dynamite, tarantinos, scorcese, cohen bros etc)

I have always loved movies and think films and movies are amazing. but I am a huge pot head as well and at the end of the day since I was 16 or so, I turn on my mood lighting, light some candles, smoke some amazing green and get lost in an amazing story. I shut my brain off completely. Its like meditation for me.

plus i dont really watch tv.

Midway (2019) - watched this last night ... it was fucking horrible. The acting was shit, the accents were laughable and while it did try to stick to the actual facts of midway i much more preferred a midway documentary series i watched a few months ago vs this.

Oh man. I loved Midway. Maybe I won't get that invite to the film festival lol.

Note - An accurate historical documentary series will most likely always be better than a movie.

[Warthog]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Oh man. I loved Midway. Maybe I won't get that invite to the film festival lol.

Note - An accurate historical documentary series will most likely always be better than a movie.

I agree, unlike the critics, I really liked the latest reboot of the Midway movie (done twice previously). Yeah, Midway had a cast of mostly good British actors who did pretty well with their American accents. One thing I really liked in the movie was providing a much better Japanese perspective than those earlier versions.

It presented the actual history well, which can be a problem with historical movies. A few fudges were there, but only noticeable if you’re a WWII buff or historian. The biggest one was when the several cast members say that “they knew that there were problems with the U. S. Navy torpedoes”. It took over TWO YEARS into the war before the Navy admitted that their primary torpedo (used on ships, submarines and aircraft) was defective but it wasn’t until late 1943 - early 1944 that the THREE main torpedo problems were all actually fixed. BTW, most historians now say that WWII was lengthened by 6 months or MORE due to the defective US Navy torpedo issues. That’s probably why it was mentioned several times in the movie, although no one knew about it in 1942.

Obviously, this movie used CGI to a much higher level than previous WWII movies. This is necessary because the flyable WWII aircraft or WWII carriers just don’t exist anymore. This eliminates the problems of old movies like “Tora, Tora, Tora” which used WWII era American training aircraft to replace the Japanese aircraft. The CGI was decent, and the actors did an ok job at simulating what flying an fighter-bomber aircraft is like. Tough to simulate what pulling 5-6 g’s (Gravitational forces) does to your face and body but they tried.

The best acting job was Dennis Quaid, who played the fierce US Navy admiral “Bull” Halsey. Quaid even made himself look smaller to mimic the short Navy admiral.

Overall, it was the best of the Midway movies and the CGI brought you more “into the cockpit” than anything done before. If you like WWII or flying movies, I’d recommend this movie for you. Well done, even if the critics hated it!


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