The Battle of Midway was a crucial battle of WW2. However, this movie does it injustice.
I personally thought that the producers of this film were lazy. They crammed in any old stock footage from WW2 - including film from Battle of Britain - Now there's nothing wrong with using stock footage but when its used incorrectly, ie. when a US plane is attacked - they incorrectly show footage showing a Japanese plane crashing.
In fact, virtually all their entire combat footage is stuff taken from other War movies or common stock footage.
Example they borrow heavily from the movie, Tora Tora Tora. So you have scenes of airplanes fighting in Pearl harbor (for goodness sake you can see the ships are in harbor!!!) substituting for Midway Battle scenes fought in the open seas. Some people will say - yeah, so what big deal.
But hey, what if you went to see ... say, the latest action "blockbuster" movie and found that they had recycled footage from a dozen of other films for ALL their action sequences - what would you call that??? Ridiculous.
Its cheap, its lazy, its a quick way to make a quick buck. If this was for a TV show, I'd understand. But this is for the big screen and for an important battle in the Pacific war!
Sarcastic mode on: Hey, but its a feel good sort of movie ain't it? The good guys win - the bad guys lose. That's the most important thing for most cinema goers. They should have ended with Heston kissing a nurse for good measure in the end scene. Then jumping on a Mitchell bomber flying off the deck of the Hornet, turning into a B-17 to fight off a swarm of enemy fighter planes and Tie-fighters, before transforming into a B-29 and dropping the A bomb on Hiroshima, "Take that you b@stards!!!" Sarcastic mode off.
It looks like the producers of this film blew their entire budget on hiring a few major actors and cutting the best bits from previous movies. Porn films do that and make mega profits too. But I don't call them great films.
I personally thought that the producers of this film were lazy. They crammed in any old stock footage from WW2 - including film from Battle of Britain - Now there's nothing wrong with using stock footage but when its used incorrectly, ie. when a US plane is attacked - they incorrectly show footage showing a Japanese plane crashing.
In fact, virtually all their entire combat footage is stuff taken from other War movies or common stock footage.
Example they borrow heavily from the movie, Tora Tora Tora. So you have scenes of airplanes fighting in Pearl harbor (for goodness sake you can see the ships are in harbor!!!) substituting for Midway Battle scenes fought in the open seas. Some people will say - yeah, so what big deal.
But hey, what if you went to see ... say, the latest action "blockbuster" movie and found that they had recycled footage from a dozen of other films for ALL their action sequences - what would you call that??? Ridiculous.
Its cheap, its lazy, its a quick way to make a quick buck. If this was for a TV show, I'd understand. But this is for the big screen and for an important battle in the Pacific war!
Sarcastic mode on: Hey, but its a feel good sort of movie ain't it? The good guys win - the bad guys lose. That's the most important thing for most cinema goers. They should have ended with Heston kissing a nurse for good measure in the end scene. Then jumping on a Mitchell bomber flying off the deck of the Hornet, turning into a B-17 to fight off a swarm of enemy fighter planes and Tie-fighters, before transforming into a B-29 and dropping the A bomb on Hiroshima, "Take that you b@stards!!!" Sarcastic mode off.
It looks like the producers of this film blew their entire budget on hiring a few major actors and cutting the best bits from previous movies. Porn films do that and make mega profits too. But I don't call them great films.