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Battle of Midway... coming to a theater near you.

Kate can turn up in any move wearing anything (or Nothing) as far as I am concerned..
That is One Beautiful Lady..WOW..
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This is a perfect way of summing up Ben Affleck's acting chops in Pearl Harbor...<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px;">let's hope he's not in Midway.


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It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Pearl Harbor, just that whoever wrote that little piece doesn't know what he's talking about. He mentions the upcoming movie "Battleship" and calls them "similar concepts". If a movie remake of the tv show "Love Boat" came out he'd probably say it was a sequel to Midway.
 
I guess time will tell, but with Bruce McKenna behind the project, odds are good that it will be much better than the Japanese attack on the US menage a trois night mare of the last Pearl Harbor movie (or is that soap opera?) of 2001. I've got my fingers crossed as the new technologies could make this a stunning presentation of such a key battle.

Oh yeah, I built the Revell model of the USS Arizona too.

If I were to build it today, I'd include the red tops of the main gun turrets and the light blue side color that they now think might have been the true colors of the Arizona.
 
Bjoern said:
How can you sleep whith a girl when you're on a carrier all the time anywa-...uh, oh...


..."Brokeback Harbor"... :icon_lol:




- Edit: Who wouldn't want to sleep with Kate Beckinsale though?
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If there is one thing..and only ONE thing i can brag about....

..is that my wife looks EXACTLY like Kate Beckinsale....only a bit taller..and no..no pictures! :icon_lol::icon_lol:

Best regards

Prowler
 
crashaz said:
Just please make it historically accurate. :a1451:
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They can't do it. It's not in their nature. Even something like Braveheart is full of inaccuracies. I tend to think a moviemaker's primary purpose in this regard is to make an entertaining film that will attract the widest possible demographic. They are not by and large documentarians, thus we have the obligatory love stories. Even with those I've learned to be careful. I remember a number of years ago The History Channel showing Flying Tigers, and during one of the intermissions they asked an AVG volunteer nurse what the most historically accurate part of the film was. She answered, the nurse watching the planes take off and then watching for their return, because she had actually done that, and later married one of the pilots.

JAMES
 
..is that my wife looks EXACTLY like Kate Beckinsale....only a bit taller..and no..no pictures! :icon_lol::icon_lol:
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Until we see pics, we don't believe you...
As for that Midway movie, better not see F4F's and Zeros in 9G knife-edge flight, with 2-1 thrust-weight ratios!
 
Gee, this thread certainly has taken a detour.:isadizzy:

As for a new Midway movie, guaranteed it will be mostly CGI aircraft and effects and possibly a sappy love story.
 
Just as long as it is thick with CGI! Like remember the movie 2012... like an hour straight of the world going to hell. Hmm me thinks we need a thread to put down a list of must haves.... would you include Coral Sea for example?
 
A well told story is always compelling, even a love story. I'd rather have a good movie “set in the time of the Battle of Midway” with accurate CG models of the correct planes and ships, then an attempt to “docu-dramatize” the entire battle and the two months leading up to it. It's too big for a two hour movie. I'd like to see them pick a small human interest story from the battle, there is no end of possibilities. How about make the movie about John Thatch, or Waldron, or McClusky? How about make it about Fletcher, and all the crap he took from the fanatical aviation “clique” members, but still managed to win the battle? Maybe about the Hornet's dysfunctional and doomed Air Group? That would be too depressing for a movie, perhaps. :icon_lol:
 
Jagdflieger said:
I guess time will tell, but with Bruce McKenna behind the project, odds are good that it will be much better than the Japanese attack on the US menage a trois night mare of the last Pearl Harbor movie (or is that soap opera?) of 2001. I've got my fingers crossed as the new technologies could make this a stunning presentation of such a key battle.

Oh yeah, I built the Revell model of the USS Arizona too.

If I were to build it today, I'd include the red tops of the main gun turrets and the light blue side color that they now think might have been the true colors of the Arizona.
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They now think? There are people still alive that KNOW if or if not. Some one is NOT doing there job.
 
Makes sense as the U.S. was not at war, so equipment still sported peace-time paint schemes. Interesting information.
 
PRB said:
A well told story is always compelling, even a love story. I'd rather have a good movie “set in the time of the Battle of Midway” with accurate CG models of the correct planes and ships, then an attempt to “docu-dramatize” the entire battle and the two months leading up to it. It's too big for a two hour movie. I'd like to see them pick a small human interest story from the battle, there is no end of possibilities. How about make the movie about John Thatch, or Waldron, or McClusky? How about make it about Fletcher, and all the crap he took from the fanatical aviation “clique” members, but still managed to win the battle? Maybe about the Hornet's dysfunctional and doomed Air Group? That would be too depressing for a movie, perhaps. :icon_lol:
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A love story does not necessarily have to be sappy. I recommend a movie called Dark Blue World. I gave that one two thumbs up. Another one I liked was Map of the Human Heart.

JAMES
 
I will vote for a film on the low-level attack on Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. This film would have everything going for it, except an angle for the chicks. It has the paternal father figure (Gen Uzal Ent, who actually put his backside in the line of fire with his troops - he rode the command ship, Teggie Ann - and who, incidentally, was an ordained minister); the hell-raiser (Col John Riley "Killer" Kane, 98th Bomb Group); the college-boy-turned-warrior (Maj Norm Appold, a chemical engineering grad from the University of Michigan who led a small splinter cell of B-24s that got split off from its own group but conducted the most effective individual attack of the entire raid); the mechanical genius (Maj Sam Nero, who with his mechanics performed wonders putting up 179 bombers for the raid in the middle of dysentery and desert); Bill Murray-like characters in the Romanians; decent, honorable men in the German opponents under Gen Gerstenberg; the female heroine, a Romanian countess who had worked with American oil company personnel in Romania before the war, liked Americans, took care of dozens of wounded airmen after the raid, and actually battled with the Germans to keep the POWs in Romania, where she knew their conditions and medical treatment would be better (she won, BTW - and literally got into a tug-of-war with some Germans over one POW -she won that one, too); and pathos (a high percentage of the men on the raid had completed their tours and could have gone home, but responded to an appeal from their group commanders to fill crew positions in the bombers for one special low-level try at the refineries in Operation "Tidal Wave"). Between good set-makers and computer-generated visuals and sounds this would be one of the greatest combat films made in the last 20 years. Five MoHs came out of this attack. As far as I know one of them (posthumous), earned by Lt Lloyd Hughes from Louisiana, was caught on film and is the only MoH action anywhere thus captured. He had badly wounded men aboard his damaged and burning B-24 and attempted to set it down in a creek bed that was fairly smooth. He had to lift it over a bridge over the creek, a wingtip caught the creek bank and the aircraft cartwheeled and broke up in flames. I have seen this clip myself and most of you have too - the aircraft enters the frame from the right and then sprawls over the ground in flame. Look for it on the History or Military channels. Any ideas for the roles in this one?
 
PRB - I am a student of that action as well, and am interested in your analysis of Hornet's dysfunctional air group. I know about the missed fighter-cover rendezvous that doomed VT-8. I thought someone like Miles Browning, who was on Enterprise with Spruance, would greatly contribute to an atmosphere like that - he was known to be a difficult man, which certainly doesn't aid coordination of effort or exchange of ideas before a decision is made. Are you referring to Hornet's SBDs running out of fuel on the way back from their strike, VT-8's troubles, and the problems with Hornet's fighters?
 
Two books illustrate the dysfunctional nature of Air Wing 8 at Midway. One is The Unknown Battle of Midway, The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons, by Alvin Kernan. The other is Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal, by John Lundstrom. Dysfunctional is my word, not either of thiers. Maybe a bit harsh (maybe). In both books Air Group 8 commander Stanhope Ring is portrayed as a terrible leader and a marginal navigator. Not only was Torpedo 8 the only CAG-8 squadron to find the enemy that day, after Waldron went off on his own, due to frustration with Ring's navigation decision, but on the return flight to the ship, (well, almost to the ship) every squadron commander would eventually desert Ring and attempt to find the ship themselves. Air Group 8 was not a happy or cohesive unit, mostly at frustration with Ring's heavy-handed and “by the book” leadership style. Combine this with Air Group 8's lack of experience and you have a disaster in the making. Both are excellent books, especially Lundstrom's, where much is written about Miles Browning too... :)
 
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