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I didn’t know that John Ford was wounded at Midway while filming for the Navy

saw it last night. wife and i both enjoyed it. im not a big fan of all the CGI, but all and all we enjoyed it and i enjoyed the history aspect of it.

CGI?

Yep, read it after Jorge recommended it here, a great book. One thing the movie shows is how small and cramped those flattops were.

computer-generated imagery (special visual effects created using computer software).
"fewer real stunts are performed because filmmakers can just use CGI"

Work ok for some stuff, but when used too much, it looks cartoonish and contrived. Especially to those who can differentiate between authenticity and fake.

Thanks Dess.

As mentioned earlier here, THIS is the next movie to watch for 😎 Be cool to see Enfield No. 1’s in action, and for me I look forward to immersing myself in the possible multitude of Working Class English accents of my youth. Dunno how many there were exactly but I do recall that in England of the 1960’s people from just ten miles down the road talked differently than we did, and you could hear it.



I also recall the ancient (to me) and impoverished WWI Pensioners selling those little red fake poppies on Remembrance Day.

Best I can tell from previews Woody is playing Chester Nimitz? That in itself is giving me pause.

I saw it Sunday night

I thought it was a very enjoyable movie. Good popcorn movie. Those dive bombing scenes were awesome

I enjoyed it as did my wife for the story-telling, especially with how the Japanese leadership and their thinking and tactics were set in parallel with ours.

I liked it well enough. Not great, but I've seen worse.

Watched it Sunday night in a 4DX theater. The seats rock and roll and bump up and down, with wind, water spray and the smell of burnt gunpowder. We both enjoyed it, The little wifey commented that this is the kind of movie the millennials need to see, so they can understand from whence comes their freedom and liberty.

Marvel comics version of WWII in the Pacific. Fairly accurate historically but tried to cover waaaayy too much in a couple of hours. The special effects are interesting. Best part of the movie was a dad brought his two tween aged sons to see the movie. They sat beside us and as we were leaving I told the younger boy that he had a pretty cool father for bringing him to a movie like this. He looked at me and said "Yeah, he is cool!".

Richard Halsey Best - Wikipedia
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Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 - October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II. Stationed on the USS Enterprise, Best led his dive bomber squadron at the 1942 Battle of Midway, sinking one Japanese aircraft carrier and potentially damaging another, before being invalided out with tuberculosis that same year.