Rare historical blockbuster, but too short

Candace 2022-04-19 09:02:30

Nowadays, the whole screen is full of brainless popcorn Marvel movies. There are very few historical war movies with such epic scenes, which are especially precious. The Battle of Midway was one of the largest naval battles in human history and a turning point in the Pacific theater of World War II. I have read a lot of related memoirs. Therefore, I personally feel that the time of this film is still too short, and the historical time line is too long, resulting in the length of each major event being too short, with many characters, or not mentioning it at all, and it feels like a running account. I hope I can shoot the upper and lower parts for 6 hours next time, so that the events can be more deeply portrayed and the characters more full.

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  • Hannah 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    "The Battle of Midway" is an epic war movie that adopts a traditional panoramic layout. Because it is based on a lot of historical facts, it looks very neat and regular. When I watched it, I had the feeling of watching "Tiger Tiger Tiger" back then, using an impartial perspective to reflect the multi-threaded narrative progress between Japan and the United States. The director is worthy of the filming of "Independence Day" in the past. During the war between Japan and the United States in the sea and air, the war secrets that shuttled between the bombs and the net were spread across the screen, which was as spectacular as the earth defense battle, and more visual and entertaining. But I also hope that the director can add some unconventional techniques to give this great victory more artistic surprises. War movies are not easy to shoot, and there are not many epic blockbusters based on real events, which are worthy of appreciation on the giant screen. 7 points.

  • Dawn 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    3+. The dive view explodes! At least in the climax of the big paragraph, I shut the fk up on both sides of the chat and the candied haws. The knowledge points are quite complete, but the reason why the Japanese army made a mistake in Midway was so critical and sounded very nonsensical was not explained clearly, and the cut was a bit messy, sorry.

Midway quotes

  • William Brockman: I'm not going to waste a torpedo on a cruiser, where are the carriers ?

  • Wade McClusky: Men like Dick Best are the reason we're going to win this war.