# Roland Emerich's "Midway" will make "Pearl Harbor" look like "Saving Private Ryan" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739 "2019-07-08T23:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/41 "2019-07-15T19:11:53Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Cheering when the attack succeed is expected. Cheering when you just resurfaced after seeing all your friends die around you? Not so much. In the trailer there is a cut. One shot of someone heading towards the surface. Cut. Shot of someone looking into the distance cheering. Time will tell but I don’t think your assessment is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/42 "2019-07-15T19:27:20Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > 0:21, enjoyed seeing the zeroes strafing city streets from an altitude of ten feet, with inches of clearance on either wingtip. Looks like it’ll be straight out of the [Michael Bay School of Film-making.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ssUivM-eM) Yeah, that is the impression I got from that shot. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/43 "2020-01-09T07:01:22Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > There is not the slightest chance in Hell that this is going to be a good (or historically accurate) movie. I have to apologize to Mr. Emmerich. I saw _ **Midway** _, and it was both good and historically accurate (save a few minor quibbles). ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/44 "2020-01-09T07:18:54Z")
I saw it opening day in a completely empty theater but left without a lot of thoughts so I never really had much to say in this thread. It was a 100% by the numbers film, they got mostly everything right but it really wasn’t that exciting despite the source material. 75% of the dialog felt like it was exposition telling the audience basic historical facts (“Hey you’re torpedoes are faulty!!!” etc.) and the other 25% was incredibly cliche war film lines. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/45 "2020-01-09T13:30:16Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > KABOOM! > > [repeat until credits roll] I watched Knives Out the other day, and Midway must have been playing next door (well, at least somewhere in the complex!). All through my movie BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM. It was annoying. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/46 "2020-01-09T16:20:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I watched Knives Out the other day, and Midway must have been playing next door (well, at least somewhere in the complex!). All through my movie BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM. It was annoying. Many Yharin ago, I had a 70mm print of 2010 in my cinema complex. At the end, where Discovery lights her engines, the boom was enough to send the manager of the department store under us flying up the escalator screaming we had bounced everything off her office desk, again. …and the home office wondered why we kept “Breakin II Electric Boogaloo” in the house next to our 70mm screen. Hell, you could feel the floor move at the concession stand, 6 houses away! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/47 "2020-01-09T17:46:55Z")
Yes, we saw it. I was wondering why they left in like 15 minutes of Doolittle’s raid, until I remembered the chinese market. Also I think Harrelson was terrible. Good action scenes. Many nits could be picked but not bad as films go. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/48 "2020-01-09T18:17:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Attacking the Japanese fleet ain’t like dusting crops, kid! Without precise skills you could fly right through flak or bounce off the water surface and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it? Use the Force. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739/49 "2020-01-09T23:37:09Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > … “Charlie, I was _at_ the battle of Midway, and it wasn’t this loud.” > [@Cardigan](#): > > I wasn’t at the Battle of Midway, but I do remember seeing the movie in 1976. It was freakin’ deafening! … > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I watched Knives Out the other day, and Midway must have been playing next door (well, at least somewhere in the complex!). All through my movie BOOM BOOM BOOMBOOM. It was annoying. > [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Many Yharin ago, I had a 70mm print of 2010 in my cinema complex. At the end, where Discovery lights her engines, the boom was enough to send the manager of the department store under us flying up the escalator screaming we had bounced everything off her office desk, again. > > …and the home office wondered why we kept “Breakin II Electric Boogaloo” in the house next to our 70mm screen. Hell, you could feel the floor move at the concession stand, 6 houses away! I have often wondered whether movie-house owners receive some sort of kickback from local sellers of hearing aids. (Haven’t seen the movie, yet. Wikipedia says it cost $100 million and has taken in only (!) $123 million to date. Maybe the Chinese market shrugged?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roland-emerichs-midway-will-make-pearl-harbor-look-like-saving-private-ryan/836739.md?page=2)