Simon Crust
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Pearl Harbour and Tora Tora Tora are not the battle for Midway which Midway happened after that event.Just finished in 2K which is disappointing. The standard blu ray has Atmos then is the film itself worth spending the extra £10 on. It's not the greatest of reviews and perhaps the story has been told better in the two previous films even though this new one is packed full of special effects. Pearl Harbor was a spectacular failure from the House of Mouse compared to Tora Tora Tora.
Rotten Tomatoes has a review of 43% from critics with an audience rating of 92%.
Sometimes I wonder about these Reviewers - Sometimes they seem reasonable, sometimes it feels like everyone decided to act like the local villagers in Frankenstein, complete with pitchforks & burning Brands. That has nothing to do with if I like the Film or not, just the general trend for any film.Rotten Tomatoes has a review of 43% from critics with an audience rating of 92%.
Sometimes I wonder about these Reviewers - Sometimes they seem reasonable, sometimes it feels like everyone decided to act like the local villagers in Frankenstein, complete with pitchforks & burning Brands. That has nothing to do with if I like the Film or not, just the general trend for any film.
Until I see it, I can't comment on if I think the Reviewers or Audience were right
Absolutely agree!Audience and a reviewer are totally different things and sometimes can result in very different opinions.
The targeted audience can be a very single mindset where a film will appeal to them even though it is total dross.
A very simple example is something like Disney Descendants film. It's not great but give it to the expected audience of 7-12 year old girls and they love it.
Conversely reviewers are known to get over excited by the art of film. Or mixed up in how a film of a type should be - point and case when originally 'The good, the Bad and the Ugly' was originally released it was widely criticised by reviewers. But the audience got it right in that example.
Looking forwards to this, impressive that it tracks real life peeps and tells hopefully the real story of there sacrifice.
Fully onboard with appreciating what our relatives gave in the name of peace, my father lost 3 brothers in the war ( there didn't seem to be a saving private ryan ethos applied to our family)
Sometimes I wonder about these Reviewers - Sometimes they seem reasonable, sometimes it feels like everyone decided to act like the local villagers in Frankenstein, complete with pitchforks & burning Brands. That has nothing to do with if I like the Film or not, just the general trend for any film.
Until I see it, I can't comment on if I think the Reviewers or Audience were right
Pearl Harbour and Tora Tora Tora are not the battle for Midway which Midway happened after that event.
Midway 1976 film
I'd struggle to think of anything Emerich has done which wasn't truly awful.
If you are from across the pond , you may like it .. but if John Wayne had turned up in this film it could not have been more cheesy .. where as if you are not American it is difficult to take serious even if it is based on true exents..Looking forwards to this, impressive that it tracks real life peeps and tells hopefully the real story of there sacrifice.
Fully onboard with appreciating what our relatives gave in the name of peace, my father lost 3 brothers in the war ( there didn't seem to be a saving private ryan ethos applied to our family)
May be reading it wrong but the version above is the Henry Fonda version. I seem to recall although a very good story had a fair amount of stock footage from the war.I was just comparing the films of the events, Tora Tora Tora vs Pearl Harbor and the two different versions of the Midway battle, the first with Henry Fonda and the second which you've outlined above. Just hope is better than how the House of Mouse treated Pearl Harbor, it had the potential to be such a good film that was mired in Americana BS.