If you have carefully read the film list I wrote before, you should have noticed.
a new film this week, my expectations at the time gave full marks.
cannot be said to be particularly amazing from the previous preview.
But the overall preview performance does not seem to be too bad.
did not expect that last night rushed to the theater to watch the weekend premiere. When
walked out of the theater, Mr. Poison was almost in the following state...
In order not to affect everyone’s perception, I will try my best not to be spoiled, and put down my previous expectations, and give everyone a copy of this movie that should have been "Monthly The best" cool film. At the beginning of the month, I had a firm belief that there would be many good movies this month.
decisive battle at Midway Island
Midway
.
But I didn't expect that the two cinema films from last week came out quickly.
slaps face to face slap, they are still regular.
can only say that my taste is incompatible with these two horoscopes.
arrived in "The Battle of Midway" and thought it could reverse the "banality" of the previous week.
didn't expect that the whole film would be a Chinese-foreign co-production with a domestic temperament.
Actually, China and Hollywood have not cooperated once or twice in recent years. If you have paid attention to
, you will find that the results are not ideal.
A little farther, Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall" rushed.
Even Wang Jing, who went to visit the squad, had a foreboding after seeing the battle on the spot.
is a bit closer, last year's Megalodon is a bit better than the Great Wall.
but in essence still cannot escape the fate of bad movies. What about
"The Battle of Midway"?
At first glance, the domestic rating seems to be okay.
can look at the horrible box office and overseas bad reviews. I really don’t want to believe:
this time, Roland Emmerich ("The Day After", "Patriot", "Independence Day") actually missed.
▲ The total box office of "Beneficiary" is currently overshadowed by it,
, a director who started from disaster films. The cards in his hand were so good that they exploded, but they are now like this...
is really, no, yes, yes.
Yes, the performance of "The Battle of Midway" was seriously lower than my original prediction.
To help everyone understand its bad parts, here I will focus on comparing three films with it.
They are: "Pearl Harbor", "Pearl Harbor", "Battle of Midway Island".
chose these three movies because they all involve important battles in the Pacific War.
Secondly, from the perspective of time, the Battle of Midway was launched immediately after the Pearl Harbor incident.
is more critical, "The Battle of Midway" included both battles.
So for the specific parts, I will discuss the above three movies side by side.
Let me talk about the special effects that everyone is most concerned about. Anyway, this is a war movie.
In fact, when the early notice was released, some people raised questions about "special effects plastic".
Because in the picture, you can clearly feel a "game CG sense".
At first, Mr. Poison thought this was just a visual illusion.
After all, the look and feel of a small screen and a big screen are completely different.
But according to the actual perception, the visual effects provided by "The Battle of Midway" are really not enough to be fake.
Looking back on the battlefield expression of "Pearl Harbor" a few years ago, it is still vivid in retrospect. The
zero fighter dive bombing scene is definitely a famous scene in the war movie.
Of course, special effects are just part of the war movie. The most attractive part of films like
is its attitude and reflection on the entire war.
Generally speaking, there are two ways of thinking about war topics.
is to see the big from the small, and reflect on the significance of artillery fire to human society through personal experiences in war. Typical representatives of
are "Billy Lynn's Midfield Battle", "Blood Battle at Hacksaw Ridge", and "Song of Soldiers".
The other is to use group portrait descriptions to reflect larger themes.
For example, "The Dawn Here Is Quiet" and "Saving Private Ryan", behind the scenes are mostly linked to "patriotism". This narrative method of
is actually more harsh to the audience, because many nouns and characters require you to have at least a certain degree of knowledge of historical events.
Otherwise, there will be an embarrassing situation like "The Battle of Midway" after watching it.
Generally speaking, this new film is more like an upgraded version of "The Battle of Midway". Compared with the old version of
, the new version of Midway has a qualitative improvement in visual effects. Such an improvement of
is undoubtedly very significant for improving movie viewing.
If you have watched that old movie, this feeling will be particularly obvious.
However, the latter focuses on the description of tactical games, but lacks the intuitive performance of the cruel battlefield.
Certain moments can also make you feel a little boring. Military fans of
may be very happy, but for ordinary viewers, this overly realistic style is not friendly enough.
▲The Battle of Midway Island
also uses group portrait descriptions, and the two versions of the movie involve a huge number of characters.
But the most deadly part of "The Battle of Midway" is that it spans too much time.
so that it is difficult to clarify what it covers in just 135 minutes. Compared with the original version,
only focuses on the depiction of the Battle of Midway. The new version contains many important battlefields including Pearl Harbor, Tokyo Bombing, Coral Sea, and Southeast Asia.
But in the distribution of the scenes, the director obviously did not coordinate.
When the main course comes on Midway Island, there are only 40 minutes left in the film.
So instead of calling this movie "The Battle of Midway", it would be better to change it to "One Day Tour of the Pacific Battlefield". There are many characters in
, does it mean that the characters cannot stand up? Of course
is not.
Whether it is "The Battle of Midway Island" or the earlier "Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor", both films have a reasonable allocation of the role ratio.
▲Sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
After a movie, there are always a few characters you can figure out his position and position in the film.
takes "Attack on Pearl Harbor" as an example. As the initiator of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the character Nisaka Yamamoto 56 was portrayed very vividly by the famous Showa Yamamoto Satoshi Yamamura.
can be seen from the film that although he was the mastermind of the attack at the time, in fact, like the emperor at the time, he tended to be conservative in dealing with war with the United States. On the one hand,
's conservativeness stems from his understanding of the strength of the United States, on the other hand, it also comes from his understanding of his own national conditions.
arrives in "The Battle of Midway", the same characters are much blurred.
In addition, because there are too many battles involved, most of the characters disappeared quickly after playing soy sauce, or they were completely reduced to background boards, lacking independent personality to support.
This includes the American famous director John Ford who appeared in the middle of the film.
About how his eye was blinded on the battlefield, and what he meant for the war (the director was injured while recording the material and was awarded the Purple Heart for this), the corresponding details are extremely scarce.
When it comes to details, the lack of details in "The Battle of Midway" can almost be described as "horrible".
uses the Tokyo bombing mentioned in the first scene of the film as an example.
In fact, in addition to the series of bombings in 1945, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States also launched a retaliatory bombing against Japan.
carried out this bombing mission by the U.S. Air Force star Dolittle, known in history as Dolittle Air Strike (1942).
originally had insufficient fuel to support the return flight, so after the mission, the flight team led by it had to make an emergency landing in China.
However, in the preliminary preparations, this task was not smooth.
"Pearl Harbor" has a very detailed description of this paragraph. First of all, the equipment carried by the bomber was too heavy, and the weight must be reduced to take off smoothly.
Secondly, weight loss means less equipment.
But what if you encounter an enemy in the middle of the flight?
forced by helplessnessAt that time, the military could only use the black broom to camouflage the machine gun to cover the action.
arrived at Midway Island. The B-25 bomber overload was not conducive to taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, so it was all fooled by a gambling game worth $10 (everyone would gloat for whether it could fly smoothly)...
As for the process of deciphering Japanese intelligence, the film was also handled rather hastily. The famous "AF Intelligence" (codename of Midway Island) in the history of
, "The Battle of Midway Island" has been very wonderfully portrayed.
However, this process of wits was taken by the extremely frivolous expression and words of Admiral Nimitz (the then Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet) in the new version.
is as simple as playing with the intelligence of the Japanese army.
But in fact, in order to intercept this key information, the U.S. deciphering work was almost impossible to cross the river... The hardships and efforts behind
are far more than this sentence can summarize.
In addition, similar to the "Pearl Harbor" attack on the bureaucratic system.
or "The Battle of Midway" uses tactical analysis to reflect the influence of fighters on the national movement.
and even "Pearl Harbor" discusses the philosophical proposition of "Brothers give you a cuckold, do you choose to forgive". In the end,
, with the hero who has been acting cool in front of the camera and his personal heroism, as well as the running accounts throughout the article, all vanished.
If you ask me what are the highlights of "The Battle of Midway". In addition to telling you the sense of innocence brought by different languages (Japanese original sound is used in Japanese), and giving up the bloody love stalks, as well as the relatively spectacular naval battle scenes, don't think about the depth level of
.
Obviously, this edition of Midway Island has no intention of discussing anything other than the explosion.
is like a disaster film that the director is good at. Everything serves sensory stimulation.
's thinking on war is not the selling point of the film.
But even so, you will find a strange sense of patchwork during most of the film screening.
It seems to talk a lot, but the actual key part is not at all.
talks about war, but war does not talk about meticulousness; when it talks about human nature, human nature has been mentioned.
As a result, the film's status in the themes of World War II became too high or low, which was very embarrassing.
As for whether to buy a ticket.
If you look at this film faithfully to the historical details, you will inevitably feel disappointed after watching it.
If it is purely for the pursuit of audio-visual shock, to some extent, it can indeed satisfy you. After the roar of
, how many people will regard it as a classic?
This is really a big question mark.
