Saw "Midway" yesterday.

[Aristus]

It's was pretty good, and a damn-sight better than "Pearl Harbor". I know that's damning with faint praise.

It was pretty intense; one long battle scene, basically. Since hardly any of the ships and aircraft even exist anymore, most of the film had to be done with CGI. Unlike the original film from 1976, which used ships and planes that long post-dated WWII (the thinking was: "Who is going to notice?" Every professional and amateur historian on the planet, that's who.) Midway 2019 used CGI to reproduce accurately the ships and planes used in the war, which should satisfy every freeze-frame film historian who sees it.

[DFW]

1. I talked to some people here in Europe who had seen it

They said more or less the same thing, and recommended it.

[captain queeg]

2. I appreciated that they represented the ships and planes pretty accurately

And though I really don’t know what a huge air and anti aircraft battle looks like I think they got it right.

[TexasProgresive]

3. I just read a review of this movie by a retired Navy Captain.

He was impressed with the film. He noted some minor discrepancies but not major stuff. He also seem to have a hard time with Woody Harrison playing Nimitz. Woody's, in the reviewer's mind, was true to Nimitz.
I am sure I didn't do Captain Toti's review justice, click here to read it.
https://www.quora.com/profile/William-Toti/answers

[applegrove]

4. I promised my dad the film. I will tell him it is good. Thanks.