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Originally Posted by Buff
I have a hard time watching older films. Technology and how they shoot films is so much better these days, even how they tell the stories and develop the characters has improved.
I'm not saying I won't watch it, but with so much time to watch movies and a list a mile long and growing, I may get to it, I may not.
I have heard good things about the original Midway though.
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Frankly the original midway does stand the test of time to me, mainly because of the usage of actual footage, and in other cases the practical effects. In Midway the original, a lot of the story and character development to me was far superior to the new movie. You also get a larger feeling of scale in the original, right down to them giving time to relatively minor sounding events, like the broken radios on the Japanese scout planes. The original movie is really historically accurate.
Add on the effects in the original didn't over power the film, whereas in the new one they did.
I really strongly recommend that movie and Tora Tora Tora.