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"Midway"

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This is one of two or three films with a Sensuround sound track. The process involved installing huge self powered sub-woofers in theaters and using them during extreme bass events, in this case WW II aircraft taking off from carriers. Henry Fonda and Charlton Heston head up a cast which also includes Glen Ford and Hal Holbrook. The story centers mainly on the battle for Midway Island in the Pacific and how shifting strategies favor first one side and then the other. A truly unnecessary sub plot involves Heston's junior office son, who is in love with a Japanese American girl. Many vintage aircraft were rounded up for this one and are effectively used. But a shot of a b-17 landing on one wheel was also used in "Tora, Tora, Tora". Enjoyable and mostly faithful to real events.

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Saw "Midway" the night before my first jump. - dwill123 18:41:57 07/28/05 (0)
I was in Jump (Parachute) School at Ft. Benning, GA. in November 1976. It was the night before my first jump and about 13 of us wanted to do something as a group. It was a Tuesday night and getting drunk was out of the question. I don't know how but we decided to go see "Midway" which was playing at the post theater. The next day if the jumps didn't go well then "Midway" would have been the last thing we would have done (seen). Anyway the jumps went fine and now any time "Midway" comes on I have to stop and watch it even if just for a little while. It brings back powerful memories.
That movie got me into home theater stuff... - Hepcat 14:40:57 07/28/05 (1)
...in the first place. A buddy and I took our little boys to that movie in a big theater. We were afraid the kids' tennis shoes got burned off from the explosions because they went down to sit close to the screen. ; * )
It was a tremendous visual/sound experience at the time. I went back to see it again before it finished the run.
- Never saw it on the big screen - Road Warrior 12:17:08 07/29/05 (0)
  But I remember it playing in the auditorium next to us as we wathced another movie. The bass effects came right into our seats. I'd never heard anything like that before and it was prolly Star Wars the following year (or two years after?) before I did. Also agreed, it was an above average war flick for its era.

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