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This is one of four films released theatrically in "Sensuround", a process where the theaters' sound systems were augmented by huge subwoofers which amplify bass events (the others were "Earthquake", "Roller Coaster", and the theatrical release of "Battlestar Gallactica"). Though "Midway" uses film clips from "Tora! Tora! Tora!", "Away All Boats", and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" it is nowhere near as good as those earlier fims. There is a typically seventies sub plot about naval officer Charlton Heston's son being involved with a Japanese American girl. The film tries to identify so many real life participants that it becomes tedious and confusing. Present are the usual array of "A" and "B" stars playing real life people. Overall a boring effort.
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A buddy of mine and I took our kids to see it at Atlanta's Lenox Square in Sensaround. It was a hoot. All four kids sat on the front row while we sat halfway back. We were sure their sneakers were burned off from all the explosions!I loved it and it really set me off on the quest to build a home theater sound system. I wanted to watch movies with great sound from then on.
Just like the time in 1963 when I had heard only table radios and car radios and I heard James Brown's Live at the Apollo record playing on a tube amp and a big plywood speaker in my fraternity house at Auburn. I got hooked then too.
U dud see it in Sensuround in a theater, I also confess that my copy is on a leaserdisc and the sound is not all that exciting, even when reproduced in Dolby Pro Logic II Music mode.
Little known fact that the film ALMOST states: Ensign George Gay from Torpedo Squadron 8 (shown floating under a seat cushion after being shot down) was the sole survivor of that unit. Not all of the aircrew were killed in combat however. Survivors were fished out of the water by Japanese submarines, tortured for information, then tossed overboard with thier hands and feet bound. This confession was made by Japanese sailors for a post-war study conducted by both sides.
It was either this film or Tora which used clips from the old Victory as Sea program. I liked the film, though not nearly as much as Tora.
This film used the WW II clips and announced that at the beginning. BTW, although Kamakazi missions did not begin in earnest until later in the war there were sporadic incidents including a couple at the battle of Midway.
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