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Not a bad cast really.


Hope it's as good as The Patriot.

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I would love for it to be as good as The Patriot, because The Patriot for me is a solid 8.5. I think that film is excellent.

I doubt Midway will live up to that one, but I do hope it ends up being good. Emmerich is an uneven filmmaker and you never know what you're going to get from him, but hopefully with this one he'll deliver a hit.

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I was surprised to learn he was even attached to this. Seems more like a Clint Eastwood or Peter Berg gig.

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Yeah. Or Michael Bay.

But Emmerich will surprise you sometimes, like when he made that Anonymous movie about Shakespeare.

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And I felt that was his worst film. Couldn't get into it at all.

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I've tried to watch it twice and both times I tapped out because I found the plot to be unfocused and hard to follow. I am eventually going to try again just because I find the subject matter interesting.

In any case, it can't be worse than 2012.

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Right? I found the flashbacks confusing as hell.

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Woody Harrelson as Admiral Chester Nimitz? It must be an alternate history where we lose the war in a haze of marijuana smoke.

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