Unrealistic Flying Scenes

Not only that, but the planes looked like video game cartoons. Hooray for CGI!

Or Ed Skrein doing a Mareverick-like flyby along the flight deck and past the bridge of that Japanese carrier to drop his bomb.
Come on. However, while some of the effects and scenes were a little cornball, I appreciated the extent the movie portrayed real people and real events. Like the director on Midway that cared more about filming a scene than staying alive - that really happened. That was legendary director John Ford. Or how Bruno Gaido jumped into the plane and shot down a wannabe Kamikaze? Looks like Hollywood exaggeration, but again, it really happened like it was portrayed. Even Gaido's death was portrayed fairly accurately. He most likely was thrown off a Japanese destroyer with a weight tied to him. Did the movie embellish the details a bit to make him look cool as fuck in the face of death - telling the Japanese admiral to go fuck himself? Certainly, but Gaido was a legit hero and deserving of the flattering portrayal on screen.

Saw this last night on Prime-HBO and could not finish it. I mostly watched it because there's an amazing heroic story to be told about this, like Doolittle's raid on Tokyo that was inserted into this movie. The problem for me is that I wanted more of a history lesson and not cartoon graphics and stupid dialog. One of the worst was Woody Harrelson who acted like he just smoked about 3 joints in every scene wearing that stupid look on his face from Cheers is not a really good look for Nimitz, and what is going on with Dennis Quaid these days, he is a gravel-voiced cartoon with a bloated face.

So many others too. The plot was hard to follow and if you paid attention to the plot it was impossible to really know what was going on with the war. This was an important, maybe the key important event in the WWII Pacific Theater and it just came off as stupid.

Some of the scenes where the planes got so close to the ships seemed a bit ridiculous, but I am sure some people would have felt they didn't get their money's worth if they didn't show this kind of thing these days.

I used to think that Midway (1976) had crappy special effects but I find that movie much more convincing and engaging than Midway (2019). The 1976-version sells it's flaws better than the 2019-version.