Breitbart: Midway, the old-fashioned, pro-American war movie critics dismissed and the experts said no one would see, is beating the latest horror movie from far-left novelist Stephen King.
With a dismal 40 percent Rotten Tomatoes’ score, director Roland Emmerich’s Midway,the story of the epic WWII battle that changed the course of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific, was projected to crash into fourth place behind King’s Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, along with Last Christmas and Terminator: Dark Fate.
Doctor Sleep slipped into 3,855 theaters with a solid 73 percent Rotten Tomatoes’ score and a projected opening windfall of $27 million. The woke romantic comedy Last Christmas opened in 3,448 theaters with a $15 million projection. Terminator: Dark Fate is still in 4,086 theaters, and was looking at a second-weekend haul of $13.4.
Midway only opened in 3,242 theaters with a projected debut of just $13 million.
And yet, even though it’s playing in 600 few theaters than Doctor Sleep, 200 fewer than Last Christmas (which looks excruciatingly awful), and 800 fewer than the all-girl Terminator, Midway is now projected to beat them all and land in the weekend’s top spot.
The far-left Deadline reports that Midway over-performed bigtime with a $19.2 million opening, while King’s Doctor Sleep nosedived with an abysmal $17.2 million.
Last Christmas and the all-girl Terminator also came slightly in below projections. read more
JUST LOOK AT THAT STEPHEN KING FREAK AND TELL ME HE DOESN’T DRIVE A PRIUS!!!
WHAT A PUSSY!!!
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WHERE’S BAD BRAD WHEN YOU NEED HIM??? HEY BRAD, I CAN’T DO THIS BY MYSELF!!
Doctor Sleep, the novel, was a piece of shit.
I assume King was trying his ink in some Lustbader/Tim Powers vein where he just falls flat. The weirdness of Lustbader and Powers isn’t forced.
Anyway, King is a dud, and has been for decades.
Saw it today.
I really enjoyed this movie, even if they miscast Woody Harrelson as Admiral Chester Nimitz. Harrelson was a non factor in the film.
Question. What are the little dry marker board looking things that all the pilots take into the cockpits?
Midway was when America totally destroyed the japanese aircraft carriers and turned the tide in the pacific theater in WWII.
The film was well done. I highly recommend it.
I also saw a trailer for a film coming out next month
1917. A WWI story.
It takes a lot to get me into a theater. I’ll be doing that one too.
Go see Midway. You won’t be disappointed.
The John Ford angle confused me. I looked it up after the movie. It’s based on fact. Learned something.
i saw a preview and the cgi looked lame. I’m such a stickler for authenticity, kind of a prick that way. I hope to see it though.
I’ve read so much about that battle that i’m afraid i’ll be disappointed.
One other trailer I was forced to watch. The metoo girls of Fox News hit piece coming out soon.
That movie will suffer an early death.
The movie ratings gang has gone and joined Snopes
for backwards information only fit to be ignored.
PHenry. They did not carry white boards like Rove.
I am not sure when they were issued but the pilots were given cloth maps in the south pacific and D Day
http://escape-maps.com/
But I bet you know this. I have seen a few and they are still in use today.
1943 When America had balls and “women’ didn’t
seaoh
You pay far to much attention to CNN and 12% of our population. But you do what you think is best. The Boogaloo is coming.
PHenry, we saw Midway tonight as well. It was a well made movie, without any agenda that I could detect. I didn’t really learn much. It was kind of a war movie for entertainment. The only gripe I have is with the entire sub-genre of war movies that have tons of action, explosions and effects, but never show the actual cost of war. Saving Private Ryan gave a more (I think) realistic look at what the soldiers experienced. That aside, Midway is good, and I give it the official Boehnerdict Ryan Thumbs Up👍
I found a photo a while back of my dad on Midway Island standing in front of a F4-U Corsair fighter plane. He joined the Marines late in the war when he was seventeen and was stationed on Midway with VMF-322 Fighting Gamecocks.
A tangent on the movie and what our trade partner is thinking about what Japan did wrong.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-movie-china-studying-battle-midway-95331
Does MIDWAY correctly portray the sacrifice of brave gay pilots and women senior officers? Because if it doesn’t it’s historically inaccurate.
Better headline, BFH
Midway DIVE BOMBS Terminator and Dr (put me to) Sleep … because dive bombers took out four Jap carriers at Midway
Your welcome
1943 When America had balls
How abut that!?! My brith year
I’m still nuts!
I’m 244 today in my other work
@seaoh: “1943 When America had balls and “women’ didn’t”
Good one! That makes a mark, in my book!
I saw “Midway” last night. The CGI is a bit overdone, but it makes a very complex story understandable. I have read every important book on this turning point in the Pacific War; and I was fortunate enough to have met several men who fought in the battle and one of the men who served in the intelligence unit that determined where the Japs were planning on destroying the American carriers. I was very interested in how the movie would handle the Japanese treatment of Ensign Frank O’Flaherty and Machinists Mate Bruno Guido, who were captured when their Dauntless dive bomber was forced to ditch after attacking the carrier Kaga. The movie shows both men in Japanese captivity, but doesn’t show how they were subjected to torture to reveal the location of the American carriers and the defenses on Midway. Both men were weighted down and tossed overboard after eleven days in captivity. Japanese naval accounts recorded that both men met their end with stoic and dignified defiance. The movie shows Guido being tossed overboard shortly after his capture and seems to imply that O’Flaherty was so shocked by this that he would shortly comply with the Japs’ demands for information. Everyone who knew these two men doubted that they gave up any useful information under the harsh treatment they undoubtedly received. Aside from small inaccuracies like this one, I would highly recommend this movie. It is much more accurate and authentic than the 1976 movie.
Gay Muslims helped found America and were integral to victory at Midway.
I saw “Midway.” It was filmed in Sensurround, and Moses (the Burning Bush one, not the alligator one) was in it. This ‘new’ one must pale in comparison.