I can't help it but that scene so freaking funny with him trying to open the water bag while he is suffering from third-degree burns. After being the complete wuss that he was for the last hour I was cheering when he finally got his ass handed to him.
shareI know, I think it was how bad the acting was when he was burned. I noticed when they loaded him on the stretcher on deck he wasn't burned anymore, just alittle dirty.
shareI saw this movie in the theater when I was eight or nine years-old (just saw it again last weekend on TV). I distinctly remember being profoundly disturbed by that scene as a kid. As an adult, I thought it was still pretty...intense.
But I did think the old school acting styles and delivery in the rest of the movie were hilarious.
My Dad (Air Force vet) laughed when I told him I just finished watching this a few days ago. "Oh, that bit of nonsense!". We especially got a chuckle out of when Capt. Garth (Charlton Heston) sneers at his son something like "You'd better get it together or some Jap is going to give you a flame tail!" and stomps off. (Sorry I can't remember the quote). Of course, it's totally predictable that young Garth would get shot up, it's one of those war movie cliches I find so boring.
shareIt's just so unfortunate that the producers felt it was necessary to add this silly subplot to the movie. Generally, it was a pretty good movie, and pretty accurate.
Would still love to see HBO do a mini-series based on the Pacific naval battles, maybe one focusing on the carrier battles of 1942. Until that happens, Midway and Tora, Tora, Tora aren't half bad.
"He was running around like a rooster in a barnyard full of ducks."--Pat Novak
I totally agree. I didn't like this incomprehensible subplot added to Midway. I think it was Hollywood's way of shoehorning some kind of romance into the movie.
I did cheer when Captain (O-6) Garth dresses down his immature F4F Wildcat fighter pilot son, Tom, over his lack of responsibility, obligation, and teenage obsession over his girlfriend. I would have felt better about the whole thing had the son been mature about it from the start.
If I were the director I would have changed the screenplay to where the son, Tom, is emotionally mature about his girlfriend's situation and understanding of his father's help. The father essentially jeopardized his own military career for the son. It was wartime and maybe it wouldn't have hurt the father's career in the short run, but it could have, and definitely in peacetime.
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those Japs sure got sore on him for shtupping one of their gals..
Everybody warned him that that was a bad idea..ok, she was kind of hot, I admit.
accurate, though, those Japanese/Korean/Chinese/Vietnamese types really don't like it when we do that..