 Welcome to Car Side Reviews. I'm Adam. This is my buddy Chase. We just got out of Midway. We're going to give you our thoughts. Is it better than Pearl Harbor? Stick around to find out. That's doing a lot of autofocusing, isn't it? I don't think it's that bad. I don't know what to say. I mean people watch these videos on their watches now, so cinema's dead and so is any sort of video quality. Chase, on a scale from zero to ten, zero being no interest and ten being a whole bunch of interest, what were you at going into Midway? Probably a two or three. It was a long walk to get to this basic question. I was about at a two or three also. In fact, I probably wouldn't have even saw this film had I not got pre-screeners. That doesn't mean I'm going to rate it higher because I didn't have to pay cash money for it. I also got a Coke and that ran $7.50 at AMC which is highway robbery, so I basically paid for a ticket anyways. I hate Pearl Harbor the event and the movie equally and this film was better than both. It redeemed it. It was better than both events. I think the best part about this screener was that half of the audience was actually vets and there was one in Minnesota here that was actually in Pearl Harbor. That was really cool. That was awesome and I'm sure to them and I've said this before in war movie reviews that you know there's certain types of movies that are going to impact people in certain ways. For instance, Saving Private Ryan, Fantastic Movie on its own but if you were actually in that war I mean I couldn't even imagine the intensity that would be for someone like that. So me just seeing Midway, I don't know the ships that are flying, I don't know the different branches of government and the officers and everything going on, so I was just taking it from simply an entertainment aspect and it was fine. It was entertaining. It was entertaining. It got going right away. We're off to the races in this thing. Eight minutes in probably and it just started going. I think that was good and bad. This is a Roland Emmerich joint of Roland Emmerich production. He did Independence Day, still his best movie to date. He did Day After Tomorrow, 2012, all those disaster type movies and Roland Emberich, he's got two things that are in all of his movies. Destroying landmarks and telling the story from the perspective of 75 different people. No sense. Some of the characters in this, they shouldn't even be characters. They shouldn't necessarily even be in the movie. I understand like the military officers and everybody else. I get that but like there's characters in it that I just I don't know why, like why is his wife in there? I don't know. Well I mean it's Mandy Moore so I was okay with it because she's she's just a treasure. There's some big names in there though like you pointed out that I mean they're in it like for four minutes and they're out. Woody Harrelson, I think he was kind of you know promoted all over this and he's not in it that much. Dennis Quaid was promoted quite a bit I thought and Sam was there in that character. Dennis Quaid, yeah that's kind of Roland's go-to actor. He's been in a few of his movies I think. You know what I'm saying. I'm just going to you know factually state that with no backup other than he was in 2012. It's his go-to guy. They're their best friends. Oh yeah a day after tomorrow. So I'm just completely off on everything. He was fine. Everybody this is like just a saw just a harsh fine across the board for this movie. Historically I can't speak to that. Roland Emmerich is not the best when it comes to um accuracy in his films. I didn't actually see the BC one he did. BC? He did 20 something BC. Oh 10,000 BC. 10,000 BC. I saw that. That was actually it was decent. Really? Yeah because I mean he got raked under the coals by reviewers years ago and I was just like no I'm out. I came out so long. I was like Conner's age though. I was a little kid. So yeah it's not as good as Dark Fate. Which you didn't see. Not yet but I already know. Yeah I uh people were calling me it. My Terminator Dark Fate review is just phenomenal in the comments. People are just awesome. You know I finally see a movie that I wasn't disappointed with that I was entertained by and I had fun. It was like the definition of a popcorn flick. Getting back on track though this follows a three-part structure I guess kind of. You know you have the beginning Pearl Harbor attack which I kind of went off on a tangent before I think finishing a thought earlier because you said this movie speeds in right away it gets going and then I was I was working up to a point which I never actually got to because that's just how I am if I don't have any sort of focus. But what I was trying to get to was this does move quickly but it also doesn't really breathe much and because there are 30 different story arcs going on nothing ever really hits very hard everything feels like after thoughts just kind of puzzled together. You said that it follows a three-part I almost argue that it follows a four-part. Well I'm like saying it but arguing in my head that it's trying to. Well because it has like it has two different endings. Yeah it does like the movie it went on for another half hour 40 minutes probably maybe not that long 20 minutes. Roman's movies are always too long you you said to me like I think it's an hour 45 two hours and I just kind of laugh yeah he doesn't know it was a two hour 20 minute movie yeah I it would have been fine two hours 50 two hours 50 sorry two hours one hour 50 one hour 50 my bad. There's a huge battle sequence there's submarines going on there's dive bombing going on and then the movie continues to another battle after I assume everybody in the audience that this was it because it's a it's a pretty epic scene. But by that point you're almost so numb by all of it. You are oh cool he's dive bombing I mean he'll make it. The effects the effects aren't bad they just it does feel like kind of video game cut scenes there's a lot of the you know the orange bullets everywhere it's just just nonstop reminding me of the old you know James Bond video games. You know Dunkirk jumped to mine because Christopher Nolan's all about the practical effects and making things look so real and Dunkirk did such a good job of putting you in the boots down there and making you feel like you were living through that where this just it just feels like you're watching these video game moments and it looks cool there's there's some cool effects going on I just I wouldn't see this in theaters this is one I would say is it's a stream it's worth a stream real late if you have nothing better going on. It's one of those ones that oh is there nothing else on I need to go to bed I'll flip that on I mean that's exactly what I just said