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This is some nice eye candy, Ms Garr storms out of a non-descript talent office, walks ten yards to a bus stop, and waits impatiently for a bus.

Maybe it's an allegory for "the frustration of waiting for your big break".

Maybe the point is to shake-off the downers and choose to be happy in life.

I suspect that the film means whatever the viewer wants it to mean. I like the little things in the background. Kids always think of older people as boring and fun-averse, and while Ms Garr never really aged, that is, she never looked older than mid 30s, here she is as a youngster having fun on the sidewalk without a care in the world.

My favorite part is the quick scene of the granny on the bench delighted with the dancing.

Let's all agree that Pearl Harbor and the 1978 Midway were just thoughtless Hollywood cliche-fests that displayed no particular talent at storytelling.

The 1970 film Tora Tora Tora brilliantly displayed the Japanese planning and the intel intrigues that preceded the attack. However, that film was hamstrung by really bad acting by the American cast.

Now we have Midway 2019, which I find closer to Tora Tora Tora, but I'm heavily reminded of Starship Troopers, a film in which the initial acting was so bad it lowered audience expectations, so if the rest of the film is merely okay, it will seem better in comparison to the awful beginning.

Midway starts with unbelievable cowboy "I'm the only one who is right" Hollywood cliche character. So right off the bat the cohesive teamwork and can-do attitude of early naval aviation is thrown out the door.

The pre-battle intrigue was okay, but so subtle that most of the audience probably missed it. It's a major part of the actual leadup to the battle.

Now a movie called "Midway" should actually have paid some attention to depicting the battle, but evidently Hollywood feels like screen time is better spent with the cliche "yell while firing a machine gun" and "fire and 'splosions". Totally missed elements of the battle: 1. Enterprise Hornet operated together, Yorktown by itself due to its slower speed resulting from Corral Sea damage.

2. The Japanese thought Yorktown was sunk and no US carriers were present. When they learned of US carriers they thought it could be two carriers max. Japanese aircraft hit Yorktown twice during the battle, each time reporting that they had sunk another US carrier, so the IJN thought they had wiped out the US carriers.

3. the battle was won by relentless attacks by US aviators that were chewed up by IJN zeroes. Wave after wave of low altitude torpedo bombers were shot down, but more kept coming. By the time the dive bombers arrived, the IJN air cover was all at low altitude defending against the torpedo bombers, and were thus able to attack with little opposition. The timing was plain dumb luck, the movie doesn't depict this or the heroic sacrifices of the torpedo bombers including the ill-fated B-26s.

4. High altitude army bombers attacked the Japanese carriers, and while some of the bombs landed close tot he carriers, none hit. Being ever-optimists, the near misses were reported as hits. After the battle the army bombers returned to Pearl Harbor long before the naval aircraft did, so the newspapers got the story that army bombers had won the battle of Midway. This myth was finally dispelled after the war.

5. We knew the Japanese would attack Midway at dawn, so all our aircraft took off pre-dawn and was thus available to attack the Japanese.

These five points are stories that did not get told. I didn't even mention the heroism of Yorktown's crew, continually staying in the battle. Also, the heroism of the Japanese aviators as they ran their torpedo and bombing attacks can not be overstated.

What we got was a movie with lots of CGI and a character who had been an over-the-top cowboy reduced to a disabled person due to faulty equipment. Like faulty equipment is the essence of the Midway story. Meh.

Note that there was a black kid, he was pulling the wagon that the fat kid was in. Funny for the time, I guess. The Little Faux Rascals did look very much like the real Rascals. So that was fun.

As a fan of how films are created, it's fascinating to behold these early works where filmmakers were essentially hobbyists and not artists. Walt Disney wasn't a comedian with a sense for comedic timing, he was a hobbyist integrating live action with animation, and if he drew a cat skating for way longer than is funny, then by God he will include the entire uncut scene.

Hey, films were new, we can't expect Shakespeare... or South Park.