Roland Emmerich is famous for blowing things up. He started small enough, just destroying the Whitehouse and several notable monuments He got a bit more ambitious, destroying: New York (Godzilla) Colonial America (The Patriot) New York...again (The Day After Tomorrow), along with most of the Northern Hemisphere The entire SURFACE OF THE EARTH (2012) Where do you go after you basically bring about the Apocalypse? Do you weep, for there are no more lands left to conquer? Nah, you attempt a passion project . So, if you like blowing things up, war seems an appropriate topic. From the invention of gunpowder forward, any convenient war will provide plenty of KA-BOOM. And thus, we come to Midway . The movie should really be "The first year of World War 2 in the Pacific Theatre," but that's not catchy. It could also be called, "I saw Pearl Harbor and thought I could do better," but we'll get to that. If this were a san