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25 August 2020

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)

I have been continuing my obsession with WWII pilot movies, but Thirty Seconds over Tokyo kind of sucked. It's soooo long, and it's way more about Van Heflin and his wife than it is about the bombing. The truth is that the title is right, and I should have believed it. All we get is thirty seconds over Tokyo. No joke. The 1942 Tokyo bombing takes up very little space in this film, but wow! The bombing is so so so so so cool. Like in the middle of it I was screaming This is so cool!!! The effects in this movie are incredible. But then the movie goes back to being super boring... with an hour left in it.

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