Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

[jye4ever]

He TDK'd a war lol

 

[abake]

I saw this and this is film making in it's purist state. This is the definition of show me, don't tell me. Everything we learn about the characters we learn through their actions, not words or stories told about past exploits. Why doesn't the one guy talk? We learn why and the other characters reaction to this tells us more about them than any words could ever describe. There is so much power brought forth with just showing us and letting the actions speak for the characters. Murphy's character? We don't need to see what happened because his actions on the personal boat tell us everything we need to know. I can't express enough how much I loved this film, this is Nolan's best and my personal favorite of the year so far. I hope this gets some awards love because this is a true cinematic achievement.

I was going to write a mini-review, but you've done it for me, thanks!
I probably wouldn't call it Nolan's best, but easily int he top three.
Amazing movie.

 

[Khev]

Conservatives are calling this movie garbage saying Nolan is an antiwar liberal who has no respect for the military by creating fictional soldiers who are unpatriotic selfish ugly individuals who only care about their own skin and not their fellow soldiers and country.

They're recommending to boycott this movie and go find a movie where soldiers are portrayed as the heroes they really are.

Google says it's liberals who are complaining that Nolan didn't rewrite history to make Dunkirk about the rescue of women and minorites.

Telling a post-SPR historical war movie with sanitized violence comes across as incredibly arrogant (I'm such a filmmaking master I'm going to make you feel the horrors of war on cinematography alone!) or eye-rollingly Puritan. What is he going for "WWII the After School Special?" It sounds like Nolan might be in full descent to Lucas mode. If that is indeed the case then that's too bad.

 

[SNIKT1950]

Google says it's liberals who are complaining that Nolan didn't rewrite history to make Dunkirk about the rescue of women and minorites.

Yep and it's ****ing absurd.

Telling a post-SPR historical war movie with sanitized violence comes across as incredibly arrogant (I'm such a filmmaking master I'm going to make you feel the horrors of war on cinematography alone!) or eye-rollingly Puritan. What is he going for "WWII the After School Special?" It sounds like Nolan might be in full descent to Lucas mode. If that is indeed the case then that's too bad.

I too worried that the PG-13 Rating would completely neuter this and end up making the movie "War Lite" but it didn't. Nolan pushes it to the brink and the MPAA clearly accommodated him.

*If there's a 15/70 IMAX Theater near you, you should def go see this.

 

[Khev]

Yeah when I saw Rogue One in 15/70 there was a 10 minute Dunkirk clip that they also showed in that format and it was riveting to say the least. I don't know that I'm feeling this one enough to make the 30 minute drive to that theater again but thanks for the recommendation nonetheless.

 

[SNIKT1950]

I don't know that I'm feeling this one enough to make the 30 minute drive to that theater again but thanks for the recommendation nonetheless.

The drive to my nearest 15/70 screen is 90 minutes lol you got it easy, broski.

Rumor is TLJ has 30 minutes of IMAX footage and it will only be projected on film in 15/70 theaters. They did the same with TFA but that only had like 7 minutes.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Yeah when I saw Rogue One in 15/70 there was a 10 minute Dunkirk clip that they also showed in that format and it was riveting to say the least. I don't know that I'm feeling this one enough to make the 30 minute drive to that theater again but thanks for the recommendation nonetheless.

It's a good 25 to mine

 

[abake]

Google says it's liberals who are complaining that Nolan didn't rewrite history to make Dunkirk about the rescue of women and minorites.

Telling a post-SPR historical war movie with sanitized violence comes across as incredibly arrogant (I'm such a filmmaking master I'm going to make you feel the horrors of war on cinematography alone!) or eye-rollingly Puritan. What is he going for "WWII the After School Special?" It sounds like Nolan might be in full descent to Lucas mode. If that is indeed the case then that's too bad.

I'm as big a fan of showing the horrors of war as accurately as possible, but I felt absolutely no need for it here.
The tension in the movie is exceedingly well made, and bloody pieces wouldn't do much to raise it.

 

[DiFabio]

The tension in the movie is exceedingly well made

Not because of any of the visuals though, only because of the unrelenting soundtrack that plays during even the most quiet parts.

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[Khev]

The drive to my nearest 15/70 screen is 90 minutes lol you got it easy, broski.

I suppose I do, lol.

Rumor is TLJ has 30 minutes of IMAX footage and it will only be projected on film in 15/70 theaters. They did the same with TFA but that only had like 7 minutes.

Great so that means I'll be annoyed that the blu-ray crops 30 minutes instead of just seven.

But I'll definitely be checking it out in full 15/70 in theaters. I think I saw TFA four times in that format and three for RO.

 

[Khev]

Which movie is bloodier, Dunkirk or Walt Disney's Captain America: The First Avenger?

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Really good movie, the tension alone had me throughout the movie.

It's a good 25 to mine

Same here.

 

[DiFabio]

Which movie is bloodier, Dunkirk or Walt Disney's Captain America: The First Avenger?

About the same. Cap gets a little bloody, but so does the boat kid in Dunkirk. Probably Captain America.


People completely disappear when they get BTFO in this movie. Bombed to death? Gone. Shot? Disappear. No dismmemberments, no missing limbs. No nothing. There's more violence in a call of duty video game. There's literally a shot at the end with thousands of helmets on the shore with no bodies in sight.

There is drowning though. Lots and lots of drowning. I went to the bathroom when the dude in the plane was sinking because I had just seen atleast three scenarios where characters were drowning. After 7 mins, I come back and the guy is still struggling in his plane. That wasn't the last drowning scene either.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Yeah when I saw Rogue One in 15/70 there was a 10 minute Dunkirk clip that they also showed in that format and it was riveting to say the least. I don't know that I'm feeling this one enough to make the 30 minute drive to that theater again but thanks for the recommendation nonetheless.

You had to get that RO in there some how.

Spoiler

 

[DiFabio]

Just wait until Khev sees Dunkirk. He'll undoubtedly compare RO to it, saying RO is the superior war film.

Something something beaches. Something something planes and tie fighters.

 

[Khev]

Just wait until Khev sees Dunkirk. He'll undoubtedly compare RO to it, saying RO is the superior war film.

Something something beaches. Something something planes and tie fighters.

Not the most outlandish prediction.

But I'm also a pretty big Nolan fan and more forgiving than most when it comes to his lesser efforts. You guys had me worried that there was NO blood in this movie a la TDK/TDKR.

 

[abake]

Not because of any of the visuals though, only because of the unrelenting soundtrack that plays during even the most quiet parts.

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Visuals were amazing.
Again, bloody bits don't make tense moments.

 

[DiFabio]

It didn't have to be bloody to be tense.

Other than the beginning with the cool raining propaganda flyers and people getting picked off one by one (which was great I thought, the movie goes down hill when the lad goes to take a dump), what were some of the tense moments you speak of? Were you really tightening up at Nolan's 10th go at a drowning scene?

 

[SNIKT1950]

his lesser efforts

No such thing.

 

[DiFabio]

No such thing.

I was just starting to like you SNIKT.