Early notices sound absolutely incredible but I still have only the slightest clue how it works. Seeing it next tuesday, and I kinda can't wait. Can't recall the last time I felt this way about a film, most films I look forward to are festival films, and I only get to see them after waves and waves of reviews, analysis, backlash, etc. This time, I only have scraps of information. It's kinda exhilarating.
― Frederik B, Friday, 14 July 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
UK reviews coming in; 5/5 in the Guardian, 5/5 in Telegraph, 5/5 Empire.
incidental to this the usually quiet girl at the counter of our local Vue/Imax offered unprompted that it's "Awesome".
― piscesx, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
critic in my FB feed just posted "well, it's loud"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
saw a movie over the weekend and the trailer for this film didn't telegraph that there was anything plot-like? just an overwhelming sense of dread about war. maybe that's a good thing, but I was left with the impression it's just Nolan doing *horrible war scenes*
― mh, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
this time, its in the ocean
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 17 July 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Bradshaw's 5 star rave reviews have become so devalued over the years, he even dished out 5 to Okja last week.
― calzino, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, this is really something... Looking forward to discussing this with all of you, it's probably best to see this one as cold as possible.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link
I was left with the impression it's just Nolan doing *horrible war scenes*
yeah
i know virtually nothing about this either but given nolan's track record i'm certain it'll be technically accomplished but utterly empty
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link
I really don't want to spoil anything, but 'technically accomplished' is a massive understatement.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
and 'utterly empty'? not getting much of a sense of characters from the reviews i've skimmed
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link
There's so much stuff to think about afterwards, my head is spinning. It's not 'empty' in that sense...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
Have vowed never to watch a Nolan again due to the same criticism as bg outlines, is there a reason to see this?
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link
you might get to see harry styles get machinegunned by the filthy jerries?
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
There's that
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 10:29 (seven years ago) link
Buddy of mine worked on this film, operating the model planes for the action and air battle stuff, and manning the drones etc. Still don't really feel like seeing it tho tbh.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
Would love to see an angry, cine verite Battle Of Algiers type movie about Britain's brutal Mau Mau counterinsurgency released r/n. Just to piss off The Telegraph hack who came out with the " heart-hammering and heroically British" quote.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
yes, I wouldn't say dunkirk is one of the more overlooked bits of recent history.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
manning the drones
I just want to point out that I know what LBI means here but this phrase is oxymoronic and hurt my head for a bit.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Lol sorry
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
pedant! everyone says "drones" meaning uav. I hate it but that's where we are.
― mh, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
mh the u in uav stands for UNMANNED
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
tell that to the poor air force people guiding them and watching the video, buddy
― mh, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
maybe "manning the uav control board" is what I'm getting at
― mh, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
imo it's similar to "manning the torpedoes" which may or may not be a malapropism
― mh, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of which, I bet Eye In The Sky is a better movie than this.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes are a type of rideable submarine used as secret naval weapons in World War II. The basic design is still in use today as a type of diver propulsion vehicle.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
wise critic
There will never come a time that i will scroll down on this page pic.twitter.com/QbendaBHRK— Jake Cole (@notjustmovies) July 19, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Slant critic otmfm!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
http://www.thestranger.com/film/2017/07/19/25297266/my-father-who-survived-dunkirk-would-not-have-recognized-christopher-nolans-dunkirk
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
lol I read the comments on jake's review earlier, good reminder that the internet was a mistake
― qualx, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
weird obsession with his review coming out later than the rest of the mudslide, apparently that's a sign of bad faith
also a sign of bad faith: getting your negative review in too early, like all the DKR critics that got death threats on RT
― qualx, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Haven't seen this yet but really enjoyed that Stranger piece. I'd like to see Atonement again.
― ryan, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
really liked this. there really isn't much of conventional plot (which I thought was a wise choice), mostly just depictions of the evacuation from three different (non-linear) angles. much of the dialogue is hard to make out and is little more than commands or shouted reactions to a deteriorating situation.
the 70mm print was beautiful too. wasn't really overdramatized either, I mean many intense scenes but not really due to the pathos of any character, more POV war sequences.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 July 2017 04:15 (seven years ago) link
was kinda weird when Batman showed up and destroyed a few planes tho
much of the dialogue is hard to make out
Did he do his usual trick of giving the most important dialogue to the least intelligible actors?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 21 July 2017 05:15 (seven years ago) link
War is hell (on the ears). Is there a shot where a loud noise blows out someone's ear drums, and the rest of the scene plays out in a muffled haze with a high-pitched ringing?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
nope
― Neanderthal, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
does chris nolan's insistence on casting tom hardy then covering most of hardy's face with a mask have a basis in sexual fetish y/n
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
Lol, I thought about that as well. I love how many weird Nolanesque details that are in this film. It's not wrong that he always has had way too much exposition in his films, and in general way too much focus on legitimizing everything he does, which probably has obscured how weird and personal his films are. This time it's just all there, without bothering to explain why.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 July 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
how weird and personal his films are
the weird thing for me is how impersonal his films are - i can't really think of any standout characters from any of his films, they've always just seemed more like pieces to be manipulated in service of the plot, never more so than in the infamously impersonal unemotional reunion at the end of interstellar
the only exception i can think of is the joker, but even then he's not really a 'character' per se, more a memorable performance which doubles as a device for driving the story
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
Not to danesplain the English language, but that's not usually why something is described as a 'personal' film. Everything he does seems more informed by his own weird obsessions than anything else. It's personal the same way the use of blonde women in Hitchcock films seems like a personal thing for Hitchcock to work through.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 July 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
You better believe Hitchcock's preference for blondes was personal.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Not to danesplain the English language, but that's not usually why something is described as a 'personal' film.
phew, good thing my response wasn't related to your basically unverifiable assertion about how 'personal' nolan's films are to him then
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Hitchcock had a strong authorial voice... and that voice was saying, "heck yeah, blondes"
― mh, Friday, 21 July 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
having a set of obsessions/recurring themes counts as personal, I guess?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 July 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
personally I'm finding this a tedious detour
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Friday, 21 July 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
I won't believe it's really personal until you make 4 films about it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 July 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
hauteur theory
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Friday, 21 July 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
I've yet to read a review that hasn't given this movie 5 stars
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 21 July 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link