Come anticipate (I guess?) Christopher Nolan's Batman/One Direction prequel DUNKIRK oh wait I have that wrong

I didn't mean to sound rude San. But once I quoted something from a painstakingly researched economic history of Nazi era Germany by Tooze, and it questioned some of the received wisdom that you get on wikipedia, on that era. And you tried to rubbish it by quoting blocks of wikipedia, I'm just saying your sources on history are not up there with your science posts.

Wargamers/armchair generals are really meticulous with orders of battle and the like, and seem to be the ones responsible for the French Wiki, which covers the battles of 1940 in far greater detail than English wiki does. One can drill down the French OoB here for regimental subcommands and battle histories, to a much greater extent than I've seen with US and UK OoBs on English Wiki (where the Soviet OoB is a horrible mess).

Dunkirk is amazingly a Nolan movie, on so many plans and with so many details that I do not have to flush the surprises.

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fred can you write all your posts in danish filtered thru google translate? thx

Wait, what do you think I've been doing until now?

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not that i couldn't suspend disbelief but virtually every actor cast in this was gorgeous, looked like a Ralph Lauren advert or something; seas of perfectly coiffed, thick black hair and razor-sharp jawlines

i couldn't tell one floppy haired muscle faced twerp from another.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2419/2062471345_d821c3e87b.jpg

Maybe there was a golden age for British handsomeness.

yeah god not even a blonde or a ginger in sight on the beach there, army of brown haired abercrombie models

god that french kid aka Gibson was gorgeous

good god, this thread is full of vitriol. this movie is fucking beautiful... kinda felt like The Master, Bridge of Spies, and The Thin Red Line (w/o the monologues). Not a huge fan of Nolan - loved The Prestige, and this was just gorgeous. Why all the hate? it wasn't accurate enough?

For a start the jingoism is unbearable, and some of Mail/Express cheerleaders for this garbage made it easier to hate. The sense of scale is all wrong as well, it should be subtitled 100 people on a beach.

I mean there are lots of old jingoist war films from that era that I like. But Nolan doing BE nostalgia in '17 makes me want the Nazis to develop a nuke.

wait this is based on a true story?

yeah, a classic good vs evil story. I wasn't expecting something to better Rossellini's War Trilogy from a clown like Nolan. But even taken as a basic action movie, this is very poor imo.

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The sense of scale is all wrong as well, it should be subtitled 100 people on a beach.

― calzino

also, Mail/Express cheerleaders? not sure what you're referring to exactly.. (my apology)

these are right-wing tabloids in britain that loved the film's alleged jingoism

glad to see the pure cinema minimalist Nolan doesn't need special fx, stop it lol!

One of my favourite war movies evokes the Western Front without casts of thousands or CGI. But this just does look like 100 actors pissing about on a beach at the best of times. Atonement isn't a particularly great movie but it's Dunkirk evacuation scenes are least evocative, CGI and all.

This was good twouldnt make me take the soup or anything

The bit where branagh looked through his binoculars to see already clearly visible and anticipated boats just so he could say "heaume" was shit

The rest was good

"This was good twouldnt make me take the soup or anything"

fucking puddle watter has more nutrients than Nolan soup.

Ah now of all ilxors not to get a historical reference

I'm just talking bout Nolan here, y'know. I do get BE imperialism and the famine etc..

Nolan eh? That's not a very English name now is it?

he's obviously a product of fucking diminished tatty watter!

Cast also tbh

i watched this a couple weekends ago, familiar war-movie sentiments in a gaudy package

that boy soldier on the run gave a fine silent-film-style performance tho

i love him, he was v good

finally got around to seeing this, it was almost exactly what i was expecting, which i guess says something about me or nolan or both of us

it's very handsome, it's very pleased with how cleverly-structured it is, and it is almost entirely emotionally inert, which is quite an achievement given that it's the story of hundreds of thousands of desperate men standing on a beach waiting to die

you might imagine would that would be hard to make into anything other than gripping, flopsweat-drenched human drama but this is christopher nolan baby and he can make distant, stories filled with numb robotic characters out of even the juiciest raw material

the air combat scenes were indeed gorgeous to look at and tom hardy was great but nolan manages to hamstring himself in this section with his own cleverness by having the three timelines converge and then diverge again, intercutting hardy running out of fuel with the soldiers coming home, which makes it seem like hardy's just been gliding back and forth across the skies over dunkirk for the entire night

kinda appropriate tho that a movie so metaphorically bloodless should be so literally bloodless too - you'd expect there to be some claret spilled when soldiers on the beach are being hit point-blank by bombs but iirc the only actual blood we see is when the enid blyton kid on mark rylance's boat falls down and whacks his noggin

also hans zimmer's ever-present score was like tinnitus

just watched. I actually found the music score annoying and a tad innapropriate in most scenes. Apart from that it's a decent movie.

Finally saw this. Thought it was pretty good! Agree the aggressively modern white noise soundtrack was a little ... discordant, but I'm not sure I would have preferred a more predictably rousing score. I also agree with a (neither here nor there) criticism that everyone is just a little too handsome, but whatevs. Also agree that it was a surprising decision to make the movie virtually bloodless, but given so much of it is kind of metaphorically bloodless (by design) it kind of goes with the cold theme, like the entire movie is being experienced through a haze of shock.