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

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

Haven't seen this yet but really enjoyed that Stranger piece. I'd like to see Atonement again.

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.

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?

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?

nope

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

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.

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

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.

You better believe Hitchcock's preference for blondes was personal.

lol

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

Hitchcock had a strong authorial voice... and that voice was saying, "heck yeah, blondes"

having a set of obsessions/recurring themes counts as personal, I guess?

personally I'm finding this a tedious detour

I won't believe it's really personal until you make 4 films about it

hauteur theory

I've yet to read a review that hasn't given this movie 5 stars

Well obv you haven't read Fred's then, cos he's give it 6 stars!

Here you go: http://pov.international/en-impressionistisk-filmoplevelse/

lol i thought that was a joke but no u really did give it 6 stars

Of course.

slant gave it 1.5 and are getting predictably pilloried for it, I've seen a few less than glowing writeups elsewhere as well

I have a fairly idiosyncratic rating system, probably, but Dunkirk is so much better than it needs to be, and also hits that spot where even the weird stuff that might be seen as flaws adds to my enjoyment of it. So... could hardly be better. Although I don't really like Hans Zimmer.

xp. the wrath of the empire magazine reader

which aspect of it did you compare to beyonce? (my danish is a little rusty) xp

That it's very very good pop-art.

lol i thought that was a joke but no u really did give it 6 stars

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S11E03/688760.jpg?b64lines=IAogIk5JTkUgVEhVTUJTIFVQIj8gV0hBVAogVEhFIEhFTEwgSVMgVEhBVD8g

Most of Danish media uses six stars, so it's not that crazy :)

i like six starpoints on my raspberry danish

if I ever see this I suspect I will give it six thumbs down lol

xxp

mostly cuz Nolan hasn't made a half-decent movie since the 2nd Batman movie and I'm not sure what would be different about this project to elevate it above his other recent garbage. but idk I can't read Danish either...

You guys do know that google translate exists, right? And Duolingo.

The WWII film Dunkirk lasts less than two hours. The heroic rescue mission went on for days - The Washington Post [More: Dunkirk]

I'm not going to stick up for this movie, but this is some real pathetically premised Newsnow clickbait. Goodness me, Shoah only 9 hours long etc..!

For the record I think Paths Of Glory is the greatest war film ever, and the temerity of Kubrick to make it 88 mins long!

Yeah, but that was like three hours in 1950s minutes.

(Actually, for the '50s that's relatively short, too!)

thanks Google Translate!

"Calling Dunkirk for a perfect blockbuster hits by, because it would hide how many artistic templates the big movie breaks. Frederik Bojer Bové gives full six POV stars for a truly unique film experience from a culture on the top of his ability: Visually lavish, narratively ambitious, and generous with emotions and experimental images.

It is quite difficult to report Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk without destroying the reader experience. Perhaps a bit surprising considering that the film is about the evacuation from Dunkerque, and although it may not be all who know the historical event in detail, most people know that the mission succeeded and that Nazi country did not win the battle. But two things mean that you should go to the cinema without knowing too much about the movie.

First, Nolan has created an incredible impressionist experience; He captures the horror, adrenaline, absurd and heroic in the scenario with 400,000 men fighting for survival.

Second, Christopher Nolan is by far the closest we come to an author in the original sense of the word; An instructor working within the study system - within the rules of the current genres - yet it is almost always possible to do something 100% personal and self-contained. Dunkirk is amazingly a Nolan movie, on so many plans and with so many details that I do not have to flush the surprises."

Uh can a mod get that voldemort

I thought this was very good. It's the best Nolan movie of the ones I've seen. I didn't always like the nonlinear editing, but it isn't bewildering in the way the Slant reviewer says, and it allows the film to maintain an exciting pace. Seeing the same events from the ground's point of view and from the air gives a unique spatial sense, where I felt like the camera was ranging over a big and coherent expanse of space. The fact that we hardly see the German army adds something to the sense of scale. The heroics are moderate and appropriate, especially in the subplot following the civilian rescue boats.

this was indeed loud.

whenever someone picks a historical setting for a film i wonder why, and despite being light on cliche plotting & having a some unheroic activities & meaningless death, idk what this tried to achieve

I really liked it. Incredibly taut, relentless and tense all the way through. I liked the unconventional plot and the fact you never see the enemy. The only problem I had was Hans Zimmer's jackhammering score tbh.

Is the narrative structure meant to resemble a clock? Three different plots, like clock hands - one sweeping across a week, one a day, and one an hour - and converging at a certain point. There's a ticking clock in the score.

An exciting movie that left me pummeled and bored.

if I had a nickel for every time....

I loved this. (Though I actually like most of Nolan's movies so I'm definitely in the minority around here.) The eerie and beautiful ballet of the air combat was the highlight for me.

Peter Hitchens review: "It is just noise and action."

haha good review.

This was also 'good'. Take note 'noise and action' fanboys and girls, this is how its playing:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/it-is-not-our-finest-hour-but-brexit-must-stand-tlmkhkrdp