wait this is based on a true story?
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 December 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 December 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
love2Churchill
― a Rambo in curved air (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 December 2017 09:43 (six years ago) link
The sense of scale is all wrong as well, it should be subtitled 100 people on a beach.― calzino
― calzino
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
also, Mail/Express cheerleaders? not sure what you're referring to exactly.. (my apology)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
these are right-wing tabloids in britain that loved the film's alleged jingoism
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
glad to see the pure cinema minimalist Nolan doesn't need special fx, stop it lol!
― calzino, Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
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
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 January 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
"This was good twouldnt make me take the soup or anything"
fucking puddle watter has more nutrients than Nolan soup.
― calzino, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
Ah now of all ilxors not to get a historical reference
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 29 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
I'm just talking bout Nolan here, y'know. I do get BE imperialism and the famine etc..
― calzino, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
Nolan eh? That's not a very English name now is it?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
he's obviously a product of fucking diminished tatty watter!
― calzino, Monday, 29 January 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
Cast also tbh
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
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
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link
i love him, he was v good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
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
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 March 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
just watched. I actually found the music score annoying and a tad innapropriate in most scenes. Apart from that it's a decent movie.
― Ste, Thursday, 4 June 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 February 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link