I'm sure you guys have already discussed Dunkirk ad nauseum, but DAMN

Here's your attention.

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The Hans Zimmer score alone is worth the price of admission.

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No the sound mixing is worth the price of admission.

The gunshots and planes sound like they are in the theatre with you.

See it in IMAX

The score was extremely overbearing

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Where were the Germans? In reality, six British and three French destroyers were sunk, along with nine other major vessels. In addition, 19 destroyers were damaged. Over 200 British and Allied sea craft were sunk. The RAF lost 145 aircraft including 42 spitfires.

For every 7 soldiers evacuated there was 1 who was captured as a POW and marched back to Berlin.

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So you wanted a documentary

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So you wanted a documentary

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I wanted a WWII movie. There are war movies that have been made that are to scale and at least 50% accurate.
I wanted a movie about an historical event. Not an art film that uses Dunkirk to make a movie about filmmaking.

But I understand it's an art piece...because it's really not about Dunkirk as a part of history. 2 Spitfires and 4 Luftwaffe planes? One instance of U-boat torpedo...when there were close to 100.

I don't need a documentary - and understand he's shooting a snapshot and didn't want to take the effort to make the grand scale of reality. It's a niche film...artistic piece. But it's not Dunkirk like other War movies can be said to be fairly representative of what happened. Just have a disclaimer, "this is a re-imagining of historical events at the beginning."

Malick has done the same thing with a Thin Red Line and I love that movie so have no problem with it. But Malick was aiming for something different and veers off from war - Nolan is aiming for a specific re-telling of a specific event with less is more. It just doesn't carry weight. He's not being philosophical like Malick - he's supposedly re-telling a hard core fact and event and reduces it to minimal levels.

The small scale of the drama made the impending doom ring hollow as far as stoking the audience. The threat was barely noticable on screen. Long shots of calmly standing in line...no gunfire in the background - villages near full of the German Army...just mostly calm but for two or three planes.

I don't need a documentary but I need the apprehension of fear on a scale something like this deserves...some semblence of potential calamity about to befall on screen...not just talk or hinting of it. The only fear realized on screen is the talk of it by Brannaugh - again just staring into the sky as calm as a Hindu cow.

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The small scale of the drama made the impending doom ring hollow as far as stoking the audience. The threat was barely noticable on screen.

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Some people felt that way. But obviously the majority of people who have seen it didn't feel that way.

We're there 300-400k people on the beaches in the movie? No, not even close. Did we actually see the Germans taking POWs before the very end? No we didn't. But that didn't take away from the movie for me and it still portrayed a huge threat that the Germans were imo

There's not a right or wrong answer when discussing liking or not liking something as subjective as a movie. I just find it annoying when someone uses their experience or interpretation as a fact and goes on to use that to justify why the movie sucks or is great and ignores all other opinions. However I now realize you were against this movie before you ever saw it and were clinging to the few negative reviews out there so I'm not surprised

I have not seen the movie, but do have a question. Did they ever show a Spitfire roll over?


The early models Spits had a very bad flaw, the engine would near stop running due to lack of fuel if rolled to far and totally stop if rolled over. This problem was not fixed unto between March-May 1941.

The Me 109 had a large advantage over the Spits in 1940.

Saw it in IMAX.

Well worth it.

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The small scale of the drama made the impending doom ring hollow as far as stoking the audience. The threat was barely noticable on screen. Long shots of calmly standing in line...no gunfire in the background - villages near full of the German Army...just mostly calm but for two or three planes.

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Completely agree. The movie made it seem like there was no sense of urgency which made it extremely boring especially when the characters were boring as well. It was a well made movie with great visuals but I was very disappointed.

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The gunshots and planes sound like they are in the theatre with you.

See it in IMAX

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