re: 'Dunkirk' Discussion Thread - Spoilers

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My one criticism is : why did the pilot land on the beach in enemy territory? He couldve landed on the beach next to British troops.

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If he wanted a crash landing, sure. Being a Brit imprisoned by the Nazis wasn't too bad. If this was the Pacific front though, yeah I'd take the crashing risk.

There were far more bombings from a single plane, or 2, than the skies being filled. Much of this is documented. Nolan clearly chose to show the former, and with reason. CGI looks like shite, man.

As for the flying, I have no clue. I'm not a pilot. It seemed realistic to me, and I think you're being picky. Are you a pilot? Honestly asking, because if so then I'll bow out.

I'll have to rewatch for what you're referring to with the hull.

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Did they ever exceed 30 degrees angle of bank?

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There was multiple times with the first person camera view where they went damn near 90, much less 30 degrees

Saw this in a regular cinema last night, and found it amazing.

Where are you folks seeing this in film IMAX? There are no Louisiana options for that.* Closest venue appears to be Birmingham.

*What Elmwood is offering is 70mm but not 70mm IMAX. Still superb and worth the drive I have no doubt but it is distinct.

As you say, the Germans came along "hours later," which is plenty time enough to stumble upon the beached boat.

I think the idea with Hardy is that he was not high enough off the ground by the time he was gliding for a parachute to do him any good, so he committed to landing which without fuel meant riding it out.

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As you say, the Germans came along "hours later," which is plenty time enough to stumble upon the beached boat.

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So the germans just stumble onto the boat on a beach that is just a bit down from all of the English soldiers? And they take target practice at a boat instead of having an all out battle with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers right nearby.

Maybe im not understanding how far down this boat was from the main contingent of troops but im pretty sure at one point it shows of of the commanders on the mole notice the boat with his naked eye.

And moreso when the 3 soliders lying on the beach see a group of soldiers running towards the boat they look up and the boat is basically just a couple of hundred yards off.

Perhaps i'd need to rewatch that sequence again but I'm just not really understanding it.

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So the germans just stumble onto the boat on a beach that is just a bit down from all of the English soldiers? And they take target practice at a boat instead of having an all out battle with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers right nearby.


Who knows how far the tide took them

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They were floating at this point? If that's the case why were they trying to get the french soldier to jump because they had too much weight?

I thought the whole purpose of making him get off the boat was because they were still beached due to too much weight.

That was another thing that didnt make sense. This heavy arse boat is beached but lets make 1 guy jump off and we'll just sail right on out of here.

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hat was another thing that didnt make sense. This heavy arse boat is beached but lets make 1 guy jump off and we'll just sail right on out of here.


They were scared Army guys who probably didn't know a thing about boats.

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they were also probably hysterical. so i kinda get that, still took one guy long enough to say "uhh guys 1 person isnt going to make a difference"

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My one criticism is : why did the pilot land on the beach in enemy territory? He couldve landed on the beach next to British troops.

If he wanted a crash landing, sure. Being a Brit imprisoned by the Nazis wasn't too bad. If this was the Pacific front though, yeah I'd take the crashing risk.

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He might reasonably not have known that the Germans controlled that bit of beach.

Landing on the beach was better than a water landing. Look what almost happened to his buddy.

I have seen so many articles of how the author said "Nolan didn't do this, this or this."

In both "Sink the Bismarck!" and "The Longest Day" the story had these huge command centers with female soldiers with headsets pushing little icons around on a giant map.



And someone says, "Force H has cleared the Pillars of Hercules," or "Lord Lovat has reached Pegasus Bridge."



Force H gunning for KMS Bismarck



Okay that isn't Lord Lovat. It's Peter Lawford. But you know what I mean.

Okay, those movies needed that. "Dunkirk" did not. Nolan made a movie of what HE thought was needed. That is a very cool thing.

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I'm not trolling. I thought it was a very lame attempt at showing air to air combat. Did any of the pilots ever change their voice inflection due to grunting/straining/exertion during the dogfights? Anyone who has done so much as a Chandelle or a wingover in a Cessna or Piper put more effort into it than what was seemingly displayed in the movie.

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That is actually a good point. Maybe it was you who said that all the maneuvers were very gentle and also in the horizontal. And low, very low.