re: 'Dunkirk' Discussion Thread - Spoilers

One comment I had in my head mid movie however:


Where were the 400,000?

Think the LSU campus on Gameday times 3.....but all we see are nice orderly lines of troops ready to go.

Contrast it with the other Dunkirk movie some time ago (the one whose one-shot take game is on a whole new level). Everything was there. From shell shocked troops, hard cases, drunkards, and wholesale destruction of vehicles, equipment, and horses so the Germans can't get it.

Especially after they indicate the front was within easy walking distance in 2 directions.

ETA: Here it is. One shot 5 min long, that "feels" more real than anything in this films setting. The only part that Nolan's story shines is the tangents surrounding the civilian boat. The Dunkirk scenes themselves are a flop outside of those beautiful BEAUTIFUL Stukka sirens

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And the post evacuation scene where the Admiral was prepping for the French evacuation was a little jarring with how it was edited into the wind down sequence.

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Watch it in 70mm if you are lucky enough to have a IMAX theater playing it.

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Got out from seeing it in a 70MM Imax an hour or so ago and it was incredible. Screen seemed massive, I hadn't seen one in that format before (Saw Interstellar in normal Imax).

Movie was awesome and the people talking about the score being incredible really built up my hopes and it still managed to blow me away.