re: It's clear... Dunkirk is fricked this award season...

Read the history downvotes.

Movie doesn't capture it remotely.

It's like Saving Priviate Ryan on D-day and you have 5 guys vs. 8 guys and it's lazer tag on the beaches of Normandy.

I don't know why he held back and neutered the event. But it lacks drama and constantly switching back and forth between stories.

Idea failed. It's like Spielberg showing the shark and then going to a dance recital on land for the Mayor's daughter and then back to the shark and then to the Police Chief's wife getting a manicure and then back to Quint and the boat and then back to a Soda shop where a boy didn't get killed and then back to the boat and back to the dance recital and back to to back to back.