re: Dunkirk was meh... not that good

Dunkirk was not a good movie. It completely failed in showing the scope of the German attacks on the beach head. The air to air combat was about on par with your local airshow demonstration (smoke generators? Really?) The men in the beached boat sequence was laughably bad both in concept and execution.
But, it's Nolan. So there'll be posters on here telling you how Oscar worthy it was.

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I think it's a movie made for the theater. I watched in IMAX and it was amazing.

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This. I thoroughly enjoyed in theater, but i wouldn’t be surprised if someone watches it at home and thinks “meh”

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It completely failed in showing the scope of the German attacks on the beach head.

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That’s because that’s not what the film was trying to do. Dunkirk was not about the battle, it was about a group of men trying to escape from the battle.

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The air to air combat was about on par with your local airshow demonstration

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Dunkirk actually features some of the most accurate WWII dog fight scenes ever filmed. If you think air battles in the Second World War were similar to those shown in films such as Pearl Harbor or Red Tails then you are sorely mistaken.

Dog fights were often very tedious affairs as pilots struggled to line up their shots. Plus, Spitfires only had about 30 seconds worth of ammunition onboard. So pilots would have to fire their guns in quick bursts.

whatched it last night, kept getting distracted at the hour mark and rewinding just to get distracted. whole movie was cool to look at but it was quite boring

Y’all have talked me out of wasting $5.99 to watch it on VOD. Not about the money, but my attention span has definitely shortened over the years. Thanks for giving me a couple of hours of my life that I’ll never get back.

Upvote. I thought it sucked as well.


ETA: Saw it in the theater and still sucked.

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-Easy to follow? NO

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Seems like a mental challenge problem.

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-Dialogue? Non existent (can’t understand them anyway)

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Don’t need dialogue in a film like this. If it bothers you, never watch Mad Max.

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-Character building? NOPE

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This was a film about showing three stories individual stories that are in an arc together. It’s about the visuals and big picture.

Without the scope of the German assault being shown, the magnitude of danger those soldiers were in doesn’t resonate. It just appeared that if you avoided random single German planes that appeared sporadically you were safe.

The air to air was not realistic at all. If you think pilots doing ACM aren’t grunting and straining, but instead look like they’re in the landing pattern at the local muni airport like in this movie, you’re sadly mistaken. You never once get the feeling these pilots are in an actual dogfight. Also, if you hose down an HE-111 with 8 .30 cal machine guns pieces of the bomber are coming off. In this movie you can practically hear the special effects coordinator say, “Turn smoke generators on...NOW!”

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just appeared that if you avoided random single German planes that appeared sporadically you were safe.

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So the planes dropping bombs every 20 minutes is “random”? And by accounts of some survivors that were actually there, that’s exactly what it was like

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Without the scope of the German assault being shown, the magnitude of danger those soldiers were in doesn’t resonate.

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The propaganda flyers floating down from the sky did more than enough to show just how much danger they were in.

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The air to air was not realistic at all.

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Incorrect.