2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jul 21, 2017 23:16:52 GMT -5
My wife and I went to the FILM Dunkirk which has been promoted heavily it seems for many many months. Often when there is THAT much hype it ends up disappointing. In this case the FILM work is ALMOST art like and the grandeur of the props, locations, actual aircraft and lots of POV camera work is extremely compelling. Once you figure out that the flow is NOT stricktly chronological and that many of the key action sequences are repeated but from a different characters perspective you're hooked.
I really liked the film and want to see it again in IMAX. The only infidelity to authenticity I saw was the bright yellow cowls on the MEs 109s which happened later in the war but I understand perfectly why the film maker chose to do so. The aerial scenes are beyond incredible and the cowl helps follow the action decidedly
There is very little dialogue and there isn't any individual back stories whatsoever. a few subtle reveals that unfold naturally and add depth and insight to the individual motivations. Just ordinary humans caught up in a massively significant nine day event trying the best way they can to get through it. The raw history is storyline enough for me and Nolan recognizes that brilliantly.
I liked this film a lot.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jul 22, 2017 22:38:47 GMT -5
Saw it again today (that pretty much says it all). Today we watched in in 70mm cinemax. Highly recommend you see this movie in either IMAX or 70mm. An amazing cinematic experience. The theme is perspective throughout and this concept is repeated throughout in numerous obvious and subtle ways.
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Post by volkssturm on Jul 23, 2017 20:50:11 GMT -5
Saw it this afternoon. Very well done. Just a few nitpicks, but, hey, its a movie. Overall very well done.
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Post by volkssturm on Jul 23, 2017 21:03:06 GMT -5
Saw it this afternoon. Very well done. Just a few nitpicks, but, hey, its a movie. Overall very well done.
From the pictures I've scene, the beach was much, much busier and the harbor area and area offshore from the beach was much more crowded. There was also much more air activities and it would have been noiser than heck. But there's no budget in the world that could recreate the situation without heavy use of CGI. Spitfires could fly for less then two hours on internal tanks, and less if they were in combat. They carried enough ammunition to fire for about 18 seconds. The Spitfire at the end must have set a record for gliding. And unless he knew for certain how firm the beach was, he wouldn't try a wheels down landing on sand. And the minesweeper that was bombed and sunk. Why was it at anchor? The jumbled timeline was a little odd, but they did set the feeling for the battle and the sound track really worked.
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Post by volkssturm on Aug 2, 2017 12:00:51 GMT -5
I happened to remember the other day, there was a British movie about Dunkirk that I saw as a kid. I looked it up. "Dunkirk", filmed in 1958, starring Richard Attenborough. It follows two intersecting plotlines, a British squad trying to get to the beaches and some of the boatmen who pick them up. As I recall it was fairly well done. You can find listings for it on YouTube, but they all seem to have been deleted for copyright reasons.
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Post by volkssturm on Aug 7, 2017 15:43:35 GMT -5
Here's a link to an article with facts about Dunkirk / "Operation Dynamo". Some interesting stuff. www.express.co.uk/news/world/578885/Dunkirk-evacuation-World-War-Two-Germany-BritainSmall boats came from as far away as the Isle of Man, in he Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland. The smallest boat to take part was a 14 foot fishing boat. About 700 small craft took part. 200 ships and small craft were lost, and 145 RAF planes (the Germans lost 156)
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