Dunkirk

[rob63]

Initial reviews are outstanding. Considering how seldom I agree with reviewers, it gives me pause, but it's reason to hope it is really good.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dunkirk_2017/

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, I really want this to be good.

 

[Alamo]

OK, I booked my tickets at the Santikos Palladium IMAX - 70mm theater in San Antonio for Sunday. Looking forward to a decent movie for once.

 

[Thor]

I hope it's a well done show, look forward (with some trepidation) to seeing it. I hope they get the guns right (and aircraft) and that the flying is real, not X-Wing vs Tie fighter CGI like Red Tails was.

 

[Thor]

Initial reviews are outstanding. Considering how seldom I agree with reviewers, it gives me pause, but it's reason to hope it is really good.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dunkirk_2017/

Considering how wrong they got Wonder Woman (predicted a bust and poor reception) I hope they're right this time...

 

[Alamo]

I hope it's a well done show, look forward (with some trepidation) to seeing it. I hope they get the guns right (and aircraft) and that the flying is real, not X-Wing vs Tie fighter CGI like Red Tails was.

One of the reviews/comments/whatever I read about it says that Nolan had a IMAX camera mounted in the cockpit and on the wing of a Spitfire to get some of the action shots, and also that he decided to go with real ships for the destroyers instead of CGI. So we can keep our hopes up.

 

[femurphy77]

One of the reviews/comments/whatever I read about it says that Nolan had a IMAX camera mounted in the cockpit and on the wing of a Spitfire to get some of the action shots, and also that he decided to go with real ships for the destroyers instead of CGI. So we can keep our hopes up.

[video=youtube;BmlnltVzksg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmlnltVzksg[/video]

 

[MadMan66]

I have my ticket for the 9:30pm Friday showing at the State Museum IMAX in 70mm! I have been wanting to see it since I saw the trailer in 70mm at this theater when I saw Rogue One. The dog fight scenes looked awesome and the gun fire shook my jeans

 

[Phase2]

The best scene is when John Belushi rallies the troops (language warning):

[video=youtube_share;V8lT1o0sDwI]http://youtu.be/V8lT1o0sDwI[/video]

 

[Alpo]

I saw it today at the IMAX. It is a beautiful film in many ways. I especially enjoyed Tom Hardy in his Spitfire. The sound system at the IMAX was overly loud and therefore the Hans Zimmer score was piercing at times. It was provident that there was little dialogue in the movie as that which was included was almost unintelligible with the overly loud sound system.

On the downside, I don't think the film benefitted from the IMAX format over a traditional wide-angle film. IMAX is immersive and the people I was with felt too close to the screen, having difficulty focusing, even though we sat in the back 25% of the theatre.

I also wondered: Where are all the men? Where are the ships? Where are all the civilian craft of Little Dunkirk? At most, a couple of thousand men were on screen, a few military craft and perhaps 2 dozen civilian craft. 3 Spitfires, a Junker (bomber) and some (3?) Messerschmidts. It seems to me you either have a blockbuster with 200,000 and a fleet of ships and aircraft....or you have a small, intimate movie. We got the latter on a big screen. It didn't really work for me.

But I enjoyed it. The aircraft scenes especially. Tom Hardy made the movie for me, even though he said less than 100 words.

 

[rkwhyte2]

Saw it last night at the Flix Brewhouse in Carmel. I thought it was very well done. I will say the sound in the theater was really loud when it needed to be. Overall I give it a thumbs up. On a side note the food was great and the beer even better.

 

[Expat]

USA Today Review Bemoans Lack of Women and Minorities in 'Dunkirk'

I am outraged.

 

[Hawkeye]

USA Today Review Bemoans Lack of Women and Minorities in 'Dunkirk'

I am outraged.

At the lack of women and POC, or at the review?

 

[Expat]

At the lack of women and POC, or at the review?

We may want to redo the war with more diversity amongst the allied troops.

 

[femurphy77]

USA Today Review Bemoans Lack of Women and Minorities in 'Dunkirk'

I am outraged.

At the lack of women and POC, or at the review?

Don't judge! He may just feel the need to be outraged.


#OUTRAGED LIVES MATTER

 

[Expat]

Don't judge! He may just feel the need to be outraged.


#OUTRAGED LIVES MATTER

Some days it is hard to keep up a proper level of outrage... I think I am just getting old. I am grateful to wake up, get out of bed, enjoy a good breakfast, etc.

 

[RugerRog]

I'm going to see it Sunday! Looking forward to it.

 

[femurphy77]

Just got back from seeing it, I give it a solid meh. Sorry but if I wouldn't pay to see it again or buy it on dvd even at garage sale prices "meh" is the best it can get.

 

[KellyinAvon]

USA Today Review Bemoans Lack of Women and Minorities in 'Dunkirk'

I am outraged.

So if the film critic bemoaning the lack of diversity, in the British and French military, in 1940, actually knew duck-**** from apple butter, he would be very dangerous? Did he think there were too many Spartans in the movie 300??

 

[Alpo]

Hey there were women in the movie serving tea and crumpets as part of the Little Dunkirk navy. Those ladies had big brass ones.