Dunkirk (Summer 2017) directed by Christopher Nolan

Would rather be stuck on the bog taking a painful dump than have to watch this again, the hundreds of thousands of men was a few hundred.....tops on an incredibly empty looking beach.
 
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all these bum reviews are making me sad

I think it's excellent, I keep listening to the soundtrack, such a well made film all round.

People watching it now on dvd definitely missed out, on IMAX it was oppressive and traumatic with things like the stuka dive sounds making you sink into your seat

I guess people would have preferred a straightforward linear story - but then that's not Nolan is it?
 
I watched it again yesterday. The experience isn't there at home (unless you have some sort of insane cinema room) so if you missed it at the cinema you'll not get that pulsating sick in stomach dread that the cinema created (for me anyway).

There is story - not sure what more you can do with this other than fill it with disrespectful fluff. Keeping it "simple" adds to it I thought, this doesn't focus on friends/squads/bands of brothers, it's about strangers coming together at time where horrors are being witnessed in front of them and how they get through it. I think the editing on the 3 timelines coming together is utterly sublime and really appreciated it on the second viewing.

It's really difficult for me to choose either this or BR2049 as my film of the year.
 
Sick in the stomach dread?

what?

I have a huge interest in WW2 and i honestly thought that everything in this film looked set piece and arty for the sake of art.
The sound was amazing, monotonous droning, "loud" but every soldier looked like they had fresh clean clothes for every shot.
It completely lacked a touch of reality.
the only scene which was worrying was when the destroyer got torpedoed, sinking ship stuff is always nasty, possibly the downed spitfire in the sea cockpit scene but that ended comically.

Whatever each to their own. to me this was the biggest disappointment of the film year. Im sure it will win some sound/photography awards for production types.
 
I think nearly all of Nolan's movies are superb, including this.

I've just watched Interstellar for the second time on 4k Blu-ray and I still thought it was superb. Hadn't seen it since 2014 at the IMAX and I know a lot of people don't like that one.

As for Dunkirk, I think I said it all earlier in the thread but the IMAX experience was an almost constant feeling of dread for the people it focused on.

I have the 4k Blu-ray of that as well and am really looking forward to watching it for a second time.
 
I watched it in a little cinema in Kings Lynn so not exactly an IMAX. I loved the film but I can see how it probably doesn't have the same impact on a regular TV, especially without a good sound system.
 
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