Spoiler the scene near the end, where the soldiers are in the boat and the bullets start flying in, one at a time, slowly...quiet...quiet...then BANG. Every time I jumped. Minimal dialogue, letting the story be felt, played out amazingly
Everything about this movie was perfect. So intense and god dammit I love Tom Hardy. The minimal dialogue made it that much more intense and awesome. Spoiler Like 2/3 of the way through the one guy on land said something about the bodies washing up. What did he say before that? Was it in reference to the tide or something I assume? Couldn't make out what he said.
So many of Nolan's films are cinematic graveyard spirals. (An untrained pilot can lose all sense of orientation, to the point where he could be flying straight into the ocean and not even realize it until it’s too late.) Nolan loves throwing his audiences in a graveyard spiral, sending them scenes and images without a linear orientation. It disorients the audience so that they can't follow the story very easily, but you never grow frustrated because what you see and hear has been finely-tuned from script to shoot to make you kind of instinctively able to follow along, even if on a conscious level you can't. Think about Memento, where the scenes shown in color happen in reverse, with the last scene of the story happening in the beginning of the movie, and the scenes in black in white happen in traditional forward progression…albeit with heavy flashback. Just typing it is disorienting and that’s the point; the audience is never able to be comfortable enough to unravel the secrets of the story until he is ready to reveal them. With The Prestige (arguably his masterpiece) he told a story between two characters told from four perspectives: the real-time events happening to each man, and the (unreliable and at least partially fabricated) recollections of each man happening in flashbacks. It’s a mind-twisting masterpiece, in part because the movie messes with your sense of where and when everything is happening in the movie. You'd think a "based on a true story" war movie would be more linear, but nope. He just unravels the space time continuum for kicks and giggles.
Really liked it but didn't love it. Spoiler loved the minimal talking and Hardy was incredible for almost saying nothing throughout the film. Saw it in IMAX and the visuals and sound were phenomenal. Still at the end it felt like something was missing. I'll see it again in a couple weeks with my wife and maybe I'll be able to figure it out then.
I kinda agree I didn't get the Interstellar, inception, tdk feeling from it Still the best movie I've seen this year just not sure it cracks the Nolan top 5 for me
Spoiler So good. When the plane's engine shut off into silence after so much constant noise. Perfect.
Read this https://www.google.com/amp/observer.com/2017/07/dunkirk-review-christopher-nolan/amp/ Really all you need is the first paragraph and you got the gist.
I seriously almost passed out. I smoked wayyyyyyyyy too much before going in and the intensity was so fucking insane. I seriously thought I was going to pass out. The plane scenes are fucking perfection.
Anybody seen it in 70mm IMAX? Curious if it's worth the 30 minute drive to Dallas to see it in that format.
It's hard for me to even rank the Nolan films because I enjoy all of them so much. TDKR is the only one I know I would put behind the majority of them, and I liked that one as well. Need to watch Memento again. Think I've only seen that once. Not even sure I've seen The Prestige in its entirety, so I need to do that as well. TDK, Inception, and Dunkirk are tier one for me. Interstellar and Batman Begins aren't far behind. Prestige and Memento TBD. I'm really big into war movies so maybe that's why Dunkirk is standing out or maybe it's just the hype still since I just finished it. Feel like it incorporated the whole air, land, and sea aspects better than any other war movie I've seen.
It was a scary few minutes. In all seriousness, that was fucking incredible. I thoroughly enjoyed it. So glad I went to the imax and got good seats. Probably shouldn't have had that second bowl before going in, or taken that firehouse sub in, but it was a great fucking movie.
Spoiler He said "the tide is turning" (in response to the guy mentioning how far out the tide was), and the guy responded "how can you tell?" "Because the bodies come back"
is rpx an acceptable viewing option? because it kind of has to be since i am not driving 2 hours to charlotte
I know. I've talked about it on here before, but it's a movie that everyone raves about and I know will be great, but I somehow never watched the whole thing. I'll do that this weekend.
There are parts where it's really intense with the handheld stuff. I never have trouble with things like that and even I was a little wobbly, especially at the beginning.
Question for everyone: I have a theater about four blocks from my place that I can just walk to. It's an old school retro setup with one screen, no stadium seating, they'll play old movies too. Should I go watch Dunkirk there? Or Drive 20 minutes to the 'burbs and see it in IMAX?
Prestige and Memento are his two best, most unique movies IMO. I loved inception and the Batman trilogy, but Memento specifically is complete mindfuck
I'm pretty sure I have this right but if not, please school me Spoiler Hardy was captured by the Germans at the end, why he blew up the plane. Engine shutting down meant he had no control over where he landed. What a role for him, one of the most badass characters ever Also, the blind man greeting the soldiers when they got off the boats is Nolan's uncle. Was in the Batman movies and following too.
Spoiler Yeah, if he was with Brits then why blow it up. Wondered why there was no parachute but the other pilot didn't pull 1 either so maybe they didn't have parachutes. Mark Rylance's character schooled us too on the differences between Brit/Nazi planes and having an enemy plane would be huge, even if the Nazis already had the huge upper hand 1 thing I kinda missed was Mark Rylance's son talking about who his dad was or what happened to him, couldn't really understand him.
From what I understand on Dunkirk, the Nazis let up for a couple days and how the waves of soldiers got off the beach. Many theories as to why but still an awesome story of terror and bravery. Seen a short video on it and my brother in law(Scot) has told me all about it but, very interested in learning more about it.