Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" (July 21, 2017) - Part 2

[Boom]

He also has perhaps the greatest "**** Yeah!" moment of any Nolan film. Audience loved it.

 

[antsman41]

I love Tom Hardy in this movie so much.

I need the sequel where he single handily escapes being a POW, murders every Nazi with his barehands while walking across Europe.

 

[harlequinade]

He also has perhaps the greatest "**** Yeah!" moment of any Nolan film. Audience loved it.

It was fantastic especially with

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Brannagh's reaction

preceding it

The amount of dignity, honor and bravery those characters had was so moving

 

[fancyarcher]

My review for Dunkirk (pimping this site a bit).

https://dailyuv.com/news/914616

BTW I loved it. Great theater experience too.

 

[The Shape]

I forget who it was, but I was debating with someone here about their claim that this film wasn't "Nolanesque".

Now that I've seen it, I can confidently say that Dunkirk is as "Nolanesque" as his previous efforts. In fact, this is what I'd call "MAXIMUM NOLAN".

Nolan's unique structuring of the film makes for an immensely satisfying climax and overall experience, and it automatically stands out from other war movies. The final montage and moments certainly reminded me of the endings to TDK, TDKR, and Inception.

 

[Boom]

I need the sequel where he single handily escapes being a POW, murders every Nazi with his barehands while walking across Europe.

While wearing the mask the entire time and not saying a word.

 

[Deserana]

Wow, I'm very surprised at the Hardy comments. I haven't seen the movie still but based in the promotional material and reviews I still just think of him being hardly in the movie.

 

[FunkMiller]

The final montage and moments certainly reminded me of the endings to TDK, TDKR, and Inception.

Nobody does ending speeches quite like him.

 

[harlequinade]

Wow, I'm very surprised at the Hardy comments. I haven't seen the movie still but based in the promotional material and reviews I still just think of him being hardly in the movie.

He is in it throughout and is the main dude in "air" part of the film

 

[Brother Jack]

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Does anyone know what caused Cillian Murphy's character to mentally break as he did? I don't remember it being explicitly shown after he appears to the boys in the water, at the time looking no worse for wear. I know later he mentions a U-bomb hitting the boat he was on but I don't think it was shown.

 

[Tony Stark]

This is easily nominated for Best Picture, but unless something comes out that's substantially better, this is the winner. This is one of the few war films where I actually felt the fear the characters are going through in the film. The German bombing raids along the beach made you feel scared ****less.

Easily 10/10

Minor gripes, again the sound mixing in the film was a bit questionable making it the third in a row after TDKR, Interstellar where alot of the dialogue is incomprehensible over the music sound effects. Here it didn't bother me as much as the other two films because much of the sound effects were used to great effect in the mood of the film.

 

[Tony Stark]

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Does anyone know what caused Cillian Murphy's character to mentally break as he did? I don't remember it being explicitly shown after he appears to the boys in the water, at the time looking no worse for wear. I know later he mentions a U-bomb hitting the boat he was on but I don't think it was shown.

Yes it was shown earlier but because the film is not shown linearly you have to kind of piece it together. [blackout] It's the same torpedo that hit the boat Harry Style's character was on[/blackout]

 

[Brother Jack]

Yes it was shown earlier but because the film is not shown linearly you have to kind of piece it together. [blackout] It's the same torpedo that hit the boat Harry Style's character was on[/blackout]

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But didn't that boat go down before Murphy's character shows up? He doesn't appear in that timeline until the second boat that the soldiers are on gets torpedoed, implying that something happened to him after that to shake him enough to want to flee his post, i.e. the capsized ship that the civilian boat finds him on.

 

[terry78]

I assumed it was the same boat but it's very easy to miss if it wasn't.

 

[Boom]

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I don't think we see Murphy's boat actually go down.

Unless I'm misremembering, the ship that gets hit by the torpedo was docked near the shore, and it was after that ship gets hit that Tommy and Alex try to get on Murphy's life boat.

Whatever ship Murphy was on get sunk farther out in the channel.

 

[Longshot777]

I can't believe I did not like this movie. And I'm a big Nolan fan.

People are saying Nolanesque to the Max???

Really??

Memento, Prestige, and Inception are GREAT Nolan films.

For me, not only is this the worst Nolan film it's the worst War movie

 

[Brother Jack]

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I don't think we see Murphy's boat actually go down.

Unless I'm misremembering, the ship that gets hit by the torpedo was docked near the shore, and it was after that ship gets hit that Tommy and Alex try to get on Murphy's life boat.

Whatever ship Murphy was on get sunk farther out in the channel.

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Yeah, that was my recollection. I was trying to remember if Murphy's ship is ever explicitly shown going down.

 

[StormC]

I don't know why, but I really loved the bit where Tom Hardy tried to figure out how much fuel he had left with nothing but math and chalk. Clever scene.

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I don't think we see Murphy's boat actually go down.

Unless I'm misremembering, the ship that gets hit by the torpedo was docked near the shore, and it was after that ship gets hit that Tommy and Alex try to get on Murphy's life boat.

Whatever ship Murphy was on get sunk farther out in the channel.

I kept thinking "where did we see it" but maybe you're right that we never saw it.

 

[BlackFox]

I love Tom Hardy in this movie so much.

Agreed he always disappears into his roles, you may not always like them, I know some dont like Bane but you cant deny the effort and sacrifice's he's willing to make as an actor to put everything into a roll.

 

[Kreem Pi]

I can't believe I did not like this movie. And I'm a big Nolan fan.

People are saying Nolanesque to the Max???

Really??

Memento, Prestige, and Inception are GREAT Nolan films.

For me, not only is this the worst Nolan film it's the worst War movie

What about it isn't Nolanesque?

 

[StormC]

Could Tom Hardy get a Best Supporting Actor nom? I think pretty much everyone agrees he's awesome in this movie.

 

[Kreem Pi]

This is one of the reviews I was waiting on. Gorgeous.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/07/24/convergence-at-dunkirk-transcending-time-and-tribalism

 

[Kane52630]

My review...

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For the most part I really enjoyed it. It's everything you'd expect Christopher Nolan would do if he made a war film. I feel like his biggest inspiration in making this was The Thin Red Line. And while this does deal with a war, it's more of a survival movie and you do feel intense throughout it. Even though it's PG-13, there are times where the intensity feels like any rated R war film.

The highlight of the movie is easily the visuals and sound. The IMAX shots were incredible and it really helps creating the massive scope and scale this movie has. it's almost unlike anything we've seen before and Nolan and his team did a much better job on not constantly switching aspect ratios like they did with Interstellar. The sound and score was excellent, you feel every bullet that comes out of those planes.

The movie has three distinctive stories with 3 timelines that intermingle with each other (The Air, The Sea, and The Mole). One of which is arguably much more complex and interesting (The Sea). The cast did a great job, however you don't get a whole lot of character development which I think was needed. I wanted more story out of the characters whether it be before the evacuation started or during. The only exception would be whenever the movie deals with Mark Rylance and Cillian Murphy (aka the Sea).

The other problem I have with it is Nolan's artistic structure for the movie. It was like if someone had the control of a VCR and kept rewinding and fastforwarding like a Robot Chicken episode. A straightforward narrative would have been just fine, but that's just me. And also because of the loud sound design and music (and their cockney British accents), it was very hard for me to decipher some of the dialogue.

Overall, it's Nolan's most impressive visual spectacle to date even though it is lacking in character development. This is a movie you have to see in a real IMAX to get the full effect for.

8.5/10


1. Memento - 10/10
2. Batman Begins - 10/10
3. The Dark Knight - 10/10
4. Inception - 9/10
5. The Prestige - 9/10
6. Dunkirk - 8.5/10
7. Insomnia - 8/10
8. The Dark Knight Rises - 7/10
9. Interstellar - 7/10
10. Following - 6/10

 

[Boom]

Could Tom Hardy get a Best Supporting Actor nom? I think pretty much everyone agrees he's awesome in this movie.

He steals the show, but it would have to been an insanely weak year for Best Supporting Actor for him to get a nod.

If anyone has even the slightest shot at an Oscar nod, it's Rylance.

 

[stlblues84]

Saw it on Friday and wanted to gather my thoughts:

First, props to Nolan for finally ditching the over-exposition in his story telling. What took him 30 minutes to explain in Inception and Interstellar (dream within a dream, how time works with gravity) literally took him 3 title cards (land, sea, air).

The ticking clock is such a basic device, but it thrives here in letting you know where we are in the story.

Mark Rylance is a treasure, and I see a supporting nomination for him again.

Tom Hardy must have lost some bet to Nolan while filming Inception and now must wear something over his mouth in all future movies he does with him.

But in all seriousness, it's his most beautiful film to date in my opinion. The aerial dogfights are amazing and the theme is strong. Get off the beach and live to fight another day. Every character's motivation is accomplishing that task.

8.5/10...I haven't gotten to see it in IMAX yet, and will later this week, so it may bump up to 9/10.