I hope the IMAX cameras for Avengers allow it to use the full IMAX aspect ratio like the scenes in Dunkirk. I want the whole screen to be filled with Marvel action.
I enjoyed Dunkirk. I think it's far from a perfect film, but I enjoyed it's pacing and the way it interspersed its narrative from different points in time and had them criss-crossing against one another. I thought that was pretty creative. Maybe not quite as creative and innovative as Memento did basically turning that Seinfeld episode device into a thriller, but I thought it was well done.
There were times I wish the movie had subtitles because it was sort of hard to understand what some of the characters were saying. Other times it was hard to keep track of certain characters and which ones were surviving by the skin of their teeth or dying.
One thing I didn't get was why Mr. Dawson refused the service of the British sailors for his vessel. I guess he still wanted to assist in the evacuation effort, but didn't want the Navy calling the shots? But then we saw tons of other civilian vessels that didn't appear to have any Navy men onboard, so did he commit some sort of heinous illegal act here? I just thought it was a weird moment to put in there, especially when there's no real payoff to him abandoning the Navy while they are onshore early on. There didn't appear to be any consequences to that act at all.
I really enjoyed the air and dogfight sequences. They had a very real, natural quality to them. You can tell Nolan does a lot of things in camera and they all look very real.
