Dunkirk

[The Cabbage]

Watched it in IMAX here in Swindon on sunday at the Empire Cinema

That'll be IMAX digital format I'd have thought. Something like 10% bigger than a normal screen. Its bit of a con in normal circumstances. However for this film it appears it's worth seeing it on the biggest screen available to you.

 

[Swindon Mackem]

That'll be IMAX digital format I'd have thought. Something like 10% bigger than a normal screen. Its bit of a con in normal circumstances. However for this film it appears it's worth seeing it on the biggest screen available to you.

You trying to say there's different types of IMAX? Have I been conned?

 

[The Cabbage]

You trying to say there's different types of IMAX? Have I been conned?

Yeah. Vast majority of imax screens in the U.K. arent true imax but rather a slightly enlarged normal screen. In ordinary circumstances it won't be worth the premium but for a Nolan film you'll have got your money's worth.

 

[molthemackem]

thought u ment they had fucked the film up, to be honest id say Dunkirk was a success saved 300,000 of our troops alot of whom were part of D-Day invasions, the BEF was a disaster waiting to happen

Agree.. bearing in mind ,Churchill initially thought at first only 40,000 of the BEF could be rescued.. To lift over 360,000 of which 110,000 were made up of the French Armíee was and will stay a magnificent victory.

 

[itscoldinhere]

Brilliant film very intense

 

[Mr David]

Watched it in IMAX here in Swindon on sunday at the Empire Cinema

Metro is as well

 

[molthemackem]

I didnt know this but the boat Sundowner is a motor yacht formerly owned by Charles Lightoller, the second officer of RMS Titanic and the most senior officer to survive her sinking in 1912. She participated in the Dunkirk evacuation as one of the "little ships". Seems Mr Lightoller was spared from the Titanic by a greater force to be able to carry out this task.. On one trip his boat, max capacity of 25 carried over 130 souls to safety. Four times his launch was straffed by a German ME109 and because his brother who was an officer in the RAF had given him some instructions (before a aircraft attack, the nose would lift up just before firing, he turned hard a port) should he be caught in exactly the predicament he found himself in, these saved him, his crew and the rescued men. One fascinating story out of thousands.

 

[Monument View]

Credit to the people in the little ships
But this film has had a lot of hype and in my opinion was bitty and rather poor

 

[itscoldinhere]

Credit to the people in the little ships
But this film has had a lot of hype and in my opinion was bitty and rather poor

How so marra?

 

[Mr David]

How so marra?

It's the hipster thing to go against everyone else

 

[Maxnormal]

It's the hipster thing to go against everyone else

I thought it was fçucking class: worth it alone for the aerial stuff with the 109/spitfire paggerfest and the shit-inducing Stukas.

 

[Mr David]

I thought it was fçucking class: worth it alone for the aerial stuff with the 109/spitfire paggerfest and the shit-inducing Stukas.

I thought it was class. Nolan is a fantastic director, we didn't see the enemy which was clever imo.

 

[Monument View]

No sense of scale or the magnitude of the effort of the little ships
The numbers and scale of the evacuation is poorly depicted
It was obviously a cheaply made film relying on some classy aerial spitfire shots and bit part cameo roles which are not fully developed

 

[Mr David]

No sense of scale or the magnitude of the effort of the little ships
The numbers and scale of the evacuation is poorly depicted
It was obviously a cheaply made film relying on some classy aerial spitfire shots and bit part cameo roles which are not fully developed

Are you pissed or something

 

[Monument View]

Not easily intoxicated by hype over substance mate

 

[Feed the Monster]

Watched it tonight.

Amazing film.... the scene with the small boats all heading to the beach, well that scene actually had me filling up

Same for me. Welled up then and at the fight them on the beaches quote at the end.

Fantastic film, one of the best I've seen. An easy 10 out of 10.

Lest we forget.....

 

[Hongkongphooey]

Is it on Kodi yet?

 

[itscoldinhere]

Is it on Kodi yet?

I think this can only work as a film watched at the cinema imo the whole thing is meant to be tense which wouldn't translate on your 32"type thing

 

[Mr David]

I think this can only work as a film watched at the cinema imo the whole thing is meant to be tense which wouldn't translate on your 32"type thing

And the sound quality won't be the same. Tbh I bet most slating the film watched it illegally

 

[riffraff]

And the sound quality won't be the same. Tbh I bet most slating the film watched it illegally

Tottenham Ct Rd actually but I'm not slating it. It's good but not great. Hyped as owt and doesn't live up to it. In 20yrs people will be wondering why anyone got so worked up about it. Obviously made for the gaming generation. All action no story. I've read reviews comparing it and the director to David Lean ffs!

The Churchill speech bit was somewhat weakened by having listened to Gary Oldman give the very same speech during the previews for upcoming fillums seconds before Dunkirk started!
There's one glaring hammy as owt line by Rylance near the end that's cringeworthy tbh. If it was the best way the director can come up with to get his point across then no wonder he didn't bother with a back story or dialogue.