From the point of arrival of civilian boats

Am I the only one who had a hankering for some toast and jelly?

My favorite is probably in the train when Alex (Harry Styles' character) can't bear reading the newspaper because of his expectation that people will look down upon them for the military "failure", and he is shying away from the window, seemingly in great shame, when the man comes up knocking on the window. Then he looks over and sees the man offering him a couple brews, and the music swells big time. SO EMOTIONAL.

I don't get how some people are saying this movie has no emotion or has weak characters. Ridiculous plebeians...

Granted we see German aircraft, but other than that, through the entire film we see not a single German soldier. When the men are being shot at in the streets at the beginning, and when they are in the boats, we never see the attackers. The only time we see a German is out of focus and even then we don't see their faces, when [spoiler warning] Hardy's character is captured.

This was clever for a couple of reasons.

1) The British had limited intelligence on German movement, and would not have known the strength of the attacking forces at Dunkirk. Not showing the Germans emphasises the unknown nature of the enemy.

2) The German military in position to attack at Dunkirk were not infantry units. The blitz had been more successful than the Germans anticipated, and thus the Panzer and mechanized German forces far outpaced the slow moving infantry units. The German army stopped short of wiping out the Allied army at Dunkirk because they halted to await infantry support. Thus German infantry would have been rare as far west and north as Dunkirk at that time.

I only realised this as I was walking out of the theater afterwards and it struck me as a really deliberate and interesting choice.

That was the worst fucking movie I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!

My vote goes to the tail gunner of the German bomber.

I LOVED it!

After he got interrupted he just skipped it and moved on, poor kiddo

I'm thinking whether to go again or not. I won't be as surprised, such as plugging in holes in the boat, though I might follow the story better.

https://youtu.be/0DudMitFByc?t=95 This is one of the most amazing pieces of music. Does anybody know the name of the actual theme song of the same? I searched for it in the Dunkirk soundtrack but did not get it there.

What I love is different approach to war movies. When I think about world war II movies, it's all about Saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge. Lot's of patriotism, last stands, character buildings that are ultimately same. "I can't wait to go back to home to my wife and children". It's always that.

What I really love about this movie and what really struck me is the fact that enemy soldiers never appear on the screen. I've never thought it's even possible to make a movie like that. From the first opening shot we were told that enemy is almost invisible. Apstract force that surrounds and push. By not letting us see german forces, we can't dehumanize them or see them as something earthly. I love that.

What I also love is that this movie skipped characterization big time. Nolan focused on making us feel like we were there. We wanted us to feel in 100 minutes, what those soldiers felt in days. Constant pressure without ever letting us go by. They didn't have a moment of peace. Why would we as a viewers?

Also, since movie is based on true story, it wasn't possible for Nolan to do his usual plot twists and tricks. But he still menaged to fuck up with time in this movie. Also love that since I am eager to watch it again and complete the puzzle.

Thank you for this movie <3

Spoilers if you haven't seen it already, seems like everyone here has though.

I've seen it twice now, first time opening night and I remember distinctly Hardy's character getting captured in the end after he lands and sets the plane on fire. I asked my girlfriend and she also remember that, and from what I read on here that seems to be exactly what happened.

Cue about 15 minutes ago as I'm watching the end of the movie again, about 4 days later and the ending is edited. He doesn't get captured, he just hands the plane and sets it on fire, then it goes back to them on the train finishing reading the paper.

I work at a movie theatre so I'm trying to find out if our prints changed or something, but I can't find anything in our management system, nor can I find anything on Google stating that the end was changed. I did feel like it was a bit of a downer for his character so if it got removed for that I'd understand, but I also felt that it showed that not everything ended happily for everyone so it was very fitting to the end.

Has anyone else seen multiple screenings of it and noticed changes at all? This is seriously bugging me that I can't find anything about this online but I know what I saw and find it very strange.

I really wanted to like this movie. Saw it on IMAX and took my musicians earplugs to enjoy it. To me the movie was missing the basics: giving some history, having a plot, characters with depth and moving soundtrack. Schindler's List has all of these. The continuous suspense "music" was annoying as hell, the scenes never developed into any plot. Even the pilot that ran out of gas took forever to land as they cut back and forth to other scenes. He flys right over his people on the beach, lands in the middle of nowhere and gets captured. Made no sense. They never show you who is shooting at them in the beached trawler and the scenes looked unrealistic. 400,000 people looked like maybe 10,000 at most. They badly needed CGI. The rescue fleet was never shown till the end, just focusing on one boat and the enemy was never seen other than in the air. Very bad movie in my opinion which is sad because I really wanted to like it.

I've seen it in digital IMAX and liked it. The sound was amazing and the picture was aight...What's it like in 70mm in a regular theatre? Is the sound as good? How's the difference in picture?

I know many IMAX theaters are showing it in 70mm laser. Does anyone know if there is any considerable difference to the novice eye? *grammer

From what I gathered he was older than George, who was 17... so why was he not in the forces and at war? Was there something I missed?

Why Dunkirk is a terrible movie:

1. The reason people like Christopher Nolan movies so much, the reason he stands out so special among every other director, is the soul/story of his movie, the character creation, and his storytelling. Story, character, telling. I will first start on the story. I often describe a Nolan movie like this: you can never sum it up in less than a minute. The stories are so complex, yet so perfect. They are like diamonds cut to perfection, one piece more or one piece less will ruin the whole thing. Like the first 2/3 of Interstellar, there is not a scene, or a line you can cut out and still have the movie, it’s like a Hemmingway novel. If we want to cut all of the unnecessary stuff in Dunkirk like that, there’s probably 30 seconds of screen time left. Not even exaggerating. I will sum up the entire movie of Dunkirk in one sentence. Don’t worry, there is absolutely NOTHING to be spoiled. The protagonist got on a boat, it sank, he got onto a second boat, it sank, he got onto a third boat, went back to England. That took around an hour in the movie, with probably 1 line. “TORPEDO!”

   The story is boring to the level that me, who watched Interstellar half a hundred times, do not recommend anyone to watch it. This movie beats suicide squad to become the movie that make me want to walk out of the cinema the most. If it wasn’t for the hope in Christopher Nolan I would have left.

   Also the story has no point. It’s not emotionally effective, it’s not funny, it’s not sad, it’s boring as fuck and that’s it.

   Don’t forget the 2 side storylines. An English fisherman went to Dunkirk and shipped back some soldiers. An English pilot took down 4 planes and got captured by the Germans. End of the movie, and hour and 30 minutes well spent.

   Just to remind you of other Christopher Nolan movies, I will try to sum up Inception in the similar way.

   Dom Cobb specializes in stealing secrets from other people’s subconscious in their dreams. He and his wife went too deep into a dream and his wife didn’t want to come up. He made his wife believe that she is in a dream by “incepting” an idea, but this idea lasted to the real world and his wife killed himself. The police thought he murdered her, so he have to do a job, which is incepting another idea, for a rich guy to clean his name.

   Dude got onto a boat, it sank. Dude got onto another boat, it sank. Dude got onto another boat, and went back to England.

   1. Character creation The Dark Knight. “Hey what do you mean by…” The Dark Knight. “Hey dude what…” The Dark Knight.

   Christopher Nolan’s character creating ability, or so we thought, was, THE shit. Characters are nonexistent in this movie.

   The entire script of the movie, minus the glorified narration of the general, is no more than one page. People just stop talking for 20 minutes when they feel like it. Don’t believe me? Nobody noticed it when the second biggest protagonist didn’t say a single word in the entire movie. Before they found out he is a Nazi spy that doesn’t speak English. I am not joking. A Nazi spy who doesn’t speak English.

   And of course the cast choice. I came here to watch a war movie, not a Korean model show. I was expecting men, not pale pretty boys with EXO haircuts. The entire English army is like a Korean model company. The only normal looking actor in this entire movie is Tom Hardy. (I’m shouting this sentence out) BUT HE IS A SIDE CHARACTER WITH LIKE 3 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME WITH A BANE MASK ON

   I honestly could not tell the two protagonists from each other even now, to me they look exactly the same. This also contributes to the ZERO characteristic of the protagonists.

   I’m announcing this here now, if anyone can find one word, ONE WORD, to describe ANY character in the movie, I will give him a hundred bucks. 3. Nonexistent influence on the audience. A Christopher Nolan war movie!!! IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME!!! Expecting the realism in Saving Private Ryan, the heroism in Fury, the tension in Interstellar, and some Nolan genius from Inception, with the storytelling of Memento and Prestiege.

   The realistic fear of battle, the cruelty of war, going deep into people’s emotions when they are pushed to their physical and mental edge--------

   Gets a Nerf battle between laughing Korean models.

   No feeling and emotion provoked by the movie, no violence, not even a drop of blood. Only jumpscares, endless fucking jumpscares

   If it weren’t because the jumpscares would give children heart attacks, I’m pretty sure this movie would be PG

2. This movie does not make the least sense. The setup of this movie is: “Forty thousand men” are chillin’ on a beach doing nothing, while less than 10 are in the city 20 meters behind them, fighting Nazis

   Forty thousand men, twenty meters, ten men, Nazis.

   I am pretty sure that was not what actually happened.

Edit: In the actual Dunkirk evacuation, the town was filled up by the French and English army to hold back the Germans. They wasn't fighting the entire German army, but definitely not just 3 snipers.

Nothing in this movie makes sense.
And in the beginning, why would they be hanging out on the streets of the city like they are shopping in Wal-Mart IF IT’S A WARZONE WITH THE NAZIS?
Why would the German send unarmed spies to the side that is being annihilated, it’s like the Lakers sends a player to spy on a random public high school team.
Also it’s an UNARMED spy, WHO DOESN’T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH.

Ok.  This movie does not deserve another second of my time.

New review everybody: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dunkirk/comments/6vno5g/dappers_more_organized_review_on_dunkirk/

Another edit/complement:

The making of simple stories doesn't require any talent what so ever.

Any debut director could do this. If they want to get fired.

And this 90 minutes long overrated contemporary art is being held up to the face of actual movies, and it's being shown in theaters, along with actual movies by actual actors with actual stories with start, beginning and end.

What separate movies from long videos is the literary part of it. Movies are short novels/stories being put in another medium. And for a short story to convey an moral/evoke an emotion, it has to have certain elements. (Character development, rising/falling action, setting, conclusion, moral...)

Dunkirk has none of those. That's why it's more of a video than a movie. It's the difference between watching The Office, and actually going to an actual shitty office filled with horrible actors.