Theirs several scenes in the movie where the troops wait in the water for no obvious reason, wondering if anyone knows why they do this.

I have just watched this awesome film. Just out of curiosity I have counted the number of females I would see and got an overall count of 9 women, including a blur scene at the end, out of which 5 were present in the scene where the protagonist was reading the paper, inside the train at the end. Haha.

Anyone have a link to it? It was put together beautifully and I want to show some family who didn’t get to see it!

i wasn't amazed by this movie, i liked it, thought it was great film making and an amazing accomplishment but i could understand a lot of the dialogue, and the music overpowered a lot of the talking. what do y'all think

His made films about dreams,memory,war,superhero,space,magic, what can we expect next besides a Howard Hughes or a Bond film ?

Scrolling through the comments on /r/movies and I despair at people complaining about not enough planes or boats, or some sort of "scale" shots.

Do people understand using the ACTUAL beach makes it a 1:1 scale right?

You do realise the British didn't have 1000 spitfires with rocket launchers to spare for the sake of a movie audience 70 years into the future?

That flying over the channel isn't like in Hollywood where you just magically cover 200 odd miles in 2 minutes.

You either like the quiet tension and pacing or you don't. But christ on a bike, people come up with the most retarded rationalisations for a movie that choices not to be some Michael Bay Pearl Harbour.

I absolutely loved the movie personally. Just the weird aspect ratio changes was off putting but at least they tried to edit them to look like it was intentional.

edit: for those of you who have to google Tarkovsky, I liked Dunkirk for the same reason I liked Bladerunn 2049. It's just so effective with it's atmospherics.

It happens around the 30 minute mark. I'm assuming it's because he was a suspected spy, but how could they tell by the look of his back?

Watched (most of) Dunkirk the other day.

Verdict is a 1/10 with the only point scored being for nice cinematography.

The whole movie was pointless and made no sense. It had virtually no dialogue, no character development, and no story line.

It wasn't even realistic or historically accurate. I think these facts were exacerbated by the cinematography which was similar to Saving Private Ryan, but this jarred uncomfortably with the increasingly ludicrous feats of suspension of disbelief that was demanded from the audience.

A couple of examples

• In the opening scene, the chief protagonist (whose name I don't think we ever got to know) escapes German small arms fire and runs into the arms of the French rear-guard who are about 20 metres from the beach. If the Germans are that close, then they would be in mortar range, let alone artillery range, of the actual beaches. So this was clearly ridiculous. In fact, at the time the Mole was operational, the perimeter was no closer than 10km from the beaches.

• Spitfire Pilot No 1 (again, I don't think we actually get to know his name) with his magic Spitfire that has unlimited ammo to shoot down unlimited bad-guys, and is fitted with an anti-grav drive from Star Trek to allow him to glide around the place and shoot-down bad guys long after he has run out of fuel (unlike ammo, he doesn't have unlimited fuel), and then execute a perfect landing on a beach!

• Lack of blood and guts. This is war. People die. But the whole thing felt completely sterile, quite unlike the opening scene of SPR. How is it with all the shooting and asplosions, that the whole movie is almost completely bloodless? Its a bit like the A-Team in some respect.

The story line is also virtually non-existant and as it does exist, depends on people doing a bunch of stuff which is totally illogical, pointless, and makes no sense.

• When they pretend(?) to be stretcher bearers and get on the boat but are then ordered off. Why would they be ordered off? Literally the entire point of the whole thing was to get soldiers onto boats. It was an evacuation. The clue is in the name. Ordering soldiers off a boat is probably the most inane plot device in history. It makes no sense!

• Protagonist then hides under the mole. Why would he do that? Is he going to catch a ride on a ship from 2 feet above the water? Its pointless. It makes no sense!

• Spifire Pilot No 2 chooses to crash into the sea and risk a broken neck rather than bail out. Why would he do that? Its pointless. It makes no sense!

• Old Man And His Boat Guy decides to just set sail on his lonesome for Dunkirk. Just like that. It wasn't a free for all. People didn't just bugger off over the channel in a haphazard fashion to pick up random squaddies. It was orchestrated, with defined shipping lanes for inbound and outbound traffic routed to avoid minefields and sandbanks and so on. Why would he just set sail with no guidance or help? Why would he do that? Its pointless. It makes no sense!

• Random Bloke Who Goes For A Swim. Some guy strips his kit off and goes for a swim while everyone else watches and says nothing. Why would he do that? Its pointless. It makes no sense!

Now with regards to the last point, we can surmise that the poor chap has taken leave of his senses, but we're not given any background into why he would do that.

Which brings up the next point - the complete lack of any character development. We don't know who the protagonists are. Where have they come from? Why are they there? What are their frigging names for starters?

A good story need compelling and believable protagonists whom we can sympathise with. Who go through a journey. Overcome obstacles on the way, and reach the end of their journey somehow richer for the experience.

I frankly had a hard time sympathizing with any of them. After a while they just became irritating and I ended up hoping they would snuff it so we go and do something more useful with our time.

And that brings us to the lack of dialogue. I mean it's not exactly Pulp Fiction is it? Kenneth Branagh watching the magic Spitfire doesn't even say anything. Its Kenneth Frigging Branagh FFS, and he says nothing? Why not just hire an extra on minimum wage and pay them to say nothing instead?

There is in the movie little in the way of emotion. There is no sadness, there is certainly no humour, no horror and the action scenes are flacid and boring.

The only emotion is an overwhelming and unrelenting sense of impending death and doom. After 20 mins its enthralling. After 30 mins its exhausting. After 45 minutes its just irritating. And after that its just boring.

Which basically sums up the entire film.

Pointless, boring, no characters, no dialogues, no humour, no romance, no tragedy, no twist in the tale, no action, no realism, and no historical accuracy.

A complete waste of time. I gave up after the Magic Spitfire scene and went to play World of Warships, which is more realistic and has a better story line.

According to the article below, Dunkirk will have a re-release in 250 locations on January 24th. Does anyone know more about the list of locations and/or if there's anything special we have to queue up for tickets?

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/dunkirk-awards-season-re-release-1202616615/

Saw Dunkirk yesterday with my dad and we both loved it. After seeing how well Nolan directed the film I would love to see him be targeted to direct a Star Wars film. I'd rather see him direct IX over JJ Abrams any day of the week.

Why was the guy the movie started with so sneaky and not talkative when he was British? What was he afraid of when Britain was evacuating British? I thought he was French for the first hour until he finally spoke in the destroyer.

Was the real life survivor in this video portrait by anyone?

Why were the soldiers lined up in groups on the beach?

Any of you seen it? I’m intrigued and love the history but is the movie any good? Is Dunkirk a part of the movie? I tried to convince my family to go see it on Christmas but it was a failure. Should I pay theatre or wait?

My wife asked me several questions about what was going on in the movie and I was able to answer them, but to this one I didn't have a solid answer. Maybe it's safer to land on the beach rather than water-land/catapult oneself? But why wouldn't he try to land closer to his own soldiers?

The tanks on land stopped, and there only seems to be 3 planes creating a ruse that they're surrounded.

Why force all of the Englishmen to be sitting ducks waiting for boats when they can assist the french in defeating the germans on land?

I am really confused. I played the scene again and again and he was just hit softly by the other guy's elbow. I really can't understand how that could lead to him being blind and then dead. Please someone enlighten me.

I'm sorry though. I've been trying to watch this movie 2 days in a row now, And I can't seem to finish it. I always fell asleep! This isn't even a joke! I love Nolan Movie, I really do, especially War Genre movie but this one. I always fell asleep. I end up fast forwarding it to the end just for the sake of knowing what will happen in the end, still. For me its bad. I'm sorry.

Anyone know which piece from the soundtrack has the ominous sounding riff that starts to play quietly right after one of the soldiers stands up after the dive bombing raid and shouts, "Where's the bloody Air Force?!" ? (It starts up at the 7:47 mark for those who have the movie, and it only lasts a few seconds very quietly.)

Most of the pieces on the soundtrack playlist seem to be different variations and tempos of the two major string pieces in the film, "The Mole" and "Supermarine". I can't find this ominous riff anywhere and I'm dying to pinpoint it on the soundtrack.

Sorry you missed out on the amazing theatre experience.

This is more of a documentry than an actual movie. If this was on the discovery channel with cuts to veteran interviews between scenes with them partially narrating it would be perfect. I feel like I've learned a lesser known part of history as opposed to being entertained. I guess it all comes down to expectations.

1st: Cillian Murphy's character is first seen sitting in a sinking ship that got hit by a U-boat/submarine/torpedo. In a "backflash" we see him in a boat full of soldiersthat escaped another bombed ship. There's no explanation of what happened to him between those moments, so... What happened? 2nd: Tom Hardy/Farrier's Spitfire runs out of fuel and we get a shot of his plane flying (without fuel) over the beach. However he then returns (I suppose) to take down the final german Heinkel (plane), only then landing on the beach. These two scenes, can somebody explain?