Dunkirk
 

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Christopher Nolan.

JIMP!

I was going to come search for a thread on this figuring I'd just missed it but man, that looks awesome.

I mean sure, Death Star plans and what not, but I'm way more excited to see this. Just let Branagh have 80% of the screen looking all weathered and then have Tom Hardy show up towards the end to kick an ass or two.

The talent involved in this thing is amazing. Giving Nolan a WWII epic.....ugh, just too much awesome.

"Survival is Victory" -- **** that's cool; just an awesome way to capture Dunkirk and how critical that entire evacuation was to the war.

Looks bleak as all hell.

I have a hard time watching WWII movies. My grandfather told me some pretty crazy stories about his experiences in WWII and I still remember the look on his face when he would share.</br></br> There were a couple 'Band of Brothers' episodes I had to walk out on. Might be taking a pass on this one even though it looks amazing.

Hopefully more movies like this will educate the ignorant among us.

Wow.

Must watch.

thanks for the heads up on this. there arent many men left that survived Dunkirk. there is footage of these men heading back to england that breaks a heart. they were beaten but not defeated.

a movie was made in 1958 called Dunkirk! with john mills. it was filmed in Dunkirk with the soldiers that not only fought there but survived the war. the film was made 14 years after the war ended, yet the town still looked liked it was under attack.

here is link if yall want.
https://archive.org/details/Dunkirk1958

I have the biggest mancrush in the world on Cillian Murphy. This movie is going to be a smash.

Looks superb.

Explaining to people why there are no American soldiers in this movie is gong to be like explaining why Luke Skywalker isn't in Rogue One.

Yes, definitely in for this

I showed this clip to my wife. Her response?

"Why would you make a war movie that doesn't have any Americans in it...."?

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Shit like that should be divorceable. A buddy of mine's wife (my wife's sister, for what that's worth) door dinged a late 50's era Ferrari 250. He and I are pretty big car fans so he sees it and freaks out. Immediately gets out and stops her as she's walking around the back of their car to go into the store and says "did you see what you just hit?"

"You mean that red car?"

Seriously, he could've just stabbed her in the face right then and no jury in the world would've convicted him. No, my assistant's goddamn ford focus is 'that red car', you just marred an automotive icon. ****ing women, man - they are just wholly oblivious sometimes.

WWII + Chris Nolan = I'm all in

Helluva cast too... Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh

Don't forget Harry Styles. ;)

A significant amount of my high school students think he's the A-lister in this one.

Are they also puzzled as to why there are no Americans in it?

If they paid any attention to me last year, they should know why there aren't. But who am I kidding? I'm pretty sure they're operating on the assumption that this covers the great 4 year German and American War.

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I cannot wait to see that.

Wow. Nolan is amazing. Just wow.

Can't remember the last time I had goosebumps like this after watching a trailer.

Was probably actually Interstellar.

This is going to be amazing

Neat. I wonder how the film deals with the German side.

Once again, the director on the marquee jazzes me more than the actual trailer.

Not that the trailer is bad. Just that, with Nolan on the marquee, you know it's just an appetizer. Where with a different director you might worry you've already seen all the good parts.

Correct. Nolan holds back a lot in his marketing. He has enough power at the studios to keep them from giving away all the money shots. There was a special 5 minute preview that played in front of certain IMAX showings of Rogue One. It was a hell of a preview and if the whole movie has similar tension, it will be a great experience.

Nolan shot around 90 minutes with IMAX cameras. I recommend everyone try to see it in IMAX, specifically 70mm film IMAX or Laser IMAX. They tend to be the old school giant IMAX auditoriums with 60 foot tall screens. IMAX Corporation has been installing much smaller IMAX screens for a number of years.

Hans Zimmer is a genius.

Stuka's had those sirens on the landing gear to really sound scary.

Actually now that I think of it one of scouts said that Mahomes ball being thrown sounds like the stuka siren.

Yes sir! :thumb:

Here is a bootleg of the 5 minute IMAX Prologue that played in front of Rogue One.

tinyurl.com/mmzfok6

Oh, you think fuel gauge is your ally. But you merely adopted the gauge; I was born in fuel, molded by it.

Bring this on! In a summer full of comic book movies and sequels, this looks like a refreshing alternative .

All war movies are the same shit over and over. Wonder if this one will have some sort of love story like all the others.

From the trailers, it looks solid.

Excited to check it out.

When war movies are based on actual events, that's literally the opposite of true.

Granted, the skills of the researcher/writer and director are a factor, but this is Nolan baby.

Good drama for 2017. The new crop won't know how it ends.

That was pretty underwhelming to be honest.
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Not in an IMAX theater.

I'm sure visually and sonically it's great and that IMAX adds to the experience, but even without context a seven minutes clip should still be coherent. That prologue wasn't. Just seemed like random 30 second scenes back to back. Editing just looked bad
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This looks like it MUST be seen in IMAX (considering a lot of it was filmed with IMAX cameras). Looks jaw dropping.

also I read that there isn't a lot of dialogue in this .

There are no official reviews written yet... but there are tweets trickling in from reviewers the last 24 hours, and so far most all of them say this film is a major home run. People already pick Nolan's films apart to the 100th degree... sounds like the hype train might be about to leave the station on this one.

My wife thought this movie was another American/Japanese war movie.

Germany really missed a huge opportunity my goodness, I mean England quite possibly could have agreed to terms of a surrender if they had prevented them from escaping.

The battle has been dubbed "Miracle at Dunkirk" because at the time it was considered a huge miracle that the British pulled this off with the help from Hitler himself.

Nice group of actors I really like Cillian Murphy of course I will see this one, need more of these type of movies. Real stories are the best stories.

Very little dialogue in this film. It's focused on the visuals and sound.

It's a Must See in IMAX and is Nolan's shortest film.

I am excited to see this.

I'm planning to take time to see it in IMAX.

First time for everything...

I no longer do it, as my theater went digital three years ago, but an acquaintance of mine in Australia who is still in the industry put up this pic of all his Nolan films. You can see how much drastically shorter this film is when compared to his others.

That is pretty cool!

Not usually into these types of movies (at least what it appears to be from the trailer) but of course if it's Christopher Nolan I'll have to see it.

Me neither. In fact, I'm sick of WWII films period—unless there's something done with a different angle like Valkyrie or The Man in the High Tower.

Except that's a fantasy, created by the more than brilliant Philip K. Dick.

I just hope that Blade Runner 2 surpasses the original.

At least Ridley isn't directing it, as he's lost his mind recently.

The "Alien" films have been stupid and predictable.

I saw much of the movie in an IMAX studio recently and all I have to say is that if this movie is a true representation of 20th century war, we're the dumbest animals on the planet.

The sheer volume of a WWII prop plane is insanely loud, to the point where I don't know how those pilots could think.

Being blown off the deck into the ocean, while your lungs are filling with sea water, not knowing what happened, is terrifying.

Maybe his movie will have some resonance, but who knows...

That's a pretty tall order. I'd be happy if the new Blade Runner is half what the original is, which would make it far better than most of the crap that's coming out lately.

For sure.

I haven't seen The Arrival, which seems to polarize audiences, but my hope is that Villeneuve can pull it off.

Otherwise, why go there? (And of course the answer is money, but still).

I may be in the minority and of course, it wouldn't have happened without the original films, but if Blade Runner 2 is Rogue One, I'd be beyond thrilled.

Yeah. Planes are loud. But they couldn't be concerned with building much of a muffler. They were worried about speed and performance exlusively.

Do you mean Ridley Scott?

He's one of my favorite directors but yeah, I lost interest in the Alien movies after the first. One is enough.

As to the Man in the High Tower, yeah it's fantasy but it provides the kinda twist I am looking for on that era. Hacksaw Ridge as well, even though it's based on a true story.

Everything about war is loud.

Every veteran I have talked to is deaf as hell. I have forgotten to put my hearing protection on when shooting a few times, and wow it sucked. I can't imagine that x 1000000 for years.

I know my hearing has suffered just from hunting/target shooting when I was a kid and we didn't bother with hearing protection. If I'm in a loud room (like a bar) I can't carry on a conversation unless the person talking to me is basically yelling in my ear. And active duty people still don't use hearing protection when they shoot.

I don't know how they can hear anything.

The Star Wars Ep. VIII director weighs in.

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You mean to say that point was up for debate? Which part? The destruction of the environment? Fidget spinners? Letting children starve and die for lack of food and medicine? The Man Bun? The murdering of each other for money or sex or because we believe in a different Invisible Man In The Sky? Jets and Broncos fans? How many more examples are needed?

Wasn't sure where to put this, it could fit in many threads, or if there's enough interest I may move it into it's own. But finally getting around to watching Five Came Back, the documentary series on the big Hwood directors dropping everything to document the WWII effort.

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Reviews started to come out today, and so far they are amazing. It's early but at 97% of Rotten Tomatoes. 37 positive, 1 negative. Multiple reviewers saying it's the best film of the year so far, and some saying it's the best war movie in decades. The hype train is going to be hard to live up to.

Just bought my IMAX tickets for Saturday afternoon

Watching Christopher Nolan movies is well worth spending money for. I'm going to see this for sure.

Going Sunday for 70mm

Im trying to decide between that or IMAX. Thoughts?

I saw the 10 minute trailer in IMAX before Rogue One last December.

I vote IMAX.

70mm is how Nolan intended the film...it's basically super wide screen. I'd recommend that over imax unless it's 70mm imax. You don't see 70mm film often

I saw it at Universal Studios, so it was definitely 70mm and IMAX.

I can't vouch for other theaters.

Ahhh...epic then. Only theater that had it in 70mm imax is in STL. The local theater in overland Park KS has it in 70mm atleast so I can't complain. Hopefully I'll see a 70mm in imax glory someday..:)

Looks like I have one of the two 70mm IMAX screens in TX within a reasonable drive. Saw inception that way and was ****ing incredible.

1 hr 46 min runtime for a Nolan film. Is this an internet wide misprint?

I mentioned earlier in this thread that this is Nolan's shortest film to date

It's a straightforward historical story - no need for a multi-layered, needlessly and ridiculously labyrinthine plot. Thank God for that.

Exactly

Interstellar made me want to punch somebody. :grr:

lol same here. Can't believe I waited nearly an hour to see that pretentious / bloated crap in IMAX .

Oh and I just saw Dunkirk ...now thats more like it Nolan. What a badass masterfully done film . Best film I've seen all year and that is saying something since I've seen a lot of good ones. Dunkirk is gonna be hard to top

I wonder if it will be up for a few Oscars like for cinematography, directing, best visual effects etc. I'll be seeing it also this weekend and looking forward to it.

So I guess I have to go to Leawood to see this in 70mm