Dunkirk on Imax was brilliant!

[Andy_R]

We're booked up to see it tomorrow

 

[Donger]

Saw it on the weekend with the missus. Both of us would give it a 7/10. Some very good scenes and generally enjoyable and quite impressive. Worth the money (and they were raking it in as the place was packed to the rafters). There were a few strangely quiet and deserted scenes, though. I reckon with the Spielberg touch (as per the Omaha Beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan) it could have been epic. We both got the very distinct feeling it was partly filmed right outside the Hotel Atlantic in Wimereux, where we have stayed a couple of times:

Did anyone see that little mini series about Dunkirk a few years back with Benedict Cumberbatch (before he made it big)? I remember that as being really excellent and well worth watching again.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 4893102, member: 9609"]thats were we are going to go, big adventure for me going into Gala - even a bigger adventure for me, I havn't been to the movies since Jungle Book 50 plus years ago - so long ago I can't even rember going.[/QUOTE]
Jungle Book was the first ever record I bought.

Gala cinema is good, maybe just not go and watch Dunkirk; it's not bad, it's just not that great.

 

[User482]

[QUOTE 4893102, member: 9609"]thats were we are going to go, big adventure for me going into Gala - even a bigger adventure for me, I havn't been to the movies since Jungle Book 50 plus years ago - so long ago I can't even rember going.[/QUOTE]
The first film I saw!

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 4893102, member: 9609"]thats were we are going to go, big adventure for me going into Gala - even a bigger adventure for me, I havn't been to the movies since Jungle Book 50 plus years ago - so long ago I can't even rember going.[/QUOTE]

I remember taking the Cubs to see that in Plymouth in the early 80's

Went by bus from St Budeaux..... 4 adults and 36 halves please!

 

[PaulB]

That is true of any movie shot with today's equipment, although it is only in respect of the sound and vision. A good story well told is a good story on any screen.

And no doubt the TV ad for the movie that says watch it on the biggest possible screen was so pitched to make gullible idiots pay a premium so that the production company maximise their profits.

It was exactly the same cost at the IMAX I saw it at as at my local small-screen cinema.

And I seriously doubt the production company get an increase in profits dependent on which cinema the customers watch the film at.

 

[Illaveago]

[QUOTE 4893102, member: 9609"]thats were we are going to go, big adventure for me going into Gala - even a bigger adventure for me, I havn't been to the movies since Jungle Book 50 plus years ago - so long ago I can't even rember going.[/QUOTE]
Prices might have gone up since then.

 

[FishFright]

Cowardice? Like when they slinked back out of A'stan with their tails between their legs?

There's a long history of countries doing the same.

 

[Andy_R]

Can honestly say I've never seen anything like it. Wow. Unremitting, relentless, thoughtful. It is NOT a stereotypical war film, even though it captures one of the turning points of WW2.

 

[jefmcg]

Saw this discussed elsewhere. During a retreat, different units and ranks are prioritised. Infantry and armour officers are top priority, followed by infantry regiments, signals units and so on right down to sappers. At Dunkirk, complete infantry units marched straight down the quay onto RN ships. Those on the beaches were largely cooks, transport etc. At Crete, large numbers of rear echelon troops were left for capture. Ashdown's orders weren't racist, they were brutally pragmatic. An officer who could command Empire troops was far more valuable than the Indian mule team he was commanding.

You completely missed my point. I was just using that link to indicate there were non-whites at Dunkirk.

Complaining about someone mentioning that the film is nearly entirely cast with white men assumes two things.

1. That every reader of USA Today knows a fair amount about Dunkirk.
2. That everyone involved with Dunkirk were white men.

As many of the readers of that newspaper, especially the non-whites, will have enough more recent war stories of from their countries of origins that they may not know more than the basics of WWII, so the first isn't true. And the second isn't true. There are non-white stories of Dunkirk, they are just not the stories that Scott et al have chosen to tell.

 

[Andy_R]

Update: Truly blown away...I never want to see a film like this again....because it would just be a pale shadow of an imitation, and would never have the same impact.....after the closing credits me and Jake just sat there looking at the blank screen, trying to gather out thoughts...a 13 year old trying to say something about a film, but too emotionally overcome to be able to.. and a 40 somthing in the same situation.......What blew me away were the last scenes where Churchill's "fight them on the beaches" speech was read out by a character whose name we will never know, and whose destiny we will never know. They came home from Dunkirk, and then went on to fight in France, North Africa, Indonesia, the whole of the World...lest we forget.

 

[Drago]

Was due to see it today but Mrs D isn't well. Grovelled on the phone to the cinema and they've rebooked it for Friday with no charge.

 

[oldwheels]

No mention of the abandonment of the Highland Regiments at St Valery delaying the German advance to allow the evacuation.

 

[Mr Celine]

Just been to see this - in the Pavilion, Galashiels, to give cyclechat's favourite cinema its full name.

I'm afraid I don't share @Marmion 's opinion of the film. I thought it was utter garbage.
I don't think I've seen a film with quite so many continuity errors, anachronisms or historical inaccuracies. I'm off to IMDB for a few days to fill up the goofs page.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm afraid I don't share @Marmion 's opinion of the film. I thought it was utter garbage.

As always, I was being kind.