Last film you watched and your rating: The Directors Cut

Dual wrote:Still thinking about Dunkirk. I've not been emotionally moved by a piece of film like that in years. So raw in its delivery.

What an experience. A full on assault of sound and vision.

Perfect cinema.

I completely agree.

I had to bite my lip at work as the other people who'd been to see it said it was disappointing for really odd reasons.
One said the air combat was slow and laboured and didn't seem to understand that WW2 fighters aren't Tie Fighters with antigravity agility or Mig 29's at airshows and another comment was that the lack of body parts strewn all over the place was a letdown. They also said the story about boy on the little ship was pointless and I just had to shut up and walk away before I went strawberry floating mental.

strawberry floating philistines wouldn't know a good film if it hit them in the face .

I wish I worked with you, Peter.

I just hope the film doesn't suffer from such poor reactions and lots of people go and see it as it's amazing and well worth a trip to the cinema.

Also you seriously don't want to work with me as there's a reason why I never mention it on here or while gaming and it isn't because I think you'd all love it. If you think I'm grumpy on here you'd be surprised just how much worse I am at work and I've somehow been grumpy for the full 7 years.
Happiness and rainbows it ain't is all I'll say.

Probably the sort of people that don't think a film is worth watching if it isn't Marvel this or Disney that.

Why didn't Captain America help at Dunkirk, or was that after he was frozen?

It Follows - 8/10

It's on Netflix and very good indeed. Has a Carpenter vibe to it and a brilliant soundtrack. Excellent cast too.

Halfway through It Follows, I thought I was watching a modern day genre defining masterpiece. Then the second half happened.

Dunkirk. 6/10
Cinematography was top notch, the sound was deafening ( I saw it in IMAX) but a it also felt cold and clinical and ultimately I felt detached from it all. The beach scenes was were I felt it the most. For those that have seen Dunkirk compare that to this one scene in Atonement (in the beaches). It's full of busyness and loads of human touches. Nolans film just had people lined up, standing in a queue. I know it's silly but it took me out of the film.

SandyCoin wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Lotus wrote:I wasn't being serious.

I'm not fussed about seeing it anyway, but apparently it's racist because it only has white people in it. And the Guardian have to shoehorn Brexit into everything, hence the Brexit fantasy.

Do you have a link? I've Googled and can't find anything from the guardian calling the film racist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/01/indian-african-dunkirk-history-whitewash-attitudes

It's basically saying how there aren't enough members of the commonwealth in the movie i.e Indians. Also the French had African soldiers but they weren't apparently shown in the film. I've not seen it yet (going tomorrow or Thursday) but for some reason started reading the article. I swear I've seen the word "whitewash" more times in the last year than ever in my life.

Read that earlier, totally stupid article.

Ord wrote:Dunkirk. 6/10
Cinematography was top notch, the sound was deafening ( I saw it in IMAX) but a it also felt cold and clinical and ultimately I felt detached from it all. The beach scenes was were I felt it the most. For those that have seen Dunkirk compare that to this one scene in Atonement (in the beaches). It's full of busyness and loads of human touches. Nolans film just had people lined up, standing in a queue. I know it's silly but it took me out of the film.

My mother went to see Dunkirk and she actually had the same complaint. She felt like it lacked that human touch and it was very cold and sterile looking.

She also had a complaint about the amount of people on the beach, but then I guess the movie was covering the last few days of a mass evacuation that lasted over a week. I don't think that one holds so much (pardon the wordplay) water.

I really enjoyed Dunkirk, but after watching that Atonement clip (I haven't seen the film) I would agree that the beach scenes were a bit sterile and lacked...grit? I think that's a fair criticism. I don't mean I need to see Saving Private Ryan levels of gore and carnage, but perhaps a bit more stuff happening would have given it more impact.

Squinty wrote:

Ord wrote:Dunkirk. 6/10
Cinematography was top notch, the sound was deafening ( I saw it in IMAX) but a it also felt cold and clinical and ultimately I felt detached from it all. The beach scenes was were I felt it the most. For those that have seen Dunkirk compare that to this one scene in Atonement (in the beaches). It's full of busyness and loads of human touches. Nolans film just had people lined up, standing in a queue. I know it's silly but it took me out of the film.

My mother went to see Dunkirk and she actually had the same complaint. She felt like it lacked that human touch and it was very cold and sterile looking.

She also had a complaint about the amount of people on the beach, but then I guess the movie was covering the last few days of a mass evacuation that lasted over a week. I don't think that one holds so much (pardon the wordplay) water.

The contrast between that scene and Dunkirk is startling, thanks for posting it. I mean it was clearly a stylistic choice from Nolan. He could have had the massed crowds and End of the World like chaos like Atonement, but he was obviously making a much more sober film. I do agree that it felt very sterile in places, everything was very clean and proper, but it doesn't make it any less of a fantastic film.

Rocsteady wrote:

SandyCoin wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Lotus wrote:I wasn't being serious.

I'm not fussed about seeing it anyway, but apparently it's racist because it only has white people in it. And the Guardian have to shoehorn Brexit into everything, hence the Brexit fantasy.

Do you have a link? I've Googled and can't find anything from the guardian calling the film racist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/01/indian-african-dunkirk-history-whitewash-attitudes

It's basically saying how there aren't enough members of the commonwealth in the movie i.e Indians. Also the French had African soldiers but they weren't apparently shown in the film. I've not seen it yet (going tomorrow or Thursday) but for some reason started reading the article. I swear I've seen the word "whitewash" more times in the last year than ever in my life.

Read that earlier, totally stupid article.

It's a poor article, but it does have a point. It's very rare to see black or Asian faces in European set WW2 movies/games, but there were lots of non-whites fighting for the Allies.

Yeh the beach seemed pretty empty throughout the movie. I never really got a sense that they were surrounded either.

I watched it in 4D and the opening section was pretty cool with bullets whizzing past your head and the plane sections feeling like you were in the cockpit, but otherwise it took me out of it I think so I'll have to rewatch it in 2D

It makes a change from superhero movies though

BID0 wrote:It makes a change from superhero movies though

Haven't seen Dunkirk as yet, but I agree completely with the above statement. Absolutely sick to the back teeth of superhero movies and related TV series, and I consider myself a fan. In fact I haven't bothered with the anything superhero related of recent. Last film I watched was Guardians 2 and I was bored out of my mind.

Too much of a good thing perhaps.

OH THAT REMINDS ME

Saw a trailer for Inhumans whilst waiting for Dunkirk to start - it looked absolutely terrible

Go away Marvel, you're too everywhere.

It's very gratifying seeing other clearly very sensible people criticising Dunkirk.

Preezy wrote:Saw a trailer for Inhumans whilst waiting for Dunkirk to start - it looked absolutely terrible

My favourite description is still that it looks like the porn parade of itself

Gemini73 wrote:

BID0 wrote:It makes a change from superhero movies though

Haven't seen Dunkirk as yet, but I agree completely with the above statement. Absolutely sick to the back teeth of superhero movies and related TV series, and I consider myself a fan. In fact I haven't bothered with the anything superhero related of recent. Last film I watched was Guardians 2 and I was bored out of my mind.

Too much of a good thing perhaps.

I'm not the only one. Wow. Anytime a Marvel movie trailer comes on in the cinema, my brain switches off.

I really liked the first Guardians of the Galaxy though. I had to be really pushed into watching it because I'm sick of those Avenger films.

Squinty wrote:

Gemini73 wrote:

BID0 wrote:It makes a change from superhero movies though

Haven't seen Dunkirk as yet, but I agree completely with the above statement. Absolutely sick to the back teeth of superhero movies and related TV series, and I consider myself a fan. In fact I haven't bothered with the anything superhero related of recent. Last film I watched was Guardians 2 and I was bored out of my mind.

Too much of a good thing perhaps.

I'm not the only one. Wow. Anytime a Marvel movie trailer comes on in the cinema, my brain switches off.

I really liked the first Guardians of the Galaxy though. I had to be really pushed into watching it because I'm sick of those Avenger films.

The first Guardians was great, the second was more of the same except the story wasn't as good I thought. Yondu's tale was quite good though, and the one reason I kept watching other than having my eldest daughter with me at the time, (naturally she loved baby Groot). Had I been on my tod I probably would have upped and left about half way through.

I used to look forward to the up coming superhero films, but now there are so many out and due out I, like you, find myself switching off. Recently sold my collection of blu-ray hero films. They looked nice on the shelve, but I never felt compelled to watch any. They're all on TV all the bloody time anyway.