Saw Dunkirk last night, glad we went to the cinema to see it too, the wife and I are definitely fans. She would like to know whether the ending is based on a known actual event. Dont want to invite a spoiler but if anyone has a link to a source ( @JiMMy 85 ?) which deals with this sort of question.
As TellyTubby says, the reception of the soldiers was based on actual events, but the specific people depicted were not - and that includes who I think you're alluding to, whom we last saw on the beach. That was not based on an actual event. I checked straight after the film myself!
Correct, Jimmy, thanks. And thanks to @TellyTubby for that excellent link.So a bit of creative licence there, and why not? Although my wife was gong frantic and muttering "get those wheels down, go on, go on...". Not sure how she will feel to know it wasn't quite like that, but she's an experienced film fan so I am sure she won't feel cheated. It was a beautiful piece of film, and I wonder how they did that with the Spitfire. And we all know this, but what a beautiful and remarkable plane it is.
Finally got to see Dunkirk - I thought it was good and definitely a film to be seen on the big screen. My reservation about it is that, despite a very strong cast and the evacuation being one of the most heroic episodes of the World War II, the film didn't, for me, generate much of an emotional resonance.
Shot Caller. Starring Jamie Lannister. Interesting slant on the rise of a gang leader operating from inside a prison. Nicolai Costner-Waldua plays the thinking mans chief thug and unlikely leader of a white supremist gang. Pretty blood thirsty as you'd expect and all in all a pretty decent film. 6.5/10
Baby Driver Causght this earlier in the week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I normlly avoid films based around cars going stupidly fast, but this was very very well made and produced, the cast were great and there was enough outside the car stuff to keep me happy. If I had to choose between the two, I'd be inclined by the smallest of margins to say I enjoyed this more tan Dunkirk, but the ending of Dunkirk was better.
I'm a year late as usual but just finished watching Deepwater Horizon, great film that I'd recommend watching if you haven't yet. Just been added to Netflix.
Deepwater Horizon about 3/4 way through I remember thinking, ok they've overdone it with the explosions now. Then I read interviews with survivors after who said there wasn't enough explosions. Unreal
Mad Max Fury Road Chrome Edition. Knackered after that and my eyes feel like they have had a layer singed off them. Proper action film though and some of those stunts looked bone crunching.
I went to an extended trailer and Q&A with director Doug Liman a few weeks back and was totally sold on it. It looks like a lot of fun. And Liman/ Cruise worked really well on Edge of Tomorrow so I have high hopes.
Liman told a story about how he was in a plane filming Cruise, who was flying another plane all on his own. And Cruise disappeared from the cockpit to throw some fake cocaine out the back. And Liman as shitting himself thinking, "I just asked the world's biggest movie star to leave the controls of the plane unattended." But of course Cruise was very keen to do that! He's such a legend.
I went to an extended trailer and Q&A with director Doug Liman a few weeks back and was totally sold on it. It looks like a lot of fun. And Liman/ Cruise worked really well on Edge of Tomorrow so I have high hopes.
Liman told a story about how he was in a plane filming Cruise, who was flying another plane all on his own. And Cruise disappeared from the cockpit to throw some fake cocaine out the back. And Liman as shitting himself thinking, "I just asked the world's biggest movie star to leave the controls of the plane unattended." But of course Cruise was very keen to do that! He's such a legend.
He knows he has Ron L Hubbard protecting and looking after him from the Church of Scientology in the sky.
Watched "Locked up" the other evening, enjoyable yet predictable. Big lesbian scene in the the film. Watching the blind panic on my wife face as she realised that our blinds were still open and our TV visible to passing neighbours was worth seeing.
Watched "Locked up" the other evening, enjoyable yet predictable. Big lesbian scene in the the film. Watching the blind panic on my wife face as she realised that our blinds were still open and our TV visible to passing neighbours was worth seeing.
More importantly, was the big lesbian scene worth watching?
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
Citizen Kane - long, boring film about some fart and his sled. Ultimately pointless.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
Citizen Kane - long, boring film about some fart and his sled. Ultimately pointless.
I know your being ironic but that pretty much sums Citizen Kane for me . Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time and I hated it.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
Citizen Kane - long, boring film about some fart and his sled. Ultimately pointless.
I know your being ironic but that pretty much sums Citizen Kane for me . Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time and I hated it.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
Citizen Kane - long, boring film about some fart and his sled. Ultimately pointless.
I know your being ironic but that pretty much sums Citizen Kane for me . Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time and I hated it.
Watched "Locked up" the other evening, enjoyable yet predictable. Big lesbian scene in the the film. Watching the blind panic on my wife face as she realised that our blinds were still open, I'd unzipped my flies and our TV visible to passing neighbours was worth seeing.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
Citizen Kane - long, boring film about some fart and his sled. Ultimately pointless.
I know your being ironic but that pretty much sums Citizen Kane for me . Watched it a couple of years ago for the first time and I hated it.
Yeah it's like black and white and everything
Yeah your so right and it wasn't in 3D either.
Excellent Dolby though, especially in the KungFu sequence.
Watched "Locked up" the other evening, enjoyable yet predictable. Big lesbian scene in the the film. Watching the blind panic on my wife face as she realised that our blinds were still open, I'd unzipped my flies and our TV visible to passing neighbours was worth seeing.
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
It didn't tell 3 or 4 stories within a day, it told the stories over differing time period until they all culminate. Could explain why you didn't like it?
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
It didn't tell 3 or 4 stories within a day, it told the stories over differing time period until they all culminate. Could explain why you didn't like it?
The reason I did not like the film is that I simply found it boring. Repetitive. Dull. I have read many articles by the directors' fan boys laying out reasons why the film is groundbreaking. But I am not convinced. And I am entitled to find the film boring. But I expect the usual snarky comments from the usual suspects on here!
I thought Dunkirk was poor. No character development; no script; hackneyed stereotypes - Hardy, Brannagh, Rylance. The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before. That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
It didn't tell 3 or 4 stories within a day, it told the stories over differing time period until they all culminate. Could explain why you didn't like it?
The reason I did not like the film is that I simply found it boring. Repetitive. Dull. I have read many articles by the directors' fan boys laying out reasons why the film is groundbreaking. But I am not convinced. And I am entitled to find the film boring. But I expect the usual snarky comments from the usual suspects on here!
Mind if I ask if you're able to get a bit more specific here?
Like, who are the fan boys and where are the articles, and which posters have been snarky to you for not liking a movie?
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Very uplifting film to watch.
Causght this earlier in the week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I normlly avoid films based around cars going stupidly fast, but this was very very well made and produced, the cast were great and there was enough outside the car stuff to keep me happy. If I had to choose between the two, I'd be inclined by the smallest of margins to say I enjoyed this more tan Dunkirk, but the ending of Dunkirk was better.
Then I read interviews with survivors after who said there wasn't enough explosions.
Unreal
Apparently broken a bone in his ankle so he done well to get up and hobble on
What do people make of what looks to be his latest film: "American Made"?
Liman told a story about how he was in a plane filming Cruise, who was flying another plane all on his own. And Cruise disappeared from the cockpit to throw some fake cocaine out the back. And Liman as shitting himself thinking, "I just asked the world's biggest movie star to leave the controls of the plane unattended." But of course Cruise was very keen to do that! He's such a legend.
The fact that it told 3 or 4 stories within a day is hardly groundbreaking: been done numerous times before.
That this has been heralded as 'a groundbreaking piece of cinema' shows how low film making has sunk.
But the movie itself bored the ever-loving shit out of me, and I don't intend to ever watch it again!
It was dross.
However I'm sure the high five told the virus to ´fu3k xff' half way through the film.
Can anyone else confirm.
Like, who are the fan boys and where are the articles, and which posters have been snarky to you for not liking a movie?