iTunes BBC tv: "Dunkirk"

BBC | June 1, 2017 | self

[EliRoom8]

Before the pushback comes: (a) I know it's from those unreliable lefties at the BBC (2) the Brits offend me as much as anyone. That said, it was a huge surprise to watch a pc free, honest portrayal of this period of history.

Surprise!!! They're even treating Churchill fairly, perhaps better than Halifax.

[LS]

Really want to see. The line in the trailer was the reluctant son (”it’s not our job”) chastened by the farher about responsibility.

[LS]

Nolan, Easrwoof, Gibson our holy trinity of conservative filmmaking.

[Ron/GA]

Your ex-father-in-law was obviously talking about Atlanta’s “Snowjam 1982”. It was a quarter inch of snow, but it included almost an inch of ice. I was downtown in the middle of it, stuck on the freeway with a couple of hundred thousand of my closest friends and their cars.

No food, no water but even worse... no bathrooms! That became an issue after enterprising Ga Tech students walked among the cars selling cans of beer. I bought 3. This was at 4 pm. Fortunately, night fell and there were many furtive movements in the shadows as people, myself included, relieved themselves of the beer that seemed like a good idea at the time.

At 9 pm, we were still in the same place, bumper to bumper, frozen on the freeway. Things started moving about midnight and I finished a normal 2 hour drive after 16 hours.

Don’t think it equals ‘Nam or Dunkirk but it was memorable in its own way.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“That said, it was a huge surprise to watch a pc free, honest portrayal of this period of history.”

I dont know if I could watch a show that doesnt have an openly transgendered character, a badazz warrior female beating the carp out of men twice her size, a black female mechanical genius, or a white man capable of making an intelligent decision. It would give me the vapors.

[niteowl77]

While not by any means an epic bit of historical film-making, one episode of "Last of the Summer Wine" ("Last Post and a Pigeon") prominently featured one of the main characters returning to France and his memories of what happened while retreating to Dunkirk. The man who played that role died before the episode aired, which added a note of poignancy to an overall respectful treatment of a historical subject… at least for a "britcom."

Mr. niteowl77

[Dogbert41]

"Thanks. I added it to my NetFlix queue, but ratings are all over the place. IMDB - 6.5/10 Rotten Tomatoes - 25% Roger Elbert - 1.5/4 NetFlix - 4/5"

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I believe Communists don't like being showed what crappy places Communists make. Hence the low ratings.