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Anyone seen Dunkirk yet? Does it live up to the hype?
08/04/17 | fwdude

Posted on 08/04/2017 3:51:42 PM PDT by fwdude

I've been hearing that Dunkirk is one of the greatest war flicks in history, with a few deniers panning it.

Anyone see it yet that can give a recommendation?


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dunkirk; hollywood; moviereview; vanity
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To: Fiji Hill
"I also noticed that they made almost no mention of the enemy. The word “Nazi” was never spoken, and the only time I remember hearing the word “German” was when some British soldiers accused a French solder of being a German spy. I also couldn’t see any Nazi hooked crosses on the tails of the German planes, although these were usually shown in the distance and too far away to view them in detail—and there wasn’t a hooked cross anywhere in the film."

It might be because you're supposed to focus on the internal struggle of wanting to survive a desperate situation, or maybe they were aiming to make it that much more terrifying -- the unknown is always more terrifying than the known and all that. Either way, I thought it was an interesting take because in most WW2 movies, even the generally accepted great ones, the Germans are constantly portrayed as bumbling, inept, running around yelling the same "especially-German sounding" few phrases that the extras were drilled on. No military could ever slug it out with almost the rest of the world for year after bloody year being as lousy as movie Nazis almost invariably are.

61 posted on 08/04/2017 5:14:47 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: napscoordinator

Apparently about half the civilian boats that participated at Dunkirk still exist but there are many which have been moved to countries around the world.

Sort of amazing.


62 posted on 08/04/2017 5:14:58 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: CGASMIA68

Sucked.


63 posted on 08/04/2017 5:16:11 PM PDT by culper jr (We need to stop our modern day Benedict Arnold.)
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To: fwdude
,i>I've been hearing that Dunkirk is one of the greatest war flicks in history,

No way! If you want to see a great war movie, see Alexander Nevskii, Birth of a Nation, Wings, Hell’s Angels, Gone with the Wind, or Patton.

64 posted on 08/04/2017 5:16:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: fwdude

Going in it wasn’t what I was expecting....
...but having said that.....it was reveting!

It wasn’t the sweep and grandeur visualized of thousands of soldiers waiting on that lone beach......or the hundreds of floating vessels that tirelessly set out to rescue them...even though you saw some of that!

It concentrated on a few specific souls.....and meshed them together towards the finale.......
And it brought home time and again that war is hellish!

Worth seeing


65 posted on 08/04/2017 5:17:25 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: fwdude

I have yet to see it, but I hear that it is totally ruined by the Director’s abject failure to feature enough feminist womyn, racial and sexual minorities, tatooed transgender revolutionaries, etc.

/s


66 posted on 08/04/2017 5:18:04 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

That’s why “The Longest Day” is such a great movie. At least the version where the Germans spoke in German with subtitles. They were actually portrayed as human beings.


67 posted on 08/04/2017 5:18:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Maceman
I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard that it is a terrible, racist, sexist movie, because it has no people of color or women (or transgenders).

I noticed two women--a stewardess on a ship and a housewife--and one black soldier.

68 posted on 08/04/2017 5:18:58 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: buffaloguy

That wasn’t in the movie. That maybe the actual story.


69 posted on 08/04/2017 5:19:09 PM PDT by culper jr (We need to stop our modern day Benedict Arnold.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Sort of like Glengary-Glen Ross with rifles and machine guns?


70 posted on 08/04/2017 5:21:35 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: fwdude

Yes. It was fantastic. Go see it.


71 posted on 08/04/2017 5:26:47 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: culper jr

seem to be the general consensus after the last week post


72 posted on 08/04/2017 5:29:48 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: toddausauras

More like “Act Of Stupidity’’. Hitler and the German General Staff were just to slow to realize how fast the panzers had advanced. But when the British were trapped on the beaches some generals wanted to finish them off but Hitler did have a bit of a soft spot for England in only that he felt the two peoples had the same blood and the same world view in many ways and he felt he might be able to get them to ‘’listen to reason’’ and capitulate. In the end he let Fatso Goering talk him into believing the Luftwaffe could finish them off. As always the Fat Man was talking out his ass. Thank goodness for history’s sake.


73 posted on 08/04/2017 5:35:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: toddausauras

It should be called “Act of Mercy” cause Hitler basically let them go.

Wrong - if Hitler wanted to left BEF go then why did not call off Luftwaffe

Sank dozens of ships and killed estimated 5,000 men


74 posted on 08/04/2017 5:42:55 PM PDT by njslim
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To: SkyDancer

It was actually Von Runstead and Von Kluge that wanted the pause and stopped Guderian’s tanks.


75 posted on 08/04/2017 5:43:03 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: fwdude

It’s a great film. It’s very much from he soldier’s eyes at dunkirk - the only time you see germans are in the distance. Most enemy fire comes from offscreen. Very realistic for soldier’s experience at dunkirk.

It really captures the feel of being a soldier in that kind of environment - long stretches of dread and terror, punctuated with brief moments of terror. And since this a siege, not a standup fight, no scenes offer illusion of agency for ground troops. They were at the mercy of the boats they were in and friendly air cover.

Because it reflects the worm’s-eye realities of war, it isn’t an action movie in any sense of the word. It looks like people complaining wanted an action movie, not a war movie.


76 posted on 08/04/2017 5:43:58 PM PDT by socalgop
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Well yeah, it would be impossible to do something such as The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Tora Tora Tora, or any other classic war movies nowadays.

There just isn’t the talent anymore.


77 posted on 08/04/2017 5:56:39 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: fwdude

We saw it. Husband liked it more than I did. I love history, and I was hoping to learn something from this movie. However, I did not. I didn’t hate it, but I would not tell anyone that it’s a must-see.

Glad I took my earplugs. Much too loud.


78 posted on 08/04/2017 5:58:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: fwdude

We saw it. Husband liked it more than I did. I love history, and I was hoping to learn something from this movie. However, I did not. I didn’t hate it, but I would not tell anyone that it’s a must-see.

Glad I took my earplugs. Much too loud.


79 posted on 08/04/2017 5:58:50 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: fwdude

It was good IMO. Lacked a lot of the standard Hollywood social engineering and focused on painting a good story, like movies used to do, Highly recommend it.


80 posted on 08/04/2017 6:00:56 PM PDT by BostonNeocon
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