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?
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.
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.
Sucked.
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.
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
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.
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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.
I noticed two women--a stewardess on a ship and a housewife--and one black soldier.
That wasn’t in the movie. That maybe the actual story.
Sort of like Glengary-Glen Ross with rifles and machine guns?
Yes. It was fantastic. Go see it.
seem to be the general consensus after the last week post
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.
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
It was actually Von Runstead and Von Kluge that wanted the pause and stopped Guderian’s tanks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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