Opens Friday, 7/21. Getting a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes so far which is high praise. I don't go to the movies any more unless there is a real good reason to do so, but this one might drag me into a theater.
"This is visceral, big-budget filmmaking that can be called Art. It's also, hands down, the best motion picture of the year so far." "Let other directors play with toy soldiers and computer effects. This is big-time, old-school filmmaking. Dunkirk isn't overdone. It's simply done epically." "Christopher Nolan's astonishing new film, a retelling of the Allied evacuation of occupied France in 1940, is a work of heart-hammering intensity and grandeur that demands to be seen on the best and biggest screen within reach."
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I lived in London for 2 years starting in 1960. WW2 was very much a part of most Londoners life at that time. There were still many bomb sites in downtown London at that time and we had a bomb shelter in our back yard that contained helmets and gas masks. The American USAF school I attended had been the site of one of Ike's headquarters during the prep for D Day in France. Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain were a large part of my reading and the guy across the street was a former Spitfire pilot. I can hardly wait to see the movie and will hope for the best.
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I saw the trailer when it first came out a while ago and have been waiting patiently to go see it at the theater. I hope it's as good as the trailer makes it out to be.
That's why I was waiting for the Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Anyone can make a movie about an historic event with a lot of explosions but can they tell the story well? So many movies nowadays have fantastic CGI and flashy destruction but the movie itself sucks. RT takes the results of dozens of different reviewers - many of whom wouldn't know a Stuka from a B-17 - for an overall score and since it's now at 97% that pretty much guarantees a well crafted movie. I'm thinking of taking Friday off so I can go see the early matinee when it opens.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
When folks see the movie remember it was the French who stood and fought the Germans off to allow the Brits to evacuate.
Without the courage and the bravery of those French troops, many Brits would not have lived to be evacuated.
I, too, am hoping for a great movie.
Ed
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My grandfather on my mother's side was at Dunkirk and one of those evacuated on a small fisherman's boat. He never would say much about it, except to say that the beach was hell on earth........
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The miracle at Dunkirk is where Germany lost the war. At that time the US Army was smaller than Romania's. Had the Brit's folded then, so would the world.
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When folks see the movie remember it was the French who stood and fought the Germans off to allow the Brits to evacuate.
Without the courage and the bravery of those French troops, many Brits would not have lived to be evacuated.
I, too, am hoping for a great movie.
Ed
THIS. Also, while Guderian's tanks got there, the infantry had not caught up, hence the three day pause.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Opens Friday, 7/21. Getting a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes so far which is high praise. I don't go to the movies any more unless there is a real good reason to do so, but this one might drag me into a theater.
For me - there is no possibility of an "unless".. I'll wait til I can get it on DVD..
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Opens Friday, 7/21. Getting a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes so far which is high praise. I don't go to the movies any more unless there is a real good reason to do so, but this one might drag me into a theater.
For me - there is no possibility of an "unless".. I'll wait til I can get it on DVD..
Some movies should be seen on the big screen. This looks like one of them. Go to one of the new theaters with reserved seating and big lounge chairs. A pretty nice experience.
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When folks see the movie remember it was the French who stood and fought the Germans off to allow the Brits to evacuate.
Without the courage and the bravery of those French troops, many Brits would not have lived to be evacuated.
I, too, am hoping for a great movie.
Ed
THIS. Also, while Guderian's tanks got there, the infantry had not caught up, hence the three day pause.
Had a friend from France who's grand dad commanded a company in the same regiment he had served as an enlisted man in during the Great War. ( (This man lost all his brothers and several cousins in less than 2 hours at Verdun).
Ok. Back to Dunkirk, they expended all their ammo. MADE SEVERAL BAYONET ASSAULTS. And survivors ended up burning their regimental colors on the beach. Most spent rest of war in POW camp. His grand dad was released due to health. Went back to France and served as best as able With The Maquis.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
The 21st is our wedding anniversary. Dunkirk and supper will probably be our date. My wife is awesome.:)
I need to do a little reading up on it. I always sorta wondered, why, with Brit Naval firepower being what it was, they didn't offer more offshore artillery support. I'd have thought they could have owned everything to 10 miles inland. I get that the battleships and heavy cruisers with the big guns fretted U-boats, but I figured that's what destroyers were for.
The 21st is our wedding anniversary. Dunkirk and supper will probably be our date. My wife is awesome.:)
I need to do a little reading up on it. I always sorta wondered, why, with Brit Naval firepower being what it was, they didn't offer more offshore artillery support. I'd have thought they could have owned everything to 10 miles inland. I get that the battleships and heavy cruisers with the big guns fretted U-boats, but I figured that's what destroyers were for.
Fear of being bottled up in the channel. Not only a uboat presence, but the Kreigsmarine still had a formidable Surface fleet, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, Gniesanau, etc etc. Royal Navy didnt t need another Jutland.
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
