MovieChat Forums > MR392781 > Replies
MR392781's Replies
When I saw it the first time I thought: "OMG; this is taking forever! BOOORING!"
The next day though I thought "Wow! I gotta see this again!" - So I drove 2.5 hrs to a cinema to watch it at an 11:15 p.m. Screening and then drive back (was home at 4 a.m.) and I don't regret any second of this stunt (I wanted a big screen and this was the closest one with an English version playing).
This movie is great. It takes it's time, the acting is great (especially Gosling - after I watched 'Drive' the other week I finally understoode why Villeneuve wanted him), the story was raising big questions and even Leto's performance made sense and convinced me on second viewing.
Granted, it is not a masterpiece, but if a movie is 'only' really good/great, that's already something nowadays.
I was a great film.
When I heard Nolan would make a film about Dunkirk I kind of panicked - I wanted to see the movie but thought "what story do you want to tell? There is no story!"
And then Nolan just skipped the "normal" story and critics like Stuckmann or the Schmoes etc hated him for that.
I loved it! This film is about 400.000 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND) men trapped by a relentles enemy. It does not matter WHO you are among those, you just want to get out! ALIVE and unscathed! Period. And Nolan showed the desparation, the fear but also the sacrifices (the pilots, the French, the Medics, the civilians) perfectly.
This movie isnt't there to tell you that some guy wants to go back to his love/home/kids/school/soccer team ... because it just doesn't matter. They want to stay alive!
The stories mesh up / interact beautifully. It is just that one has to pay attention and you will see that the spitfires bomb the same ship in two scenes, once seen from the pilots' view, once from the boat's view. Same goes for the downing of the blond pilot.
All three threads come together in the oil-scene.
It is just great story/documentary telling.
It's not his best movie, but for me it's his third (behind TDK and Inception).
A 9.
ONe of my all time favourites.
I'm so happy the T. Scott directed it. Just imagine the motel fight with Tarantino zooms and Eastern sounds?
But this way, the motel Scene gets me everytime, goose bumps all over and the fight in Alabama!
Then Hopper and Walken - so sad because once Hopper asks for a cigarette you know what's coming and that he will protect his son! Awsome!
And then the final shoot-out. When Alabama screams "Clarence" in total despair.
Apart from that, Oldman is just beyond great. Brad Pitt is so stoned it's just hilarious.
Cheezy but so well done that it's always mving to watch - the I love you in front of the billboard scene!
Yes, it helps.
I didn't view the prisoner as a means for Joe to revisit/re-evaluate his past deeds. But that makes sense.
And you are right, in the first scene he is stoic but not participating. The Joe of a few years ago would have probably laughed and whipped the group.
Good points.
I guess the movie was just moving along at such a suicidal pace that I couldn't keep track? :)
A) Just because a person realizes that the times have changed does not necessarily imply that this person will move away from its core values and beliefs.
I am missing a strong enough catalyst for this develepment.
B) Well, may be. But I am not convinced - which does not mean I disagree.
That's my problem, I just don't quite see the why.