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Saw Dunkirk a couple of days ago. Sadly, very disappointing
Hans Zimmer's ghastly 'score' overwhelms everything with a cacophony of wailing strings and crashing horns, screaming emothional instructions at the audience every couple of minutes. The cinematography is dreadful, with the dark blue turned up to 11, so that it all looks like a 1990s Kronenbourg advert. Heck, the British troops' helmets actually appear as dark blue/grey instead of service brown. Incredibly, Nolan manages to make something as intrinsically exciting and cinematic as aerial combat actually boring. Not content with slapping a trendy muddy filter over the lens, he then has Tom Hardy's Spitfire, an aircraft with a top speed of c400mph, pursue a Heinkel with all the energy of a tractor bearing down on a hedgehog.
There is no plot or character development, no-one to care about, the scale of the battle is not portrayed at all, historical errors all over the place like incorrect rank slides, inexhaustible ammunition and aircraft in combat despite no engine power.
I stuck it out for about an hour and then left. The critics are absolutely wrong about this one.
Absolutely. Not to mention that the BEF was entirely mechanised. They abandoned 20,000 motorcycles and 65,000 other vehicles at Dunkirk plus nearly 500 tanks. The beach would have looked like a car park but in the film was practically empty...My feelings precisely. Not what I was expecting at all....and the beach which supposedly had 400,000 troops looked more deserted than the beach in Barry, mid December.
The film about the Way of St. James?Just finished watching the "The Way". Glad that I took the time to do so.
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+1Kingsman, : Secret Service - loved it as much as every other Matthew Vaughn (& Jane Goldman) project. My type of film, Colin Firth and Taran Egerton were brilliant. Can't wait until the sequel next year.
http://www.theshavingroom.co.uk/community/index.php?threads/rate-the-last-film-you-watched.34336/page-49#post-651635Yes. You may want to pick a time when you're "not" being introspective about your live to watch it.
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