[Film] Dunkirk (Jul 21 2017)

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 3:18 pm

Teaser

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Dunkirk is an upcoming British epic action-thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan.

Release date: 21 July 2017

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:00 pm

Now this is a movie I can get into. I'm surprised it took this long to make a movie of it.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:25 pm

1958 with Richard Attenborough.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:38 pm

A war movie in Nolan's style could be very cool. I wonder if it will focus just on the beach perimeter and rescue or if it will be about the whole campaign (in which case it's as much a blitzkrieg movie as a Dunkirk movie).

Or something more experimental, like sticking close to a handful of characters while the larger situation falls apart in just the final hours.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:41 pm

Teaser trailers generally make it impossible to tell what the movie is really about unless you know something about the subject matter. This one is no exception. Saw the trailer at the movie theater a couple of days ago; so far I'm not interested (but then again I rarely watch war movies anymore).

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:46 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:1958 with Richard Attenborough.

Wow, I'd never heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:30 pm

Could be a great story. Must have been harrowing in that time.

gameoverman · Post by **gameoverman** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:53 pm

I saw a teaser for this with Suicide Squad. It mentioned Nolan and his movies then showed what looked like a Normandy style landing but with a WWI skin instead of WWII. That was strange imo. I know what Dunkirk was about but that teaser felt like they didn't trust the audience to know, so let's make it look like something familiar ie Saving Private Ryan.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 8:08 pm

They weren't on a boat, they were crammed onto the pier, waiting for the next boat. Every other scene was them standing around the beach.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 8:43 pm

dbt1949 wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:1958 with Richard Attenborough.
Wow, I'd never heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

I'd have thought that'd be a date night flick for you back in the day.

gameoverman · Post by **gameoverman** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 10:47 pm

To me this imagery is pretty much the same thing. You have a group of troops, huddled closely together, facing the same direction, on water.

wwi
wwii

A beach is involved in both movies, but nothing in the Dunkirk teaser shows they are trying to leave rather than invade. It's no big deal really, it's just that there's an undercurrent of sneakiness, like maybe Dunkirk the story isn't big enough without evoking some D day in there.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 10:57 pm

And despite what the British say it's not exactly their moment of glory.

raydude · Post by **raydude** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:05 am

gameoverman wrote:To me this imagery is pretty much the same thing. You have a group of troops, huddled closely together, facing the same direction, on water.

wwi
wwii

A beach is involved in both movies, but nothing in the Dunkirk teaser shows they are trying to leave rather than invade. It's no big deal really, it's just that there's an undercurrent of sneakiness, like maybe Dunkirk the story isn't big enough without evoking some D day in there.

You mean other than the opening sequence which shows the troops facing the wrong way, ie towards the ocean? I would argue that it's more closer to history in that you don't see artillery shells, german tanks nor german machine guns. You just hear the whine of a Stuka since Goring managed to convince Hitler to let the air force finish the job of annihilating the British.

cheeba · Post by **cheeba** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:43 am

Christopher Nolan. I'm in.

Edit - I'm not in Christopher Nolan, you pervs.

tru1cy · Post by **tru1cy** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:11 am

dbt1949 wrote:And despite what the British say it's not exactly their moment of glory.

The moment of glory was that they could cobble together a large flotilla to extract 300,000 troops. Germany could have altered the war if they were more aggressive in taking Dunkirk

Kurth · Post by **Kurth** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:39 am

I think Nolan is my favorite current director. Just rewatched Interstellar again last night. That one gets better for me every time I watch it.

Scuzz · Post by **Scuzz** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:14 am

If this were done in the style of The Longest Day or A Bridge Too Far, where the story follows certain characters I am pretty sure I would pay to see it. Do we know if it is based on a book?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:27 am

Given that Nolan is credited as writer, I'm guessing not.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:29 pm

tru1cy wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:And despite what the British say it's not exactly their moment of glory.
The moment of glory was that they could cobble together a large flotilla to extract 300,000 troops. Germany could have altered the war if they were more aggressive in taking Dunkirk

You can thank the RAF and British fortitude for that but it was till a retreat.

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:50 pm

Kurth wrote:I think Nolan is my favorite current director.

Same here. I'll continue to be excited about his movies until one let's me down. It hasn't happened yet.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 1:17 pm

I wonder if they'll go back and edit out the smiling soldier facing his doom in the trailer now that it's becoming a thing.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 1:28 pm

gameoverman wrote:To me this imagery is pretty much the same thing. You have a group of troops, huddled closely together, facing the same direction, on water.

wwi
wwii

A beach is involved in both movies, but nothing in the Dunkirk teaser shows they are trying to leave rather than invade. It's no big deal really, it's just that there's an undercurrent of sneakiness, like maybe Dunkirk the story isn't big enough without evoking some D day in there.

You realize the battle of Dunkirk was in WWII, right?

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:02 pm

It's the helmets. Brits didn't switch to their slightly more modern-looking "turtle" helmets until later in the war.

(In fact American helmets still looked very WW1 in 1941.)

Scuzz · Post by **Scuzz** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:35 pm

Holman wrote:It's the helmets. Brits didn't switch to their slightly more modern-looking "turtle" helmets until later in the war.

(In fact American helmets still looked very WW1 in 1941.)

If you watch any of the older WW2 movies (such as Wake Island), the American's are wearing those same helmets.

tru1cy · Post by **tru1cy** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:00 pm

Official trailer Dunkirk Christopher Nolan's picture about the battle. Looks amazing. Summer 17

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:07 pm

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:28 pm

That does look good! There's also really good talent in it.

gameoverman · Post by **gameoverman** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:16 pm

That trailer makes the movie look a lot more intriguing. It looks like it will be showing me something I've never seen before in a WWII movie. Considering the amount of movies I've seen set during WWii that's a hell of an accomplishment.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:09 pm

So this morning I took my boys to see Rogue One in 70mm IMAX format, and as a bonus we got to see the seven-minute(!) preview for Dunkirk.

I was blown away. I really can't wait to see this movie in July.

Most of the footage is completely fresh (i.e. not in the regular preview), and there's a LOT of Tom Hardy doing Spitfire/Messerschmitt ballet. I just read that most of the dogfighting was done without CGI, making it that much more impressive.

The whole presentation was beautifully atmospheric and Nolanesque in a very good way.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:58 pm

The first reviews are out, and every one that I've seen says that Dunkirk is magnificent not just as a war movie but as a movie of any kind. Really looking forward to seeing it this weekend.

Some of the reviews up already:
Slate
Vox
The Guardian
Variety

In a nutshell, everyone says it's superbly crafted, avoids stale war-movie tropes, and is probably Nolan's best work, period.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:46 pm

Awesome.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:15 am

Glad to hear that it's getting good press, might have to go to the theatre for this one. First in a long time.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:16 am

got my tickets for Sunday. Can't wait.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:47 pm

Holman wrote:So this morning I took my boys to see Rogue One in 70mm IMAX format, and as a bonus we got to see the seven-minute(!) preview for Dunkirk.

This must be what I/we saw when sitting for Kong Skull Island in an IMAX theater. I actually ducked with the audio from the planes.
I was visually, audibly, and emotionally transported (freakin' IMAX mann) in 7 minutes.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 5:01 pm

Going Saturday afternoon. IMAX 70mm film. One of eight in North America I think. See the 7 minute thing at Rogue One also. Put a reminder on my phone that day. Jacked.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:50 am

Hope it gets picked up by HBO or Amazon Prime some day.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:02 am

Yeah cuz if there's one movie you don't want to see on the big screen, it's this one.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:58 am

tjg_marantz wrote:Yeah cuz if there's one movie you don't want to see on the big screen, it's this one.

I have a pretty big screen though. Should I watch it on a tablet instead?

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:02 pm

You do you man.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:06 pm

Using anything better than your flip phone is just ego.