Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions

quan chi

mortal kombat
Glad that you liked this movie.
Now that you've seen the movie, may be you can share your opinion on the doubts I had mentioned in below post.
There are some products which comes in fancy attractive packaging & are meant to be kept in that. If you have seen the movie carefully then it does have some plot holes or flaws but overall its a good package & you should not get out & analyze each if its contents. There are some things which I didn't get too but overlooked them.
For your answers I will answer few for rest I will give you a link.
1. He got burned & somehow survived. Its simple already told in the story.
2. It doesn't cures anything it just slows the process of the later.
4. Maybe he devised/mixed some drugs in the waters to make others hallucinate. The water in the pure form was not good for consumption thus you may be correct too it made people hallucinate or made them hypnotized. Its something like the scarecrow drug from batman.
5. Yes it happened. But maybe it was not too serious as it was shown. Lockhart drank the water he was offered when he first met volmer in his office. Thus he might have hallucinated a bit.

Like I said before you are over analyzing this movie. For rest of the answers see these. Its a good atmospheric suspense thriller/horror after a long time. Watch it & enjoy it just don't think too much.

 
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lovedonator

Ambassador of Buzz
Dunkirk 9/10
Every frame, every second of this film invokes so many emotions. Nolan painted a masterpiece using human emotions as colour.
Cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful and Hans Zimmer as always provides a soundtrack which compliments every scene perfectly.
Go watch this in the best theatre you can because Dunkirk is a phenomenon which demands to be experienced through the best medium possible.

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nac

Aspiring Novelist
After a long time, a good film. It's mushy.
If you're a drama lover, check this film.

The Light Between Oceans (2016) - IMDb
 

shreeux

Movie Buff
Dunkirk 9/10
Every frame, every second of this film invokes so many emotions. Nolan painted a masterpiece using human emotions as colour.
Cinematography is breathtakingly beautiful and Hans Zimmer as always provides a soundtrack which compliments every scene perfectly.
Go watch this in the best theatre you can because Dunkirk is a phenomenon which demands to be experienced through the best medium possible.

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Your rating is too high...Did you watch any other war movie before?
 

Desmond

Destroy Erase Improve
Staff member
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Dunkirk 7/10
This is a slow and very heavy movie showing the more mundane aspects of war. As a war drama it is pretty good, but I can't help but get irritated by Nolan's "quirks" that he feels compelled to incorporate in his movies for some reason. The story is told from three different perspectives simultaneously, each occurring at different time frame and intersecting with each other occasionally. I feel this was unnecessary since it makes the story unnecessarily complicated. But overall, it is good if you have the patience to sit through it and comprehend the story that would definitely go over a layman's head.
 

icebags

Technomancer
Dunkirk 8/10

May not be total immersive, but very much of an experience. Not immersive in the sense, audience will not probably be able to feel the emotions of the men most of the time, they will probably chew popcorn and enjoy.

However, what is a crazy ending is, if you can jump safe, why would you wheel into deep ? May be nolan wanted a senseless ending, whatever. Also, there were a some sitting gooses here and there, and that was another crazy thing.

Thinking of watching valerian tomorrow.
 

a_medico

Chillum Baba
Raw - French movie on cannibalism. Must watch for horror fans. Not exactly a horror movie. The atmosphere reminded me of 'Let the right one in', although the premises was completely different. Great debut by the lady director. Looking forward to her future ventures.

Wonderful OST and intermittent humor. The hospital old man scene is epic! (not a spoiler)
 
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Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
Raw - French movie on cannibalism. Must watch for horror fans. Not exactly a horror movie. The atmosphere reminded me of 'Let the right one in', although the premises was completely different. Great debut by the lady director. Looking forward to her future ventures.

Wonderful OST and intermittent humor. The hospital old man scene is epic! (not a spoiler)
This one Grave (2016) - IMDb
 

sam9s

The High 5 Flyer
Dunkirk .... ... Was good for me nothing exceptional. See if you measure the movie from the cinematography perspective, technical stand point, creative camera work and apt and to the point portrayal of human emotions, this actually will score pretty high, a 7.5/10 on my scale, BUT as far as the thrill, tension, edge of the seat, war brutality, horror, chaos is concerned it was ok at the best. War might be the backdrop of the movie but pivot was not showing the war as such, which is ok nothing wrong in it, I, however, felt that there was less material to actually convert the screenplay in to an edge of the seat thriller war cinema ..... IMHO ofcourse ....6.8/10

PS :::
The ariel shots and the dogfights no doubt were absolutely stunningly captured. That's the best part of this movie if you ask me ....

PS2::: The director himself admits he did not want the tension in this war movie ...

Dunkirk (2017) - Trivia - IMDb


Another interesting fact ::::::: """The film was criticized for not showing Indian soldiers. Four contingents of Indian soldiers fought at Dunkirk, even though Mohandas K. Gandhi had ordered all Indian people not to support the British war effort in September 1939.""""""
 
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sam9s

The High 5 Flyer
However, what is a crazy ending is, if you can jump safe, why would you wheel into deep ?

Exactly my thoughts, when there were so many civil boats rescuing, why on mother earth would you land you plane on the beach, and not just jump into the water ...... I also couldn't understand why this ending was chosen ...
 

lovedonator

Ambassador of Buzz
So you would not rate any war movie over Dunkirk since you have given it 9/10....
I would maybe rate Band Of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan on the same level. Not every movie has to be compared on the same scale.
Dunkirk wastes no time with needless dialogues or long inspiring monologue by the main characters. It's taut as a string, tense, brilliantly shot and you can feel the tension and despair of the soldiers in every frame. Although you are not given a detailed back story about any character(which again is a trait I absolutely love) there's a lot of nuisances and small details which of you observe gives insight about them. I've watched it 3 times by now and it holds up brilliantly at every viewing.
But then again, as I said earlier, these things are completely subjective to each individual.

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bssunilreddy

Chosen of the Omnissiah
Any masterpiece cannot be compared with each other since they are masterpieces themselves.

I think you are giving too much importance to Dunkirk or any other film if for that sake.

Almost all WWII movies since 1960s are materpieces.

One cannot be compared to the other. Kids just grow up yaar.

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sam9s

The High 5 Flyer
I would maybe rate Band Of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan on the same level. Not every movie has to be compared on the same scale.
Dunkirk wastes no time with needless dialogues or long inspiring monologue by the main characters. It's taut as a string, tense, brilliantly shot and you can feel the tension and despair of the soldiers in every frame. Although you are not given a detailed back story about any character(which again is a trait I absolutely love) there's a lot of nuisances and small details which of you observe gives insight about them. I've watched it 3 times by now and it holds up brilliantly at every viewing.
But then again, as I said earlier, these things are completely subjective to each individual.

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so you would rate classic movies like The Great Escape, Platoon, Schindler's List, where eagles dare, The guns of Navarone, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Salvador .. (need I list more) ...Below Dunkirk???? ..... if YES then don't mind me, you don't know what you are saying OR how to rate .......BUT I agree these things are completely subjective to each individual, so yea peace ..:)

And BTW and FYI, the list I have shared is only the TIP of the iceberg of the plethora of war movies that are HELL better in every respect than Dunkirk .... Movies Like Downfall, Hamburger Hill, The beast, Letters from Iwo Jima, ... ... and I haven't even begin listing the Chinese Hong Kong contribution, with movies like City of life and death, and ASSEMBLY, which are miles ahead from Dunkirk ...........

Dunkirk could not even get the histro right ......

The actual history of Dunkirk: Where the Indian soldiers were abandoned to die : History

Dunkirk is racist, sexist, anti-French propaganda: All the worst Dunkirk takes (so far)

and this article very aptly summen why Dunkirk is no way near to one of the greatest war movie

Brown skin, white sands: Dunkirk is no Path of Glory
 
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