Film The General Film Thread

[Gwadien]

Just saw Dunkirk. Decent enough movie. Very loud. No plot holes at least.

No plot holes in a true story?

wut?

Edit - Oh yeah, you're American, WW2 started in 1939 mate.

 

[Ormorof]

Real life has plenty of absurd plot holes

 

[Tom]

I've just returned from watching Dunkirk, at Printworks IMAX in Manchester. A proper 70mm film IMAX, not the fake digital ones that have sprung up everywhere.

Nolan knows how to make use of the format. The opening shots on the streets are incredibly immersive and the wide sweeping beach shots are amazing, but it's the spitfire moments that truly show it off. I began to feel a little bit dizzy as the pilots did battle. I loved the "chocks away" language used during the dogfights and I almost shat myself when he engaged the bomber. The end of the film is very emotional.

If you can, find a 70mm full IMAX screen to watch it on. It's a fantastic experience.

 

[Job]

I lived in that cinema for a few years...quite often I was the only one watching the Imax movie...great to see it getting used properly.

 

[DaGaffer]

Just watched Dunkirk. Beautiful cinematography, fantastic sound and score. But...

Spoiler

I'm not that sure it was actually a particularly good war movie. The narrative device of having the three main action sequences moving in separate timeframes works when it all comes together, but I'm glad I read about it before I saw the film; it was probably as confusing as fuck if you didn't. And while the air combat sequences were great, they were quite jarring in an otherwise "realistic" film, thanks to Tom Hardy running cheat codes of infinite ammunition and invulnerability. His scenes were pure Michael Bay, especially at the end. Overall the film was more arty Thin Red Line than historic A Bridge Too Far, and I tend to prefer the latter

 

[Moriath]

Oo i love a bridge too far. Cracking movie.

 

[Raven]

Trying to watch King Arthur. Wall to wall mockneys. Painful stuff.

 

[TdC]

Just watched Dunkirk. Beautiful cinematography, fantastic sound and score. But...

Spoiler

I'm not that sure it was actually a particularly good war movie. The narrative device of having the three main action sequences moving in separate timeframes works when it all comes together, but I'm glad I read about it before I saw the film; it was probably as confusing as fuck if you didn't. And while the air combat sequences were great, they were quite jarring in an otherwise "realistic" film, thanks to Tom Hardy running cheat codes of infinite ammunition and invulnerability. His scenes were pure Michael Bay, especially at the end. Overall the film was more arty Thin Red Line than historic A Bridge Too Far, and I tend to prefer the latter

Agree. Went to see it with some work guys. General consensus was that the human POV was done very well.

I did feel they did a lot of explaining via random lines of dialogue that felt quite jarring to me and imo they could have left the

Spoiler

shell-shocked guy

out completely.

 

[Bodhi]

Bugger your gritty realistic war movies, I'm waiting for more Shenanigans.

Super Troopers 2 Has Finished Post-Production!

Alright meow.

 

[Tom]

Agree. Went to see it with some work guys. General consensus was that the human POV was done very well.

I did feel they did a lot of explaining via random lines of dialogue that felt quite jarring to me and imo they could have left the

Spoiler

shell-shocked guy

out completely.

The shell shocked guy is important. The only character whose name I recall was directly affected by that guy, and he's the only one who's remembered at the end of the film. That's because the film is about conveying the general emotions felt during the event - not the event itself, or the people in it.

 

[TdC]

The shell shocked guy is important. The only character whose name I recall was directly affected by that guy, and he's the only one who's remembered at the end of the film. That's because the film is about conveying the general emotions felt during the event - not the event itself, or the people in it.

I see what you're saying and to an extent I agree. I just personally feel that they could have replaced him by the Moonstone having to sail through, for example, a whole bunch of floating bodies and having events unfold in a different way.

That aside, I do feel he was played very well. His disconnectedness, passivity and childlike reasoning seems to me to be in line with someone extremely shocked or shell-shocked, as Mr Dawson indeed explains he is. I've never met a shell-shocked person though, so I could be wrong.

 

[Nate]

Have a local independent cinema, great for a cheap night out £2.50 for weekday tickets (£3.50 for weekend), going to see Valerian

 

[TdC]

I want to see Valerian too .The visuals will be amazeballs. Besson never fails on that.

 

[DaGaffer]

Trying to watch King Arthur. Wall to wall mockneys. Painful stuff.

Just watched it. As long as you simply mentally bleep out all the names and regard it as a generic fantasy movie, its fine.

 

[old.user4556]

Saw Dunkirk. Liked it. Loud. Tense. Stressful. Maybe a touch long.

 

[Job]

Did we win?

 

[Moriath]

Not on that day

 

[Yoni]

Atomic Blonde was good

 

[Scouse]

Wow that new Mummy film was an epic level of utter shit wasn't it!

 

[Shagrat]

Just watched The Nice Guys, what a great film really enjoyed it.

 

[DaGaffer]

Just watched The Nice Guys, what a great film really enjoyed it.

Can't go wrong with Shane Black

 

[old.user4556]

Just watched The Nice Guys, what a great film really enjoyed it.

Great film.

 

[Gwadien]

Trying to watch King Arthur. Wall to wall mockneys. Painful stuff.

Yeah.

It was Lock Stock all over.

 

[Job]

Watching Covenant...what kind a fucking crap is this...cabin in the woods..is this the proper film?

 

[Scouse]

Alien Covenant? The Covenant? "Covenant"?

 

[Raven]

Is the cam so bad you don't know if you are watching

The Covenant (2017) - IMDb

or

Alien: Covenant (2017) - IMDb

?

 

[Scouse]

or

The Covenant (2006)

or

Covenant (1985)

or

Covenant (2012)

???

...

All solved with links @Job


** may be being a pedantic cunt tonight but have been drinking, sorry

 

[Tom]

He's probably watching Cocoon.

 

[caLLous]

Or The Revenant.

 

[Job]

TBH, I'm not sure, did they make some chessefest space drama based on Patrick Swayzee's Ghost, cos that's what I'm watching, she's sharing her grief with David the robot, who seems to have aged 20 years since the last movie.