On 7/5/2017 at 6:52 PM, Cult Icon said:

 

About my Grandfather:
 

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My grandfather was taken off life support and died a few hours later.  He was 90.

 

 

 

Thanks for your prior messages guys

18 hours ago, CandleVixen said:

My sincere condolences Cult. 

Thanks

Interesting video about a great director:

My review of Dunkirk:

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I saw the movie over the weekend.   The movie is all activity and action with limited dialogue.  It's basically a series of crises and disasters strung together.  The director focuses on the traumatic experiences of the men involved and how they confront them.   It's very impressive, unique, and overwhelming but not really a historical film.   Dunkirk is just a convenient setting.  The film succeeds in creating a high level of tension and fear.

The Germans in the film are barely visible boogymen/monsters.  A couple HE-111 medium bombers and numerous, scattered ME-109 fighters and Stuka dive bombers.   There is an invisible U-boat that torpedos ships.  

This film is a 5 out of 5 movie.  My personal enjoyment of the film was more like 4 out of 5.  The film has almost no character development and focuses entirely on POV of different individuals/groups  (1. A solitary Ace Spitfire pilot.  2. A foot soldier on route to Britain 3. A civilian boat that is ordered to help transport personnel  4. A british evacuation commander).  The talents of the big name British actors are kind of wasted in a way.  

As a technical achievement it is a 5 out of 5 and imho will be a Best Picture contender and will win a bunch of other rewards.   It has very little CGI that is obvious and the trailers don't do the film justice as it omits lots of poignant imagery.   It's a very stimulating visual and auditory experience so it really should be seen in theaters.  I would need to watch it a second time to catch everything that I missed.

The ships, aircraft, and equipment depicted in the film appear to be entirely real.  The props are particularly good and so are the vistas.  I especially like how the British soldiers were all skinny men (typical of the 1940s).  A minor limitation however, is that since Nolan used real props he was limited in how much he could depict at once. (eg. it doesn't make sense that there are only 3 Spitfires in the whole film, or how the Luftwaffe anti-shipping sorties are in trios(  1 HE-111 with 2 ME-109 as escorts).  But this filed using the real thing!  

I like how he used real British destroyers and flipped them over at sea.  The takes of what happens to the men inside of a ship that's being torpedoed is particularly impressive and surpasses what was achieved before (in films like Pearl Harbor or Das Boot).  "