Saw Dunkirk on Saturday and was totally blown away by the whole thing. Han Zimmer's score pumps up the tension to eleven and the deft switching between the various storylines builds to a fine climax. OK, there were one or two inaccuracies, such as the 1970s BR Mk1, they can be forgiven.

Christopher Nolan insisted on using practical effects, real planes and hordes of extras to stop this becoming another Hollywood CGI-fest.

Best film of the year so far and deserves viewing on the big screen.

The 1958 Dunkirk film is far better. To me the new film is'nt a patch on it.

Have booked for IMAX at the science Museum in 10 days so no spoilers please - I want to see who wins!

Quote from: Plainline. on July 24, 2017, 09:36:37 PM
The 1958 Dunkirk film is far better. To me the new film is'nt a patch on it.

Thanks Plainline for answering what I was wondering. I do still enjoy the original Dunkirk, I have it on DVD.

I went to pictures on Saturday and paid to sit in the dbox section £15+ and really enjoyed it. I thought the whole film was stunning, great camera work a few minor errors no doubt. But having sat in a chair pitching and rolling, banking left and right rattling to machine gun fire and feeling like I was going to fall out at times (not quite that much movement in the chair) I really, really loved this film.

Quote from: Railwaygun on July 25, 2017, 06:52:12 PM
Have booked for IMAX at the science Museum in 10 days so no spoilers please - I want to see who wins!

I must admit to being really brassed off when someone told me how 'Titanic' ended as I hadn't seen it at the time

A chap I work with was talking about the IMAX version earlier - apparently the film was filmed on film (should get a thesaurus) rather than digitally, which is rather rare these days, and indeed most of it is shot in IMAX, which is even rarer, with that actually being used as a mechanism by Nolan to enhance the open shots.

Then it's also being screened in 70mm and 35mm film, as well as digitally. Good job it's not in 3D or there'd be more variants than screens in most cinemas.

Quote from: newportnobby on July 25, 2017, 10:21:02 PM

Quote from: Railwaygun on July 25, 2017, 06:52:12 PM
Have booked for IMAX at the science Museum in 10 days so no spoilers please - I want to see who wins!

I must admit to being really brassed off when someone told me how 'Titanic' ended as I hadn't seen it at the time

IIRC it formed a beautiful and lasting relationship with an iceberg.

Quote from: newportnobby on July 24, 2017, 09:40:08 AM
I'd love to see it at the cinema but sadly, for a couple of years now, I can't abide the incredible level they set the sound at as it pounds through my chest in waves and I feel extremely uncomfortable. Having had a triple bypass and a defib/pacemaker fitted has just compounded the problem so I'll just have to wait for the DVD which will be nowhere near as spectacular on my 37" telly

I just hate the entire cinema experience so much - expense, poor comfort, OTHER PEOPLE, etc that I tend to wait for the DVD whilst avoiding spoilers (yeah, I know what happened in this one) and watch it at home on the 42" flat screen.  I even managed to be shocked when Han - well I won't spoiler it - in Star Wars The Force Awakens and I didn't see it until the following May!

The film critic Barry Norman who died recently was the son of
Leslie Norman, director of the original Dunkirk film, not a lot
of people know that,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Quote from: Railwaygun on July 25, 2017, 06:52:12 PM
Have booked for IMAX at the science Museum in 10 days so no spoilers please - I want to see who wins!

The Americans win..

Bought the DVD last week and must admit that I found it disappointing. Even watched it twice to check that my first assessment was perhaps incorrect.

Unfortunately, no. I found it disjointed and difficult to follow at times.

Personal opinion, obviously, but to me, it just didn't live up to the hype it received when it was released.

I didn't see it in the cinema - too many people crunching crisps/popcorn, coughing etc. Yup! I'm becoming a grumpy old man.

I recently saw it on Now TV and hated it. Too many things wrong to list although R J Mitchell would have been proud of the glider he never built.

Being retired, I can go to a local cinema here on a Tuesday morning. The cinema is family owned and is lovely in it's way.

I watched two films when I was the only person in there!!

I too cannot stand the popcorn, etc. Probably why the sound is so loud!

Stangely enough, one of the films I watched there by myself was Interstellar, by the same director.

It had major flaws too, but at least it was fiction.

Yes, I stick with my appraisal..... spectacular but very disappointing. Too much hype, maybe.

Quote from: Bealman on July 01, 2018, 07:59:02 AM
Bought the DVD last week and must admit that I found it disappointing. Even watched it twice to check that my first assessment was perhaps incorrect.

Unfortunately, no. I found it disjointed and difficult to follow at times.

Personal opinion, obviously, but to me, it just didn't live up to the hype it received when it was released.

Bought it in my local supermarket when the price had come down to £7 and not sure it was worth that much, to be honest. The 1958 version is far superior IMO and yes, George, I think it was hugely over hyped and an opportunity missed to create a spectacular. Instead I felt like I was seeing it in some sort of 'narrow' vision. 3/10