The Film Thread

[MARKakaJIM]

Each story tied up perfectly for me and gave a sense of each characters/ vignettes perspective on time during the day. The film is all about the short timescale and events that happen not the characters who fill roles in a greater story.

The fact the film isn't character driven is its greatest feat for me.

I just think there was a lack of suspense to the RAF arc and the man on his little boat for the most, the RAF part was strange as it should really have been a very tense situation but such was the way the character handled the events that he never seemed under any stress at all throughout his ordeal, he just took everything in his stride and kept chugging away like he was out for a stroll in the park. That part of the story really didn't give me any sense of danger or tension at all despite the events that were actually unfolding, it all seemed rather mundane even though the pilot actually went through quite a lot. Similar with the man on the boat, for the most part he was just there chugging along with little to escalate the situation beyond him bobbing along the South coast on an ordinary weekend, obviously peaked at the end when he gets to some action but I didn't really feel any sense of trepidation along the way other than from his unplanned passenger.

The real drama and story was with the man/men trying to escape the beach the other side of the channel, there was far more going on there but cutting away to some very isolated stories in the middle of the channel just watered down that side of the film for me. That section of the film was the only one for me that delivered any sense of real fear and chaos in the situation, the desperation of the whole situation and through the senior officials there the scale of the task at hand and the spectacular success they made of digging themselves out of it. I think the film would've been more engaging if they'd based it solely on the plight in that setting rather than cut away to the other stories that didn't seem as well developed.

 

[Alan]

I just can't give too big of a thumbs up to a film in which I come away knowing almost nothing about any of the characters, even their names.

The civilians on the boat and the soldier they rescue (Cilian Murphy, I think) was by far the most compelling piece of drama in the film for me but also probably the least screen time of any.

 

[Johnny75]

I just can't give too big of a thumbs up to a film in which I come away knowing almost nothing about any of the characters, even their names.

The civilians on the boat and the soldier they rescue (Cilian Murphy, I think) was by far the most compelling piece of drama in the film for me but also probably the least screen time of any.

It isn't about the characters which is kinda the point.

 

[Alan]

It isn't about the characters which is kinda the point.

If that's the point, then I don't think it's a compelling one.

 

[Boozad]

I just can't give too big of a thumbs up to a film in which I come away knowing almost nothing about any of the characters, even their names.

Which is what most people who were lucky enough to walk away from that war probably felt. Genius.

 

[Alan]

Which is what most people who were lucky enough to walk away from that war probably felt. Genius.

Or empty. IMO there are far more effective ways to make that point, if it's the one Nolan was trying to make.

 

[leedswolf]

I thought that the main point of Nolan's direction in Dunkirk was about audience immersion eg the viewer is the one who is desperately trying to manage the spitfire's dwindling fuel supply whilst engaging enemy aircraft or getting aboard your 'pleasure craft' and sailing across the channel as if it was a day trip to France to then be plunged into a battle zone that you are ill prepared for.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Watching Mrs Doubtfire through lack of any real alternative, kept me entertained longer than expected, doesn't seem to have aged at all!

 

[Bulderdash]

Watching Mrs Doubtfire through lack of any real alternative, kept me entertained longer than expected, doesn't seem to have aged at all!

That's 'cos it's a prosthetic.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

That's 'cos it's a prosthetic.

Very good

 

[Boozad]

Watched Geostorm last night. Fuck knows why as it’s absolutely dire.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Think I might have to have a bit of the new Mission: Impossible. Getting stonking reviews.

 

[b3h]

Pete's Dragon

Decent family movie. Good for kids

 

[Boozad]

How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2 are both brilliant family films, all four of us loved those.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Watched Geostorm last night. Fuck knows why as it’s absolutely dire.

Watching it now.

I genuinely cannot decide if it is awfully awfully bad, or maybe turd-tastically magnificent. The plot is more holey than the Vatican, that's for sure.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Nope - it's fucking stupendously appalling. My word.

 

[Boozad]

:icon_lol:

 

[Boozad]

I think it's worse now than I did straight after I'd watched it, it was really was the shock factor I think. It really was a steaming pile of shit.

 

[Alan]

The new Godzilla trailer looks incredible. Still lightly apprehensive that Gareth Edwards isn't directing as I think he absolutely nailed the 2014 film, but I'm now very excited for this one.

 

[wanderer89]

A forum favourite is coming out in a few weeks, I know you're all looking forward to it!