i was going to go and see it lastnight but we got the timings mixed up and ended up watching Atomic Blonde instead lol

Love nolan, love as little cgi as possible but why leave ALL the modern structures so clearly in view. Even the 80s beachfront lampposts had to be clearly in frame several times. Come on. I understand the artistic concept but wasn't this supposed to be 1940? I literaly couldn't look passed it.

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is not like any war movie I've ever seen before. He is an extremely talented director and writer. If you have seen his other films like Interstellar and Inception, he weaves the same cinematic magic once again. If you are looking to count rivets you will be disappointed, although the attempt to achieve accuracy was made as much as possible. There is no glorification of war yet it is not an anti-war movie. His movies are about human emotion and human spirit and his choice of a defeat/victory is no surprise. This movie is about the experience of the people who went through the ordeal, with all the bravery and cowardice that went along with it. What Nolan does is create an atmosphere that is so compelling and powerful aurally and visually that it makes you a part of it. I highly recommend that you see it in the IMAX format. As for free streaming and $5 bootleg DVD's, that's called theft. Would you want someone ripping off your hard work and effort?

Kelly's Hero's must be absolute torture for some...

LOL, if you look carefully some of the Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars movies have weapons which are clearly MG-34s tarted up a bit to make them into lasers, I wonder who we're supposed to complain to about that?

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I found it half good and half disappointing. The sea action, and air to ground action were good, and the sound was good too.

Don't read further if you haven't seen it...

But air-to-air was crap. This movie jumps the shark when one lone Spitfire, out of fuel and only a couple hundred feet above the ground, without feathering it's prop, reverses course and shoots down a Stuka as it's coming out of it's dive.
This was after the same Spitfire downed four 109's and two Heinkel 111's. Granted, the 109 pilots made it easy. No schwarm, rotte, or any form of unit tactics. Only putting themselves in front of his Spitfire and banking back and forth until he shot them down.

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I saw it today and I totally agree.
It's different then other war movies, still nice but not the best in my opinion.

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Great to see many spitfire shots in the film, gliding such a heavy plane is possible but on that altitude not for long, you could argue that he needs to slow down for landing, but still you do need a high speed to land a spitfire...

I recommend to go watch it and see for yourself
Kind regards

Love nolan, love as little cgi as possible but why leave ALL the modern structures so clearly in view. Even the 80s beachfront lampposts had to be clearly in frame several times. Come on. I understand the artistic concept but wasn't this supposed to be 1940? I literaly couldn't look passed it.

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LOL, if you look carefully some of the Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars movies have weapons which are clearly MG-34s tarted up a bit to make them into lasers, I wonder who we're supposed to complain to about that?

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The standard Stormtrooper laser is a Sterling submachine gun. They actually fired blanks in the first movie so they accurately put in the laser beam fx. Watch it today and look for the ejecting brass. All kinds of WW2 gear was customized and used on the stormrtroopers to give them a military look. The most infamous may be the MP40 magazine pouches on the shoulder of the sandtroopers on Tatooine.

Something about those Yugoslavian T-34 as Tigers. They were created for the big budget Yugoslavian war movie Battle of Neretva along with others dressed up as Panthers.

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Kelly's Hero's must be absolute torture for some...

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I love that movie, it's so much fun. I was impressed at the time that they tried to make T-34s look like Tigers even though 99.9999% of the people watching the movie would not have known (or cared) if they had done nothing to the T-34s but paint German markings on them. I like technical accuracy when I see it in a movie, but IMHO the writing, direction, acting etc. are of far greater importance than something as petty as whether they used the right model of tank. I remember someone many years ago (in AFV News I think) complaining that the Jeeps in some WWII movie were the wrong model--yikes, talk about obsessive.

LOL, if you look carefully some of the Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars movies have weapons which are clearly MG-34s tarted up a bit to make them into lasers, I wonder who we're supposed to complain to about that?

I think my biggest gripe with Fury was that a SS Battalion Commander would gut his unit to destroy a damaged, immobile tank that couldn't interfere with his mission.

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I think my biggest gripe with Fury was that a SS Battalion Commander would gut his unit to destroy a damaged, immobile tank that couldn't interfere with his mission.

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Oh my, one of the most famous stories is when regimental commander SS-Standartenführer Sylvester Stadler, SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann commanding the 1st Battalion and SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger, delayed orders going to reinforce forces during the Normandy invasion just to kill civilians