"Dunkirk"

Sharps '74 said:
The large budget movies you mentioned gave an impression of the epic size of the battles of the times, error riddled or not. "Dunkirk" failed to deliver a sense of that.

A low budget movie that succeeded was "Casablanca". Shot on a back lot in Hollywood, it has become iconic and a favourite to this day. "Dunkirk" will be forgotten (hopefully) in a couple of years.
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According to SPR, only Rangers and Paratroopers (American ones) landed in Normandy, and they got off Omaha in 20 minutes.

All were good movies, that had multiple historical errors. (Leopards at Arnhem, a 55 year old moderately obese John Wayne playing a 28 year old, Americans facing SS Tigers immediately after D-Day, P51 Tank busters etc, etc)

Hardly showed the epic scales.
 
Dunkirk wasn't as bad as people are making it out to be. War movies are pretty tricky to do satisfaction in a war movie will always be polarized can't please everyone. My big thing is when movies change the history around. Like Randal Wallace who did braveheart. Filmed the battle of sterling bridge with no bridge.

In a movie like Dunkirk it's a short time frame not a 3 piece lord of the rings epic that's what people need to remember. In movies like these there's little or no character development. There's no long and over reaching plot line it's a moment in time of several days put into 2 hours.

Another main point I saw people were expecting more air combat but it wasn't the Battle of Britain. The RAF wouldn't commit large numbers of ships and fighters because they were afraid of taking heavy combat losses when it was defence of the island that mattered.
 
canuck98k said:
Three of the most error riddled war movies of all time.
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Ha ha - thank you for saying this. I've seen a couple of threads lately with these films (A Bridge Too Far, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan) dragged out as the high-water marks of war films and I'm like: no...not the first two anyway.
 
Sharps '74 said:
The large budget movies you mentioned gave an impression of the epic size of the battles of the times, error riddled or not. "Dunkirk" failed to deliver a sense of that.

A low budget movie that succeeded was "Casablanca". Shot on a back lot in Hollywood, it has become iconic and a favourite to this day. "Dunkirk" will be forgotten (hopefully) in a couple of years.
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War often works better as the backdrop to another story. Casablanca is a great example. I'd argue that something like Kubrick's Paths of Glory is another one.
 
Surprised at all of the disappointment in the movie. I found it to be quite a unique and refreshing take on the war flick genre, and I am a big sucker for Nolan films.

Comparing this film to something like Saving Private Ryan truly is comparing apples to oranges.

Plus as Milsurp collectors, how many films can you actually point to that feature a MAS 36? I was tickle to catch a fleeting glimpse of one in this film!
 
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