Can't wait to see this. Outstanding reviews are rolling in and I'm pleased that the legendary Hans Zimmer is behind the score. I'm hoping to catch it next week.

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One on my list to see too  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Even he got good feedback in the reviews LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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does he die, i hope so  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Been to see this tonight and was absolutely blown away. I was welling up at times as the emotional wallop hits hard. Superb direction from Christopher Nolan and great acting from the ensemble cast even though dialogue is minimal.

I hope it goes on to take best picture at the Oscars and I think I'll download the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer which is a masterpiece. Please watch this film  LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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I think we can allow the movies a bit of artistic licence so to speak. Not many complain about the fact that silencers in real life don't make guns sound quiet like in films. All they do is make it a tiny bit quieter and distort it so that it's difficult for the enemy to tell where the gunfire is coming from. LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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licence all you want Doc but as a historical piece I found in sadly lacking , I've seen more people queuing for an off peak train than were on the beach in that movie ! 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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And the train at the end had aluminum frames around the windows when it would have been wood. Definitely a sh t film.  LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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To be fair if the historical inaccuracies are an annoyance, this guy sums things up admirably. He picks apart the many issues but gives credit for the films spectacle and concludes by saying how much more he would have enjoyed it had he not known so much about the real evacuation.

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Although I enjoyed the film as a film including the Pulp Fiction - like messing about with time sequences. I felt it completely failed (assuming it was even intended) to convey the enormity of the evacuation. For those watching it without much knowledge of WW2 I think it might even trivialise the event. Jules

Just got back from seeing it.
As someone with more than just a little interest and knowledge of WW2, I couldn't help thinking that although most what I saw was indeed very powerful stuff , the film was just a little too sparse . It was at least 1 hour too short and concentrated far too much on the group that included Mr Styles , something I feel that added nothing to the film at all, especially when there was a far bigger story attached to the Dunkirk evacuations.
The aerial scenes were some of the best I've seen on film - the individual story of the boat crossing the channel to help was also very powerful stuff.
However, nothing about the film gave any sense of scale or enormity of the actual task of evacuating (eventually over a period of around 10 days) over 338,000 men. No sense of how much equipment was left behind on the beaches.
For me , the "Dunkirk" scene in the 2007 film Atonement gave a brief, if not more accurate idea of the state of the beaches in May of 1940.
The 1958 film of the same name tells more of the story. If you've not seen this, I suggest you do before seeing Christopher Nolan's effort just to give more of a sense of the enormity of the task of evacuation and the amount of sea vessels needed to accomplish it.
Nolan's depiction is however, visually stunning. Just a shame he missed so much and could have made an ok film into the true epic that it deserved to be.
Just Google Dunkirk to see the actual pictures taken on those beaches in May of 1940
Oh, and the final scene with Tom Hardy.............I won't spoil it for you if you've not seen it, but.........................considering Spitfire N3200 it's such an icon of Dunkirk......................and that's actually N3200 used in the film, how can Tom have .........oh, never mind. Again I suggest you Google N3200 and Geoffrey D Stephenson who flew N3200 at Dunkirk.Then you'll understand why the last scene is laughable.....

The Doctor wrote:

I think we can allow the movies a bit of artistic licence so to speak. Not many complain about the fact that silencers in real life don't make guns sound quiet like in films. All they do is make it a tiny bit quieter and distort it so that it's difficult for the enemy to tell where the gunfire is coming from.

I saw it the other night , I felt let down by it. Like others I have an interest in ww2 and know a wee bit about it. As Martyn said I've seen more people waiting on a bus than what was depicted on the beach , the movie doesn't show the true horror of what the beach was like . It could have been the new saving private Ryan but for me it failed miserably. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

Yorky Bob wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

I think we can allow the movies a bit of artistic licence so to speak. Not many complain about the fact that silencers in real life don't make guns sound quiet like in films. All they do is make it a tiny bit quieter and distort it so that it's difficult for the enemy to tell where the gunfire is coming from.

Not quite true as in a past life I got chance to fire a weapon that was on the then secret list and all you heard was a very small click from the bolt moving. Use was clandestine type work and many in the UK armed forces would have never seen one, just a couple of quiet shots and move on.

http://warisboring.com/british-commandos-k...sten-guns/