In the four years I've been a film critic, I've never heard such passionate applause during a standing ovation. Only one film has garnered that response from a room full of critics and that's Dunkirk.
This film is amazing on so many levels. I'm not a huge fan of Nolan, but this is without a doubt his best film (I'd say before this his best was The Prestige). The cinematography, score, cast, writing, direction. These are all perfect in every regard.
What I wasn't expecting was the cast, or how unconventional it is. Most movies have a defined protagonist and antagonist, this film doesn't. It's all faces in a war, with each person one piece of a puzzle. They have emotional weight and reason to be invested in them but they are a unified force and I love how this film doesn't just put a noticeable face in that crowd, these guys are as nameless and faceless as you imagine a group of soldiers would be.
There's minimal dialogue in this film, and it works well to do so. Plot is advanced through subtle visual and audible cues. Nolan doesn't pander to his audience, if you're too dumb to not get these cues, you need to be smarter.
This film needs, no, REQUIRES, you to see it in 70mm IMAX. The way this film is made, it's with this format in it's very core and it's going to be a challenge to replicate that feeling again. See it in this format if you're going to see the film.
This is without doubt the best made film of 2017, and one of the best films of the decade. Few filmmakers can make such daring films that utilize traditional filmmaking elements with daring execution in a way that is both familiar and new in all the best ways.
Aaron Sullivan
trying to hard, plebbitor
Jordan Sanders
I'm poor and I can only afford to see either war for the planet of the apes or dunkirk. Wut do?
Asher Powell
Why the fuck he didn't made BvS? The faggot allowed hack snyder to cause a huge damage just to make movies that far less people give a fuck?Fucking hippie.
Asher Hughes
Watch Dunkirk, the cinema experience is not so important with war for the planet of the apes, while it is still a pretty good movie.
Jaxon Baker
>if you're too dumb to not get these cues, you need to be smarter. >too dumb to not get >you need to be smarter
Oh the sweet sweet irony, OP.
Xavier Martinez
BRAVO NOLAN
Ethan Smith
>It's so good it feels like a war movie you'd discover on tcm at 2am. You expect lee marvin to show up in it damn now I'm excited. also is there a comfier activity than finding a classic movie on tcm on a quiet weekend night?
Carson Martinez
I'm unironically making a 4hr trip just to see this in IMAX, alone
After I will probably get some heroin and pay a girl to fuck me in an expensive td holiday inn
Owen Morgan
BvS fags wil still say Snyder would've done a better job
Caleb Garcia
>I'm unironically making a 4hr trip just to see this in IMAX, alone what >After I will probably get some heroin and pay a girl to fuck me in an expensive td holiday inn what x2
Owen Williams
Already booked my tickets for Dunkirk™ in IMAX™ by Christopher Nolan, produced by Warner Brothers™, opening 21st of July. Can't wait.
Chase Foster
This is going to be the best war film of the millennium
Matthew Myers
Skip out on Planet of the Apes. You're better off just waiting for the Avatar sequels.
Adrian Morales
>See it in this format if you're going to see the film
The nearest IMAX screen is 168 miles away so I guess I won't watch it, then. Thanks for saving me the money!
Jacob Hughes
Sucks to be you my friend, watching a war movie with actual Stukas flying and shooting and more than 60 boats and warships in the water on your 13 inch toshiba laptop 6 months after the release.
Aiden Lewis
I'm watching it with my Samsung VR system
Jonathan Lewis
I never saw anyone ever say that Snider is better than Nolan,not even the biggest Nolan haters and contrarians
Brody Baker
>the movie doesn't have a clear protagonist or antagonist >told from the perspective of the allies, who have to fight the evil germans Bravo Nolan
Jackson Evans
protagonist/antagonist implies a single person you faggot, and there won't be a single german soldier on screen no "le evil nazi general" or anything like that
Nathaniel Ward
He probably met some capeshit fans like you and after a solid vomit stream for 3 days he decided to never make a movie for such disgusting creatures again.