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It's a truly great film. Nolan knocks it out of the park again. Go find the biggest screen and loudest sound system you can find. Another great reminder of the what 17 year old kids had to endure and overcome during war.

 

The cinematography is absolutely stunning and you will be doing yourself a disservice if you don't see it in IMAX. It's a little Saving Private Ryan with some Top Gun and Hunt for Red October. The air combat scenes alone are worth the ticket price.

 

GO WATCH IT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoilers

 

- Ok, we're in the opening scene an...holy sh*t we're in it now

- Some guys just can't get a ride

- Forget about Maverick, Bane can be your wing man

- The only thing more dangerous than Nazi's is drowning

- Always stay above deck

- Don't shove kids

- The sound of a Rolls-Royce engine is the most beautiful sound

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I went to see it in prescreening in the best theater in Finland, 360° Dolby Atmost, and laser 4K technic and very comfy seats and plenty of legroom. I really enjoyed the film. I am not sure if it is best war film evermade because I like those which has longer plots too and cuttings between scenes could have been maybe even better. But other than that it really is as good as that 9,6/10 IMDB rating tells.

 

And yes go to loudest and nicest place to see it, will be worth the movie and your time much better that way...

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Agree completely, go to the best picture and sound you can find (IMAX) because the source material is excellent. I can't wait to watch it at home on 10.

 

Nolan and Co obviously did it on purpose but I would like to have "known" some of the main characters a little more, especially since they start looking a lot alike once they're dirty/face covered/dark/in water/etc.

 

I loved it but didn't reach that same level of gut wrench as with Saving Private Ryan on the beach.

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I saw it in IMAX...such a great decision.

 

My only complaint would be the last Ju-88 that Tom Hardy shot down. That was just stupid Hollywood bullshit.

 

Otherwise, I love the fact they used real airplanes. 3x Spitfires flying in formation and the 2x Me-109s...amazing.

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Are you sure about that?

Dunkirk>Fate of the Furious>Transformers>colonoscopy>Valerian

 

I made my friend (a director) sit through Valerian when he tried to walk out because he insisted we go see it.

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Yes, great in-flight cinematography. Believe it or not, Top Gun taught the lesson to Hollywood on how to do it. The only piece of technical critique I would offer is to make the pilots more dynamic...heads on a swivel looking for the enemy...straining around the cockpit...using the canopy bow for leverage (like in Top Gun). Nobody gets a tally looking straight ahead in their mirror...it's not like looking for tailgaters in car. These guys had no radars and were utterly dependent on SEEING the enemy as soon as possible and then keeping sight. Their job was to look around, constantly. These portrayals were fairly static, heads forward or down, which really slowed down these shots to me. In my eyes, I was in the cockpit with them, but it was so sedate and confined rather than the athletic and extremely busy cockpit I'm used to. They needed to be busier and faster.

 

I didn't really like the amount of dramatic base noise and felt it was overdone, but I was willing to believe it could have just been the theater. However, the sound from the in-cockpit shots was fantastic, with the cockpits being noisy imperfect places full of vibrations and rattling. The guns echoing through the airframe was pretty cool.

 

This flick had virtually zero character development, which was nice because it allowed the story to be more purely represented rather than mired in personal drama. I also liked how suspense and tension were built on the threat of dying from more common means such as drowning rather than being sawed in half ala Saving Private Ryan. It was well worth the price of admission!

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Yes, great in-flight cinematography. Believe it or not, Top Gun taught the lesson to Hollywood on how to do it. The only piece of technical critique I would offer is to make the pilots more dynamic...heads on a swivel looking for the enemy...straining around the cockpit...using the canopy bow for leverage (like in Top Gun). Nobody gets a tally looking straight ahead in their mirror...it's not like looking for tailgaters in car. These guys had no radars and were utterly dependent on SEEING the enemy as soon as possible and then keeping sight. Their job was to look around, constantly. These portrayals were fairly static, heads forward or down, which really slowed down these shots to me. In my eyes, I was in the cockpit with them, but it was so sedate and confined rather than the athletic and extremely busy cockpit I'm used to. They needed to be busier and faster.

 

I didn't really like the amount of dramatic base noise and felt it was overdone, but I was willing to believe it could have just been the theater. However, the sound from the in-cockpit shots was fantastic, with the cockpits being noisy imperfect places full of vibrations and rattling. The guns echoing through the airframe was pretty cool.

 

This flick had virtually zero character development, which was nice because it allowed the story to be more purely represented rather than mired in personal drama. I also liked how suspense and tension were built on the threat of dying from more common means such as drowning rather than being sawed in half ala Saving Private Ryan. It was well worth the price of admission!

 

I was really frustrated by their shooting. Understood it will be mostly misses up there but almost all the misses were from shooting when the enemy was in the cross hairs rather than leading them and firing right before they enter the cross hairs.

 

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Dunkirk>Fate of the Furious>Transformers>colonoscopy>Valerian

 

I made my friend (a director) sit through Valerian when he tried to walk out because he insisted we go see it.

 

:lol2: More like:

 

Logan > Dunkirk > Spider-Man > Get Out > Baby Driver > Jon Wick Chapter 2 > Wonder Woman > Fate of the Furious > Transformers > The House > King Arthur > Bay Watch > Colonoscopy > Root Canal > Stubbed Toe > Diarrhea > Stuffy Nose > Scooby Doo XXX Parody > Valerian

 

This flick had virtually zero character development, which was nice because it allowed the story to be more purely represented rather than mired in personal drama. I also liked how suspense and tension were built on the threat of dying from more common means such as drowning rather than being sawed in half ala Saving Private Ryan. It was well worth the price of admission!

 

I liked that too, because it helped with the feeling of sucking you into the battle: You're just dropped in and suddenly there's bullets flying at you, you never see other side that's shooting, you just hear it and know that you need to get out of the line of fire asap. I thought that was more impact was we don't need to know who these guys are really or their life stories...we just need to know "survive" and that gut-level instinct connects us to them.

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