Posted on 07/24/2017 6:18:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Period has become increasingly challenging at the box office, not to mention in recent times marquees have been inundated with World War II fare, particularly films starring Brad Pitt. But when director Christopher Nolan embraces the historical subject, it’s a different story, and Warner Bros is celebrating a win for its older-male-skewing Dunkirk this weekend with $50.5 million — a figure that not only beat tracking, but the total $40M stateside ticket sales of Pitt’s November WWII bomb Allied.
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***because they mumbled their lines***
Reminds me of the complaint of Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) in THEATER OF BLOOD in which an actor who mumbled his lines wins an award Lionheart felt he should have won.
This “COULD” have been, the next “Saving Private Ryan”, but for the egregious editing process. It RUINED the movie.
egregious:
shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous; monstrous, heinous, dire, unspeakable, shameful, unforgivable, intolerable, dreadful
And.....remember.....one out of every five soldiers in the American Revolutionary Army were African-Americans!!! African-Americans have fought in every single war of United States history with dignity, fellowship, loyalty, and the greatest of life sacrifices made!!! The Revolutionary Southern Department was filled with many African-American militia, including Morgan’s militia at Cowpens.
“Warner Bros is celebrating a win for its older-male-skewing Dunkirk this weekend with $50.5 million”
Watch that “drop like a rock” when people that actually saw it start talking about it.
I was VERY disappointed with this movie. I went to see it opening day. Not a waste of money, but it could have been great, but for the editing.
We are going to see this film today. First time in years for us to attend a movie.
Thanks for the warning about the loudness. I was planning to take my earplugs, as I have a problem with the cranked-up speakers on the rare occasions that we go to a movie theater.
Saw it Saturday. Epic! Outstanding piece of cinematic storytelling. The story is told not only from three perspectives but in three different time frames. Very intricate but it works. Suspense holds from beginning to end. Personally I liked the fact that the dialogue was minimal. Played like a documentary but you still connect with the characters. Terrific movie.
Well said.
What is “Baby Driver” about?
Amplified speakers bother me beyond my ear drums; even with ears plugged, the loudness makes the air in my lungs reverberate uncomfortably. (And may be damaging).
:)
I know what you mean. We once left a movie because the speakers were cranked up beyond what I could endure.
Well you know his character would have been killed off. ;)
I’ll wait for it on Netflix.
The Hun got the best of that encounter.
One of Nolan’s more remarkable abilities as a director is being able to make massive money on what should be art house movies. His fondness for abnormal structure and oddball subject matters should at best have his receipts hanging out in the Coen/ Anderson crowd, and yet somehow he’s in Spielberg country.
I thought the handling of Churchill’s address was amazing. Hardly glossed over, having one of the survivors read it from the paper gave weight to the words themselves. And also reminded was a massive human toll caused those words, and the toll to come.
I saw the movie this weekend and thought the beginning was a little muddled and confusing with the different storylines. Once the movie got going though I thought it was really done well. My favorite part was when all of the fishing trawlers, yachts and every other civilian boat in England showed up at Dunkirk to rescue the soldiers and they were cheering.
One of the main themes I got out of the movie was how a whole country perceived the existential threat to them and pulled together towards a common goal. It’s a lesson we could use in this country in 2017.
Bad reviews? Dunkirk is scoring 2 point lower than Baby Driver (also a great movie) at Rotten.
Kevin Spacey his head of this underground syndicate of thieves who target high end heists, i.e. the post office etc. He has this precocious 24 yr old, who is in debt to him, driving the getaway car each time.
The movie becomes more improbably by the minute.
The reviews I read on Dunkirk were by the critics, as the movie had not been released. I’m glad to see that the reviews are getting better.
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