The Thin Red Line + Mad Max: Fury Road + Titanic = Dunkirk
Remember when I said Baby Driver gave me an adrenaline rush like I had never experienced from a movie before?
Well the adrenaline rush I got from that film PALES in comparison to the rush I just experienced during the entirety of Dunkirk.
Dunkirk is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. The wonder, the scope, and the magnitude contained in this film is something I've…
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“You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
- Werner Herzog
A straight-look at Dunkirk:
1. This is a film directed by Christopher Nolan, of Memento, The Prestige, Interstellar fame.
2. This is a film edited by Lee Smith, whose credits include Inception and The Truman Show.
3. This is a film shot by Her’s Hoyte Van Hoytema.
4. It is populated…
all the characters in this movie have 2013 tumblr accounts like they read Looking For Alaska by John Green once and then wrote that quote about smoking to die in their journals and they reblog black and white gifs of effy from skins which makes it even more ironic that emily from skins is in this and also that gif of the person getting in the car crash does anyone remember that. and now in 2017 because i assume this…
This is a horror movie.
And I don't mean that this is a war movie about the horrors of the second world war.
No, at its core, Dunkirk is a horror movie. A relentless, oppressive, frightening, tense and extremely discomforting film with a faceless monster stalking and preying on our protagonists.
And because it is a horror movie, it delivers the sheer terror of the bizarre and incomprehensible situation our protagonists find themselves in with full force.
It starts with…
Not since "Warcraft" have I felt truly enriched in a film's world.
Much like that film, each frame of this has something to show, whether it be the sets, the creature designs, the costumes, the locations. All of them pop with a distinct color pallet and visual effect that wouldn't be seen outside of a completely foreign production.
"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" is Luc Besson's passion project, something he's been wanting to create his entire career,…
The truth is that there shouldn't be disappointment. I should, by no means, feel disappointed. But, leaving the theater I was confronted with this completely overwhelming feeling of utter tiredness and sadness. After seeing the movie I was messaging one of my friends who asked why it's so poor and why I disliked it so much and my exact words were, "t's more MCU garbage but this time it's Spider-Man and it feels fucking personal". That big, fat 94% on…
