Haha honestly you might. It depends on the venue. I saw the film in a very large IMAX theater and the sound was VERY loud but not as loud as some other movies I saw in IMAX this year of Dolby Atmos for that matter. Has anyone here seen the movie in Atmos? I find Atmos sound to be better quality than IMAX.
This is the first and last movie I will ever watch in IMAX. My ears physically hurt hours after the film and I have a dull ringing. One of the worst experiences I have ever had at a theater.
Film was pretty good, but wow the sound was turned up to ridiculous levels. Very difficult to hear any dialog.
I don't see the lack of a main protagonist as a problem. Nolan created a unrelenting, cruel atmosphere, with the Nazis literally being faceless, merciless war machines. And the Allied soldiers are just small, insignificant cogs, thrown around in this mess, with just barely enough will and luck to survive. It made the pressing Germans feel like an unstoppable natural calamity.
I think he was trying to capture the reality of Dunkirk, and thousands of people struggling to survive without a sappy backstory does the battle more justice to that end.
I could see how if someone wasn't paying attention some of the scenes would be confusing to follow, but I really liked how Nolan focused on everything by going back and forth across different times of the event to capture the highlights.
This movie was amazing. The part where the boat captain is yelling at his son that he knows the pilot might not be alive really got to me.
I could see how if someone wasn't paying attention some of the scenes would be confusing to follow, but I really liked how Nolan focused on everything by going back and forth across different times of the event to capture the highlights.
This movie was amazing. The part where the boat captain is yelling at his son that he knows the pilot might not be alive really got to me.
I had read before watching the movie that scenes were out of order and it skips around. It was easier to pick up details knowing the movie was going to do that. Wife didn't know and said she would have to watch it again to pick up stuff she missed.
Just got out and loved it. The movie doesn't stop for the entire time it's on, I didn't feel bored once and was wanting more to happen when it ended. Didn't have a clue about the time skips, but I put it together when they showed Collins going down a second time.
I wasn't able to see it in 70MM IMAX, but saw it in 70MM, so that's something.
Saw in 70mm IMAX. One of the best cinema experiences I've had as an adult. It takes something special like that (70mm IMAX) to get my ass to actually go to the theater, but it was absolutely worth it. I highly recommend tracking it down if you can.
As a normal movie though, it wouldn't have blown me away. Excellent film that I'm glad to have seen, but it's not my favorite Nolan movie.
From what I've read, most of the people that didn't like it were expecting something like Private Ryan or something like this, I don't know why but whatever, I've even read someone that was waiting for a Nolanesque twist, like wtf lol, did he expected some kind of space alien ships giving hands to bring the Brits/French back...
The only general complaint I can agree with is the lack of scale, 400 000 soldiers are supposed to be there and you never feel like it and the fact that the beach and the streets are pretty empty when they were full of materials that soldiers abandoned during their evacuation...
The people complaining about characters want everyone to have a nice little arc, and to find out about their gal back home and how they're going to be a farmer when the war is done.
Have you noticed that Nazis were not in this film? Only their bombs, bullets and torpedos. Not one face was shown in focus or detail. Masterful. The main antagonist of the film was fear and hopelessness.
Have you noticed that Nazis were not in this film? Only their bombs, bullets and torpedos. Not one face was shown in focus or detail. Masterful. The main antagonist of the film was fear and hopelessness.
Thank you for understanding something as basic as that and we can also notice that the Nazies are pushing the psychological battle with the soldiers by harassing them with regular bombing attacks from the sky and the "We surround You" notes everywhere in town etc...
I wish there would have been more city Battles instead of the beach scenes in the middle part of the movie where basically nothing happened except for a couple of german bombers.
The first two minutes with the soldier running from the germans to the beach were more intense then anything else imo.
I'm seeing this next week but my sister saw it last night and, while she said it's a great film, it left her highly disturbed and unsettled. Is that a common sentiment? I don't think she's seen many war films so maybe she just wasn't prepared for it, but she said she almost regrets seeing it cause she can't get it out of her head with how anxiety-inducing it was.
I wish there would have been more city Battles instead of the beach scenes in the middle part of the movie where basically nothing happened except for a couple of german bombers.
The first two minutes with the soldier running from the germans to the beach were more intense then anything else imo.
Hoping to get to see this in 70mm sometime next week. For those who saw it in that format, is the sound ear-crushingly loud? Because my GF has issues with extremely loud noises.
Hoping to get to see this in 70mm sometime next week. For those who saw it in that format, is the sound ear-crushingly loud? Because my GF has issues with extremely loud noises.
Are you doing IMAX 70mm? I saw it laser but I assume the sound set up is the same. It's the loudest movie I've ever seen (often with extreme loud noises coming out of nowhere), so yeah she's gonna have some issues for sure.
I wish there would have been more city Battles instead of the beach scenes in the middle part of the movie where basically nothing happened except for a couple of german bombers.
The first two minutes with the soldier running from the germans to the beach were more intense then anything else imo.
Are you doing IMAX 70mm? I saw it laser but I assume the sound set up is the same. It's the loudest movie I've ever seen (often with extreme loud noises coming out of nowhere), so yeah she's gonna have some issues for sure.
Have you noticed that Nazis were not in this film? Only their bombs, bullets and torpedos. Not one face was shown in focus or detail. Masterful. The main antagonist of the film was fear and hopelessness.
Are you doing IMAX 70mm? I saw it laser but I assume the sound set up is the same. It's the loudest movie I've ever seen (often with extreme loud noises coming out of nowhere), so yeah she's gonna have some issues for sure.
I'm seeing this next week but my sister saw it last night and, while she said it's a great film, it left her highly disturbed and unsettled. Is that a common sentiment? I don't think she's seen many war films so maybe she just wasn't prepared for it, but she said she almost regrets seeing it cause she can't get it out of her head with how anxiety-inducing it was.
I have anxiety issues and while the film was good it was hard for me to watch, I needed a few hours to relax myself after I saw it because between the tension in the movie, the really loud parts, and the constant stressful soundtrack, it flipped a bunch of my panic switches and left me feeling really unsettled. I kinda wish I waited until it came out on DVD to watch because the movie setting was like panic attack central.
Just got back. Decided last minute to check it out so I missed like the first 5-10 minutes. Went to a regular theater and apparently my city actually has a 70mm theater, too. Lol. I did enjoy the movie. I was a little confuse at times like was Cillian Murphy the first enemy Tom Hardy shot down. Probably not since they never mention him being an enemy or the other pilot doesn't mention it either.
Fake imax screen is my guess. We have screens that claim Imax but they're not the oversized screen that I remember seeing for Avatar and a few other movies.
eta- This anandtech thread from 2009 and people were complaining way back when.
There are sort of 3 breeds of IMAX theaters out there today.
Traditional IMAX: The REALLY big rooms sporting the 80x100ish foot screens and running the older 15/70mm projectors. These aren't' built much anymore outside institutional (museums, zoos, etc) users.
IMAX MPX: Still a big room in which hangs a 45x70ish sheet and uses a less costly/complicated 15/70mm projector. Seating rake is between traditional IMAX and conventional stadium. Some of these are getting converted to digital to reduce print cost as IMAX film prints are extremely expensive.
IMAX Digital: Getting wedged into any convenient larger room at existing multiplexes using 50-60ft wide sheets and moved forward to provide enhanced the perception of size. Projection is accomplished using a proprietary tandem 2K digital rig that overlays the images to achieve a reasonable image quality/brightness.
Fucking outstanding movie. Nolan never disappoints me.
I agree that knowing the timeskip in advance helps put when piecing together the timelines.
Jesus. I loved the fact the movie was loud. At the beginning, I jumped when the man picking up the cigarette was getting shot at. I wasn't expecting it and it was loud.
There was little narrative, the story wasn't very complex but what the movie did manage to be is a technical marvel, absolutely worth seeing in IMAX. I have never seen a war movie that felt so real, which is shocking considering it is PG13. It's more of a theater experience than something I'll watch with repeat viewings, so I compare it to other movies of that ilk like Avatar or Gravity. I'd rank somewhere in the middle among Nolan movies.
Saw it at BFI Imax about 12.40ish earlier. Really great film, the sound was pretty good too and helped with the tension and fear. The structure worked well I think, and towards the end some bits were pretty emotional. Harry Styles was surprisingly decent.
A character narrative to get latched onto would have ruined the point of the film, imo, and made it feel like all the important shit happened while one person was there. It would have felt less about 400,000 and more about 1.
Disappointed in my theater mostly- its the same IMAX I've been going to when I want to see something in IMAX and I know when I saw The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, it was playing in film with the aspect ratio changes and everything. I've seen other movies like The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Logan in there since TDKR came out and just assumed Dunkirk would be like TDK and TDKR where it would fill the whole IMAX screen and not be slightly letterboxed at the top and bottom like movies like Logan were in IMAX. Well, they either must have ditched their IMAX film projector since TDKR or just didn't feel like getting it out for Dunkirk, since it was just a regular IMAX xenon digital projection. Which still looked and more importantly sounded great, but I kept waiting for the kind of "Holy shit!" moment I remember from the full frame IMAX openings for TDK and TDKR and they never came.
So outside of that, I really enjoyed the movie. Yes, it is damn loud. Maybe borderline too loud, but for what its depicting, it ratchets up the intensity of the movie, right from the first gun shots. I don't know where I'd put it amongst Nolan's other movies since I generally have enjoyed all of them to varying degrees but Dunkirk is kind of the leanest of them from a story POV, which I thought was fine, but I can see where other people might not like.
Visually its fantastic and the aerial dogfighting scenes are far and away the most breathtaking and awesome moments in the movie. Even without seeing them in my theater in a full aspect ratio IMAX presentation, those aerial shots were great and reminded me of that feeling you can get in a dome IMAX or a proper IMAX film where it almost feels like you're flying since the picture is filling up so much of your FOV.
My main misgiving with the movie would probably be the
time jumps/ chronology. I knew about it going in, but it didn't really add to the tension very much for me. Maybe mostly since towards the end, the way things come together, there isn't a ton of tension since you know the fishing boat that the soldiers are in is already in the water and the bomber has been taken out by Tom Hardy. The only sort of suspense was when Hardy glided back in to take out the lone fighter.
It wasn't terribly confusing or anything, I'd just be really curious to see the movie if it was just presented in a linear fashion but still cut between the three points of view. The aerial parts were just by far and away my most favorite that as soon as they would cut away from those, I was a little bummed out.
Good movie and definitely an experience you need to see in a theater, for the insane sounds if nothing else. But don't be ashamed to bring some earplugs, especially if you're sensitive to really loud sounds. The opening gunfire immediately reminded me of the shootout in Heat in terms of loudness. It was spectacular. The Stukas were great too.
Just saw, great movie but not my favorite Nolan (inception has that honor). Also, I thought the time jump thing was ok, nothing revolutionary like some people were claiming.
