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New Dunkirk trailer

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Daft_Cat

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Dopus said:
It's a 70 page script, there's not much talking in this one. He wants to tell a visual story.
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112 pages, but your point stands. It's going to be a shorter, more focused, and very visual film. I'm hoping for a tightly-wound war thriller with an energy that combines Fury Road with A Man Escapes.
 
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burgervan

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Bobby Roberts said:
I'm real curious if this isn't the wartime drama punctuated with bits of startling action, but is in fact a straight up fucking action movie.
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That would explain why it's a summer release.

This is the first trailer to get me excited for this movie. I like Nolan, but I'm not automatically in the bag for anything he releases. His last couple movies were somewhat disappointing, but I love how ambitious he is.
 
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Addi

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This is a much better trailer, I actually want to see the movie now. I like how involved the camera seems to be.
 
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metsallica

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Will look gorgeous in REAL IMAX. Still don't understand the plot. Don't like the family drama stuff, "bringing our boys back from war" angle. As that's the tagline of the trailer, I'm a bit worried. Don't like the PG-13 rating for a movie set in war, but fears slightly assuaged by recent Nolan comments.

Day 1 with caveats.
 
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Aurongel

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Man this film looks good. If he can edit it down to a tight two hour runtime then this will be a pretty unique war film.
 
BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
We finally gonna have a proper dog fight sequence since Top Gun. Rest looks weak though.
 
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AdventureRacing

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-griffy- said:
The IMAX footage I saw would suggest it's a straight up action thriller. You know how the third acts in The Dark Knight and Inception and The Dark Knight Rises are just crazy intense rising action after rising action after rising action, building to this super intense crescendo? Seems like that's what this entire movie is.
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This describes perfectly why I love Nolans movies. There is nothing I enjoy more in cinema than a drawn crescendo reaching an epic climax. Whilst I know it gets some backlash I also love a super prominent soundtrack which simmer usual delivers on.

I haven't quite been feeling these trailers but I'll still be there Day 1.
 
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jett

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This is the least hyped I've been for a Nolan movie. I just can't muster any real interest for this thing. All of the trailers make this movie look dull as fuck.

Loxley said:
Man these trailers are just doing nothing for me at all, I can't quite pin down why. It just seems...dull? I don't know :/ Then again it's impossible to judge Nolan's films from the trailers so I'm still very interested in seeing it.
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Not alone at least!
 
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Elandyll

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Do we know if it's based on the Churchill WW2 "miracle of Dunkirk" propaganda, or if it includes some of the more controversial bits that have emerged later on with various studies of the events?
 
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HvySky

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All of the media and teasers for this movie continue to do nothing for me at all. I'll probably still see it at some point, but this is the first Nolan​ film that has me feeling... ehhhhh.
 
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Busty

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This gave me goosebumps.

It's going to be interesting to see how it fares this summer as I don't think there's anything else like it this event film season.

badcrumble said:
In our current political climate, I feel like this film's naked Toryism is really just distasteful, sorry.
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Amazing.

Just when I think GAF can't surprise me anymore someone really kicks it up a notch.

I mean..., wow.
 
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BlanketFort

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Fuck that looks amazing.

10/10 trailer for what I am hoping is another tremendous Nolan flick.

The history surrounding the evacuation is so interesting; I am excited to see it explored in a modern film.
 
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BlanketFort

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badcrumble said:
In our current political climate, I feel like this film's naked Toryism is really just distasteful, sorry.
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Troll post?

What about this film demonstrates "naked Toryism" to you? That there are British people in the trailer?

Nothing about 400,000 soldiers fleeing tyrannical Blitzkrieg screams traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the "supremacy" of social order, to me.

A gritty take on England fleeing for survival and a chance at respite to regroup seems like a story of hope and persistent resistance to me.

Churchill's "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." ideology (so prevalent in England during the 30s and 40s) is about as un-Tory as you can possibly get.
 
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Elandyll

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ExtremePopcorn said:
Such as?
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Some more controversial and argued than others, but among other things Lord Gort's one sided (and possibly before getting such orders- technically making it akin to desertion) decision to retreat to Dunkirk with BEF troops without informing his Belgian and French allies who would then unwittingly provide cover for the retreat?

I mean... Surely you do not fully buy the whole "Dunkirk Miracle was really a victory" war propaganda thing, right?
 
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wachie

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Still don't get a hook for this movie. It's going to be Nolan's lowest opening/grossing movie yet.

I'm fine with that but hope the movie is good.
 
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Blader

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Elandyll said:
Do we know if it's based on the Churchill WW2 "miracle of Dunkirk" propaganda, or if it includes some of the more controversial bits that have emerged later on with various studies of the events?
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“This is an essential moment in the history of the Second World War. If this evacuation had not been a success, Great Britain would have been obliged to capitulate. And the whole world would have been lost, or would have known a different fate: the Germans would undoubtedly have conquered Europe, the US would not have returned to war,” he said. “It is a true point of rupture in war and in history of the world. A decisive moment. And the success of the evacuation allowed Churchill to impose the idea of a moral victory, which allowed him to galvanize his troops like civilians and to impose a spirit of resistance while the logic of this sequence should have been that of surrender. Militarily it is a defeat; On the human plane it is a colossal victory.”
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http://theplaylist.net/christopher-nolan-talks-triptych-storytelling-dunkirk-20170228/

Sounds like he acknowledges Churchill's propaganda spin on it, but also thinks that spin was in and of itself important.
 
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AdventureRacing

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wachie said:
Still don't get a hook for this movie. It's going to be Nolan's lowest opening/grossing movie yet.

I'm fine with that but hope the movie is good.
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It's hard to predict where this will end up but it certainly doesn't have the same sort of hype as his last few movies. This thing needs to have stellar reviews and even then I'm not sure how general audiences will respond. It's a pretty interesting film from a BO standpoint.
 
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lightskintwin

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wachie said:
Still don't get a hook for this movie. It's going to be Nolan's lowest opening/grossing movie yet.

I'm fine with that but hope the movie is good.
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Plus it's in a packed month with Spider Man, Planet of the Apes, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Atomic Blonde, and The Emoji Movie. I think Dunkirk might bomb in America.
 
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