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Originally Posted by Clovis8
It's a movie and it contains half shots from planes. He did a terrible job showing scale. It's not defendable.
Nolan is a genius technical director and absolutely terrible writer. He needs to stop writing his films immediately. He has no ability to craft character or structure.
From wikipedia
Date Beaches Harbour Total
27 May – 7,669 7,669
28 May 5,390 11,874 17,804
29 May 13,752 33,558 47,310
30 May 29,512 24,311 53,823
31 May 22,942 45,072 68,014
1 June 17,348 47,081 64,429
2 June 6,695 19,561 26,256
3 June 1,870 24,876 26,746
4 June 622 25,553 26,175
Totals 98,671 239,555 338,226
A lot of people were waiting on the beaches for more than one day but there was also still a defensive line holding back the Germans. Not all of the troops were on the beach. Yeah he probably could have CGI'd in more people but it seems like he was being fairly true to what it would have looked like.
I agree with you on character side but I don't think it hurt the film at all. Did you really want 20 minutes of flashbacks to Harry Styles pre-war life? These small ships weren't going on a mission to save some particular hero. They were going to bring back the nameless, faceless masses.