Watched Gone Baby Gone. I recalled it being pretty highly praised. I went into it having no idea what it is about (best way to do movies).

Pretty meh though. Worth watching once but it came across too contrived.

Came into the thread wondering what ppl were saying about Dunkirk. I have a good Norwegian friend who's a director/film buff, and he's usually on the money with his film synopses (imo) and he says Dunkirk is the best war movie ever made. Add that to the RT reviews and I was surprised to see the divisive opinions regarding the film. Anyways, looking fwd to watching it; just a little more wary now.

Rewatched The Insider on a plane. Forgot how much I just love that movie. Granted I'm a sucker for Mann's style (aka a sucker for the misunderstood or anti-hero) but his stretch from 1981-2001 is easily my favorite 20 yr period of any director. I'd have it like this:

1. Heat
2. Insider
3. Mohicans
4. Thief
5 Collateral

*I haven't seen Manhunter (next on the list) or Ali, but they're in that 20 year stretch too. Of his movies since, I've only seen Miami Vice (hated it) and Public Enemies (thought it had promise but overall pretty meh).

As someone who hated interstellar but loved most Nolan movies Clovis' review has me really curious now since all I saw before was unbridled praise.

The Survivalist 7/10
I thought it was pretty good, would recommend
Shows how dam hard and miserable it would be trying to make it on your own or in a small group if TEOTWAWKI occurs.

Having said that.....Ms. gamboolgal - did not like and does not recommend

Yeah, you need to see Manhunter. And The Keep is kind of a mess, but it's definitely worth a watch for the sheer volume of 80s Mann-ness.

He is admittedly a staunch Nolan hater, I was so unsurprised by that review lol.

Not true at all. Memento is among my favorite films. Following and Insomnia were good. The dark knight is one of the only good comic book films.

It's from Inception on that he lost the ability to write good films or control his over the top instincts. He is slowly turning into Bay.

Intertallar is really awful.

I'd be honestly curious for you to refute my comments on Dunkirk.

It's a totally amazing specticle, especially in 70m IMAX. One of the most immersive films visually I have ever seen. I can see why people love it for that.

Unfortunately it's style over substance.

I'll respond later tonight when home because phone posting is really annoying to do quotes and spoilers.

The Prestige is also a great movie.

And I love Inception.

Greatest war movie of all time is just wacky...

No! Say what you will about Bay, dude knows how to direct a cohesive action sequence.

lol no he doesn't

Started dating a black girl. Smoke show! So I was the only white guy in the theatre when she dragged me to Girls Trip. Rotten tomatoes rated it well and the damn thing actually delivered. Tiffany Haddish absolutely stole every ****ing scene from this movie. There was a scene that involved peeing and I won't go into detail but it was pretty damn ehhhhh funky. You could do a lot worse if you're looking to laugh. At the end it did drag on a bit but you got to go through the hilarious stuff to get there.

Bay would have 6 more cuts.

Not so thinly veiled brag post.

Eh, perhaps not. Now if he had said he was the only male in the theater? Have you ever been to a movie that no man would ever think of going to?

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And the fence would go from right on top of him to a quarter mile away in successive cuts

Each story was prefaced with a title. From there, there was virtually zero confusion and after however many minutes in (I honestly think it was in the first 30 but I don't recall exactly), the stories interconnect. I think this is your most ridiculous quibble of all. I can't imagine running into another person who would say this was hard to follow. I don't know what to say if your train of thought is "we're in a plane, okay... WTF now we're on boat?????" and you don't think differently after the film is over.

The issue with scale seems pedantic to me. Some people have already mentioned some stats about the actual number of boats/evacuations and it's not like for the duration of evacuation 100% of troops were building sandcastles on the beach.

The action, I didn't think it was over the top. The majority of it is the dogfighting. I was also refreshed to not see lots of gore. I don't think this diminished the significance of war. Did you want tons of gore and death and screaming, and also no action?

The sound is definitely to each his own but I loved it, specifically the planes and the scene in the boat beached on the shore. For the score, people either love or hate Zimmer and I love him.

I agree that the one part of the film I liked the least was the ending. It was overdramatized and totally unnecessary with the extra bit of stuff from the plane too.

Most of your complaints seem to be for the sake of complaining. I mean if Harry Styles really irked you, okay.

I watched Deep Red for the first time the other day, it was actually the first Dario Argento film I've seen as far as I know. I'm sure I should be hatcheted for saying so ...


Man this is a hell of a film making style, and what an incredible sound track!







Now I need to watch Suspiria!

So the Italian argento films had incredible soundtracks.
Watch suspiria.