Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

[transmogrifier]

Irish's argument is all kind of weak , right?

I mean, the portrayal of the Nazis, for instance, is totally at the discretion of the film-maker, and depends entirely on the perspective the story is being told from.....if you want to focus on the Allies, having the Germans remain one-dimensional boogie men would accurately reflect how they were viewed by the grunts on the front line, I imagine. But even allowing for that, there are a ton of films that portray the opposition with more nuance (example off the top of my head: A Midnight Clear).

Just the idea of saying "too many of genre X movies do this, so all genre X movies need pissing off entirely" makes no sense to me. I'm no fan of biopics, for example, because I tend to find them to be dull and/or dramatically misshapen, but I welcome film-makers to keep churning them out in the hopes a good one crops up from time to time.

As for the fac

[number8]

I don't think there are too many WWII movies. I just think there are too many WWII movies set in the European theater. There were interesting incidents in Africa, in Russia, or the smaller Asian countries that Japan invaded. But we're gonna see bombed out France again?

[transmogrifier]

I don't think there are too many WWII movies. I just think there are too many WWII movies set in the European theater. There were interesting incidents in Africa, in Russia, or the smaller Asian countries that Japan invaded. But we're gonna see bombed out France again?

I don't know; you could easily make the same argument against Westerns....we are gonna see ranches and open plains and saloons again? But the actual stories that take place on that canvas can be as inventive and interesting as the filmmaker wants it to be.

(That said, this is Nolan, so I don't hold great hopes on that front.)

[Winston*]

World War 2 was so boring. What a boring war. The most boring war that ever was.

[Skitch]

Enemy at the Gates is underrated. That side of the conflict fascinates and horrifies me, equal measure.

[Skitch]

[Ezee E]

Any possibility at all that this isn't a WWII movie? lol.

Well done trailer still. Just seems like this has been done before. If there's anything to pull from WWII these days, it'd be the Russian side of things, I think.

[Stay Puft]

Is Qrazy still here to complain about the extras in Nolan's films?

I need his reaction to this teaser.

[TGM]

Getting this teaser before Suicide Squad was easily the best part of the whole experience.

[Dukefrukem]

Getting this teaser before Suicide Squad was easily the best part of the whole experience.

I wasn't so lucky at my theater.

[transmogrifier]

It's a boring teaser. What's the loss?

[Milky Joe]

you don't get to call something boring if it lasts one minute

[transmogrifier]

you don't get to call something boring if it lasts one minute

Sex?

[Ivan Drago]

"Plothole incoming!!!"

[Dead & Messed Up]

"Exposition incoming!!!"

Fixed that for ya.

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If there's anything to pull from WWII these days, it'd be the Russian side of things, I think.

That's why I'm overly fond of Enemy at the Gates. Such a unique beast of a WW2 movie.

[Morris Schæffer]

That's why I'm overly fond of Enemy at the Gates. Such a unique beast of a WW2 movie.

Kevin Reynolds' The Beast of War is another War movie where the Russians are front and center. Even if they are played by Jason Patric and George Dzundza.

It's not WW2 though.

[Ivan Drago]

Fixed that for ya.

I think they're interchangeable, but yours is more accurate. Well done.

[Morris Schæffer]

[Skitch]

That looks familiar........

[Morris Schæffer]

That looks familiar........

SPR?

[Irish]

[Skitch]

SPR?

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[Gittes]

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I remember thinking that TDK poster was so fetching back in the day, but its design seems kind of clumsy now.

The Inception poster is fine, although it's a bit odd how — as others have pointed out to me — Nolan himself comes to mind as a result of the way DiCaprio is posed. It's probably just a coincidence, but either way, I've never seen a poster that seems to adopt the director surrogate angle as a visual feature.

TDKR poster is kind of mediocre, but it was alarming at the time.

The Dunkirk poster is very nice, even if its composition is familiar to many of the other posters for Nolan's films.

[Irish]

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