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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
funny you should say that, i felt the similarly about dunkirk. have not seen oppenheimer yet.
but in dunkirk i was immediately impressed by the pure spectacle of the thing.... visual, audio, camera... the action... and then... it ended? i was immersed in that world and then i was like... wait a minute! is this all?? did i miss something?
it's not that "i wanted more", it's more like... i didn't get a solid sense of narrative.
maybe nolan is actually the memento guy lol. i mean the character. maybe he forgets things 
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compare to 1917. i loved 1917. it was also an immersive film about an old timey war. there was realism but there was also a beginning, a middle, and an end. tension and release/relief. a story proper. it feels like a dream and you go in those tunnels, but you're going somewhere, and you get there in the end.
with dunkirk there were some great characters and situations, but i did not see them come together in a cogent way. there are snippets, things happen, more thing happen, all impressively, and then it ends. memento! |
I just rewatched Dunkirk and I think it’s pretty much perfect. I feel like that movie almost intentionally diverted from too much connection with specific characters to drive home the point of, “Hey, war, amirite? It’s bloody chaos and I don’t mind telling you.”
Also I love the 3 different timeframes/speeds. Really well executed. Honestly it’s probably his best film. But Interstellar is probably the one I love the most on an emotional level, and Dark Knight is the one I watch the most, as you know.
I haven’t seen 1917.
Haven’t seen Oppenheimer either.