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Originally Posted by btimbit
It did some stuff very well. The aerial combat and the destroyer sinking come to mind.
But the movie's insistence on not using special effects, which I do love, also kills it in a few areas. Like the beach scenes, they really needed more extras if they weren't going to use CGI. There's supposed to be 400 000 men on the beach, but in the movie it looks like maybe 300. Or the scenes in town at the start of the movie. Dunkirk would have been absolutely leveled by this point, but since they insisted on filming in the actual town and not on a built set or with CGI, it looks ridiculous.
Spoiler!
In the movie
What it would have looked like (image from Saving Private Ryan
Doesn't make it a bad movie but definitley keeps it out of perfect status, for me at least |
I never liked Dunkirk, thought it paled in comparison with the 1950's film it is clearly inspired by, that said the Town wasn't shelled that much and was largely standing as the allies pulled out, what they missed was the vast amount of vehicles, thousands of trucks bikes cars the BEF and French dumped along the roads