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    Baby Driver was a freaking amazing movie. A definite must-see I think. Plus its set in my hometown so it was great seeing some familiar locations!
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    Dunkirk
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    I was really looking forward to Dunkirk and I really wanted to like it. But from the first few minutes my spirits began to sink slowly. The technical parts were well done with lots of practical effects and very little CGI. It was beautiful to see the Spitefires in action and the Stukas were truly terrifying. The visuals and sound in the movie were outstanding. The cinematography was well done. However, there wasn't enough story to make it a great or even good movie in my mind. Nolan wanted minimal dialog and went out of his way to do so - often to the point some scenes felt awkward or down right stupid with the lack thereof. There were a few times I found myself mentally screaming at a character "Say something!! Please!"

    The movie followed three stories told over three different time periods: the land story takes place over one week, the sea story over one day and the air over one hour. Interesting concept but awkward in actual practice when cutting back and forth between all three. The sea and air stories are fairly well done, but the land story is horrible. The "hero" of the land story (Harry Stiles) is far from admirable or likeable, and Kenneth Branagh's admiral does little more than stand at the end of a pier staring across the Channel at England, though he does occasionally provide a tidbit or two of information for the audience as to what is going on. How he gets his information while standing on the pier without any apparent staff or radio nearby is beyond me. The land story also does not show the British army doing anything other than standing in lines on the beach waiting for evacuation, but even the soldiers standing in line are better men than Stiles' character. The air story was good and the sea story the highlight. Mark Rylance plays a civilian who takes his boat out as part of the rescue fleet. He is by far the best character in the film and the only one in which Nolan sheds a bit of light as to his character make up.

    One of the things I like about movies is the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer did the soundtrack, so it should be awesome, right? Perhaps the score is so brilliantly woven into the movie that it was inaudible to my ears most of the time. However, when the soundtrack made its presence known, it was a shrieking finger-nails-on-a-chalkboard sound that built in intensity as the suspense of the action increased. It was an assault on my ears that I desperately wanted to stop and undermined the scene. The soundtrack was a major disappointment.

    I realize my review is not shared by many critics or movie-goers. Maybe the movie is too deep for my feeble brain to appreciate or too artsy-fartsy for my tastes. Ever since I saw Dunkirk, I've been playing it around in my head, hoping that something will click and it's brilliance will be revealed to me. Alas, that hasn't happened. Writing this review hasn't helped either, but rather solidified my thoughts that it was a big disappointment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    Baby Driver was a freaking amazing movie. A definite must-see I think. Plus its set in my hometown so it was great seeing some familiar locations!
    Solid action film, but I have to agree with certain reviewers that it does not come up to the quality and joy of some of Edgar Wright's other films, and that the romance component as it was detracted from the film. You get a mild creeping disappointment as you move past the first half-hour, which was the most promising part.

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    [B]Dunkirk

    I realize my review is not shared by many critics or movie-goers. Maybe the movie is too deep for my feeble brain to appreciate or too artsy-fartsy for my tastes. Ever since I saw Dunkirk, I've been playing it around in my head, hoping that something will click and it's brilliance will be revealed to me. Alas, that hasn't happened. Writing this review hasn't helped either, but rather solidified my thoughts that it was a big disappointment.
    I might see it on vaunted IMAX sometime, but I can't help rolling my eyes at hearing that Nolan is a picture-show elitist who doesn't seem to understand that the modality of the big-screen and the little-screen are not categorically different to the point that even in the age of powerful monitors and streaming capacity old-school inconveniences to the viewer should just be swallowed and 'appreciated' because it is teh troo art.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    Solid action film, but I have to agree with certain reviewers that it does not come up to the quality and joy of some of Edgar Wright's other films, and that the romance component as it was detracted from the film. You get a mild creeping disappointment as you move past the first half-hour, which was the most promising part.
    Not so sure I would agree. I think the romance part drove the story forward in the sense that it seemed to be a major reason he bailed on the botched job in the first place.
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    Not so sure I would agree. I think the romance part drove the story forward in the sense that it seemed to be a major reason he bailed on the botched job in the first place.
    It's not the internal consistency, but how it played out in the movie. They could have shown us something else to drive the narrative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    It's not the internal consistency, but how it played out in the movie. They could have shown us something else to drive the narrative.
    Like what? The whole storyline felt very smooth, and the music they used was fantastic as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
    Like what? The whole storyline felt very smooth, and the music they used was fantastic as well.
    That's up to the creators of course, but we might have been better off for example cutting the waitress or reducing her to a bit character and giving the foster dad an arc. The interactions we saw between the two young people were the least engaging parts, and in the end she wasn't even developed as a character.
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