Less dialogue and exposition as well. I don't think critics will give him a pass the way they did Gravity for being just a thrill ride. But I'm looking forward to it and should be a good theater experience in IMAX.Vader182 wrote:To be honest, the BIG Rotten Tomatoes question for me is how DUNKIRK will hit critics/movie bloggers/the academy. There's a rise and fall story built around Nolan in the press and academy with the "rise" TDK/Inception to the "fall" of TDKR/Interstellar. Dunkirk is interesting because it's in theory the easiest to market as a serious drama, adult war film, first movie Nolan's made that is "mature."
WB is (smartly, I think) doing anything but marketing it this way. They're selling it as purely visceral blockbuster, delivering to us a hyper-vivid WWII experience. Almost like WWII VR with the IMAX realism and so on. It appears, on the surface, to subvert all the negativity built around C.N. in the public forum by being:
-SHORT
-FOCUSED
-VISCERAL
-SERIOUS SUBJECT MATTER
-NOT INDULGENTLY DOUR
The question that's going to be answered come July is if Dunkirk will be written off as a WWII "Action Movie" (which can still be acclaimed) or if it will be legitimized as serious art and a serious contribution to the WWII genre. T do that it will need to bring serious thematic heft and serious emotion. The running time fascinates me due to it being the tightest wound Nolan movie to date. If it's wall to wall action where will the emotion come from? What will the human stakes feel like? What about this can be profound? Will this be more of an abstraction, like Gravity or Mad Max: Fury Road?
These are the things I'm most curious about in anticipating Dunkirk, other than just being madly curious what Nolan's up to with this project in general and how little he's shown us.
-Vader
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I thought Gravity was more than just a thrill ride. It was drama as well. It could be banal drama, but still drama which is pretty close in its theme to Inception, dealing with the lost of the loved ones.
Also DIALOGUE. This is said to have very little dialogue which would again be in contrast with Nolan's exposition-type dialogue. Unless the only dialogue we hear is exposition.Vader182 wrote:It appears, on the surface, to subvert all the negativity built around C.N. in the public forum by being:
-SHORT
-FOCUSED
-VISCERAL
-SERIOUS SUBJECT MATTER
-NOT INDULGENTLY DOUR
However, i'm not sure if making a movie to subvert criticism is a good idea. Most of the things that people complain about, I think are Nolan's strengths and his style. I'm not saying he's consciously trying to appease his recent critics with this film but I'm still cautious about Dunkirk being such a departure. This and of course my general lack of interest in the WW2 subject.
I still think, as soon as the movie comes out, people will complain about PG-13. Whether the criticism is going to be valid or not, it's going to happen and it will lower the RT/metacritic score, moreso with the users but I guess to some extent with the critics as well. I already see the debates, sorry ARGUMENTS, between Nolan's critics saying the movie didn't show enough reality of war and Nolan fans trying to explain this WW2 movie is not a war movie but an action/thriller.
Gravity (like Avatar) is terribly overrated but was a tremendous technical achievement.Lord Shade wrote:I thought Gravity was more than just a thrill ride. It was drama as well. It could be banal drama, but still drama which is pretty close in its theme to Inception, dealing with the lost of the loved ones.
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if the critics are getting amazing experience and they see how intense with some amazing practical scenes this movie is, than this movie will get afcourse high rotten tomatoes score. Look at Quay brothers that chris nolan directed, it got 100% score. Because it was only like 70 min with no dialogue and was atmospheric and was well directed by chris nolan.
“Quay” is a short and like 9 minutes long but okay
On some planet where time is fucked up it actually might be 70 min long. Or in another dimension. Or in...
Whatever.
Whatever.
How do critics typically watch movies they review? In the cinema or just a screener on a laptop or...? In the case of Dunkirk the experience you'll get will depend on the screen you're watching it on more than ever...
Not more than with Interstellar.