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Saw The Greatest Showman yesterday about P.T. Barnum. If you aren't concerned about historical accuracy and you love musicals and circuses and curiosities, this is an entertaining movie. Hugh Jackman lights up the screen.
 
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I watched it because I'm a Dax Shepard fan. I know, I know, make fun of me.
Movie wasn't great but somehow entertaining.
 
I am so tempted to watch Dunkirk again but I can't. It's a bad movie. Period. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Nolan does have some strong cinematography throughout but beyond that, it:

1) Does an absolutely awful job of paying homage to the supposed true heroes, the fishermen who used nearly 1,000 boats to go back and forth and save the lives of Allies, putting their own lives in danger in doing so. Just terrible. We see one ****ing boat for the first 95% of the movie and then, as they near the shore, all of a sudden, see maybe 20-30 more. That's it. And completely out of nowhere mind you. None of these other boats were anywhere in site despite a zillion other camera shots and angles throughout during which we would've and should've seen them. But we don't and when we do, it's just 20-30 of them. There was no respect for scale.
2) Does an awful job of also capturing the scale of the event. There were around 400,000 Allies on that beach. There were about 800,000 Germans involved in the battle which lasted a little longer than a week. And what does Nolan really show us? A couple of shots here and there of, what, maybe 2,000 soldiers?
3) Does an even worse job of portraying what the **** went on. Why the **** did he juxtapose scenes from different perspectives? Of all movie genres to do this in, I can't think of a worse possible one. And what's more, since the same scenes are shown multiple times, we're really left with about one hour of actual action taking place and through all of it, can't hear anything the characters ever say (which was rare mind you) because Nolan and Zimmer decided to blare their bass once again and drowned out all dialogue to the point that it was basically unintelligible. Once again, awful.
4) My son is wailing...more to come I think.
 
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Wes Mantooth said:
I am so tempted to watch Dunkirk but I can't. It's a bad movie. Period. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Nolan does have some strong cinematography throughout but beyond that, it:

1) Does an absolutely awful job of paying homage to the supposed true heroes, the fishermen who used nearly 1,000 boats to go back and forth and save the lives of Allies, putting their own lives in danger in doing so. Just terrible. We see one ****ing boat for the first 95% of the movie and then, as they near the shore, all of a sudden, see maybe 20-30 more. That's it. And completely out of nowhere mind you. None of these other boats were anywhere in site despite a zillion other camera shots and angles throughout during which we would've and should've seen them. But we don't and when we do, it's just 20-30 of them. There was no respect for scale.
2) Does an awful job of also capturing the scale of the event. There were around 400,000 Allies on that beach. There were about 800,000 Germans involved in the battle which lasted a little longer than a week. And what does Nolan really show us? A couple of shots here and there of, what, maybe 2,000 soldiers?
3) Does an even worse job of portraying what the **** went on. Why the **** did he juxtapose scenes from different perspectives? Of all movie genres to do this in, I can't think of a worse possible one. And what's more, since the same scenes are shown multiple times, we're really left with about one hour of actual action taking place and through all of it, can't hear anything the characters ever say (which was rare mind you) because Nolan and Zimmer decided to blare their bass once again and drowned out all dialogue to the point that it was basically unintelligible. Once again, awful.
4) My son is wailing...more to come I think.
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You're so tempted but you can't? So have you actually seen the movie or haven't you?
 
Archie Moses said:
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I saw this today and it's a let down of an explanation of the mirror scene in the last Jedi.
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Wow that's actually what I'd said when you brought this up the first time - that because there is great light it has to be balanced by great darkness, but I didn't know about the Rey relying on Rey to get her through thing, that's actually pretty deep.
 
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