- Aug 2, 2019
- 193
Wow...you are the first person who I've heard say they hated Dunkirk. If you're hoping/expecting 1917 to be a WWI Saving Private Ryan (or a conventional war film for that matter), you are going to be disappointed.
Just because Dunkirk was awful doesn't mean Saving Private Ryan was great. That's a bit of a leap in extrapolation. Fury was OK, I love armor and tanks but it was still a bit over the top, and it's particularly funny the way World War 2 movies always portray a kerjillion German soldiers swarming on American lines when in reality it was almost always the other way around.
If I had to pick a movie I hope it's more along the lines of, Flags of our Fathers and its companion film, Letters from Iwo Jima are amazing films that convey the slow lead up and often futile measures that make up warfare.
Dunkirk took so many liberties on reality and physics that it became distracting. It was just a hodge podge of stories crumpled together haplessly. With the list of really good books out there on the subject I wasn't impressed with the movie.
The way they split the scenes up just made it annoying, and they injected drama into every possible opening they could find. Even the civilians in the boat ride TO the beach got visited by the drama llama.