Comments on: Damien Chazelle Praises ‘Dunkirk’: “It’s Cinema As Music”

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:19:00 +0000

Oh well, Chazelle’s view! For what it’s worth, in my view, Dunkirk is the biggest nonsense I have watched in the last two years – total waste of 2 hrs, or however long it was. No story, no entertainment, just a bunch of self-important characters putting up a show for a self-important filmmaker. If it’s about daring and taking artistic risks, instead of running behind hype, I wish people gave credit where it’s due – Darren Aronofsky is really the one who displayed temerity this year when he made “Mother!”

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:58:00 +0000

In reply to Billy. And that’s why all these great directors have come out praising the film. Personally, it my favorite film of the year and yet I’m afraid, like with most of Nolan’s films, it will get overlooked at the Oscars.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:45:00 +0000

Ha. I say you guys are talking out of your backsides! ‘Dunkirk’ is a nothing but a mangled time frame piece of nonsense. Historically inaccurate, the sky would have been teeming with Spitfires and ships all over the place, not to mention the absurd British jingoism that permeates the whole plot. The so called suspense, stretched and drawn out, much like the last third of ‘Inception’ is dull and uninspired.

It seems to me that Nolan approaches these things like a mathematician overseeing an elaborate diagram. Cinema as art(and I believe that Nolan believes himself an artist) requires more heart and feeling than technical cleverness.