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Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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Thought Dunkirk was superb, intense and moving. I do know what you mean about the scale, interesting photo from operation dynamo below:
Will check out Anthropoid.. that passed me by.. thanks
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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It's worth spending 10 mins watching this short documentary on a rather forgotten part of the Dunkirk story
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Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 12:37 - Jan 29 with 3974 views
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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Fully agree. Thought Dunkirk was hugely disappointing. We never get to know the characters so why should we care about them?
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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The town of Dunkirk in the opening scenes was far too neat and tidy.
The railway carriages the troops were in towards the end of the film weren't 1940s ones.
The other Dunkirk film with John Mills (directed by Barry Norman's dad) is way better.
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 12:45 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Indeed. About 100,000 of the troops evacuated from Dunkirk were French.
Also largely forgotten were the other evacuations along the coast, for example at Calais.
It was around 140,00 Fench and Belgian troops out of a total of 340,000. - lessthan 30% who were taken off the beaches.
For aound four days the French navy had been taking Brtish troops over French troops, the view being that the French could hold the defence while the British escaped. It is never mentioned how big the Freench navy were and how important they were. There were also Polish, Canadian and Belgium naval ships fighting and helping. Of those rescued, there were almost a 100 indian troops as mule handlers.
This is not to claim that one nationality did more, or were better as it is far more complex than that. And far more complex than simplistic portrayals on the big screen suggest. With the downside being that far too many simple people see only a very distorted view, and so feel justified in sticking to their jingostic delusions.
And for those who are wondering how the German army was able to break through the Ardennes and race to the sea so quickly this might help
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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Agreed, other films that just had it in for scene drafted or cgi'd more people. The town shots were similarly hampered by decisions not to use cgi.
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Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 14:04 - Jan 29 by unstableblue
1917 fell aprt as a film; poor second half.
Correct. When the that big thing happened in the middle (not to spoil it) I thought the film just slowed down and was a bit of a non event until the final scene which was really good.
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 11:05 - Jan 29 by Guthrum
Haven't seen 1917 yet, but am afraid I wasn't that impressed with Dunkirk. Too few people about on the beaches and there's the implausibly extended gliding Spitfire sequence.
For recent wartime films, Anthropoid was very well done.
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Anthropoid is absolutely brilliant. I was in bits at the end when he has the vision of the woman holding out her hand.
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I very much enjoyed it, though I wasn't sure why the mighty German army seemed to be wandering around in 1s and 2s, but it was a good thing they were as it made things a trifle easier for out heroes.
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 13:19 - Jan 29 by HARRY10
It was around 140,00 Fench and Belgian troops out of a total of 340,000. - lessthan 30% who were taken off the beaches.
For aound four days the French navy had been taking Brtish troops over French troops, the view being that the French could hold the defence while the British escaped. It is never mentioned how big the Freench navy were and how important they were. There were also Polish, Canadian and Belgium naval ships fighting and helping. Of those rescued, there were almost a 100 indian troops as mule handlers.
This is not to claim that one nationality did more, or were better as it is far more complex than that. And far more complex than simplistic portrayals on the big screen suggest. With the downside being that far too many simple people see only a very distorted view, and so feel justified in sticking to their jingostic delusions.
And for those who are wondering how the German army was able to break through the Ardennes and race to the sea so quickly this might help
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 14:33 - Jan 29 by TRUE_BLUE123
Correct. When the that big thing happened in the middle (not to spoil it) I thought the film just slowed down and was a bit of a non event until the final scene which was really good.
I think it is a 7/10 film
Could they not have just sent a plane to deliver the message?
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Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 16:27 - Jan 29 with 3575 views
Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 15:43 - Jan 29 by flimflam
Hitler called the attack off and the Germans sat back and surrounded Dunkirk.
If they had pressed forward it would not have ended quite so well not that a mass evacuation = well.
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Not correct. The attack was paused on 24th May (for many reasons) and resumed again on the 26th May
And they continued to press forward until the evacuation ended on 3rd June. It was during this period of heavy fighting that the massacre of British troops at Le Paradis took place (27th) and the French army's heroic stand at Lille took place.
It was that stand that kept the 'door open' so to speak that allowed so many British to fall back to Dunkirk.
Sadly the idea that a third of a million men escaped because the Germans 'sat back' is yet another myth that has been allowed to flourish, to the detriment of what really happened, and why.
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Watching 1917.. inspired me... on 17:57 - Jan 29 with 3467 views
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