Review of Dunkirk (2017) by Abm0 — 09 Dec 2018

Not much happens here. Very slow movie with very little to say. Its most prominent feature is the overly dramatic and ominous music that stands out in the excessive slow scenes with not much happening except soldiers shuffling about. Started skipping ahead after 30 minutes out of impatience. I thought this was at least a shocking reminder of the horrors of war but it fails to be even that. It's just bland and half-empty and mostly pointless. Same content could have easily been presented in a 1-hour cut, and it'd have been be easier to watch - less of a waste of time.

Also, it joins the likes of Transformers 2 and Snowpiercer etc. in being the victim of a certain psychopathology going around in Hollywood that makes their editors impoverish the colors of the movie and make them all revolve around Teal and Orange (many things that should be grey are actually greenish/teal, even white shirts have a teal hue to them; anything wooden or warm-color textile will be a shade of orange; hardly any blue or magenta or true red or true yellow to be found anywhere). I thought the Teal and Orange insanity might be dying out, but it seems not - Hollywood is still holding on to this idiocy.

I watched this on HBO, so I had complete control over the sound volume the whole time. I guess that nullified the most impressive part of the movie: the unnecessarily loud soundtrack (to where even some veterans commented that the movie might have been louder than the actual war). But the Industry can pat itself on the back, I guess: once again it has fabricated another "blockbuster" for itself, complete with paid-for favorable reviews and awards.