FIRST TIME WATCHING!!! DUNKIRK (2017) |Reaction
Join me as I watch and react to the 2017 movie from Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk, for the first time. This reaction is a review and commentary on not only the movie but the hardships, horrors, hopes and fears that arise during times such as the ones depicted.
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Thank you so much for the heartfelt reaction
Another great one to watch is Battle of Britain (1969)
This is the worst film of Dunkirk that you can watch.
I have no problem with this film if they had called it evacuation or something like it.
I do have a problem with this film being called DUNKIRK.
People tell us not to take a film too seriously but I will point to ROOTS.
How many people believed that is how slavery happened?
Even the author of ROOTS said that he wrote a myth to bring black Americans together.
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I am no fan of the BBC but they did a much better docudrama in 2016.
This film reminds me of soap operas and should be treated as such.
It does nothing to show the true horror of what happened.
The 7-8 stukas would have been 70-80 stukas.
Those bombs they dropped were not the frightening 500kg bombs that stukas used, that could take out a row of houses.
Look at how empty the beach is!!!
over 300,000 troops were evacuated of which 100,000 were French
I only saw French troops being turned away by the Royal Navy (who were the real heroes of this evacuation yet they were portrayed quite badly in the film.)
200 ships of all nations were sunk.
Did anyone see a French ship?
I shall not mention the RAF fantasy flight.
(N3200 spitfire crashing at Calais is the nearest to Dunkirk that we know of)
The RAF lost 76 pilots but there were 150ish allied pilots lost in total.
Again, just one of the royal navy squadrons (825 NAS) had 24 pilots shot down, many of them much closer to Dunkirk than the spitfires. (Calais is 43km where as Gravelines was 21kms)
What bothers me is that "hollywood history" is reaching our British film industry, and are being made to make people feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Where Eagle's Dare is a great war movie to react to if you haven't seen it. Starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood as special forces infiltrating an Austrian castle occupied by the Germans during ww2.
Thanks Alan. Be well.❤
1 minute into your clip, I put you on pause and went and watched the movie itself… I knew the story well and probably why I gave it a miss at release, but this is a powerful film and not to be missed! So, thanks for leading me to it 😁
Operation Dynamo aka the miracle of the little ships.
My late grandfather was in the BEF and as a signalman apparently was one of the last to get off the beach, told my dad in the 60s that he had to jump over the holes in the mole. Didn't say much of his time but I know he went thru Italy, and ended up helping at Bergen-Belsen
The initial British war on the continent was almost universally a failure, despite having significant numbers and (almost) comparable tech level as the Germans.
Britain was largely imagining a rerun of the last war, Germany had other ideas.
The Darkest hour again is fact based surrounding Winston Churchill
Thank you for your reaction. We Brits sometimes think Americans have no idea of what we went through before you joined us to defeat the evil of the Nazi terror
"We want our Army back!"
That line breaks me a little bit every time.
It was brilliant watching this again with you. EB❤️
My great uncle Jim was a career soldier, he was at Dunkirk and was there for D day. He fought the entire war without being injured but was accidentally shot in the leg by a subaltern on VE day. He lived into his eighties, wish I could have talked to him more.
Things never change as human beings in over 80 years time people will be the saying exactly the same thing about the Russian invasion of the Ukraine film 😥😥😥😥🇬🇧
Guaranteed
There was even a guy in a 2 seat canoe who rowed across the channel and rescued one soldier. That says it all really.
Wonderful reaction to a wonderful film! 👍👍👍
The beaches were packed…I never understood why the director failed to realize this. The beach scenes in this movie are not representative of the actual situation.
The BBC one is very good got wuite a few stars in it. RICK WARDEN who played Lt. Harry Welch in Bsnd of Brothers.
if you are going to take away anything away from this film it is this, do not piss off the British we may be slow to anger but when it comes it tends to be spectacular
The 1958 British black and white film staring John Mills called "Dunkirk" is miles better and and gives a more accurate picture of what happened than this. This film doesn't convey the ammount of men, damage, action, deaths, quantity of ships, aircraft or Germans that were there.
I knew a man that had been there standing in the water in tose lines for hours for days before getting on a boat. He lost his rifle, boots and trousers but kept his life and died in the 1970s.
It was an amazing operation to extract that many men from the exposed coastline under fire.
One man who never gets enough credit was Admiral Bertram Ramsay, the naval officer in command of the operation.
The other mention should be the men who manned the perimeter defence, and were ordered to fight to the last round. Their defence was so determined that it frustrated the germans, resulting in two cases of mass murder of captured British soldiers, by SS units at Les Paradis and Wormhoudt.
You won't get the effect here, but in the cinema, they CONSTANTLY play this heartbeat-speed deep bass sound. It's so deep that you feel it in your chest and it's incredibly draining. After the movie is over you feel like you've been running hard. Edit: yes, you hear the sound at home, but without cinema-grade speakers, you won't FEEL it.
Personally, I've never been a fan of this film… Much as I love practical effects and real cinematography, Christopher Nolan's aversion to CGI here kind of killed the immersion for me. No attempt was made to disguise the very modern buildings and seafront architecture that appear in the background in several shots, and it doesn't do a very good job of conveying the sheer scale of the evacuation.
Well over 300,000 allied troops were trapped on the beaches and in the harbour, more than twice the number of men that landed in Normandy on D-Day four years later. But we only ever see handfuls of troops on empty beaches, when in reality they were swarming with men and military equipment.
In my opinion the 1958 film with John Mills does a far better job of telling the story of Dunkirk.
You need to watch a bridge too far
If you gonna do movies bruv , do Scum .Ur Brit audience will love it.
The soldiers on the beach were veey angry about the lack of the RAF. What they didn’t know was that they were inland fighting and turning back the German bombers coming to attack them.
Best. Reaction. Vid. Ever. You absolutely hit the nail on the head on every aspect of this film. The amazing story telling of such an incredible and horrific historical event. The minimal dialogue and soundtrack with only a ticking clock or fast heartbeat suggested through sound effects drives tension and anxiety all the way through this film. I agree too that events like this are so much more horrifying than any made up horror film could ever hope to recreate. Thank you so much for making this, EB.
Watched this again a couple of nights ago.
It is a crackibg film. Mark Rylance and Cillian Murphy give outstanding performances.
Gets you in the feels doesn't it.. 1917 is also a good movie that shows some of the horrors of WW1. The Brits make great war Movies, many are based on true stories, Battle of the River Plate, Sink the Bismarck, very old movies but holds the viewer to the end, A bridge too Far, Hill 60, Charge of the Light Brigade with Trevor Howard to name just a few. Its a rabbit hole that once entered is hard to move out of.
I watched this on the big screen i can tell you that that 1st shot sure wakes you up.
My Father was on that beach and was badly wounded which turned cancerous and eventually killed him 30 years later.
My late uncle was at dunkirk. He was wounded where a man shouldn't be shot and told he couldn't have children. The bullet came out 7 yrs later and he had one child. He did say he was scared while waiting on the beach.
This happend in May 1940 by july the German's had control of Europe and Britain stood alone and the beginning of the battle of Britain which lasted until the end of October. The British people never gave up and took everything the german war machine couls throw at us and we remained undefeated. It was a full 13 months until the US joined the war with the attack on Pearl Habour and another 2.5 years until D-Day and the allied assault and the push to Berlin started.
A movie i think you would appreciate is "The long the short and the tall" it a British movie set in the Pacific war on an island a small cast but such a great movie.
The plane that Tom Hardys character flew.was flown during the evacuation and crashed on the beach, the pilot survived and the aptitude was discovered and as you can see to us again.
What absolutely brilliant reaction. Considered and full of empathy. I look forward to watching your others.
If you're going to keep going with war movies, I hope you can find Deadline Gallipoli (focused on ANZAC forces at the beginning of WWI and what information did and didn't get out to the public).
Great film thank you for your reaction,🇬🇧
I am really annoyed by the Spitfire with never-ending ammunition – in reality it would have about 15 seconds of firing. Also they would have been MUCH higher up, at least 10 000 feet.
One of the motor launches that took part in the evacuation has been preserved & can still be seen in Ramsgate harbour where troops were brought back to.
Many men stood up to their necks in the sea for hours waiting to get on a boat. Despite the losses it is amazing that so many troops were brought home, although the French complained that not enough of their soldiers got places on a boat.
What is often not known is that some of the men joined others from fighting elsewhere in France & made their way to Cherbourg and there was a 2nd evacuation from there a few weeks later.
Did you notice Michael Caine being the voice over radio to the RAF pilots?
Hun in the sun.
My dad was evacuated from Dunkirk – a Thames pleasure boat took him off the beach and ferried him to a French destroyer for the journey home – it was towards the end the evacuation. Our house was called “Orleans” after the ship that brought him home.
As you have reacted to a lot of "funny" videos as well as some US-critical ones, why not hit on a legend? (At least in germany he is) There's a guy you could call "the german George Carlin", named Volker Pispers. He did a programme 20 years ago called "History of USA and terrorism". Unfortunately it only has english subtitles, but the subs are very well done. It's a 5 part video.