The Reel Rejects - DUNKIRK (2017) MOVIE REVIEW – CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S MOST IMMERSIVE FILM?! - FIRST TIME WATCHING!
Episode Date: July 16, 2026THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK... AS ONLY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN COULD TELL IT. As our journey toward Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey continues, Tara Erickson, Jackie Bonsignore & Paige Kimsey experience Dunkirk (...2017) for the first time, reacting to one of Nolan's most immersive and intense war films. From the breathtaking beach evacuation, Tom Hardy's unforgettable Spitfire mission, Hans Zimmer's relentless ticking score, and the film's innovative nonlinear storytelling to its emotional finale, this Dunkirk reaction is a gripping cinematic experience. Dunkirk Reaction (Full Length Watch Along): / thereelrejects Taking care of your health just got easier – start here with Zocdoc: https://zocdoc.com/REJECTS #sponsored In this Dunkirk movie reaction, Dunkirk full movie reaction, and review, Tara, Jackie & Paige react to Christopher Nolan's (Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight Trilogy) World War II epic starring Fionn Whitehead as Tommy (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Great Expectations), Tom Hardy as Farrier (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant), Cillian Murphy as The Shivering Soldier (Oppenheimer, Peaky Blinders), Mark Rylance as Mr. Dawson (Bridge of Spies, Wolf Hall), Kenneth Branagh as Commander Bolton (Belfast, Murder on the Orient Express), Harry Styles as Alex (My Policeman, Don't Worry Darling), and Barry Keoghan as George (The Banshees of Inisherin, Saltburn), featuring a pulse-pounding score by Hans Zimmer (Interstellar, Dune). From the desperate race to escape the beaches and breathtaking aerial dogfights to the civilian rescue fleet and one of Christopher Nolan's most emotionally powerful endings, Tara, Jackie & Paige discuss why Dunkirk remains one of the most technically impressive and suspenseful war films ever made. Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Follow Paige Kimsey https://www.instagram.com/paige.popcorn?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Damn, dude.
Okay.
The rescue and liberation of the old.
Wow.
That was quite the ride, y'all.
I really liked that.
I kind of came in today not thinking I was going to like the film and I really loved it.
I cried like three times.
I loved it.
Okay.
That was really good.
And I, yeah.
Yeah.
We just got done watching Dunkirk.
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I really, I just really enjoyed it.
I know that I didn't, I knew what it was about going into it,
but I know a lot of people when they've spoken about this film,
they say that it's very much, you're thrown right into the action,
which is true.
And I feel like I've heard it described as more of an action film with less heart,
but I think that there was so much heart and so much really incredible commentary,
obviously on the state of war.
Like, the father has the line.
Like, no, I'm not going to turn around because why should I do that well?
our children are off to fight the wars.
And I thought it was so interesting that just the whole time we pretty, did we ever see
a German soldier really?
No.
And I loved that I loved that we didn't see the enemy in a way because it kind of highlighted
just seeing the drones attacking from above.
It highlighted how impersonal war is and how the people that make these decisions to send
us to war aren't going to fight it themselves.
They don't know what it's like.
They're not there on the ground.
And it was heartbreaking.
obviously World War II is slightly different because that was a war that absolutely did need to be fought.
And then the other thing that I was just going to say was obviously one of my favorite parts was the score.
I loved that I'm second generation immigrant.
My grandma was in Sicily.
They fled when World War II was getting really bad and she just describes being a child there
and just hearing the nonstop sirens and drones.
And I loved that that was such a central part of layering in the composition of the music.
It was really, it made me think so much about that and just made me very thankful that we got out of there, got to the States, because I might not be here.
I'm happy I made it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How about you, Paige?
How are you feeling about this?
Yeah.
I mean, I was ready for another war film, but I actually kind of feel like that was like a survival.
It was a really.
I mean, there was not a lot of combat, really.
Right.
Jackie and I've been watching a lot of war movies too.
No, you have been.
That's who the audience wants on their war films.
I think that, I mean, it was a different take for sure.
It was really emotional.
And I agree, especially, like, from the distance.
Because, again, we're not seeing a lot of war films taking place in the water and in the air.
I mean, the cinematography was just out of this world.
I don't know how you get shots like that in the water or in the air.
or in the air, it's just mind-blowing to me.
Again, just kind of like you said, too,
it was so powerful with pretty minimal dialogue throughout.
Direction of the actors.
I mean, but it was all action, too, you know,
and without it being war.
Like, that's just, it was definitely a very different take on what I was expecting for
a war movie, I guess.
I think Harry did pretty good, too.
I enjoyed him.
I know I expected him very bad.
Yeah, no, he was pretty decent.
I think they were all really solid.
Yeah, it was way more emotional than I was kind of expecting it to be.
And again, I just think that's really powerful to do those things with just images and such little dialogue and just really, and so many wide shots, especially at the beginning, so many just wide shots, which made that storyline so interesting.
Like when we thought we saw a hand come out, but you weren't really.
sure and then we circle back to that.
It was just really clever,
really clever things. And I will say, too,
there were so many times where, as the opposite to that,
it felt kind of claustrophobic when we were
underwater so often, people getting smushed
into things. And that was just a cool
juxtaposition, in my opinion.
It was great. I think the broken up
storytelling, going back and forth, in between timelines,
you sort of realize it in the beginning.
and then when I really grasp it, it's more towards the end.
It took me a while.
That's the same shot.
When Tom Hardy's shooting is seeing that boat get shot and then tip over.
So I knew it was going to tip.
Then you start to go, oh, I know what's happening here.
But it takes a while for you to kind of catch on to exactly what's going on.
But I love that it's told in a nonlinear way because then we get a chance to sit with each and every one
at almost the same point
we're seeing their stories unfold
in the time of war, right?
When we're at like the mole and it gets shot down
and now the guys think, you know,
the tide's coming in, they're in this boat
but they're being shot at.
Meanwhile, you know, we've got
a ferry or Tom Hardy
trying to let down the enemy.
He doesn't know how much gas he has.
His friend's already down.
I don't even think he knows if his friend's alive or not.
Like there is just the,
utmost chaos, obviously, within war, but we're actually able to see the story unfold just right
in front of us. And it's done really well to the point where you really do feel like you are
either drowning, you might be on fire, you're in that plane and being shot at, or you have the
enemy in your sights, and you better freaking take him down. Yeah. Like it makes you feel all of
things when we were in that place. And I think that's what a good film will do, right? That's why it's
cinematic because you want to be taken out of here and into there, into that world that they're giving
you. And I think obviously Nolan always does a great job of that. But this very specifically,
without a ton of dialogue, a lot of action really highlights the speck of humanity within war.
and that in this specific crisis,
it was the everyday man
who became the heroes of the war
that we were dealing with at that moment, right?
Which is a really beautiful story to tell.
Like, I didn't know that that was, you know, the case
that it's everyday people who are deciding
to be very courageous and brave and go
and help to save these people from the beaches.
I just think it's a really cool story to tell.
And so I understand why maybe Christopher,
it was written and directed by him
why he would want to write such a thing
and show it on such a big scale
so that we really get the grasp of at the end
how beautiful of a story it is to tell.
What's that shot in IMAX?
I feel like I saw that somewhere.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cool.
I wish I'd seen it in 70 mil.
I'm kind of sad enough.
Yeah.
Would have been very cool to see IMAX
you can see in the,
in the wide and the master shots that they're giving us those obviously for an iMacs you would be
there is one specific one where they they stay on it and there's uh three soldiers here and like four
shoulders off to the side and it's just the beach and it's we stay there for like a good
eight to 10 seconds and i feel like if you saw that on an iMac screen you would feel like you're on
the beach right right yeah
That you're only divided by maybe 10, 20 yards,
and you're there in the midst of this,
which is just that's what a film should do.
It has to take you and grasp you in this environment.
And it doesn't mean that every film has needs IMAX in order to get you.
That's not the case.
But when you are dealing with IMAX,
it's those kind of wide shots that do engulf you
and make you feel like you're right there, which is very cool.
All right, guys.
Let's get to our Patreon question.
First one's from Captain Fernandez says,
Hey ladies, hope you all are doing well.
This movie marked the beginning of my annoyance
with Nolan's insistence on nonlinear storytelling
as a way to create tension.
The real Dunkirk story is extraordinary
and has real emotional depth and weight.
No need for narrative tricks.
Are you guys still on board with the whole nonlinear thing?
Or would you like him to explore a more straightforward style?
All right, Captain came with thoughts.
What do you guys think?
You know what?
Now that you pointed out,
I would love, I think that maybe a more traditional form of the story, I loved it.
I thought it was very interesting, but do I think that a more linear version of the story could be even more impactful?
Yeah, I'd like to see it.
I wonder if it did feel a bit indulgent at times.
It's cool that he was able to pull it off, but are we pulling it off because we think it's going to make a more impactful story?
Are we pulling it off to be like, look, guys, look what I did?
That's what I think.
Okay, what about you, Paige?
I like it, actually.
Whoa, whoa, we're in a fight.
I like it a lot.
I've always liked nonlinear.
I like fractured timelines all the way through.
I just think it's, I kind of like feeling like I'm having to do a little work while I'm watching it, figuring it out.
And I also, again, just feel like we've been watching a lot of war movies.
So to me, that just made this a little more unique, you know.
Yeah.
What I will say, I'll fight back with you on, Captain, is that.
In your point in saying the real Dunn Kirk story is extraordinary, has real emotional depth and weight,
what I don't think was lacking is emotional depth and weight.
I still think it was very much there and can still be done without a straightforward style.
Right.
So in your argument, if that's kind of what you were saying, I don't mind that it was nonlinear.
I also think it puts more of a trust in the audience's hands to catch up.
I always complain about American television.
but BBC doesn't do a lot of exposition,
meaning they're not relying on a script
to be a second screen script.
They're just going to give you a story
and expect that you can keep up
with the clues that they're giving you.
And that is what a non-linear...
When you go to the movies, luckily,
you're not having all the screens to deal with,
which is why I think people like that cinematic experience.
But I think that, you know, within this,
there still was, along the way,
a lot of emotional depth,
a lot of weight, especially when we're seeing
real humans deal with the weight
of war and like the backlash
of it, that there's even just a kid
who decides to hop on a boat.
And he doesn't even die in war.
He just gets...
Yeah, he falls down the stairs, right?
This is stuff that happens in war
where there's just, they're still accidents.
There's still just human nature things.
There's still even people saying,
hey man, you're in the oil right now.
We get that you're trying to save us,
but those soldiers are also warning him to get the out of here,
even though there's more soldiers still in the water.
Right.
There's bits of human nature throughout this
that I think still adds a lot of weight,
even with the non-linear stuff.
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Jay and Gwyn says something I enjoy about these war movies is how seemingly ordinary skills of civilians can come in handy during wartime.
My favorite example here is Mr. Dawson guiding Asana how to avoid.
enemy gunfire from a plane.
Do you have any favorite scenes like this
where a civilian demonstrates their abilities in a crisis?
Do you guys have any favorite scenes?
Page?
I mean, we just watched The Patriot.
And though he was kind of a civilian, I guess,
at the beginning, right?
Because he had been in another war.
He went primal on some people
at the beginning of that movie.
Like, really?
That's the one that's coming to mind for me right now, for sure.
I love that.
The one that immediately pops into my head is from, I don't know if it's my favorite ever of all time,
but my favorite scene just didn't, because it's fresh off the top of the dome right now from this film was,
it's less the ability and more a demonstration of empathy.
I loved when the son said, yeah, he's going to be okay to the soldier and just shows kindness in that moment.
That brought me to tears.
And that was, that was just really, I loved it.
I really loved it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I felt like that was a nod to him having like a really good day.
too, who kind of taught him, like, we're not going to upset this man anymore who's already
really upset.
Yeah, totally.
I wonder, my question back to you, what about some female characters that show up in some
of these movies?
I can't think of any.
There've got to be some.
I didn't see any in this film.
But that one lady was giving out tea and blankets.
But I would think that there should or could be some more examples of women, civilians,
kind of stepping up in war time.
Not to give like props to Marvel for female representation
because they don't think they deserve that.
But in the Captain America films,
there's a great female character.
Oh, yeah?
Oh, good.
Okay.
They don't deserve a problem.
Let's get it together.
But it's fine.
She said, okay.
It was fine with that.
That got her on board real quick.
I think,
Janguin, you know, for me,
I'm always telling people to grab a weapon.
I think there's too many demonstrations
where in a lot of the movies
that I think the abilities in a crisis
is when someone can figure out
how to get a weapon,
a brandish one, and kill the villain.
That's my most favorite thing.
And I mean, there's so many,
I mean, obviously in every horror movie
that I've watched, I feel like I'm constantly yelling at people.
You know, I think Halloween does it in a good way
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and she finds, even in the very first one,
which is why I think it was so wildly received,
is that she finds great ways,
innovative ways where I always want to film
to use their environment.
Meaning, we don't need to have a character
who has a gun in their pocket.
Use your environment.
If someone came in here,
I would probably just grab this right away
and whack them over the head.
Use the environment, right?
In Halloween, she does that.
Strong female, she takes care of business.
Yes, she does.
So I think that's where a civilian demonstrates a great ability in a crisis where you're using your brain, which, number one, sometimes they don't give that to women in a horror or no more stuff.
Nope, they're always stupid.
Like in the terror fire films, piss me on, just so you hate women.
They're always very, very scared or they're like, can you help me show me how to use this?
And I don't like that, as you know.
So I think that's why I really, really like rioted for that movie,
especially those moves, which I had a lot of fun with.
All right, cool.
Let's go to Jaden Rhodes.
I feel like one day we will be able to watch all the World War II movies
and somehow get to watch the entire war from the beginning to the end.
I think that's kind of cool, my opinion.
But my question, what will be y'all's favorite World War II movie?
My personal favorites are saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge.
What do you guys think?
I need to look up with that film that I was talking about earlier was.
Okay.
I don't know.
I haven't seen either one of those.
I always say give us multiple choice on the.
Yeah.
Saw Ridge is a great, great, great film.
Love that one.
So I might go with that one.
What was the one that came out a few years ago?
It was a year.
What do you mean?
Was that 1921 or something like that?
Oh, 1917? Yeah.
Yeah.
Was that World War II?
I don't know.
We can look it up, though.
That was a great movie.
That was a.
Can you look up World War II?
So let's see.
It was a year.
You know.
Oh, yeah.
Is that a World War II film or am I thinking of a different one?
Okay.
There's a lot.
Thin red line, it's a good one.
Saving Pride Ryan.
Oh, Loury's Bastards.
Let's see.
Pacific.
Let's see.
1917 is too early for World War II.
I think that's a different war, I fear.
I think so.
Does Atonement count as a war film?
I love Atonement.
That's the movie I was thinking of.
That's, you found it.
Okay.
What was it?
Atonement.
Okay.
Well, he has a fictional story, but like.
Yeah.
1970s first world war.
War films have to be true stories.
It can't just be a film centered around war.
That was World War I, though.
I guess you could, you could make one, Jack.
I feel like you want to.
I really loved the film Atonement.
Yeah.
Okay.
Why?
It's just a great film.
Okay.
It's heartbreaking.
There's the twist.
It's really good.
Okay.
And there's that,
and I thought of Atonement because there's a scene where the soldiers are all stuck
kind of hiding and waiting to die because they can't get out.
And then in this film, when Harry Stiles and the boys were all under the deck of the bone,
they're getting shot at, and they're just kind of like sitting ducks.
Made me think of atonement.
Okay.
Good film.
Sad film.
Devastating.
Yeah, it doesn't sound super uplifting.
Sorcia, what have you done?
All right, I'm going to take our last question from Jay Rush, and he says, what armed forces would you join today if there were any?
No.
Which there are some.
What branch?
Absolutely not.
I say if you had to put a gun to my head, I think when I was in high school, I wanted to be in the Navy, but I wanted to fly like, like, like a gun.
jet planes, right?
Like fighter planes.
Because I thought that would be super cool.
Thank the goodness.
That's the Air Force, though.
Born with.
But I still, I wanted to be on the Navy.
Oh, you wanted to land them on the ship?
Yeah.
I got you.
Like, I want to be up in the ocean on a, on a, you know, where you're like, oh, we're
on the outskirts.
I'm not on land.
I don't want to be flying over the states.
I want to be flying over the ocean and take care of the beaches.
That's what I would have thought before this movie.
Yeah.
If I had a gun to my head, shoot me.
or I join the Peace Corps.
That doesn't count, though.
But I'm in for helping
out of course.
No, I support our good soldiers
that are fighting that get trapped
into the military industrial complex,
but I do not support most of the wars.
I'm with you.
I was going to also say, thank God I had flat feet.
Couldn't do that.
I got bulging discs, so suck it.
Yeah.
At this point, I would never do that,
but in high school,
it was a different,
person.
Flat feet, huh?
They say no.
I've got them.
They say no to flat feet.
I would have loved to fly planes.
I am not afraid of heights.
I actually am probably the only person in the world that still enjoys flying.
Even commercially.
I just think flying is fun.
I really do.
And I actually have very good vision.
But I'm not interested in joining any armed forces.
I'm with you.
But gun to my head, Air Force.
Good.
I don't want to land it on a ship, though.
That sounds horrible.
That's how I get them to answer.
Gun to your head.
Gun to your head.
Let the gun go off.
I don't care.
Boom, I'm dead.
She wants to land it on.
Well, if you joined the military, you would have known how to disarm the person with the gun to your head.
True.
Well, I could just take a...
Well, I could take a glass somewhere else.
I don't have to join the military.
True.
She could.
We're all right.
Do you guys have a favorite scene in this?
Go.
I have a favorite line, and it was because of the fear and greed.
Fate pushed through the bowels of men.
Yeah, that was good one.
That was great.
I wrote that down.
Yeah, there weren't a lot of, like, epic war speeches in this, really, per se.
Right.
I have liked that it was all acting.
Yeah, I agree.
Again, like, I just feel like we've been watching so much more stuff.
So, yeah.
I really liked the scene.
I think it was when the torpedo hit the ship that they were all.
I mean, just that the water, we were like, it was, you know, like Titanic, it's like so slowly filling up.
I liked that it was like, we were.
instantly underwater with these men that were all just enjoying their toast.
Totally.
I thought that was a really cool scene.
Yeah, I'm with you.
How about you?
They took us there really, really quickly.
There was a very interesting scene at the end.
Tom Hardy's in his plane.
We are kind of thinking, okay, you're having a peaceful moment where he closes the glass.
And we cut to the other side of him, where we now see the town in the background.
That was an insane shot.
And I do not think that it was maybe practical.
I think maybe the plane was in a warehouse and maybe it's CGI.
If it wasn't and it was practical, which it did not look CGI to me.
That to me was one of the most amazing shots.
It was very peaceful.
We still didn't know.
I was like, it got very quiet to the music stopped.
Yeah.
All you hear is just and you're like, oh, okay.
I'm in my head, Tom Hardy right now.
we're in this plane.
Do we see all our friends die?
And now we're just going to crash into a mountain.
I honestly, I don't know.
But it was beautiful to see the colored landscape behind him of where now we actually got to see Dunkirk.
Yeah.
Honestly, because we're really just ocean beach until that moment.
Yeah.
That one shot.
We are overhead.
We actually, it's like colorful too.
It's not just like a boring.
Yeah.
Totally. Very colorful background where you're like, yeah, there's, you know, there's life here. Or there was, you know, in existence. So that was probably one of my favorite shots. I thought it was great. Did you guys have anything in this that you didn't like at all? Or did you love it all? I really enjoyed it. I have a final thought that's positive. Yeah, let's give it. I just, I really loved that there was such minimal dialogue, especially for a story that is so centered around like 300,000.
and people that have PTSD, it felt really accurate to me
and getting to watch the different people in the state of freeze
and then he moved into fight.
It was really, it felt accurate.
Yeah, I'm with you.
And I talk about PTSD after every movie review.
What about you, Paige?
I think something that we all mentioned,
but just needs to be noted again
was just the sound design as a whole.
It was really, really, really good.
I feel like there was, can we look up?
Can you look up how much like C.E.
was actually used because I feel like this movie actually got props for doing a lot of practical stuff.
Definitely looked like all.
It looked fantastic.
What year did it come out also?
Yes.
I do want to,
I agree that the score was great,
but I'm going to argue with you about the sound design like I feel with every Nolan film.
Can we turn it down a little?
I'm going deaf.
That's a part of the immersive experience.
No, I'm going to lose my earring.
We need to all watch Sound of Metal.
Almost no CGI.
Yeah, I thought so.
That's sick.
2017.
Wow.
Oh, that's awesome.
Did it win anything?
Sorry, we can go.
I'm sure that it did.
Let's look up the wins, really.
Let's see.
Best sound mixing.
Well, wait, which one means they won?
I have a word for best film editing, best sound mixing.
They won probably another.
See, BAFTA for best sound.
A lot of sound editing.
Best Foreign Film from the Donatello
Critics Movie Choice Award for Best.
But Jackie needs to put in her loops.
Loops?
Yeah, they're like noise cancelling little earbuds.
They would help you.
That's really a lot.
One a lot for sound and editing.
Yeah, it was great.
And for limited CGI.
So it does mean that we were looking at Dunkirk.
The only thing that used CGI was to take things out of frame
that they didn't need there.
Cool.
So it wasn't like to put stuff in.
My brain just went there because I thought, how do you do this?
Right.
How do you do it?
Because it really did look, I don't know.
They really sunk some ships.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
It just looked really, really phenomenal.
And especially, of course, in the mid to close up shots,
you're going to use a lot of practical,
especially when I first saw the guy where I said,
oh, it looks, it's humanity against the.
go before he's on that weird big boat.
That obviously looked practical, but so did obviously all of the other tankers and
destroyers. But when it tipped and fell, I was like, okay, we're, all right, let's go, man.
Practical all day long.
This costs so much money to me.
Yeah.
Like a stupid amount.
Yep.
Let's see.
We'll just put this last thing in.
Dunkirk budget.
I'm going to go $3 billion.
I don't know.
Billion?
$4 billion.
$100 million.
Oh, okay.
I'm just naming numbers.
Yeah, I have no concept of numbers.
It's very hard for me, honestly.
Yeah, the budgets that I work with for the events,
the stuff that I produce is not anywhere near the millions.
It's not 100 million, Jackie?
I know, get there.
Come on.
Like and subscribe.
It did gross over 525, so it definitely did well,
which is good for $100 million film.
That's obviously, you know, globally.
we would want half of that in U.S., but hey, they're still getting paid.
That's a plus.
Love this film.
Had a great time.
Christopher Nolan is dope.
Good job, Chris.
Thanks for your films.
I guess turn them down for this girl here.
We kind of, I guess we don't really mind it, although we did, I did turn it down.
I turned it down first, yeah.
My apologies to the viewers, because at certain points I was.
No, I was.
I was like, I'm not going to.
I'm not going to leave my hearing.
Wait, what happened at the beginning with our table, though, you guys?
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
I wanted to take them into an immersive experience,
but I was moving this down and I was like, oh, that's not working.
It didn't do any of it.
Yeah, I had to do it on the computer.
It was a whole thing.
Anyway, we appreciate you guys joining us.
We love you, and we will see you on the next one.
Bye.
