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In Nomine Revisited: Dunkirk, Tether to Trade.

Dunkirk, Tether to Trade – Google Docs

I actually wrote this one up long before the movie (which was excellent). It also needed a little more revision work than usual. A little In Nomine context: battlefields are not usually considered to be prime candidates for generating direct links between Earth and that part of Heaven that typically deals with economics.  Which is, of course, precisely why I had to write this one up this way.

And I’m right, too. …Sorry.  God, but do I miss this game.

 

Dunkirk, Tether to Trade

 

Yes, Trade, damn your eyes.

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Western Civilization decides not to fall: Dunkirk tops the Emoji movie.

OK, lemme just say: yes, I am being a snob here. I admit that.  I think that making a movie out of a bunch of the pictographs that you have on your smartphone starts out as a dumb idea, and that I am not giving the movie anything like a fair chance, and that people who liked the movie and it’s OK that they like it because who the Hell am I to judge them? might be justifiably suspicious that I am being a snob about them, too. I cop to all of this.

But it still would have been a bit personally unsettling to have one of the most fascinating movies about war in the last forty years not beat out a movie that has a talking poop icon in it, second week or no. Fortunately for my sanity, Dunkirk beat out Emoji, so I can stop being an elitist jackwagon about it.  You can’t really expect a flick like Dunkirk to hit #1 three weekends running, especially in the summer.  And, as a lot of people noted, there aren’t that many movies for kids out there in the cinemas right now.

So there’s that.

First hints that Dunkirk is gonna be huge.

Well, huge for a movie about the Miracle of Dunkirk.  Rotten Tomatoes notes that the embargo on full reviews isn’t until July 14th (the movie comes out on the 21st), but the first reactions are coming in on Twitter, and apparently people are blown away.  And, oh yeah: see it in IMAX 70mm.  There’s also this reaction that intrigues me:

https://twitter.com/aliciamalone/status/884458459827245057

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‘Dunkirk’ apparently not really a war film?

I’m not surprised by this, per se.  The Dunkirk trailer seemed to be not really into the combat aspects of the event. So hearing from Christopher Nolan that they didn’t really try to push the R envelope makes a certain amount of sense:

This film has been rated PG-13. Was that a choice you made?

All of my big blockbuster films have been PG-13. It’s a rating I feel comfortable working with totally. “Dunkirk” is not a war film. It’s a survival story and, first and foremost, a suspense film. So while there is a high level of intensity to it, it does not necessarily concern itself with the bloody aspects of combat, which have been so well done in so many films. We were really trying to take a different approach and achieve intensity in a different way. I would really like lots of different types of people to get something out of the experience.

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The Christopher Nolan ‘Dunkirk’ teaser trailer.

Coming out next year. It’ll be interesting to see what Christopher Nolan will do with a situation like Dunkirk; because, by all accounts, that was a… well, English may not have the precise words for it.  I still don’t know how they got all of those guys off of that beach, even if the Germans did think that letting them go would have made an armistice more likely.