Movie & TV Show Critic Thread

[Keita]

house of cards is lit yo

[Karth]

I'm not lying at all, it's a British war film told from a British perspective but it includes the French.

yehhh lets use the term include liberally

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I don't think I'm being that liberal-makes it clear the French were there and it wasn't just the British (as opposed to a lot of US war films where it's portrayed as them vs the whole world) and one of the main characters is revealed to secretly be French.

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didnt the British use like a million Indians as well? Lol

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[Riddlez]

Apparently, there were a 20k something moroccans also in the afray somewhere.

[Karth]

But yea not gonna lie, felt pretty bored watching Dunkirk, only thing I was amazed at was the dogfighting (you don't shoot once and have a plane immediately explode) and the realism in those spitfires, very nice

I feel bad for the frenchies though

[Mexican]

dunkirk was great, tf is wrong with u goys

[Gurkha]

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I dunno why Tom Hardy's character decided to land outside the allied lines when he started to run out of fuel, why didn't he chute out/slow dive into the sea when he was at dunkirk?

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[William]

Watching the trailers I somehow had the feeling that they would completely ignore the French.

Reading about it on the net I now have confirmation that they did not include any French.

Stupid movie, that's reason enough not to watch it.

You're telling me the French deserve the spotlight in a movie by a British director, who predominately cast Brits, in a war where they got dunked on and an event that was designed to evacuate British and a movie that tells a dramatization. Good one m8'y /s

Dunkirk Spoilers

Great movie although I will say that Farrier's (Tom Hardy) gliding kill on that Stuka was absolutely incredible to think about but also sort of crazy as I've never heard of an instance of it.

In terms of the film itself, I really liked the direction Nolan chose by not actually putting Germans on screen until the very end. It helped create a theme of suspense and put the focus on the characters and less on an onscreen enemy. You never knew where the Germans were, for example with the torpedoes or when they shoot at the beached boat. Overall that atmosphere of tension and suspense was really well done.

On a final note, I love the decision to have Farrier choose self-sacrifice by opting to stay over Dunkirk rather then him return. I think it was great to show a nationalistic ending where the character would rather risk his life as a PoW then go back home to fight another battle and condemn more men to death.

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Dunkirk spoiler

I dunno why Tom Hardy's character decided to land outside the allied lines when he started to run out of fuel, why didn't he chute out/slow dive into the sea when he was at dunkirk?

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I think it was because he was going too fast to make a safe landing approach and he didn't want to risk bailing out? I'm not sure on that either. I think it was more for symbolism of his character putting others before him.

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[BabyJesus]

Just finished the defenders. It was good. Iron fist is a lot better when there's more characters around him. I actually think Jessica Jones was the weakest link for the show though. She didn't really seem to fit in to well.

 Daredevil was still the best character tho imo

[Toffee]

I saw Dunkirk on Sunday. Was an amazing film but then again when has Nolan made a bad one

[BabyJesus]

The Death note movie was pretty shit tbh

[Cazasar]

The Defenders and Atypical are both good shows. Can recommend

[Keita]

any1 recommend narcos?

[Cazasar]

Its a good show, go watch it.

[LiquidSkorpion]

any1 recommend narcos?

First two seasons of Narcos were fantastic. Highly recommend

[Riddlez]

Watched the forst couple episodes of Lucifer. Exactly my sense of humour 

Started re-watching The Borgias. Basically Game of Thrones but then in 17th century Italy without the Dragons. The rest matches up though. Awesome series