Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 4, 2020 10:29:10 GMT
I absolutely loved this movie. Amazing. Yeah you dont really feel the characters but that is not the point of the movie anyway. The directing and cinematography ..... top notch. It felt a lot like Dunkirk from the trailers and it actually was a lot like Dunkirk. Only thing is... it is superior to Dunkirk.
I cant imagine someone else than Mendes picking up Best Director.
I prefer 1917, if only because I find Dunkirk over-plotted. Nolan, of course, featured three distinct stories in that film; one might have been perfect and two might have been effective enough, but three was too many, disabling a sustained focus. But while both movies are visually impressive, if anything, Dunkirk proved even more spectacular and created a greater sense of verisimilitude. Its (largely dark) colors were especially memorable, with a range of blue hues encompassing the sky and the sea.
Plus, Dunkirk did not feature a self-conscious, sometimes-distracting visual technique.
(I viewed Dunkirk three times in the theater, the first time in XD and the second in IMAX. I deemed the movie "decent/pretty good" on the first two occasions and "pretty good," meaning above-average, the third time. It was, of course, one of 2017's best movies in terms of cinematography and sound mixing. I have seen 1917 once, in XD, and found it "good/very good." I plan to view it again this week in IMAX.)