DUNKIRK (2017) FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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  • @Californiablend
    @Californiablend  Год назад +31

    ❤BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤
    ISAIAH 54:17 KJV
    No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

    • @EdwardNygma007
      @EdwardNygma007 Год назад +2

      Watch the prestige if u haven't seen it yet or insomnia with Robin Williams n Pacino both by Nolan

    • @weissfussindianer
      @weissfussindianer Год назад +1

      unfortunately ...there are only the fallen and the survivors. And the uncertainty as to which of the two pulled the harder off. there may be succeeders, but never winners in a "game" where everyone has lost a son, a mother, a neighbour, a friend. I am not shure if old testaments bibleverses can give consolation to those.
      love & peace ❤☮

    • @derekshirley5543
      @derekshirley5543 Год назад +5

      @@weissfussindianer that’s why we have a New Testament.
      Matthew 10:28
      King James Version
      28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

    • @Thought.Spoken-Written.
      @Thought.Spoken-Written. Год назад +1

      A beautiful spirit inspires.

    • @JoeyBlueTx
      @JoeyBlueTx Год назад +2

      Crazy to know this was the largest sea evacuation in history until 9/11.

  • @sjones5616
    @sjones5616 Год назад +27

    I remember watching this in theaters when I was still active duty in the Navy. During the scene where they were all getting on the ship and going below decks I remember thinking, “Eff that, I’d take my chances top side.” And when the ship got torpedoed and started to sink with everyone trapped inside made my skin crawl.

  • @Alte.Kameraden
    @Alte.Kameraden Год назад +49

    Fun Fact. Charles Lightoller was the acting 2nd Officer of the Titanic and survived the sinking. Lightoller would command a private yacht along with his son and a volunteer of similar age as his son to help with the evacuation at Dunkirk. The old man and two boys in this movie are actually meant to represent Lightoller and his small crew. They even use a similar boat, though not the original, even though the original is used as a small museum boat.

    • @Zebred2001
      @Zebred2001 Год назад +3

      My father who was a Dunkirk veteran was taken by my grandfather sometime in the late 20's or early 30's to St. Albans to purchase a mastiff from Charles Lightoller. As far as I know the sinking was not mentioned.

    • @athos1974
      @athos1974 Год назад +5

      He was a very courageous man.
      Had an amazing life.

    • @weissfussindianer
      @weissfussindianer Год назад +1

      wow. Ones' life can be full of incredible coincidences.
      this brings these scenes into a different light.
      thx

    • @Alte.Kameraden
      @Alte.Kameraden Год назад

      @@weissfussindianer Kind of like that school shooting which the teacher a Holocaust survivor used his own body to barricade the class door and paid for it with his life. I think it was the college one up near Chicago. History is a series of chains that go back to the down of time. You never knew what a person will do, who they will meet and what effect they will have 10-20-60 years down the road. It's why every death is a tragedy. Wars rob millions of that chance as well. As the example I presented. One person who survived such a horrible event 70 odd years later saved many from another such event. If they didn't survive the first they wouldn't of been there for the 2nd, and many sons and daughters would of had grieving parents.

  • @UncleQue
    @UncleQue Год назад +49

    I hope she’ll consider watching the movie 1917. That was quite a movie taking place in WWI. Amazing cinematography.

    • @GuarmaRummy
      @GuarmaRummy Год назад

      Nah, 1917 is ass. One of the worst best picture winners.

    • @HRDP21
      @HRDP21 Год назад

      @@GuarmaRummy 1) It is an amazing movie.
      2) It didn't win best picture, the Oscar was for parasite (one of the worst best picture winners).

    • @GuarmaRummy
      @GuarmaRummy Год назад

      @@HRDP21 parasite is a much better movie! But yeah 1917 is very embarrassing. In terms of filmmaking. That Director is really very talentless. Look at American beauty. A terrible embarrassing movie as well. Maybe you just have a really bad taste. Anyway, have a good day.

    • @manwithbat
      @manwithbat Год назад

      @@GuarmaRummy nah its not

    • @GuarmaRummy
      @GuarmaRummy Год назад

      @@manwithbat how would you know? You're not intelligent enough to assess that

  • @christopherconner9585
    @christopherconner9585 Год назад +34

    You might enjoy "The Darkest Hours". Gary Oldman played Winston Churchill. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

  • @whitneygregg5805
    @whitneygregg5805 Год назад +14

    One of the things I love about this film is it’s not celebrating war, its showing the human experience through war and how it can effect each soldier, boatman, and airmen (like Band of Brothers did with the soldiers). And if it celebrates anything it’s the community that comes to save them ❤ Love your reactions!

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 Год назад +11

    Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Sound Mixing.

    • @bwilson5401
      @bwilson5401 Год назад +1

      If some Americans had been there,it would have swept the board.

  • @sifumagoo1776
    @sifumagoo1776 Год назад +15

    Dunkirk was one of those turning points early in the war. The Germans had a LOT of wins early on, pushing enemies and civilians along their path. They'd encircled what remained of the Allied ground forces, and pushed them all into the sea. Dunkrik was the Allied rescue mission, turning every sea going vessel into a rescue vessel, to pull as many off the beaches as possible, and back to England and safety. It's a historic achievement. These troops were a lot of French and other nationalities, as well as some British. Many of those rescued at Dunkirk were recycled back into the war, to play roles in future campaigns. At this point, it really did feel as if Germany were going to win the war before it'd really began. Dunkirk was the first substantial fight back, to halt the Germans. Britain was the final hold out, and the war was now across the channel.

    • @DeltaDanner
      @DeltaDanner Год назад

      The entirety of continental Europe was under Nazi control and it wouldn’t be long until German planes were flying over London itself. At that point in the war even getting home alive was a major achievement.

    • @ieatoutoften872
      @ieatoutoften872 Год назад +1

      "as well as some British". Some British rescued = 300000
      French rescued = 30000

    • @DannyBoy777777
      @DannyBoy777777 Год назад +1

      @@ieatoutoften872 wrong. 150,000 French were evacuated. They returned in time to fight against Fall Rot before the final capitulation in June.

    • @ads2686
      @ads2686 Месяц назад

      the germans could have taken Dunkirk, Hitler ordered his tank divisions to halt for maintenance and give the british 3 days to escape. His first major mistake of the war.

  • @RogueCylon
    @RogueCylon Год назад +11

    Dunkirk lacked all sense of scale of the real story. I’m English now living in the US, but my family had members supporting those soldiers, in the air and sea. It was told to me that this was a defining moment that truly brought the nation together. I’m as rugged as Hardy, so it gave me a chuckle your reaction there, lol.

  • @Tim-Sherer
    @Tim-Sherer Год назад +3

    I do want to bring to attention that a common soldier spoke Winston Churchill's words. I appreciate that Christopher Nolan let those words be spoke by any soldier. Perhaps the greatest words ever spoken against tyranny. 'We shall never surrender', that speech at the end. Beautiful.

  • @Hapkido82AUS
    @Hapkido82AUS Год назад +3

    The RAF commander you can hear on the radio in the Spitfires, was Michael Caine, who played a Spitfire pilot in The Battle of Britain (1969).
    Another Nolan favourite.

  • @Jacks_here
    @Jacks_here Год назад +3

    One of the reasons I subscribed today is because it is so refreshing not to have endless yapping about subscription, sharing, liking and the rest at the beginning. Thank you so much. Good luck with the channel. On with the show… :)

  • @Drew_-bx9sc
    @Drew_-bx9sc Год назад +2

    My father was at Dunkirk and I can remember him telling me he was swimming towards a boat and it got blown up in front of him and I said him Daddy what did you do and he said we were just left bobbing around until the next one came god bless all our veterans

  • @RotGolem
    @RotGolem Год назад +4

    I watched this movie in the cinema with a friend, a theater with a great sound system. After the first bullets whizzed by, we looked at each other: both of us ducked on the side. My friend said: "The ticket has just got re-paid, everything else is free".

  • @Zebred2001
    @Zebred2001 Год назад +2

    My father was a Dunkirk veteran. He was with the 32nd Field Regiment Royal Artillery of the British Army. He had to destroy his 25 pounder gun so the Germans wouldn't capture it. I still have the breach pin. He was evacuated late in the operation and was sent to India and later North Africa before being captured. He escaped once with a mate but was recaptured. His camp was liberated late in the war by the Americans. He married my mother and emigrated to the Canadian prairies in 1953 raising a family of six. He died of kidney failure in 1976.

  • @EricPalmerBlog
    @EricPalmerBlog Год назад +3

    As a WWII history buff, this is the best way to tell this story to people that are not up on the topic. Well done.

  • @hellowhat890
    @hellowhat890 Год назад +2

    Not in the reaction but... the scene at the end with "Where the hell were you?!" was the same guy that asked in the beginning of the movie, "Where's the bloody airforce?!" That character represented the real historical divide between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Army.
    There was in fact a bit of a rivalry and hatred between the two branches. Most of the infantry rescued and brought back to England literally thought that the RAF had abandoned them. This myth circulated when a lot of soldiers stated that the British Air Force had abandoned them and provided little to no cover for them. In fact, it was the very opposite. The RAF barely fought over Dunkirk to provide air cover and to the men trapped in the beaches and at Dunkirk, they had no way of knowing which patrol routes the RAF were covering. Instead, they patrolled and fought mostly over the English Channel. They did plenty of patrols and intercepted as many German planes as possible. But the RAF was fighting in very overwhelming odds.
    The British RAF were also massively outnumbered by the German Airforce. As seen in this movie, Tom Hardy's character Farrier and Collins were only with Fortis Leader (Michael Caine's cameo). The three of them were tasked with patrolling the skies and only given a 40 minute fighting time at Dunkirk, which we see didn't exactly pan out the way they intended. Their patrol was understrength and also they lacked a full squadron. It should have been 12 fighters in their formation. This gave the misinterpretation that the RAF hadn't done their job or was absent at Dunkirk. That soldier's disdain for Collins was in fact showing how much the infantry disliked pilots. It wouldn't be until at least 1944, about 4 years after the Dunkirk evacuation, that the RAF and the army would start to be on better terms and get along better. History actually argues that if not for the fighter cover provided by the air force, the Dunkirk evacuation would have failed.
    According to the statistics listed by Fighter Command, Operation Dynamo which was the code name for the Dunkirk Evacuation was 9 days long, the British Airforce claimed 262 enemy aircraft kills while losing 106 of their own during the 9 day evacuation effort. The RAF had flown over 2739 fighter sorties, 651 bombing raids, and 171 recon flights. Surprisingly, this movie actually didn't show it but the British bombers actually were making attack runs on enemy german troop formations trying to close in on the people evacuating Dunkirk. There was a lot more going on that didn't make it into the movie but this is still a really great war film in my opinion.
    And of course, at the end, the guy is giving Collins shit for it. But Dawson steps up to comfort and reassure Collins that every man did their job and to hold their head up high for surviving.

  • @henryviii6341
    @henryviii6341 Год назад +1

    My Grandfather was part of that fleet that sailed from Home Waters to Dunkirk 3 times to rescue our soldiers.

  • @RetroClassic66
    @RetroClassic66 Год назад +4

    If you’re interested in getting an idea of how some of the men captured by the Germans at Dunkirk (all of them didn’t get off that beach; we saw Tom Hardy being led away, for example) fared, I would recommend STALAG 17 (1953) and THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963), and perhaps VON RYAN’S EXPRESS (1965). The WW2 POW experience doesn’t get as much cinematic attention as it probably should.

  • @hellowhat890
    @hellowhat890 Год назад +2

    12:02 It's crazy... because in the shot where Tom Hardy flies overhead to check on his wingman, he saw his hand waving at him. He thought he was signaling that he had landed safely and was ok.
    But then you get it from this perspective and realize the horror of the fact that he was trapped and was sinking. He was trying to wave for help.

  • @itzbp9949
    @itzbp9949 Год назад +12

    Such a phenomenal film this I was lucky enough to see this in the cinema and it was so immersive felt like you were actually there with these men when you heard the sounds of the planes and guns in the loud speakers

  • @Mski361
    @Mski361 Год назад +2

    I still need to watch this movie. I live in Dunkirk, NY, which is the sister city this Dunkirk. During the war, people here sent care packages overseas. From what I've heard, to show their appreciation, the two cities exchanged packages back and forth up until the 70s.

  • @AlexandruCarjan
    @AlexandruCarjan 8 месяцев назад

    One little fun fact. The little boat the old man and the two young boys were on was based on a real ship called Sundowner that participated at the Dunkirk mission. The captain of that boat was none other than Charles Lightoller, 2nd officer on board the Titanic. She carried 130 men at once when she was only designed for 21 people

  • @michaelstach5744
    @michaelstach5744 Год назад +2

    If you are trying to understand WWII in some kind of chronological order you might consider The Battle of Britain (1969) next. All star cast, Michael Caine, Lawrence Olivier, Robert Shaw, head a long list. Real planes used, not cgi.

  • @IamM1CAH
    @IamM1CAH Год назад +7

    Recommend Darkest Hour (2017) with Gary Oldman about the rise of Winston Churchill during WWII and his push to evacuate Dunkirk. U're my favorite youtuber. Keep up the great work!

  • @thecaptain1537
    @thecaptain1537 Год назад +2

    this is such a great movie. these war flicks are the best. happy you’re reacting to them. learning and respecting about what soldiers went through during any war is always important, no matter what time of day. keep up these amazing reactions ❤️

  • @MRLuckyE85
    @MRLuckyE85 Год назад +2

    The thing where time jumps around through a movie and you start at the end, go somewhere else, and come back is called elliptical editing. Very neat for winding stories full of intrigue and wanting to relive the same moments from different perspectives, like this movie.

  • @rorywatt9752
    @rorywatt9752 Год назад +2

    For more context, the actual number of people at dunkirk was much larger than it’s depicted here. The beach would be damn near full if it was like the real dunkirk

  • @jbscotchman
    @jbscotchman Год назад +4

    Your reactions are the best girl, love you! 😘😘

  • @kentbarnes1955
    @kentbarnes1955 Год назад +2

    This is a very well done movie. I need to watch again. The biggest challenge was understanding the jumps in the timeline. I applaud the director's choice to use practical effects whenever possible (use of REAL Spitfires, etc). The biggest challenge of doing that with this movie is the beach is depicted as "too empty" at times. But it's hard to get that many "extras" to FILL the beach. Dunkirk was an amazing episode at the beginning of WW2. Thanks as always for the Bible verse. Peace

  • @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710
    @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Год назад +4

    Hi Californiablend, this movie is a tribute to the Rolls Royce Merlin engine powered Supermarine Spitfire airplane. What a beauty.

    • @RogueCylon
      @RogueCylon Год назад +1

      I went to the factory once, brilliant experience.

  • @davidwoolbright3675
    @davidwoolbright3675 Год назад +2

    This is a fabulous movie!! The scale breaks down to the individual. After all ,that is the true scale we all experience events!!

  • @Alte.Kameraden
    @Alte.Kameraden Год назад +3

    Honestly as a history buff this film got a lot wrong. One of the biggest was the lack of RAF support. If it wasn't for the RAF this evacuation wouldn't of been possible, but yet.. the film portrays it as if the RAF struggled to even get there. But in reality the RAF did a reasonable job protecting the beach from being swamped by Luftwaffe Aircraft. Both sides lost around 400 aircraft each fighting over dominance over the Beach. Yet this film the skies are almost always clear, and it shows just 1 Spitfire barely making it but in reality the aerial fighting around and above Dunkirk was more intense than the Battle of Britain.
    Another thing that also bugs me is the bomb explosions are tiny. Ju87 Stukas dropped 50kg bombs, 250kg bombs and 500kg bombs respectfully. Explosions you often see look like they're from 5kg bombs which the Stuka never carried. A single 250kg or 500kg bomb would sink most ships for example counting on the size unless you're a large heavily armored warship. Stuka's primary armaments was normally a single 250kg bomb or 500kg bomb, mostly because they existed to destroy strong points, bunkers, artillery positions. Dropping a bunch of smaller bombs wouldn't do the job.
    Basically the Stuka attacks should be less accurate but more terrifying in short.

  • @johnsmith-es7zk
    @johnsmith-es7zk Год назад +3

    A good film yes but so lacking in telling the story of the Dunkirk rescue. Lots of action sequences but very little explanation of why it happened, how long it took and no mention of the battles and sacrifices away from Dunkirk that allowed this to happen.

  • @ieatoutoften872
    @ieatoutoften872 Год назад +1

    A few seconds after 18:54
    ...
    Californiablend: "It's the teamwork that makes the dream work!"

  • @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710
    @clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Год назад +3

    Hello Californiablend, there is a period movie released in 1942 that includes a perspective of this event. Called " Mrs. Miniver ". Should view and like that movie then there is a 1950 sequel called " The Miniver Story ". Greer Garson was ages older than I when I first viewed this movie, but I was smitten.

  • @PROVOCATEURSK
    @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +3

    Never heard of Dunkirk? What a privileged life.

  • @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626
    @long-timesci-fienthusiast9626 Год назад +1

    The original Dunkirk film was a 1958 British War/Drama in B/W. It is a dramatization of the retreat to the beaches & the feeling of those at home. It particularly concentrates on a squad of soldiers & their uncertainty of events. While at home a reporter tries to make people aware of how badly things are going.
    Which leads to him using his own vessel along with the armada of little ships, to try & help rescue the troops. It stars John Mills, Richard Attenborough & Bernard Lee (best known as the original "M" in the classic Bond films).

  • @cmanningdeal6228
    @cmanningdeal6228 Год назад +1

    "On the Hour" JU 87 Stuka dive bombers had moved forward and were 10 minutes away at 287 mph..so every 30 minutes per plane, stagger squadrons of 12..they have a new wave hitting about every 5 minutes apart.

  • @dannyg1014
    @dannyg1014 Год назад +2

    Much like Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve's films are movies you have to see to believe. Arrival, Blade Runner: 2049, and his adaptation of Dune are easily some of the most visually stunning movies to have come out within the last 10 years.

  • @PokerViruz
    @PokerViruz Год назад +3

    GREAT intro!! straight to the point

  • @ianbruce1745
    @ianbruce1745 Год назад +1

    Thanks for all you do! Really enjoy your reactions. Das Boot is a great movie to react to if you find the time. Looking forward to watching more 😁

  • @corran9361
    @corran9361 Год назад +2

    Since your doing a lot of war movies lately, I recommend Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. Lord of big names, including first movie for Christian Bale.

  • @DarthRevan8976
    @DarthRevan8976 Год назад +1

    Goering, the commander of the luftwaffe, assured Hitler he could destroy the allies from the air. The german panzers could have pushed to the shores and attacked the men but thankfully, they were ordered to halt and wait for their troops to catch up. But the time they got to the shores, many of the British were gone but some opted to stay and hold the line

  • @twoonthewall
    @twoonthewall Год назад +2

    16:20 thats one for the memory bank 😉

  • @craigfranzen501
    @craigfranzen501 Год назад +1

    Just found your channel. So many of my favorites here. Love your reactions and great insights. Keep it up please! Second the recommendation for 1917.

  • @grosbeak6130
    @grosbeak6130 Год назад +7

    If Californiablend continues her film journey beyond WWII into the 14000 wars during documented known human history, and just dedicates one week of video reactions to each one of them she will be doing this for about 38 years straight. Now of course many of those 14,000 wars of known human history have no films about them but many of them will have some sort of documentary that she can review.
    P.s. Californiablend, can I recommend a movie after you finish this 38-year journey that you've begun? Nomads, with Pierce Brosnan. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks.

    • @thejamppa
      @thejamppa Год назад

      Hopefully alifornia blend takes consideration double featurette: Flags of Our Father and Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood. Same battle, first film from american pov and second film is from Japanese pov with amazing Ken Watanabe.

  • @Gbarriders
    @Gbarriders Год назад +2

    You should watch WWII in color it's 10 part series they have a really good thing on Dunkirk you'll get all the photos and facts. Why what's so important for the extraction

  • @bevhardy2137
    @bevhardy2137 Год назад +3

    Your reaction to this was so great. It was like you were feeling it all. Would you consider reacting to the movie "The Darkest Hour"? It is set at the same time as "Dunkirk", so there are some links. It really was a desperate, game changing time for the UK.

  • @HigHrvatski
    @HigHrvatski Год назад +1

    Gotta love northern France, even though this event took place in May and June it looks like November.

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom Год назад +1

    I have really liked all your reactions! Hearing that you have never heard of Dunkirk is sad, Our kids are missing so much in school today. They know so little of world and U.S. history. What else are they NOT learning?
    Tom Boyte,
    GySgt. USMC, retired
    Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71

  • @nomorerepublicans825
    @nomorerepublicans825 Год назад +1

    If the flying in this impressed you, you should do Emmerich's Midway. It's quite historically accurate and features flying that required insane bravery, the dive bombers, something that doesn't exist in modern militaries.

  • @victorplekter613
    @victorplekter613 Год назад +3

    Excellent analysis! Thanks!

  • @digitalbegley
    @digitalbegley 7 месяцев назад

    Love how engrossed you get i this film, and how often you jumped!

  • @Myles720
    @Myles720 Год назад +7

    Enjoyed your reaction. If you are talking about Nolan films and haven’t watched them yet, please check out:
    - The Prestige
    - Memento

  • @dougearnest7590
    @dougearnest7590 Год назад

    "But if not" - was a message sent to London from Dunkirk, a reference to a passage from the Book of Daniel which in 1940 many people would have been more familiar with than today:
    "Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, let it be known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."

  • @cmanningdeal6228
    @cmanningdeal6228 Год назад

    Biggest complaint of the soldier comming off the beaches: "Where was the RAF ? [ Royal Air Force.] . The Spitfires and Hurricanes of Fighter command were operating at altitudes and deep enough inland, the soldiers on the beach and in ships never saw them. All they saw was the German air force that got through.

  • @moondog-
    @moondog- Год назад +4

    Your enthusiasm for wwII is awesome!! keep going!

  • @rods1379
    @rods1379 Год назад +1

    I really enjoy your reviews. I'm guessing you're studies are in film industry? I'm glad you reviewed Dunkirk. I especially appreciate you posting scripture! God bless you for that!

    • @Californiablend
      @Californiablend  Год назад +2

      Much appreciated! Yes, I majored in Film and TV Production.

  • @neil9034
    @neil9034 Год назад

    Those jericho trumpets sure gives you the chill 🥶

  • @kirktravis5780
    @kirktravis5780 Год назад

    Looks like a beautiful spring day in the p.n.w.

  • @Thane36425
    @Thane36425 Год назад

    There were still many British and far more French troops outside of Dunkirk. What happened was that the British and French had dug in along the Belgian border during the "Phony War". Then, for political reasons, the troops were moved up into Belgium, which was exactly what the Germans hoped for.
    Then the Germans attacked through the Ardennes which was thought to be impossible. The Germans were trying to cut the Allied armies in half, trapping most of the British and some French in Belgium and isolating them from the rest in France. It was actually a rather small force making this push and it was very nearly stopped on a few times. However, they succeeded and if not for certain delays would have reached Dunkirk first.
    Outside of Dunkirk, the Allied units had made it back to their earlier prepared positions, somemof them did anyway, and so they set out to defend them. Problem was that their units had taken losses and had had to abandon a lot of materiale during the retreat so they were in a weaker state. All the same most of the units fought very hard, and some being almost or completely destroyed. Their actions kept some other ports open where many men were evacuated from and the Germans fighting them could not be turned against Dunkirk.
    They were eventually overrun or forced out. Some made it further along the French coast and back to England and some had to pass through Spain to escape. Most of the French forces had to surrender to the Germans or went into service with Vichy France, though some also managed to escape to England.

  • @mymyersfamily
    @mymyersfamily Год назад +1

    Given your affinity for war movies, I highly recommend you watch Casualties of War. It's a Vietnam movie in the same vein as Platoon, very well done but kind of overshadowed by Platoon's success. It's good and, moreover, no one on RUclips has reacted to it yet.

  • @paulbriggs5238
    @paulbriggs5238 10 месяцев назад

    Such a great reaction, you have a new sub 🇬🇧🙂

  • @johnbrookes4892
    @johnbrookes4892 Год назад +1

    loved the reaction! hadnt seen this for ages! Tom Hardy is great actor, i suggest Locke ;)

  • @hellowhat890
    @hellowhat890 Год назад

    1:50 Guillermo Del Toro has stated that this camera shot is one of cinema's greatest in film.

  • @mack7882
    @mack7882 Год назад

    Darkest Hour from 2017 with Gary Olman as Churchill goes well with this film.

  • @QuackAttack
    @QuackAttack Год назад +1

    Here's an underrated film choice of mine: Land of... Mine (pun intended)

  • @davidmichaelson1092
    @davidmichaelson1092 Год назад +1

    This is such a well done movie. I am not a fan of how they deal with the time lines...but otherwise a perfect movie.

  • @hellowhat890
    @hellowhat890 Год назад +1

    5:12 George Lucas has stated that when creating the dogfighting sequences in 1977's "STAR WARS", he took much inspiration from classic World War II films. Now I'm not saying that this film inspired any of the new Star Wars films or anything. But you watch Star Wars again and you'll essentially see similar shots to WWII movies especially when you have the cockpit close-ups of the pilots. He wanted to recreate what real pilots went through but in space when filming StarWars

    • @bwilson5401
      @bwilson5401 Год назад

      It's actual battle of Britain stock footage that he showed in the rough cut to his mates.

  • @EricPalmerBlog
    @EricPalmerBlog Год назад

    The Stuka had a siren it so in the dive it would scare people on the ground.

  • @iambecomepaul
    @iambecomepaul Год назад +3

    What’s annoying here is this: a) there would have been 300k plus people on that beach; b) Dunkirk (the town) was leveled by this time… not with intact buildings. However good this movie may be, it’s having a hard time keeping up with the “history” of it.

    • @itzbp9949
      @itzbp9949 Год назад +1

      That's because Nolan doesn't like using cgi it doesn't take away from how great this film is tho bit of a nitpick don't you think?

  • @minnesotavikings7163
    @minnesotavikings7163 Год назад +1

    “There won’t be any home if we allow a slaughter across the channel.” He is not referring to his boat and crew making it home. He is refering to that the UK will fall to Germany if they don't get their army home, thier country will no longer exist.

  • @weissfussindianer
    @weissfussindianer Год назад

    18:55 if you are curious where those boats were coming from, you may want to watch the movie "darkest hour" with gary oldman as sir winston churchill. the movie startet in that same year 2017. have fun.

  • @hettbeans
    @hettbeans Год назад

    Some scenes are shot on IMAX cameras - hence the aspect ratio change.

  • @hellowhat890
    @hellowhat890 Год назад

    6:11 Historical Fact: That BF-109 pilot actually did way better than the first one that was shot down.
    German BF-109 fighters were meant to fly up to high altitudes. Once they spotted their target down below, they enter a steep dive and are supposed to attack, and when they make a hit or attempt to shoot, they pull up immediately and use the speed generated in the dive to climb up and escape before the enemy can retaliate.
    The first fighter looping around to try and chase Collins made a tactical error and was unable to shoot down Collins. Notice how the second one that suddenly hits Farrier goes up and disappears out of sight. Instead of chasing up and after, Collins and Farrier decide to stay down below at 500 feet where they have their advantage.

  • @gregm3406
    @gregm3406 Год назад +1

    The Germans had a large majority of the English Army trapped on the beach. They could have wiped them out in a matter of hours but the Panzer commander decided his division needed a rest, which gave the British time to evacuate the beach of some 340,000 troops. It could have turned the tide easily for the Germans, but thankfully they screwed up.

  • @feudist
    @feudist Год назад

    Nolan never holds the audience's hand.

  • @jorgereyna1796
    @jorgereyna1796 Год назад +1

    Great reaction to a brilliant film

  • @leeroyjenkins6061
    @leeroyjenkins6061 Год назад +1

    10:45 What the heck was that voice 😭😭😭

  • @Rommheim1
    @Rommheim1 2 месяца назад

    Excellent reaction!

  • @sjones5616
    @sjones5616 Год назад

    Upon hearing the news of us (The USA) entering the war in late 1941: “Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. And Japan would be ground into powder.” - Winston Churchill. The Battle of Britain came after Dunkirk. While they did have help from lend lease, Britain truly was alone for that time until we were attacked. Thank God things turned out the way they did.

  • @juniorwilliams1360
    @juniorwilliams1360 Год назад

    Awesome amazing coolest reaction ever 👍😇💖✨😎👍

  • @toddkindron8506
    @toddkindron8506 Месяц назад

    Yeah, the Sheppard's tone was the music trough all.

  • @MercuryCircuit
    @MercuryCircuit Год назад

    A lot is forgotten about the many French and British forces that kept the German back so that the evacuation was possible. The germans coming forward to Dunkirk executed British soldiers rather than take them prisoner and likewise did the same with the French and other allies. It was a miracle how many soldiers of all nationalities were evacuated from Dunkirk. A turning point in the war and lead to the Nazi's first defeat of WW2 by the RAF.

  • @Gouache-yh2lw
    @Gouache-yh2lw Год назад

    This movies gunshots were deafeningly loud in the movie theater. Shocking and scary

  • @adam_2539
    @adam_2539 Год назад

    The sound of the stukas, is the most horrifying soumd to come out of any War

  • @mileskendziorski8000
    @mileskendziorski8000 Год назад

    You should check out We Were Soldiers. It stars Mel Gibson, based on the Vietnam war.

  • @walters720
    @walters720 4 месяца назад

    Trying watching the 1959 Dunkirk movie starring John Mills.

  • @ieatoutoften872
    @ieatoutoften872 Год назад

    A few seconds after 21:13 ...
    Rescued R.A.F. pilot (talking to civilian boat captain): "How did you know that stuff [when to hand - signal the youngest son to turn the boat], anyway."
    ----
    Civilian boat captain (talking to the rescued pilot): "My [elder] son was one of you [R.A.F.] lot [lads]. I knew he'd [his ghost/ spirit would] see us through [the peril]."
    -----
    Youngest son of civilian boat captain (to the rescued pilot): "My brother [the son my dad was referring to] died [during] the third week into the war [the previous year]."

  • @jerome4631
    @jerome4631 Год назад

    You will love "Das boot" a great war movie about a german submarine. (1981)

    • @jerome4631
      @jerome4631 Год назад

      "Das boot" is a real classic.

  • @beyondtherealm2
    @beyondtherealm2 Год назад

    Shooting a plane out of the air is insanely hard compared to shooting a gun at a target. Forget the flying part, you have no idea where your bullets are landing. Bullets arc, and you have to lead a target. The planes are moving 350-500 mph in this era. It was rare to get a kill. It's all intuition and being able to lead a target.

  • @kyngjoe753
    @kyngjoe753 Год назад

    Hey Californiablend 💐

  • @SolidGray_
    @SolidGray_ Год назад +3

    I would love to see your reaction to Greyhound with Tom Hanks

    • @feudist
      @feudist Год назад

      That's another little known aspect of the war: The Battle For the Atlantic. Brutal, relentless and the key to Allied victory.

    • @Californiablend
      @Californiablend  Год назад +1

      I loved that movie! I watched it when it first came out in my personal time.

  • @carlanderson7618
    @carlanderson7618 Год назад

    A great movie relate to Dunkirk is Darkest Hour (2017).

  • @darthmaul13
    @darthmaul13 Год назад +1

    Hi there great reaction. If u want to watch a great WWII film watch the great escape form 1963. It is loaded with stars from the time period I watched it a lot as a kid.

  • @DarthRevan8976
    @DarthRevan8976 Год назад +1

    In real life, dive bombers harrased the men constantly. Every time it looked promising, bombers or uboats sent their hopes for survival to the bottom of the English channel

  • @shellieeyre8758
    @shellieeyre8758 5 месяцев назад

    You called Cillian Murphy Eddie Murphy!

  • @bellator6557
    @bellator6557 Год назад

    You’re in a war phase and I’m here for it

  • @danemon8423
    @danemon8423 Год назад

    we have to remember that this evacuation was made possible by the sacrifice of french and belgian soldiers