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Saw it in 70mm this evening. The score was ruinous. Loudly overdone, overused, and always pushing, even through the least interesting scenes of the movie. I understand it was meant to convey tension, but there were only a handful of moments that the score wasn't pushing, pressing, ticking ever harder and faster. I felt tense during scenes that would have entirely lacked tension without the score, and I was tired out from constant tension during scenes that were (cinematically) full of tension. Also on the topic of sound, the mixing was off again, making the rare spoken line difficult to hear over the score or sound effects. Half the lines spoken in a Spitfire were inaudible. Blah blah "your theatre had bad speakers" doesn't cut it when many people are reporting the same problem in reviews, and when Nolan has a history of this. ...not that it matters much what was said, because the characters are an afterthought. Intentional, I get it. But as someone who enjoys the characters in Christoper Nolan movies, Dunkirk lacked. I also disliked the timeline manipulation, and Tom Hardy's arc ranged from heroic, to incompetent (did I really need multiple scenes of a seasoned pilot not understanding the concept of leading a target?), to fantastical, to needlessly nihilistic at the end. I did like the visuals and the sound effects. But the score grated on me in a huge way, and the story was dissappointing. We already know war is hell, but I guess now I've seen Nolan's version of it.
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The dialog (intentionally) adds nothing to the movie and only pops up every once in a while to avoid having the movie overtly appear to be a weird mashup of an art house war movie with well-known actors whose scripts were each a couple pages long.
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