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SolarFire2
Oct 16, 2001

"You're awefully cute, but unfortunately for you, you're made of meat." - Meat And Sarcasm Guy!
It's the small things that bug the hell out of me. The destroyers have some of their modern features removed, but still have huge towed sonar arrays at the stern. There are AA guns on the beach and on the warships, but there's never a single puff of flak at a Luftwaffe fighter or bomber. Why was the minesweeper that got bombed at anchor instead of maneuvering? Why was the evacuation ship not blacked out at night? Of course it's going to get torpedoed!

All in all I enjoyed the movie, I thought it was well paced and very suspenseful, but there were some things that stuck out to me.

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SolarFire2
Oct 16, 2001

"You're awefully cute, but unfortunately for you, you're made of meat." - Meat And Sarcasm Guy!

Steve2911 posted:


What was the intention of the last shot? I read it as scepticism over British patriotism, that Churchill was twisting a humiliating defeat into a flag waving 'God save the King' moment.


I don't think it was twisting anything, since it directly quotes Churchill as describing the events as a colossal disaster, and his quote that 'Wars are not won through evacuations.'

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