this could have been x100 better if it had a little (proper ) sub-story to complement the main story such as the likes of saving private ryan and titanic
all it needed was a pre build-up of the main guy, instead of totting along with the frenchie , may be having a friend or shall we say a best friend from britain tagging along throughout the whole movie with some friendly emotional scenes at the beggining before they got stationed to dunkirk to invoking emotional response and sympathy for their inevitable ending of friendship and then throughout the movie or may be somewhere towards the end he dies and parts way with him or even defends him in the boat to the death or some alernative scenario
basically something along those lines to create a superb tearjerker
instead we get almost no characters development
2/3 liners from Tom hardy and Cillian murphy (who suppose to be main two stars of the movie who should at least have proper character development) for whom i gave no fucks for and felt nothing near the end of the movie
with this little sub-story this could have surpassed the likes of a great war movie spielberg has achieved.
these kind of history based movies need a good emotional sub-story. i expected more of Chris
>>85343873
Sorry Nolan likes to think of himself as a peer to James Cameron, but only based Jim would be able to make something to that order.
>i want some superficial generic sob story to latch onto
this is how you detect fucking redditors
>>85344751
that wasn`t the point you pleb
my point was that generic real life stories especialy boring ones such as these about bongs and frogs surviving, feel like a fucking overglorified-documentary when its so plain and lacking of extra emotionally evoking sub-stories
i already knew what the fuck was happening and will happen in the movie so the whole suspense on majority of the scenes was redundant
Chris had to change things up and try something different like many other smart directors do with material like this
give me one good reason how my alternative woudn`t have made for a grander movie if done right by Chris
>>85343873
> lacks understanding that the film was about the event, and highlighting a single soldier would negate the message that all soldiers had someone or something waiting for them back home
There was no need for the bombastic lamentations or exposition.