The Panda

He came off like he was a guy in a small high school play who only got the role because the theater program only had one guy.

The movie's a mess, it's entertaining at times, but that doesn't stop it from feeling like the equivalent of a kid mixing every fountain drink in his cup thinking it's innovative in cool but gets something disgusting in return. The script is terrible, there's some funny bits, but they didn't even give any of the actors hope of a good performance because of how inorganic and sporadic it is. Everything just feels like an excuse to go on a visual trip that's technically impressive, but too convoluted to be effective. Dane DeHaan is awful in this, he drags down every scene he's in (and he's in a lot). One of the worst lead performances I've seen this year, and worthy of a Razzie. I don't know what he was trying to do, it was like a poor man's imitation of a bad Keanu Reeves performance. Whoever the girl was did fine for what she had to work with, you could tell she was kind of trying but DeHaan was just an uncharismatic brick wall. Ethan Hawke was the standout of the movie, to bad he's in it for like 10 minutes at most. He was the only one who really played the ham of it all well. The visuals are fun, it's something that you think could be a solid film had it been approached better. But the entire effort is fairly sloppy, with many "that's terrible" moments. However there were a few "That's really cool/innovative" ones to that helped the film. It did feel like a drag though, I wasn't invested in anything going on. For a movie with this much visual piszaz it should have been a lot more entertaining than it actually was. D+

I saw it, it could have been fun but Dane DeHaan is jarringly awful in it. He deserves a Razzie.

Yeah, I updated two of the front pages and realized that. I'm gonna post a prelim score for people (which could obviously change if something in the upcoming weeks blows up)

I bet 50 points to four people Dunkirk's weekend drop is under 45%

Updated Summer 2017 Domestic Wonder Woman - 389m Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 387.3m Spider-Man: Homecoming - 251.9m Despicable Me 3 - 213.6m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 170.6m Cars 3 - 144m Transformers: The Last Knight - 127.6m War for the Planet of the Apes - 98.2m Baby Driver - 84.3m The Mummy - 79.4m Alien: Covenant - 74m Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - 71.9m Baywatch - 58m Dunkirk - 50.5m Snatched - 45.8m All Eyez on Me - 44.8m 47 Meters Down - 42.3m King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 39m Everything, Everything - 34.1m Girls Trip - 31.2m The Big Sick - 24.5m The House - 24.5m Rough Night - 21.9m Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Hall - 20.6m Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - 17m It Comes at Night - 13.7m Megan Leavey - 12.8m Wish Upon - 10.5m The Beguiled - 10.2m Lowriders - 6.2m Beatriz at Dinner - 6m The Book of Henry - 4.2m The Big Sick - 3.1m My Cousin Rachel - 2.6m 3 Idiotas - 1.2m Summer 2017 Opening Weekends Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 146.5m Spider-Man: Homecoming - 117m Wonder Woman - 103.3m Despicable Me 3 - 72.4m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 63m War for the Planet of the Apes - 56.3m Cars 3 - 53.7m Dunkirk - 50.5m Transformers: The Last Knight - 44.7m Alien: Covenant - 36.2m The Mummy - 31.7m Girls Trip - 31.2m All Eyez on Me - 26.4m Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - 23.8m Baby Driver - 20.6m Snatched - 19.5m Baywatch - 18.5m Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - 17m King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 15.4m Everything, Everything - 11.7m 47 Meters Down - 11.2m The House - 8.7m Rough Night - 8m The Big Sick - 7.6m Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Hall - 7.1m It Comes at Night - 6m Wish Upon - 5.5m Megan Leavey - 3.8m Lowriders - 2.4m Summer 2017 World Wide Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 860.1m Wonder Woman - 779.6m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 767.3m Despicable Me 3 - 732.5m Spider-Man: Homecoming - 571.9m Transformers: The Last Knight - 547.8m The Mummy - 392.5m Cars 3 - 250.2m Alien: Covenant - 232.5m War for the Planet of the Apes - 175.3m Baywatch - 169.7m King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 140.8m Baby Driver - 118.7m Dunkirk - 107.4m Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - 81.9m Snatched - 59m Summer 2017 China Transformers: The Last Knight - 198.3m Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 226.8m Despicable Me 3 - 114.3m Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - 100.7m The Mummy - 91.7m Wonder Woman - 89.9m Alien: Covenant - 45.8m King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - 8.4m

I don't take offense. You have Transformers in your all time top 10.

1. Dunkirk - A+ 2. Memento - A 3. The Dark Knight - A- 4. Interstellar - A- 5. Batman Begins - A- 6. Insomnia - B+ 7. The Prestige - B+ 8. Inception - B 9. The Dark Knight Rises - C+

This was a spectacular piece by Nolan, seeing it in 70mm IMAX was immersive and kept you holding your breath. There's a lot of power in it, and even with sparse dialogue, there's plenty of weight to it. It's also not an empty spectacle piece, despite being reliant on the visual and technical showcase to drive the story forward. The three timeline format is innovative, clear cut, and keeps you engaged and interested as it's rather unconventional. It's a movie that doesn't show you the horrors of war or the effects of war, but a movie that makes you feel as if you're in the war, and that's what makes it unique. It makes you empathetic with these characters that you really don't get much time to really know, and I thought the film's characterization was effective for the kind of story it was telling. I didn't need to know that these characters had a wife, or kids and so on because it's a short term fight for survival. When you're being bombed you don't go and strike up a reflective conversation about your past, you're just trying not to get blown up. Also, despite the technical marvel of it all, it's minimalistic in its nature. It doesn't overdo the imagery, and it makes some of the shots all the more compelling because of it. It also has one of the best sound designs I've heard in a while, where the shots and the bombs feel as if they're happening around you. This is highlighted by one of Zimmer's best scores. The movie leaves you wondering at points how on earth will these people make it through, even though you know the outcome going in. It becomes inspiring at points because of that, showing a light at the end of the tunnel, and the film really manages to invoke a sense of the fear people alive in that situation would have felt. It's Nolan's best film by a long shot, and is a powerful work of art. A+

DUNKIRK!!! Saw it in 70mm IMAX today and it was phenomenal. Nolan's best movie by a mile.

I'm also loving Arya back in Westeros, she's too great of a character to stay detached for so long.

Sam's scenes have been some of the highlights of both episodes imo

That was a pretty crazy episode and it only promises even more insanity to ensue. Euron's definitely becoming a breakout character, even if he isn't the same as the books.

Sure

What's more pathetic is men wanting to suck on two jugulars that are meant for babies!!!1!

That trailer is insane!

Not sure if I'm more excited for Dunkirk in 70mm IMAX or Episode 2 of GoT Season 7.

Yeah, they hang low and wobble to the floor

Dunkirk's going bonkers, Girls Trip is a solid breakout and Valerian isn't hitting 20m

5.5m is great for Dunkirk, 50m+ weekend incoming.

I wasn't talking about helping it, I was just saying its critical reception is glowing either way. It's only the pleb reviewers that seem to be disliking it.

The RT percentage hardly matters when the Metacritic score is so high. It does show it's a bit polarizing. Many seem to absolutely love it but there's a group that doesn't seem to get it.

This is important, Pandas belong in civilized societies, not behind bars like common lions!