Dude Rates Movies

1917

A+
Poster of the movie
Sam Mendes | 2019 | USA, UK, India, Spain, Canada, China
Thursday 7 July 2022 (rewatched) (uprated from A to A+)

Outstanding experience. Beyond the technical achievement, it's a powerhouse of sheer intensity and beauty.

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (watched, at the theater 🍿)

Stop saying the movie is one long shot for fuck sake! (Not because it was actually filmed in multiple shots, I don't care how the movie was made, but because:) There are 2 shots in the movie, with a clear, black-screen-for-multiple-seconds pause between the 2 scenes, and this transition is narratively significant, and the second scene starts with a visual and auditive moment of cinema that is out of this world. So this is the reaction of a director who just made a movie in 2 shots, who was the grand favorite for the Oscar for Best Director in all betting sites, and who just lost (to Parasite's director).