1917

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Anyone else been today? DH and I just came out. We thought it was absolutely brilliant. We're both quite drained now! Do take tissues.

Oh dear I’m going against the grain somewhat here.
I loved the cinematography, the music was great, the acting was ok. But all in all I had no connection with the film at all. It didn’t draw me in and get invested.
I was pleased to watch it but was came away feeling nothing. It was the same for all the family, differing ages from 16 to 80.

George Mackay has a lovely cute face, Ive e got a wee crush on him since Sunshine On Leith , we are definitely going to see this, especially as my great grandfather died in WW1.

@Wasrelaxing. I have just got back from seeing it and feel exactly the same as you. Brilliant cinematography, a real sense at times of being in the trenches, but I just had no emotional connection.

Re the emotional connection, were none of your ancestors/relatives soldiers killed in the 1st ww? I found the film traumatising, bringing home what suffering our relatives endured.

I thought it was a great film, beautifully acted and shot but didnt feel the connection either. It didnt really add anything to the War Films I've already seen. At times, the cinematography left me feeling a bit dizzy too.
It was good but not any better than JoJo Rabbit which I saw last week.

Re the emotional connection, were none of your ancestors/relatives soldiers killed in the 1st ww?

@katielilly. not as far as I know, but that's not the point. None of my relatives were killed in Auschwitz but I was incredibly moved by Schindler's List.

I thought there was a very good sense of being in the trenches at the start of the film. But I couldn't connect to the two main characters and felt that the second half of the film was just an exercise in showing off cinematic skills.

Re the emotional connection, were none of your ancestors/relatives soldiers killed in the 1st ww? I found the film traumatising, bringing home what suffering our relatives endured.

I read a review of 1917 in the Sunday papers, about how nothing stacked up, the story line was weak etc etc. Yeah, whatever, but to me it was what the story represented, it was the massive sacrifice of those brave men, it actually didn't matter that the storyline was a 'yarn', it was the travesty of man killing man, that tore so many families apart.

Hopefully it was at least thought provoking to everyone who saw it.

I didn't feel the emotional connection either, stunning cinematography etc, but half the time I felt like I was watching one of those first person shooter video games.

Also that bit where he randomly wandered into a burning village and found a woman and a baby in a basement was a bit wtf.

I thought it was brilliant. They were ordinary young men having to do extraordinary things to survive. The horrors and futility of the trench warfare was vividly brought to life.

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Excellent, dh likened it to warhorse but I didn't like warhorse, this was much better

The similarities with Warhorse are that's it's set in WWI and has Benedict Cumberbatch in it.

1917 - this has got to be a cinematography masterpiece, the one shot thing was so well done.

Brilliant film.

Wonderful film. While I knew it was single-shot film, I wasn't prepared for how much attention I had to pay. There's no respite of the "meanwhile, back at HQ..." type.

I was impressed in particular by the way it conveyed the horror of war without the slo-mo and gruesome close-ups of wounds, etc. of "Saving Private Ryan" (though I don't object to them).

I just found it unbelievable, I really like films set in this period of history but I found this one totally unrealistic, disappointed as I had been looking forward to seeing it.

I was on the edge of my seat and jumping all over the place.
Really made me think and I found it exhausting but brilliantly done.

I thought that it played out like a dream, moving from one landscape to another. I thought it was an amazing piece of film making.

We saw it today, I was blown away, as was my teenage son. The cinema was deathly quiet when the credits rolled, and a hushed reverence, as other posters have mentioned.

It’s humbling what those young men endured and achieved, and I thought the main actor was such a good casting.

We thought Warhorse, Passchendaele and Paths of Glory were all better than this. The cinematography was good but the script very weak. I found it very flat and unrealistic, as did other members of the family.
Not Oscar material for me but then I didn't like Roma which was well thought of by many.

I've not seen it, but DH and DD (17) saw it.
DH thought it was really good, he likes films such as Saving Private Ryan and Iwo Jima . DD hated it, thought it was dreadful.

I just started a thread, I didn't notice this one.

Incredible. We saw it on our own in the imax. I certainly needed tissues, I can't remember the last time I cried at a film - if ever. We left and sat in the car both saying we felt emotionally drained, it had been our plan to go out for lunch afterwards but we didn't feel like it at all. It's a film that everybody should go and see.

I think there was so much hype about the technical way the film was shot, that George McKay's stunning performance was overlooked.

Very moving. One of those films which seems to justify all the skill and effort of every single person involved. Unlike lots of films which seem a bit pointless.

I’m with a few of the PPs - loved the cinematography but thought the storyline was weak and at times unbelievable (bit James Bond-esque how he dodged all the bullets).

Didn’t have any emotional connection, probably because I’d have liked some character background. Didn’t feel exhausted and the cinema wasn’t stunned into silence at the end.

I enjoyed it, but it hasn’t stayed with me IYKWIM. I actually preferred Parasite which I saw a couple of days before.

Watched this today. Absolutely loved it and was absorbed throughout.