Dunkirk's 70mm F**k You To Your Couch

I can't hear. Leaving my seat my legs shake and my head rattles. Aspirins are needed. Holy shit. What an experience. From the first seconds the picture appears and Hans Zimmer's score booms into my eardrums and vibrates the ground beneath my shoes I am transported into war. And when the credits rolled I wondered: "Why can't every movie be like this?"

I think about my company as we went home. The Justice League trailer played before Dunkirk and one of them said "We need to see Justice League on that screen." I looked at them and weeped. Sadly I replied "It wasn't made in the same format." The disappointment spread from my face across theirs like a face eating virus. I know. There are so few times we get to experience something like this. Gravity being the very first, Interstellar being the second and now Dunkirk. For hundreds of movies that come out yearly, 3 movies that we saw gave us a feeling that can't be replicated at home. 3 movies stood out from the rest of them. The technical mastery projected on gigantic screens, the booming soundscape that beats against your own heart, the gorgeous visuals as clear as day. The movie going experience should be like this every time. It should be a memorable experience. I should come out of Justice League with my head rattling and feet shaking. Or Star Wars or any other blockbuster movie. We should want to spend the 25 bucks and not choose Redbox later on. We should want to get off our couches and go out. And Nolan did just that. He made me go home and laugh at my TV screen. Made me assault my couch and scream at it for being pathetic. He made me excited to go to the theater again. It's a shame not everyone shares that view.

I know it's expensive and not everyone can have a fucking IMAX camera attached to a plane. I don't expect Will Ferrell's next comedy to break my eardrums. But The Mummy? Why not? Mission Impossible? Why not? The summer blockbuster is the season to get lost into. Why can't we spend a little extra doe to save the movie going experience? I mean that's how all of us fell in love with cinema in the first place. It's our church.

"It's not that simple. That's not how the world works!" screams a film exec.

I know.

It's just the silly dreams of a film fanatic with a hangover. Don't mind me.

This was special. The passion is overflowing and the need for more of this unique adventure rises in me. As the movie experience dims and Netflix stock rises and theaters with special projectors close and the art becomes lost, I'll remember this moment and the movie that almost made me hearing impaired. Because that's what it's all about. Walking out and asking yourself: "Why can't every movie be like this?"