2010's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

He's in the hospital at the moment, I'm sure he'd rather be here too.

really hope he's ok

hi, Christopher Nolan made a movie about the unlimited power of the dreaming mind and it was 100% gray and involved nothing more fantastic than a grenade launcher and some Escher prints and that's all you need to know about him as an artist

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) April 24, 2018

Bingo

yep

or as this wise-guy put it at the time

I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal

― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think we all know that Inception is still gonna get at least 3 or 4 lurker votes here.

I liked it when I saw it with a full crowd. Nolan's movies are big, dumb fun. I don't get the hate

That he's a talentless posh English cunt who get's a lot of smoke blown up his arse by mediocre-hack film critics and the right wing wing press in the UK is a factor this side of the Atlantic, even before the garbage movies are taken into consideration.

Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?

xxp I didn't hate the idea of the movie so much, but felt so brow-beaten by the loud, overwrought, overriding continuous music. It was incredibly obnoxious

felt the same way about The Dark Knight

xxp

even if I did it wouldn't make any discernible difference in his case

" when I saw it with a full crowd"

jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.

The Dark Knight is an evil film.

I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience.

I watched Inception in a semi-full theater with a friend, I like and respect him enough that I didn't want to bail on him, but I was so disappointed by the experience

"I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience."

never heard so much wrongness in my life.

Nolan is a boring director who turns what should be fun pulp into ponderous and often depressing (in the case of The Dark Knight) experiences.

Of course it can for a certain type of film, are you serious or just on the wind up calzino?

Inception is still a big loud empty thing tho

Xp

xp I guess it's not the case as much anymore with everybody's 'you live in my world' attitude, but I do remember having thrilling communal experiences in movie theaters

fwiw I liked the score much more in Dunkirk, it seemed to fit the film better

I was unenthusiastic about him for a long time but The Prestige is one of my favorite films, Memento is pretty good and I was surprised just how good Dunkirk was. That puts him ahead of most for me. Didn't care for for Inception because I hate heist films.

Where's Araki's Kaboom?

no I'm not on the wind up, just struggling to conceive of how lots of people in a cinema improves a movie experience .. it doesn't stack up with me I'm afraid.

I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8 in a full buzzing cinema, that was better than just watching it on the telly in our front room

yes, I guess in my past it was about the audience reaction, but that only seems to have been an experience I had when I was younger

if there is one thing that history teaches us it's that "the crowd" is such an intrinsic part of good art! I mean if it was movies of landed gentry getting liquidated to cheering crowds i'd take that. But fuck it when it is loud dickheads cheering a fucking Nolan movie

"I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"

let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!

I say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!

Huh, doesn’t feel like Meek’s Cutoff came out ten years ago.

I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"

let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!

― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:18 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dear me you live in a very intense world

as opposed to a world of bland acceptance?

where cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .

Come on nobody is doing that here

could have sworn someone just recently posted that a vociferous crowd adds to the experience of watching a Nolan movie

it's my own personal vision of hell and other posters might beg to differ, but I'm not making it up.

I admit that the crowd I saw Certified Copy with was gasping and hollering.

lol!

if my Dark Knight/Inception Nolan movie theater experiences involved people cheering the films on I didn't hear them because the music was way too deafening

I was talking about experiences when I was young, seeing films like Carrie and Cries and Whispers with college crowds, watching Taxi zum Klo and early Haynes films at the Castro Theater, etc

" when I saw it with a full crowd"

jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

no I'm not on the wind up, just struggling to conceive of how lots of people in a cinema improves a movie experience .. it doesn't stack up with me I'm afraid.

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

if there is one thing that history teaches us it's that "the crowd" is such an intrinsic part of good art! I mean if it was movies of landed gentry getting liquidated to cheering crowds i'd take that. But fuck it when it is loud dickheads cheering a fucking Nolan movie

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

"I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"

let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

as opposed to a world of bland acceptance?

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

where cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

could have sworn someone just recently posted that a vociferous crowd adds to the experience of watching a Nolan movie

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

it's my own personal vision of hell and other posters might beg to differ, but I'm not making it up.

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 9:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Psycho

Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?

― flappy bird, Saturday, May 23, 2020 4:30 PM (four hours ago)

well,

At first, at least

let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!

― calzino, Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:18 AM (four hours ago)

one hell of a classic Rick and Morty ep

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:53 AM

When I saw Certified Copy a young woman in the audience gave a quiet but earnest “yay!” when Kiarostami’s name appeared. I thought it was endearing and it’s stuck with me.

(Opening credits, I should specify)

I was bit shitfaced last night but still maintain cheering/whooping/hollering in a cinema (unless it's an ovation for the director and cast during a festival type context) is animal behaviour for crass exhibitionists who should be told to shut the fuck up and turfed out by their ear if they don't!

Works better for martial arts films than Kiarostami, I must say

Nobody cheers in cinemas in uk is my experience. I have been to things where when the film finished the audience spontaneously gave it a round of applause (and not talking about festivals where the filmmakers are present) and it was fucking weird. A screening where everyone is a-hooting and a-hollering like they apparently do over there would feel v odd

This thread should probably not be about Nolan so much but as people have said it’s “dumb fun” that is drab and long and pompous - to piggyback G F-M’s tweet it also tells you everything you need to know about him that he made a “realistic” batman and robin that was 3 hours long and made Robin just some anonymous cop but still ends with the “reveal” of him going “my name? It’s detective robin b. wonder” and everyone’s like “ah, truelly,, the thinking man’s action movie”

This actually was during a festival and I could only hear it because I was nearby. It didn’t come off to me like performative behavior, which I’ve seen plenty of in theaters.

I was bit shitfaced last night but still maintain cheering/whooping/hollering in a cinema (unless it's an ovation for the director and cast during a festival type context) is animal behaviour for crass exhibitionists who should be told to shut the fuck up and turfed out by their ear if they don't!

― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Lol when the BFI re-opens you should be made it's director!

Find it more comforting to assume there's a bunch of joke votes

Are there enough 1920 titles to poll?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

There are two. So, I'll just include both in the comprehensive XXX0 poll.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 9:34 PM (yesterday)

Eh, changed my mind, but a short deck on this one: 1920's Best Movies: 100 Years Later

Time for the showdown: The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)