just as nolan movies are fancy ways of saying jack shit, yes.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 23 August 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
"medium-grade Sudoku" more like shoddy [sic] cackuro for beginners or pound shop word-search books with everything already filled in for you.
― calzino, Sunday, 23 August 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
I remember Memento as being genuinely, darkly funny. Everything else he's done is dreary po-faced nonsense.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 24 August 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
I remember Memento as being genuinely, darkly funny.
How old were you when you saw it?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 August 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
Origin story right there. "Batman Emerges."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batkid_Begins
― geoffreyess, Monday, 24 August 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
wikipedia has a page titled "Cinematic style of Christopher Nolan"
it should be blank imo
― wasdnous (abanana), Monday, 24 August 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
It feels as if people's capacity for enjoying what is essentially eye-rollingly silly bollocks has pretty much evaporated in the Covid era.
― piscesx, Monday, 24 August 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
I think it was more Guy Pearce's performance than the script, tbf.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 24 August 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
I rewatched Memento in lockdown and enjoyed it; haven't seen anything else of his bar two of the Batmen, which were terrible.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 24 August 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
I liked The Prestige and would be willing to risk re-watching it. The Batman movies were shit because, well, they're Batman movies and I'm no longer 14.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 August 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
you know what else I liked when I was 14? Stage magic
― Number None, Monday, 24 August 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
I think actually people probably want more eye-rollingly silly bollocks. What people don't want, speaking for people here, is stuff that is so po-faced and serious that the only reaction is to treat it as eye-rollingly silly bollocks. But yeah, in the best of times there are so, so few comedies worth a shit, let alone actually funny, and now more than ever ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
best thing about memento is ice queen Carrie-Anne Moss
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
We watched Memento a couple of months ago, holds up. It's actually clever and fun and modestly profound rather than BIG LOUD IDEAS IN YOU FACE! The Prestige I bet would hold up, too, because it actually (as I remember it) takes its eye-rollingly silly bollocks seriously in a good way. Which is to say, more inward than outward. There's nothing clever about big explosions.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
there's a free clickbait piece for anyone who notices that the first nolan movie to get even a little critical pushback is the one with a black lead
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Tenet's current RT score (80) is higher than godawful Interstellar (72)
― rip van wanko, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
RT scores tend to drop as more reviews get added so we'll see but I'm expecting it to dip below that
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
Tenet score will go down as more people see it over time and post things like "this is literally the worst movie I have ever seen."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
"Interstellar worst movie I have ever seen"About 1,860,000 results (0.65 seconds)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
Tenet is the worst movie I've ever seen.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
Do you think he just started this project with a list of palindromes and took off from there?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
MARTIN DONOVAN
Have you heard of "A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama"?
THE PROTAGONIST(intrigued)Tell me more.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 24 August 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
The Batman movies were shit because, well, they're Batman movies and I'm no longer 14.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 24 August 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
The Batman movies were shit because, well, they're Batman movies and I'm no longer 14.Blue Velvet and Rope are shit because I'm no longer 14
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 24 August 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
I will watch this — I’m easily entertained by the spy genre and expect to enjoy this, though how much remains an open question. I’m holding off on reading reviews. I had high expectations for Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan’s war realism was oddly underwhelming for me. The film felt vague. I had a horrible seat in the back side of the theatre though.
Oddly my favourite film of his is Interstellar. Thinking back on it I am left with the impression of the climax and the feelings of love, time, and finiteness. He was able to convey something there that overcame whatever shortcomings in plot, dialogue, etc., that I no longer remember and don’t really matter in light of what the film was able to convey visually and emotionally.
Inception was fun for its novelty but I have no design to watch it again. And you can only love a film about aSuperhero so much, not to mention the questionable politics already mentioned in a comment above.
So yeah — Interstellar and the idea that love cannot escape time.
― warm winds and clear skies, Monday, 24 August 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
This recent Patrick H. Willems video goes into Nolan's bland visual style.https://youtu.be/v92uAesOimQ?t=197skip the skits, they're lame
this video goes into nolan's increasing bombasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGdwy5sYmKw
― wasdnous (abanana), Monday, 24 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
But didn't Interstellar say love CAN escape time, which was part of its wishywashy Hollywood blarghness?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 24 August 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
I listened to four students today (all dudes) praising him.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
He's our Kubrick, which means I say to hell with him.
Interstellar was great if you like shit
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
I like more Nolan than most ppl here tho so i'll see my way out
you should be permitted to throw solid wood chalk-dusters at your students for talking such shite, Alf!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link
"He's our Kubrick" I guess you're being facetious
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
sorry am slow at this
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Kubrick was actually funny on occasion
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Bale's Aristocrats joke was hilarious fuiud
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
David Lynch, Wong Kar-wai, Agnès Varda, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr, Abbas Kiarostami, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lucretia Martel, Claire Denis, Terrence Malick, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Kelly Reichardt, Asghar Farhadi, Hayao Miyaziki, Ang Lee
our Kubrick is among these as well as others
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
wow marvel wave 4 is gonna be wild
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
Dan uhh I suspect you are taking this thread too literal
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
ok can't read you guys
― Dan S, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
if you read the Inception thread, it'll give more insight. there was of course nuance to many of the opinions expressed, but the overwhelming consensus of Nolan was "he should be killed"
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
Regardless, Kubrick and Nolan don't belong in the same conversation
― or something, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
unless he's overseeing a piss-yellow "unmastering" of 2001: A Space Odyssey of course
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
ringfencing kubrick is what gave us nolan sorry if this offends
(also snyder)
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
yeah but Snydolant didn't ever make The Killing, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon or Dr Strangelove!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
kubrick made them iirc
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
all of them much closer to 9/10 rather than zero point zero recurring.... not saying he deserves deification, just that he was actually pretty bloody good at this old film-making game!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
the way SK gets discussed has created a bad space for bad ppl to congregate and make bad films in
("bad" = "bad not good" obv but i wanted my claim on just one line)
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
Ok but that doesn't make Kubrick the equivalent of Nolan
― or something, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link