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re: Christopher Nolan and amateur film critics
Posted on 8/3/26 at 11:54 am to Cockopotamus
Posted on 8/3/26 at 11:54 am to Cockopotamus
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Also Nolan has the same issue Judd Apatow had. Even his “great” movies are 30 minutes too long. Except maybe the Prestige
You’re confusing Nolan with Scorsese.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 12:07 pm to RollTide1987
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When was the last time Spielberg made a truly fantastic movie? The same question can be asked of Scorsese.
2023. It's not a very interesting answer for Scorsese.
1993 for Spielberg, but there's been plenty of very good and great since then. And I think he's on a streak of 3 quality movies in a row, though i know that is not a consensus opinion.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 12:41 pm to MemphisGuy
I know Nolan has hurt some of your feelings here because all y’all want to talk about is Spielberg and Scorsese.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 1:11 pm to sorantable
Is he forgetting he made Tenet? That movie was shite. He isn't batting 1.000.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 1:21 pm to Shiftyplus1
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He isn't batting 1.000.
Film is very subjective and I doubt very much he is batting 1.000 with a lot of movie goers for that very reason. However - and I know this isn't a popular metric - he is batting 1.000 with the critics. Of the films he has made:
Following (1998): 87% on Rotten Tomatoes
Memento (2000): 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Insomnia (2002): 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Batman Begins (2005): 85% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Prestige (2006): 77% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Dark Knight (2008): 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Inception (2010): 86% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 87% on Rotten Tomatoes
Interstellar (2014): 73% on Rotten Tomatoes
Dunkirk (2017): 92% on Rotten Tomatoes
Tenet (2020): 70% on Rotten Tomatoes
Oppenheimer (2023): 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Odyssey (2026): 94% on Rotten Tomatoes
Not a single "rotten" film on this list. That's a pretty decent critical track record and the audience scores for all of those films are pretty high as well - though Tenet admittedly as his lowest audience score (76%).
This post was edited on 8/3/26 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 8/3/26 at 1:58 pm to sorantable
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Just a very insightful take
Eh, he's aiming at low hanging fruit
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best filmmaker alive
No.
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why your favorite YouTube outrage merchants are clowns.
They have to manufacture outrage to keep views powering in.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 2:27 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Oppenheimer won best picture
So did Crash.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 2:45 pm to Philzilla2k
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So did Crash.
Yea not even remotely in the same ballpark. Oppenheimer was not for everyone and that's fine but it's a good movie. Certainly not one that could be written off as a "miss" for Nolan. Crash was just straight up bad.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 2:52 pm to RollTide1987
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The Prestige (2006): 77% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 87% on Rotten Tomatoes
Interstellar (2014): 73% on Rotten Tomatoes
Posted on 8/3/26 at 4:52 pm to sorantable
Nobody is saying thata trope "automatically ruins a movie". A lot of great films use familiar storytelling tools all the freaking time. The problem is when a filmmaker relies on a predictable mechanism and the audience notices the strings holding it up.... Understanding why something works doesn't invalidate it, sometimes that's exactly why it fails. A magician can still amaze you even though you know the trick but if you see the strings you're allowed to criticize the illusion.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:17 pm to Philzilla2k
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So did Crash.
So did Schindler's List and Lawrence of Arabia.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:56 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Tarantino may be the most overrated director in the history of the art form.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 8:52 pm to Philzilla2k
Don’t forget PTA…
Posted on 8/3/26 at 9:25 pm to BeepBopBoop
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This is getting as bad as music critics and Radiohead.
TOOL is another.
Outside of "46 and 2", I haven't cared for them much.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 11:33 pm to RollTide1987
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he is batting 1.000 with the critics.
There are very few critics, anymore. Just paid shills.
Posted on 8/3/26 at 11:43 pm to finchmeister08
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TOOL is another.
Are high-schoolers just discovering weed considered critics?
Mainstream music critics have been notoriously hard on Tool, despite their massive popularity. A good reminder that sometimes the masses like garbage music.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 12:06 am to RollTide1987
Using rotten tomatoes as the objective measure of a film's critical success is laughable
Villeneuve, PTA, Cuarón, Tarrantino, Bong Joon Ho and Chazelle all > Nolan. Fincher would as well if he didn't forget how to direct post-Gone Girl
Villeneuve, PTA, Cuarón, Tarrantino, Bong Joon Ho and Chazelle all > Nolan. Fincher would as well if he didn't forget how to direct post-Gone Girl
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:15 am to Jay Are
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Mainstream music critics have been notoriously hard on Tool, despite their massive popularity. A good reminder that sometimes the masses like garbage music.
1. Tool is garbage.
2. Radiohead is bad.
3. Nolan isn’t one of the best directors today.
Just noting the number of fricktarded takes in this thread
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:59 am to sorantable
C. Nolan: My farts smell just fine, and it is your fault you don't like them.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:12 am to SoFla Tideroller
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There are very few critics, anymore. Just paid shills.
And they don't even try to hide it. Floodify brags about how astroturf is mainstream and you have to use it, then we see 1 out of 3 viewers giving movies a 10. Call me crazy but I see a connection there.
I'm also not sure what constitutes a professional movie critic as opposed to an amateur.
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