Is The Dark Knight Rises Nolan's worst film as a director?

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Is The Dark Knight Rises Nolan's worst film as a director?

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Well, it's either that or Batman Begins or The Dark Knight. I think we should stop considering them canon for this director.

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Re-watched it this weekend, and it's just bad.

Pacing issues, story issues, choppy editing, etc.

Is it his worst effort?

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heath ledger dying fricked up his story.

Dunkirk

Following or Insomnia. As a technical director he's been improving greatly from his first films.

Dark Knight Rises isn't a "bad" film either imo. It just pales in comparison to The Dark Knight

He hasn't made anything close to a bad movie, but I think TDKR is my least favorite. It's a good movie but there are just too may glaring problems compared to his other works.

I really would love to have seen the treatment that Christopher Nolan and his brother came up with, had Heath lived.

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Re-watched it this weekend, and it's just bad.

Pacing issues, story issues, choppy editing, etc.

Is it his worst effort?

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Yeah. By a significant margin too. It's off kilter in tone - the "courtroom" scene vs Bane in general, has a weak main villain and reveal, has too many illogical moments, and some terrible editing.

Insomnia, while being a little plodding in pacing, is interesting and very well shot.

TDKR is a legit bad movie, I don't think anything else Nolan made is.

With that said, the opening is pretty stellar, it's just downhill from there.

He phoned it in. I really don't think he wanted to do it after Ledger died.

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It became too “cartoony” and threw the modicum of “realism” out of the window.

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Yeah, stuff like the courtroom scene...I could have sworn I was watching a Schumacher movie.

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Is The Dark Knight Rises Nolan's worst film as a director?

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The executives running the DCEU right now would kill for a film as good as that movie right now.