This is NOT a cult-classic
It's a CLASSIC! Deserves to be up there with Psycho and Halloween
shareYes, it does, but it's not an asian movie or a Nolan movie, so the rating must be lower.
shareSadly
shareWhat's wrong with Nolan movies and what does that have to do with this?
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Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shi+.
How Nolan's movies are rated really high, no matter what the quality is.
Now, don't get me wrong, I like Nolan's movies. I enjoyed Interstellar but I don't think it deserves that huge rating it has there.
Ah, the overrated complaint. I don't believe in over/underrated. They are rated based on how people liked them. Just because you don't agree with the rating, doesn't mean it's overrated.
Personally, I've loved every Nolan movie, except Dark Knight Rises, which I thought was just ok and Following, (which was kind of hard to watch). And I'm not just following the hype. I didn't even know who he was until I saw Memento and that immediately became my favorite movie. Prestige, Insomnia, Inception, Interstellar, I thought they were all incredible! And I love what he did with the first two batman movies.
But if all of those had an average 6 rating, I wouldn't say they were underrated, I would just be surprised that they weren't well received. It wouldn't mean that all or most of the people who didn't like it were lying.
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Btw, I rated It Follows a 10, I loved every second of this movie. Then when my sister asked if her and her husband would like it. I said, "...you might, your husband won't". And I was spot on about that, haha
That's not to disparage him or his tastes, that just understanding what people like. This movie was never going to appeal to the masses. Which is where the Cult-classis title comes in. Personally, I think cult-classic is an honor. If I made movies, I'd love one of them to be considered a cult-classic.
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I agree, except that I really liked but didn't love TDKR. Nolan is unfairly judged(By some) because people feel his work is in general, Over-rated. I don't subscribe to that notion either. He just blends Cerebral Storytelling and Blockbuster Filmmaking and he's really good at it. There are only about a handful of directors I'd wanna see $100mil in their hands... Nolan, Fincher, Villenueve, Spielberg and Scorsese. They have the ability to not necessarily compromise their vision, even when making these big films. Spielberg gets a ton of heat but I'll defend him til the day I die. He was the enemy because he combined Classic Filmmaking with Blockbuster Material... And its not his fault. JAWS did $400mil or whatever it was for a reason, it was a MASTERPIECE. Then he does Close Encounters, Indiana Jones, ET(And Poltergeist in the same effing year!), add in the next Indy films, then he does Jurassic Park and SCHINDLER'S LIST... The list goes on. Nolan is in that mold. Inception is perfection. TDK, Interstellar was a bit of a let down but still a fantastic film and I'm sure Dunkirk will be too. Plus, he's PRACTICAL. What's not to love? I love 'It Follows' but this Nolan hate is relentless. I see it on everything.
shareExactly! And people these days seem to have a hard time separating opinion from fact. There's so much entitlement in our society that people think their opinion of something is concrete and everyone else should follow suit otherwise they are over/under rating something.
And the comparisons people make usually don't make any sense. It Follows has nothing to do with Nolan movies. Why even compare them? They are completely separate experiences.
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Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shi+.
Yea, it is ridiculous to lump them together... Completely different entities
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