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What If Christopher Nolan Movies Are Actually Crap?

posted 4 years ago by Satan2016 (26198)
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About time!

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/dyzjy7/what-if-christopher-nolan-movies-are-actually-crap

The plot is fairly impossible to summarise, so, instead, here’s some stuff that happens: a series of car chases spanning time and space, a reversal of Earth’s entropy, an apocalypse, an espionage storyline about using fake paintings to steal plutonium.

This cocktail of genres is at times quite entertaining – and in a sense, Tenet is Nolan’s most radical work, in that he doesn’t even pretend to care about a plot-line, character development or any hint of realism. The movie also packs together all of Nolan’s favourite themes (in no particular order: faith, time and space, hot girls, death, family, pyrotechnics involving cars), without the sentimentality that bogs down most of his catalogue (see: any scene featuring Marion Cotillard, or the whole of Interstellar).

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

And inversely, what if Christopher Nolan movies are actually great?

I'm okay with other people not enjoying this or that film.
Why are other people NOT okay with people enjoying this or that film?

There's many films I don't care for, but I don't whine about it, or pick on people that enjoy them.

A lot of people love green beans. I, personally, can not stand the taste or smell of them even near me. I don't tell others green beans are crap, I saw they don't find favor on MY palate.

Being an "Individual" is not illegal yet, is it? :)

Nolan creates a concept, then has to wrap it into something that WILL SELL: time and space, hot girls, death, family, pyrotechnics involving cars, guns, twists, etc.... its how you create interesting conflict in a movie. The alternative, non conflict science presentation is very boring. Just watch almost any documentary. I'd prefer an interesting movie over a documentary.

[–] maximmm (3408) 4 years ago

I actually like this review - one of the first to give the Nolan army what they deserve. The one downside being.... it stated that his latest Dunkirk was on the bring of being genius, which is idiotic at best.
Try saying something negative about Nolan's film on reddit and you'll be downvoted into extinction.

As far as his films actually being great..... if you take memento and play it in non-reverse order, you'll come to realize that it's a standard action flick. He turns something average into a puzzle and then the Nolan army proclaims it's the best movie ever made - which is utter nonsense.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I find the entire point of MAKING Memento, is to put the VIEWER behind the eyes/world of the lead guy: chunks of memory forgotten every 5 minutes or whatever. Yeah, the real plot is basic revenge and boring going forward through the paces, but making the viewer feel like the guy with the memory problem was really well done. In my humble opinion. Talk about a 4th wall inception there. :D

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

If all opinions are OK, then why are you even complaining about the complaints?

50% of Nolan's movies are "good." I'm on the fence about this one. It feels like thumbs down but I couldn't hear 30% of the dialogue. The action sequences were cool enough that one more watch of it won't totally suck. The dialogue has a lot to make up for though. The whole thing looked like it was edited in an hour and what I did hear left a lot to be desired.

[–] Roguemail (1634) 4 years ago

Satan16, do you any original thoughts of your own on this, rather than copying and pasting someone else's opinion?

Just because you agree with it, does not mean you cannot elaborate on it to include your own thoughts.

[–] AckbarsRevenge (3800) 4 years ago

If you don't get this masterpiece you're probably too dumb for it. Stick to Transformers movies, kid.