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Again, give me a director who is doing things the <i>right</i> way. You're a Nolan fan, but who do you like more than Nolan? I can list the problems I have with Nolan (some are the same as yours), but even without you answering, I'm sure I could pick apart someone you feel is objectively superior. But this is all preference and what you value most in films, rather than some template that every filmmaker should follow.
If what you feel is mandatory, bedrock stuff, that you need to engage an audience properly, is missing or broken in Nolan's films, you'd think it would show up more in audience response after a dozen films. Every director should have Nolan's problems --i.e., managing to direct serious films that are box office winners with critical acclaim, again and again.
Basic filmmaking problems or just your personal preferences? Maybe the art form itself has just evolved across the decades? I'm sure an older film fan feels that any film past a certain year has too much quick cutting, whereas a younger fan would feel that films before a certain year have cuts that come way too late. So which director is doing it the <i>right</i> way?
Yet he's one of the few directors who draw a large audience on his name alone, so maybe what bothers you isn't a bother to all those who propel his movies to success again and again. All those "shouldn'ts" should do more damage to the turnout, but clearly that isn't what's happening.
Most of what you describe is simply his style and trademarks. You could make a list of Scorsese trademarks and raise the same complaint about "evolving", but considering their critical success (as well as box office success, in Nolan's case), why would they change?
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB7ytbmo02M
Under the Skin
A Most Violent Year
Ex Machina
The VVitch
Krisha
A Ghost Story
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Saint Maud
A Fistful of Dollars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuVau6qiiw
"final movie"? Yeah. Right.
I meant the finale, not the entire series, lol.
Nah
8. Kim Basinger - The Natural (1984)
John Malkovich
Good start, poor last few episodes.
Stanley Tucci
Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ Leaves Searchlight as Filmmakers Shop for New Home (Exclusive)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jonathan-majors-magazine-dreams-leaves-searchlight-1235787320/
If I bothered to spoil it with a mini essay, you seem like the type who may still have trouble understanding...
I didn't pay attention until watching the credits tonight, but I could tell that the band wasn't back together behind this one even if I had not. I thought the script, the direction, and even the acting -- from those who are normally better, like Foster and Hawkes -- was weak.
Most of it is baked into the dialogue. Just rewatch and pay closer attention to the words, then the metaphors from the last sequence will seem obvious.
I'll give it 2 more eps before deciding whether to bail, but I tend to agree. The 1st season was pretty but with a lame horror movie rub that didn't live up to its set up; 2 was an abomination; 3 wasn't bad; and 4 is off to a lame, and painfully obvious start, with elements that feel completely disconnected from the series.