Best Christopher Nolan Film?

[Deleted member 110072]

My favorite thing about Nolan is his insistence on using film instead of digital, and keeping CGI to a bare minimum. It's so refreshing.

Let down a little by him not being the greatest action director, something like Fury Road being the obvious alternative.

 

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[Hidden_Hand]

That fight scene is actually a great fight scene, one of the best infact.

The level of realism is amazing, Batman using a high Muay Thai style with heavy elbows to try break the bigger man down quickly, he knows he doesn't have the power to beat him and he is not conditioned for this fight so he goes heavy fast.

Bane counters and attacks back and it looks sloppy because in real life fighting is sloppy even amongst the most trained guys, that is just reality, fighting only looks smooth and slick when it is fake and choreographed but that isn't Nolans style, he likes the real, nitty, gritty stuff. The whole time you can feel the tension building and you know this is gonna end bad for Batman and the scene works so well with no music, it has a brutality to it.

The problem is people love the super fake fight scenes, and so do I to be honest, The Raid is awesome but one guy taking on 20 in a corridor? Come on, it ain't happening but it's awesome to watch.



Very similar to how John Wick fights infact.

 

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Good fight, especially considering the disparity of sizes between Bale and Hardy. I wish Bane seemed larger on screen, but Nolan made the most of what he could. Aside from his size and that wonky finishing move at the end, I agree it's really good. There were some great parts in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Its a good scene but mostly a character one I'd say, certainly the action improved though the trilogy but I wouldn't call that on the level of John Wick.

 

[Deleted member 220895]

Interstellar inflicted the largest emotions from me and had the highest stakes.

 

[lifelessheap]

The Dark Knight, and it's not close. Direction, production, and acting - all are head and shoulders above the rest.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Memento
3. The Prestige
4. Batman Begins
5. Insomnia
6. Dunkirk

I liked the Dark Knight better when it was called Heat and didn't have any super hero nonsense.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Interstellar inflicted the largest emotions from me and had the highest stakes.

I think it arguably has his best individual scenes, stuff like traveling though the wormhole , the water planet(taken directly from my childhood nightmares) and the black hole.

Those scenes really too push things but again I find a lot of the rest of the film a bit too straight forward that holds it back from reaching the level of say 2001 or Blade Runner as a sci fi masterpiece.

 

[Desdinova]

Inception was great, but it wasn't as novel of an idea as most people think. I think Nolan took a lot of elements from Paprika for his movie.

 

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Interstellar inflicted the largest emotions from me and had the highest stakes.

Really, really good. Probably third overall, for me, but yeah I find it the most emotionally intense and the least gimmicky.

 

[Deleted member 220895]

I think it arguably has his best individual scenes, stuff like traveling though the wormhole , the water planet(taken directly from my childhood nightmares) and the black hole.

Those scenes really too push things but again I find a lot of the rest of the film a bit too straight forward that holds it back from reaching the level of say 2001 or Blade Runner as a sci fi masterpiece.

I think if you compare any movie to 2001 or Blade runner you'll come up with that because they are their own things in the sci fi world. It's unfair to any other movie to expect them to be the similar.

Interstellar is what it is, and what it is, is captivating, engaging, painful, and thought provoking. My favorite of Nolans, and one of my all time favorite sci fis.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

I think it arguably has his best individual scenes, stuff like traveling though the wormhole , the water planet(taken directly from my childhood nightmares) and the black hole.

Those scenes really too push things but again I find a lot of the rest of the film a bit too straight forward that holds it back from reaching the level of say 2001 or Blade Runner as a sci fi masterpiece.

The problem with Interstellar, for me, is the editing. For one, it's way too long and has too many unnecessary scenes. But the biggest editing problem is he always cuts away from the scenes you really want to see, right in the middle of them, and it's infuriating. I want to see them go into the black hole, I don't give a crap about burning crops on casey afflecks freaking farm at that moment. Nolan literally takes the most exciting scenes in the movie, and cuts away to literally the most boring scenes in the movie. He did that with Batman Begins, too. I want to see Bruce ninja training, NOT watching opera with his parents or talking to Alfred as a college student.

His editing is a huge problem for Nolan, imo. But it's weird, because when he gets the editing right, he makes some of the best cut together movies ever. Like Prestige and Memento. Those were edited together brilliantly.

 

[Drain Bamage]

The problem with Interstellar, for me, is the editing. For one, it's way too long and has too many unnecessary scenes. But the biggest editing problem is he always cuts away from the scenes you really want to see, right in the middle of them, and it's infuriating. I want to see them go into the black hole, I don't give a crap about burning crops on casey afflecks freaking farm at that moment. Nolan literally takes the most exciting scenes in the movie, and cuts away to literally the most boring scenes in the movie. He did that with Batman Begins, too. I want to see Bruce ninja training, NOT watching opera with his parents or talking to Alfred as a college student.

His editing is a huge problem for Nolan, imo. But it's weird, because when he gets the editing right, he makes some of the best cut together movies ever. Like Prestige and Memento. Those were edited together brilliantly.

I agree about his editing style. He always cuts things up too much. In both Inception and Interstellar I constantly felt like he was cutting away right when scenes were about to reach an awesome level. He could have done so much more on that water planet, and when Leo was explaining how dreams work to Ellen Page. Right at the moment when a scene might require some realtechnical know how, like with long takes, he just cuts away instead of really going for it. I think hes just not that great with the camera, hes definitely not on Speilbergs level when it comes to that stuff.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

The problem with Interstellar, for me, is the editing. For one, it's way too long and has too many unnecessary scenes. But the biggest editing problem is he always cuts away from the scenes you really want to see, right in the middle of them, and it's infuriating. I want to see them go into the black hole, I don't give a crap about burning crops on casey afflecks freaking farm at that moment. Nolan literally takes the most exciting scenes in the movie, and cuts away to literally the most boring scenes in the movie. He did that with Batman Begins, too. I want to see Bruce ninja training, NOT watching opera with his parents or talking to Alfred as a college student.

His editing is a huge problem for Nolan, imo. But it's weird, because when he gets the editing right, he makes some of the best cut together movies ever. Like Prestige and Memento. Those were edited together brilliantly.

I think perhaps the issue is that Nolan's bigger films are rather uneven in style that shows up most obviously when he's intercutting. Parts of Interstellar feel like he's operating on a level akin to something like 2001 in terms of building up a very high level of artful intensity but others feel like a rather more mundane drama. Not so much in the material there covering but in the way its covered, more conventional camera work/acting and a relative lack of atmosphere.

He's better than modern Spielberg for me though in at least he sometimes reaches that higher level rather than staying with the mundane constantly.

 

[iThrillhouse]

honestly if you vote for Dark Knight Rises you should have to go back to school


Nolan always so high concept, and his inability to bring REAL emotion to his dialogue/characters always holds his movies quality back...The Prestige was the closest perfect balance he's ever had

1. Prestige
2. Memento
3. Inception
4. Dunkirk
5. The Dark Knight

 

[bref]

I had to go with TDK as that's one of the only ones I kind of enjoyed when it came out. Mostly due to Ledgers performance. I never made it through all of Batman Begins. I watched Dunkirk on a flight the other day and though it kind of sucked. I hated Memento. Inception and Interstellar were meh. I just don't really think I enjoy his work. Have not seen The Prestige.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

honestly if you vote for Dark Knight Rises you should have to go back to school

Nolan always so high concept, and his inability to bring REAL emotion to his dialogue/characters always holds his movies quality back...The Prestige was the closest perfect balance he's ever had

1. Prestige
2. Memento
3. Inception
4. Dunkirk
5. The Dark Knight

His more recent stuff I think the problem is he brings the drama to the high concept stuff but less so to the smaller scale scenes. Such scenes don't need to be filmed in such a straight forward manner, there should still be room to let the actors give more subtle performances. I think the comparison to recent high concept genre films like Under The Skin, Moon or Black Swan shows you the difference, those films don't slip into the mundane at all, almost every moment is looking to push things somehow.

Again I suspect part of this is that his massive budgets mean he's aiming at a wider audience who are potentially less receptive to a more ambitious style.

 

[Adamant]

Inception was great, but it wasn't as novel of an idea as most people think. I think Nolan took a lot of elements from Paprika for his movie.

Or the Donald Duck comic. But either way, it doesn't matter to me. Inception is endlessly entertaining.

 

[Philo-Publius]

His filmography is not the most prolific. But he makes up for it, by the quality of his movies.

He has made many great movies, but I am going with the unpopular opinion of "The Dark Knight Rises." I thought that movie was badass.

 

[ufcfan4]

The prestige for sure. Blew me away the first time i saw it, and i can rewatch it every couple years and enjoy it every time.

Insertion would probably be my second choice

The Prestige is tremendous top to bottom. Bale and Jackman are really compelling throughout and Nolan and the technical crew deliver the goods with the look and atmosphere of the film.

Awesome supporting cast too- Caine is always epic and I find it great that he has a big role in this, Scarlett, Rebecca Hall, Serkis and great cameo from Bowie.