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then u missed the best scenes.
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I kinda liked Django and Hateful 8.
Hateful 8 could be real good if adopted as a play I thought...
Hateful 8 could be real good if adopted as a play I thought...
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Django was great until it kept going after the shootout at the house. It should've ended there.
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Anybody watched Dunkirk? Is it worth a watch? I'm not a big fan of the director, but after watching Darkest Hour, I may give it a try.
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3 (at least) Dunkirk films in one year. Personally I think Their Finest>Dunkirk.
Nolan hardly focused on character in this film, it's just spectacle. I haven't liked anything he's done since The Dark Knight.
Nolan hardly focused on character in this film, it's just spectacle. I haven't liked anything he's done since The Dark Knight.
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The Prestige is his best film, it seems he's gotten worse as he's gone along. His hack brother is his writing partner so maybe that's an issue too.
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Alright, I read all the crap reviews you guys gave for the new Starwars, but watched it anyway....
For real I didn't think it was THAT bad. It wasn't good, but like a bad pizza still kinda good?
Plus, I mean, you sort of have to watch it, right?
I did the smart thing and caught the 1st showing for $5.50 tho.
For real I didn't think it was THAT bad. It wasn't good, but like a bad pizza still kinda good?
Plus, I mean, you sort of have to watch it, right?
I did the smart thing and caught the 1st showing for $5.50 tho.
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Travelers is pretty good. Interesting concept, the storytelling and pacing is a bit off at times but overall an enjoyable watch.
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He is a skilled film maker, and he seems to be obsessed with time, in almost all of his movies. I think Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige were his best films. As his budgets have gotten bigger, the movies are a bit watered down, Interstellar was embarrassing to watch. Dunkirk, I get what he was doing, but it was an excruciating watch, and only on reflection is one able to find something to like about the film.
I'm not a fan of any Batman movie.
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The thing with Nolan is he gets so into having an ending that will out smart audiences and ends up failing most every time. The love conquers space and time ending of Interstellar was awful.
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The fisticuffs with Matt Damon in glass helmets in Iceland had me howling.
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Same here.... I was like "Dis really happening? Oh shit it is"
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What I found comical about Interstellar is how much time Nolan talked about bringing in physicist Kip Thorne as a consultant, for a film that had a very rudimentary display of physics. I'm not sure what was "smart" or complicated about anything in the film.
Which brings up another point. We're always hearing about how mind blowing his films are, but outside of Memento and The Prestige, they're all pretty simple. And those films of course, are interesting only because of the narrative and construction of time. He also explains a lot, leaving very little subtext or anything open to interpretation. So I'm not sure he trust his audience as much as people seem to think.
Even when you watch a good Nolan film, there's not much to dive into or dissect that wasn't already explicitly stated in the movie.
He's good, but his "if you don't like it, you aren't smart enough to understand it" brigade of fans is annoying.
Which brings up another point. We're always hearing about how mind blowing his films are, but outside of Memento and The Prestige, they're all pretty simple. And those films of course, are interesting only because of the narrative and construction of time. He also explains a lot, leaving very little subtext or anything open to interpretation. So I'm not sure he trust his audience as much as people seem to think.
Even when you watch a good Nolan film, there's not much to dive into or dissect that wasn't already explicitly stated in the movie.
He's good, but his "if you don't like it, you aren't smart enough to understand it" brigade of fans is annoying.
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As for the Dunkirk discussion.... I thought it was terrible.
Dunkirk as a historical event is chock full of interesting stories you could tell.
Nolan decided to tell like 4 stories as vaguely as he could:
1. Soldiers trying to get home, they struggle and suffer, but eventually they get home.
2. The people coming to rescue the soldiers.... they are in peril for part of the movie, but eventually they rescue some soldiers.
3. The fighter pilot.... he shoots down Germans and eventually runs out of fuel.
4. The overall Dunkirk evacuation.... it is eventually completed.
If Nolan was trying to outsmart us on the ending, this was a bad story to do it on.... it is a historical event that is pretty broadly known on the scale of "Yeah Dunkirk... when the British soldiers and what remained of the French had to be evacuated and all those ships came to help"
IMO something on the order of Saving Private Ryan would have done better.... fabricate a story that relies on characters you've made up.... then use their experience to relay the historical experience we know soldiers went through.
Nolan's story boils down to "Some people were at Dunkirk and they did the stuff you read about, now let me try to convince you that you have Alzheimer's"
Dunkirk as a historical event is chock full of interesting stories you could tell.
Nolan decided to tell like 4 stories as vaguely as he could:
1. Soldiers trying to get home, they struggle and suffer, but eventually they get home.
2. The people coming to rescue the soldiers.... they are in peril for part of the movie, but eventually they rescue some soldiers.
3. The fighter pilot.... he shoots down Germans and eventually runs out of fuel.
4. The overall Dunkirk evacuation.... it is eventually completed.
If Nolan was trying to outsmart us on the ending, this was a bad story to do it on.... it is a historical event that is pretty broadly known on the scale of "Yeah Dunkirk... when the British soldiers and what remained of the French had to be evacuated and all those ships came to help"
IMO something on the order of Saving Private Ryan would have done better.... fabricate a story that relies on characters you've made up.... then use their experience to relay the historical experience we know soldiers went through.
Nolan's story boils down to "Some people were at Dunkirk and they did the stuff you read about, now let me try to convince you that you have Alzheimer's"
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I can't read user reviews of movies anymore. It's all shills it seems. Particularly on IMDB. Almost every movie, the reviews are either 10/10 masterpiece, or 1/10 crap. Not much in between, and if there is, it's usually illiterate.
Critic reviews are pointless also. Ever since Titanic, I feel they have too much at stake to be honest.
Critic reviews are pointless also. Ever since Titanic, I feel they have too much at stake to be honest.
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Wormhole.... black hole.... time dilation....
The only component you could argue he needed a consultant on was bullshitting about black holes and time/gravity.
DONT GO MURPH!
Breh ur inside a black hole
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I think Nolan was really most interested in time. The 30 seconds of the plane dropping, took as much screen time as the entire rescue. An interesting idea, but only upon reflection, and also a bit too difficult to actually watch.
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Terribly cast film also.
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To this day many think he ripped off this Scrooge McDuck cartoon and incorporated into Inception, and I'm inclined to agree with them.
