christo alphonse joshy wrong? That to me it’s his best movie? Wow. Explain that to me. I didn’t know opinions on art could be wrong. My second favorite is Batman Begins, and then Memento. Is that wrong too? This is a fun channel, and a fun conversation. Don’t be a prick, man.
To me Interstellar feels a bit silly. interstellar loses itself at the halfway point and then just explains everything with the power of love. Even Harry Potter couldn't get away with that. The Prestige might have a silly plot line, but that is almost the purpose. Taking something that might be really unimportant to most of us, but being so obsessed that it will take people to dark and weird places. That's way deeper to me than Interstellar.
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I'm glad someone shines some light on Interstellar and how it shows Nolan has emotion. Whenever I tell anyone its my favorite Nolan film, I usually get made fun of for it, but its so unique imo. I understand the writing is a little everywhere, but the conclusion is so powerful to me
It's too is my favourite Nolan film. To me he execute the "physicists writing scripts" idea very well. Not to mention the Tesseract is to me one of the most impressive set piece that ever puts on film (the whole thing is a set) and the soundtracks are the best of Ham Zimmer I ever heard.
The fight scenes in that film are pretty great. I love the rewinded choreography meshed with the regular to give it a trippy effect. I have to watch Tenet again to pay more attention to background activity
I think one way he doesn’t get credit is his really good way with actors. He draws out if everyone these very naturalistic performances that don’t even feel like performances.
TDKR never actually presented Bane as genuine revolutionary trying to give Gotham back to the people though. He was clearly from the very beginning just using the situation in Gotham to advance his goal of "fullfilling Ras Al Ghuls destiny". TDKR is pretty underrated honestly.
To describe Nolan as “Cold” or “Detached” to me feels absolutely blind. My favorite two movies are Inception and Interstellar, and both of these movies give me such a sense of raw yet subtle emotion. I actually watched Inception last week in the theaters celebrating its 10th anniversary. Very few movies have made me cry, but Inception manages to draw tears out of my eyes at least twice every time I see it. And don’t even get me started on the “Watching your child grow up before your very eyes” scene in Interstellar.
Inception and Interstellar are both on my (very short!) list of movies that have made me cry. I haven't counted recently, but I'm pretty confident that there are less than 10 movies on that list. The ending sequence of Inception, paired with arguably Hans Zimmer's magnum opus piece of music, absolutely made tears fall, the absolute joy, but still sadness, in that scene is incredible. And then there's Interstellar, WHOOOOO my goodness. One of my biggest passions is hopefully falling in love and having a family. Imagining myself in the scenario where I may be as old as my child??? I can't even. Yeah, those movies are masterpieces in emotion and causing emotion. I think that if anything, the difficulty with Nolan's films is that they only emotionally resonate with narrow slices of people.
There's even the line "Goodbye Sir Michael" If he dies before he has the chance to make an appearance in another Nolan film then that line will definitely hold some relevance.
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How can people say his movies are emotionless, they have a lot of emotion and gives the audience emotions, for example when i first watched the dark knight, i genuinely had a hopeless feeling, like how can one man save a city this corrupt, against a person who is hell bent on destroying the city with nothing to lose, it felt hopeless to me, and then when Harvey died, i felt desperation, but then when batman sacrifices his name and more importantly his symbol that he wanted to be just to save the city he loves, was truly emotional, like a light of hope in the darkness, no i would never call a Nolan's movie emotionless.
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Sorry, who criticizes the look of Inception? I've never heard that before. The cinematography is great. This "lack of colour" complaint about cinematography is such a telltale sign that the person has no idea what they're talking about.
A new Captain Midnight video gets released: I’ll watch it when I’ve got some time to spare... It specifically highlights my favorite director’s career: SCREW THIS, I’M MAKING TIME!
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I’ve often wanted more big budget original stories, and I’m so glad there is a director such as Nolan doing that. Most of the time to me, a lot of big films seem like a cash grab or try to capitalize on the nostalgia of already established franchises. I hope we get more directors that can get a big budget and still make a very interesting original story
Agreed. It's a real shame he's one of very few. The problem isn't a lack of talented, ambitious directors. The problem is studios are not willing to take financial risks on new ambitious ideas, especially since the 2008 recession. I hate to say it, but if Nolan hadn't landed the batmam gig, I doubt studios would've given him the budget for stuff like Inception and interstellar. But boy am I glad they did. Hopefully the industry changes.
I'm not sure if it's actually that big of a deal because there are still quite a few directors making worthwhile films, certainly more worthwhile than anything Nolan has made. Perhaps you should stop paying at Hollywood, and start looking at the rest of the world, especially if what you're looking for is original filmmaking.
@@cometcourse381 I think the person meant in regards to big budgets, for example $100m upwards, to compete against things like Comic book movies, Fast franchise, Transformers etc. I don't think they mean there aren't directors making original content more like they want more of those type of directors to be trusted by studios outside of non-original IP.
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The Prestige is a masterpiece and my favorite Nolan film. It combines Nolan’s gift for utilizing time as a major story element along with the best characters in his entire filmography.
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Exactly, every line of dialogue is ripe with subtext and foreshadowing 'where did this guy come from?' 'where did you come from?'. Just... so many. 'Do you think I want to live like this?' and, of course, 'abra cadabra'.
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I pray Nolan continues with this good work and hopefully doesn't get onto the Hollywood bandwagon of remakes and reboots.... He is the only director that makes me excited about watching Hollywood nowadays
He's a great director but I think he reaches for concepts he can't grasp sometimes. I think he'd be great for mini series where he'd have more time to flesh out his larger concepts.
You're right. But what I do hate is that people automatically start trashing his intelligence and calling him fake smart. There are so many people that simply think him expressing his concepts in a different way to their understanding is dumb
To be honest, the Dark Knight Rises is a terrific sequel, but it had to follow the Dark Knight which is one of the best comic book movies of all Time. I personally think Batman Begins is the best of the Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy as it's a fresh telling of his origin story and has a psychological twist to Bruce Wayne's character.
I think his personal best is The Prestige, its well written, well shot and the twists are amazing (better than all of M Night Twists combine). Though my personal Favourite is Interstellar, it's one his most flawed movie to me but at worst it's still good and at best it is his best. Cinematography, special effect, acting and soundtrack are all some of his best til this date.
TENET was awesome and had a very emotional moment that I feel like gets overlooked. The interesting thing about that movie though, is you don’t really understand the emotional weight of what’s happening in the plot until you start to think about everything that happened. Also, Robert Pattinson has an amazing performance in TENET. Go watch it.
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I had the good fortune of being in Berlin while Dunkirk was still in theaters and I saw it in IMAX at the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz, and I get goosebumps even thinking about it. I've heard it closed down a the end of 2019... :(
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I love the feeling I get from a Christopher Nolan movie. You feel separated or detached from the story but not in an inaccessible way and in a way it makes me appreciate the characters even more.
The Dark knight will always be my favorite Nolan Movie! Nolan's my favorite director. IMHO I think he does a great job of balancing art house with blockbuster. Also aren't most art house films manly about their concepts more than their characters. Like Good time, I love Good Time, but I don't like the "Protagonist" very much. It's the acting and the atmosphere that makes me love it. That's my two cents, hope everyone has a pleasant day!
You've got that a bit backward, actually. Mostly all "art house" and mostly all foreign films (because other countries still treat films as art) focus entirely on characters and just people in general, the human condition, really. Hollywood focuses on concepts (story) more than anything, which results in worthless, meaningless films.
@@cometcourse381 Well what's so wrong with doing concepts? Not all movie should do them I agree, but I do love character development as much as the spectacle. I like variations of different films
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I generally agree with you. I'm usually not easily drawn to the adoration of Nolan's more popular movies, but his ambitions and his pure passion in filmmaking is highly admirable. He may not always reach his potentials and I may not be a fan, but I'll always look forward to his next project.
nolan is the reason i love movies. inception is my favorite film. there is so much i could say about what makes his films important to me, but then i'd have to make a video essay about it.
I have yet to hear anyone else say that INTERSTELLAR was their favorite Nolan film. It's about time. I love this film, and I think it is up there with Dark Knight as an amazing Nolan film. Way underrated.
My biggest gripe with Tenet is, that he again failed with the soundmixing, you often find it hard to understand the people, which leads to you being distracted from the story and maybe not understanding some little story beats. Still an awesome movie!
I’m not the biggest movie geek but I find Nolan to be one of the most if not the most thought-provoking directors. Even Batman makes you want to dig deep in either its plots or the techniques used.
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Conor Hall lolll u dont love his movies? And before u say I’m a bandwagon I never used to pay attention to directors. One day I realized that memento, inception, and the Batman movies which I lovedddddd were all his movies. After that I went back to watch some of his other stuff and I love it
I remember almost teared up towards the end of Interstellar when Cooper reconnected with his daughter. Idk it struck a chord with me seeing someone's daughter dying of old age and wishing throughout her whole life to reconnect with her father once more, and the only opportunity to do so is when she's on her deathbed.
How to make a great Batman movie (unless you're Nolan): Step 1: Acquire the script to Year One Step 2: Cast good actors for the roles Step 3: Shoot the script, basically panel for panel Done.
Emotionless Nolan? Interstellar has one of the most heartbreaking scenes in recent movie history (the video messages from Earth scene), and I actually liked Tenet. Nolan is one of the best film directors alive now
One area I feel Nolan doesn't get enough credit for too is how well he writes villains, like even in his first film following, for all its flaws I found the villain really compelling and entertaining, he was charismatic but still menacing, I even remember looking up "Cobb" in the DVD extras and I was disappointed to see the guy doesn't act anymore. A lot of that shone through in TDK, don't get me wrong Ledgers performance was one of the greatest of all time but, Nolan was still the one who wrote and directed him, it always irks me how people (typically DC-haters) heap all the credit for the films success on Ledger, as if Nolan just got lucky and had nothing to do with it
After my dad, who’d suffered a stroke, asked me, “Are you taking me to the hospital to see your mum?” and I had to remind him, yet again, that his wife died the previous year, the look on his face, trying to mask his pain and act like it had just slipped his mind, when I could see the shock and confusion, etched under the mask, stayed with me. So, that line in Memento, when the protagonist burns the effects of his wife and says, “I can’t remember to forget you,” was a gut punch for me. But it supplies the emotional drive for the character, and the audience too. I thought that was a really insightful, clever and honest assessment of Nolan’s career. I didn’t agree with absolutely everything you said, but pretty close. The idea of, “love, conquering humanity’s flaws,” as such, is of course schmaltzy, but the cinema has a tradition of such fair. Where else could such ideas be mixed into high concept sci fi, but in a grandiose movie like Interstellar? But, with his track record, that strikes me more now like a ham fisted attempt at tacking an emotional core to a movie that would otherwise be devoid of it. The question I ask myself is, would the movie have suffered if Anne Hathaway’s character was absent? Not sure? Nolan’s basic problem is, as you said, that he often fails to develop his characters’ emotionally enough. Which is why the high point (for me) in his career so far, has to be Memento. Because we have the complexity of a truly original idea, mixed in with, “unreliable narrator,” stuff, but with a strong emotional core. And because of the moving difficulty he suffers, which is central to the plot. We experience the world as he does, which I thought was a genius idea, never before attempted. You’re right about the character of Batman, which his love interest, Rachel, literally states out loud at the end of the first (arguably best?) movie. She tells him that Bruce Wayne is the real mask, and that is the core of his story, as you nailed so rightly there. Batman has a soul, drive and a perfectly rounded, if damaged, personality, balanced by his morality and the fact that he won’t kill people. His towering intellect, planning and thinking on his feet make him able to pull this off, and to be a great detective. But, Bruce Wayne is empty, lost and just waiting for an excuse to don the cowl again. Nolan captures that brilliantly. The stoicism of the heroic characters in Dunkirk works very much to Nolan’s advantage in this respect. I’d like to see him get that balance right, between the big ideas of his movies and the characters and their motivations within them. The Prestige was a respectable attempt at this, which does work on many levels. Yet, even here I’m not 100% drawn in by their dilemmas so much as I’m intrigued by the, “prestige,” itself, if you get me? I think, if and when Nolan cracks that puzzle, giving us a character as sympathetic as Cobb in Inception, balanced against a villain or counter protagonist as compelling as that protagonist, in a movie with the same scope as Inception or Interstellar, he’ll quite possibly give us the movie of the century! Would you agree?
I forgot that he did dunkirk. That film shouldve gotten acadamy awards in every category. My family lived through that time and the stories theyve told me my entire life are exactly what he put on screen. Pure humanity. When i watched dunkirk, in theatre, i felt i was watching my ancestord
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Bro you described what I couldn't put into words about Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins: emotionally repressed! He played it so well and does give an amazing, soulful performance! He's just not good at expressing it around others which is so human, especially for someone with his psyche. Thank you!!!
Christopher Nolan made Inception and got the "You can make anything you want" filmmaker card. However, unlike some other directors that got this, he's made so many fucking masterpieces that are their own story and as mentioned in the vid, not attached to an existing IP. HOW HARD IS THAT HOLLYWOOD?!?!?
Thanks for this. I was inspired by Nolan. Also you should've mention Practical effects for Tenet. New films may have same tastes or may be better. But Nolan outdid his perfection through practical effects. Since it's not green screen, it's pure immersion.
I saw Dunkirk on the Prague IMAX twice. It was 70 mm and i have never experienced such quality of picture on a movie theater before. The stuka scenes were literally deafening and i had to cover my ears on the first screening (which was avant premiere). Funny thing, the lady next to me left the theater after 30 minutes and never came back.
I love everything he has done. Interstellar is by far my fave. The dark knight is a triumph and inception & TENET were stunning too. he is such a great film maker.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nolan is our generation’s Kubrick. Not in style, but in the sheer scope and influence of their respective cinematic masterpieces, and how ridiculously pedantic/borderline obsessive they are (were, in Kubrick’s case) in their craft. Both mastered technical perfection in filmmaking; both are the true stars of their own films.
John Motta Nolan is not our generation’s Kubrick. Nolan is closer to Michael Bay, he cares more for looking cool with big action set pieces. I wouldn’t say Nolan is obsessive either, the sheer amount of continuity errors in his work is jaw dropping and the complete lack of attention to detail in Dunkirk would certainly say otherwise, Kubrick would have none of that. Also, Kubrick’s movies actually say stuff, actually has meaning, now I’m not saying this is a necessity for all films but this isn’t he case for Nolan if we’re comparing to Kubrick, what does Nolan’s movies say about anything? Nothing at all, all flash (which is fine but not Kubrick). I’m not hating on the guy but he’s no Kubrick.
LeJam 0 The Shining alone is rife with continuity errors (the infamous moving chair), and no amount of Room 237 convincing is gonna make me believe that he did that deliberately lol. As far as saying something, did you not see the video? Nolan’s biggest and best works (setting his commercial TDK shit aside) have always revolved around a central message, like the corny but meaningful “love is the answer” ending to Interstellar, or the “dangers of obsession” theme he loves (Inception, Memento, Following). I don’t think he’s all spectacle as you say, at least, I certainly wouldn’t utter his name in the same breath as Michael Bay. He’s corny. And I don’t think Nolan-like Kubrick-won’t be truly recognized for his achievements until he’s dead.
Inception is my personal favorite Christopher Nolan film but I think Dunkirk is his best. It has really good editing and visuals and doesn't feel too short nor too long. Dunkirk is honestly perfect in my eyes.
Your point about Bane being a guy who just wants to nuke Gotham is exactly the problem I have with Killmonger in Wakanda. The cop out ending feels more like a strawman of their ideology and as a result they don't feel like characters who are their own people, they behave in a very understandable way until they suddenly ramp up their methods to the extreme which justifies taking them down, so all can be well again in wonderland.
I saw Tenet last week, It definitely has some weaknesses, but It’s something I never have seen before, once I understood the story after an hour, It was really amazing and I forgave it every weakness almost completely.
Dark knight rises I’d say is my favourite one of them but I get the bane criticism. EDIT: I have no problem with bane himself he’s a great mirror to batman of what he could become if he continued on this path I meant the twist rlly.
Christopher Nolan has become one of my favorite film directors along with people like Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Sam Raimi, and Steven Spielberg. He’s one of my idols and has such a great resume and style that is great to look at.
The Prestige is my favorite Nolan film. Having said that Tenet is also about obsession, and love I think. Why else would the Protagonist risk everything for that woman other than he loves her? He even rewrites the mission just to save her life.
Alfred Hitchcock: Remember that british director who made all those silly thrillers in Hollywood and critics didn't get him? The more things change, the more they stay the same...
"...sure, it's absolutely front-loaded with exposition, which can get pretty dull on rewatches." Weird. Inception's first 45-minutes or so became far more of what I was interested in. My first rewatch was to watch it with the "token" theory where people theorized that Cobb's token is actually his wedding band since Mol's was the top. In reality: Cobb doesn't wear the band anymore because she's dead. In dream, he wears it because duh. But then other re-watches I found myself just preferring the starting chunks and exposition of the movie when I realized it was the process of getting a movie production started. They hire the actors, the producers, they work on the screenplay, explain how to build sets in ways that will trick the eye, explain how exposition and world building works from a screenwriting and editing perspective, and of course discuss how you get inception to work in the first place. Then the dream heist onwards is the shooting of the film.
I would argue that Dark Knight Rises is one of the most important works of Nolan, because without it, we could not have gotten Pete Holme's best skit...
I'm a huge Nolan fan, I do genuinely believe he tries his best to put every penny of large scale budget movies onto the screen, to really make viewing his films on the biggest screen possible a worthwhile outing. However, once they leave theatres I find myself going back to them very infrequently. He also has a large collection of sycophants and fanboys that act like intellectuals who slam people when they criticise his films as "dumb" or say they "they're too stupid to get it", which why he gets the overcorrection of being called over-hyped. Truth is, there are only a handful of directors like Nolan, Tarantino, Spielberg etc who are able to command big budgets for non-franchise movies. We need more of that. In my lifetime (born '89) I've seen 6 Batmen, 3 spider-men and 3 hulks, I think we need to celebrate those filmmakers willing to fight for creative freedom on a large scale even when you don't enjoy every single movie they make. Long live Nolan, looking forward to Oppenheimer.
I really enjoyed tenet and I think that I’ll enjoy it more the second time I watch it because of how non-linear the story is and how many hints are made throughout the story. I’d recommend watching it for yourself instead of just seeing reviews for it
Something I think that was often not mentioned is that in his early movies, Nolan tries to translate feelings in his films. In Memento, he tries to communicate the feeling of memory disorder and confusion to the audience. In Insomnia, he tries to communicate the actual feeling of insomnia through the movie. In Batman Begins, he tries to communicate the feeling of fear.
One misunderstood movie is one thing but a whole misunderstood career is a much bigger thing, especially with Cristopher Nolans Movies wich are amazing
Can't agree with that. It really felt uselessly convoluted, in addition to other issues (pacing, sound, etc.). There's good stuff in it, but low-tier Nolan imo. The soundtrack is absolutely killer thought!!
I love how unique Nolan films are. They aren't tied to any pre-existing IP and they stand on their own without needing to spawn a franchise (barring the Dark Knight trilogy of course). I wish more directors were able to take as many creative risks as Nolan. Many of the recent Tenet reviews are disheartening to me, yes the sound mixing is weird and the first 30 minutes are oddly paced and mostly unneccesary, but its so increadibly unique in this landscape of utter repitition. The spectacle of the inversion is increadible and rewatching previous setpieces from the other perspective was so well done.
Did you know that almost all of the actual good directors films aren't tied to anything and stand on their own lol and also do you only watch big blockbusters and therefore think cinema has become this landscape of utter repetition ? lol Nolan is good director but he isn't unique or innovative unless you call convoluted messy story telling and bland characters inovative
@@shayan357 I have to strongly disagree with that assessment. To clarify what I meant regarding my repitition comment, while there's a lot of great unique films from talented directors coming out all the time, very few of them get any kind of a high budget because creativity is risky. Most of the high budget projects go to the films guaranteed to make their money back. And of course there's nothing wrong with studios doing that, they have to maintain their bottom line after all, it is unfortunate for us consumers. Nolan has proved his movies to be able to make bank on his name alone so he's free to make whatever he chooses and get a fairly large budget for it. As for the second part of your statement again I have to disagree, particularly in the case of Tenet. With this movie Nolan managed to bring an entirely new spin on a trope as done to death as time travel, and he did it in a way that actually makes theoretical sense. The spectacle if the inversion scenes is increadible. Messy would be the exact opposite word I'd use to describe his works, as the narratives of his films tend to be some of the tightest there is, always firing his chekhov's guns. Inception and Interstellar also fall into this category with having exceptionally inspired concepts and exploring them to their fullest.
You're probably only looking at popular, Hollywood films, right? There are plenty of great filmmakers, doing worthwhile work now. And of course, throughout history the greatest ever have been making original films that aren't tied to any pre-existing IP's.
@@cometcourse381 Oh of course, as I said in my reply to the comment above yours there are so many increadible and unique films coming out all of the time. However, very few of them get massive budgets that is sometimes neccesary to pull off a filmmaker's idea. All of the high budgets go to the safest films that take the least risks possible. And that's understandable, studios have to maintain their bottom line, however it's unfortunate for us consumers. Nolan is a rare example though of a ditector capable of selling a film on his name alone. Thus he's been able to secure massive budgets to do whatever he wants with, and they pay off because his films are brilliant spectacles.
I love the career summaries it's an endless possibility. Some suggestions i have for the next are Robert Downey Jr, Keaunu Reaves, Jenifer Aniston, Jerry Seinfield, and Bill Murray
That was the only film of the trilogy that got emotions from me, the bit where Gordon realises who batman is lol. All of his films are great but Dark Knight Rises stood out for me!
I'm so glad I started following his work almost from the very beginning with Memento. The idea itself was very interesting and it didn't hurt that Guy Pearce was the lead with intetesting performances from a couple of Matrix alum and Stephen Tobolowsky. His films always had really interesting ideas behind them. I think it helped make his films more accessible to mainstream audiences early on by the casting of the aforementioned actors in Memento and Robin Williams playing very against type in Insomnia. He always had command of the visual language of film. He's also capable of bringing out amazing performances right from the start. Given the way Memento is told it would've fallen apart if the actors didn't nail their performances and that does not happen without a great director who can work with actors. Give them the emotion, the motivation. Even the best actors can't give their best without a director who knows how to work with them.
I don’t think two face ending is tacted on at all. It totally fits in with the theme in the movie being about humanity and how someone as good natured as Harvey dent can show a side of him that gives in to selfishness, greed, and evil. This shows how vulnerable, easy to manipulate, and downright horrible humans beings can be.
Chris Nolan is an introvert. Emotion in his movies are presented in a introvert way. His characters are not gonna whine and cry in a melodramatic way to show emotion. One of the most two emotional scenes I know from Hollywood movies is from The prestige (the scene where sarah and borden argues. sarah asks borden if he loves her and he replies not today. another is from what's eating gilbert grape where gilbert hurts arnie). he has got a lot of "wanna be cool" haters and these people make superficial comments just to feel intellectuals.
What's your favorite Nolan movie?
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Definitely Dark Knight. Nolan is a great film maker. All his films are so complex and and several layers of meaning. But I just love Batman
Batman Begins
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I'm between Dark Knight and Inception
Describing The Prestige as “deeply silly” broke my heart
Easily his best movie to me.
@@alexknowlton4038 wrong.
christo alphonse joshy wrong? That to me it’s his best movie? Wow. Explain that to me. I didn’t know opinions on art could be wrong. My second favorite is Batman Begins, and then Memento. Is that wrong too?
This is a fun channel, and a fun conversation. Don’t be a prick, man.
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To me Interstellar feels a bit silly. interstellar loses itself at the halfway point and then just explains everything with the power of love. Even Harry Potter couldn't get away with that. The Prestige might have a silly plot line, but that is almost the purpose. Taking something that might be really unimportant to most of us, but being so obsessed that it will take people to dark and weird places. That's way deeper to me than Interstellar.
Nolan gets way too much hate from a huge number of people that live on the basis of “popular thing bad”.
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Also, the fact that coming up with an interesting concept for a plot translates, for some, to "I think I am a genius, please worship me."
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Yeah, the fact that someone has a tendency to make very smart and brainy plots doesn’t mean that the guy has a genius complex
not seeing dunkirk in theaters is my greatest failure
I saw it in IMAX. It was one of the most incredible and pure cinematic experiences I've ever had in my 40 years.
Same with interstellar for me
Saw it in IMAX and was more attracted to the film than my date I went with
Hope it comes back man!!!!
Instead of Inception, I'd take Dunkirk
I'm glad someone shines some light on Interstellar and how it shows Nolan has emotion. Whenever I tell anyone its my favorite Nolan film, I usually get made fun of for it, but its so unique imo. I understand the writing is a little everywhere, but the conclusion is so powerful to me
Same. Interstellar is my favourite too
It's too is my favourite Nolan film. To me he execute the "physicists writing scripts" idea very well. Not to mention the Tesseract is to me one of the most impressive set piece that ever puts on film (the whole thing is a set) and the soundtracks are the best of Ham Zimmer I ever heard.
It's easy, people who dislike Nolan are fans of Denis Villeneuve or David Fincher. It's predictable.
@@d1want34 That's is not completely true, I like them all and I know a lot of people do too.
basically if you dislike nolan, you have no brain
Tenet really solves Nolan's "hand to hand fights" problem. It's really well shot I thought
The fight scenes in that film are pretty great. I love the rewinded choreography meshed with the regular to give it a trippy effect. I have to watch Tenet again to pay more attention to background activity
JFKTV The reason it meshes so we’ll is because they legit did backwards choreography for the fights
Tenet certainly has his best action. Between the opera house, the Freeport, the highway, and the Soviet village, the action is just superb.
yeah and weirdly brutal
It’s funny, as I was watching it I didn’t really like it; but the more I think about it, the more I want to see it again.
I think one way he doesn’t get credit is his really good way with actors. He draws out if everyone these very naturalistic performances that don’t even feel like performances.
@God Almighty alright nazi. Time to get off the internet
God Almighty oooookkkkk buddy. Let’s put the phone down and go to sleep.
Natural performances? I think he's very weak at that compared to Quentin Tarantino for instance.
Unless there's exposition....
Oznem Derks nah have you ever seen interstellar or inception. Those are as natural as it gets
TDKR never actually presented Bane as genuine revolutionary trying to give Gotham back to the people though. He was clearly from the very beginning just using the situation in Gotham to advance his goal of "fullfilling Ras Al Ghuls destiny".
TDKR is pretty underrated honestly.
This. Thank you.
It’s my least favorite Nolan film, but I still love watching it
@joseph davisson I don't think it's all that clunky really, I think it's portrayal of Bruce's character journey is very well realized.
Isn't this what he says tho?
14:05
@@lunarwaning I guess.
To describe Nolan as “Cold” or “Detached” to me feels absolutely blind. My favorite two movies are Inception and Interstellar, and both of these movies give me such a sense of raw yet subtle emotion. I actually watched Inception last week in the theaters celebrating its 10th anniversary. Very few movies have made me cry, but Inception manages to draw tears out of my eyes at least twice every time I see it. And don’t even get me started on the “Watching your child grow up before your very eyes” scene in Interstellar.
Inception and Interstellar are both on my (very short!) list of movies that have made me cry. I haven't counted recently, but I'm pretty confident that there are less than 10 movies on that list. The ending sequence of Inception, paired with arguably Hans Zimmer's magnum opus piece of music, absolutely made tears fall, the absolute joy, but still sadness, in that scene is incredible. And then there's Interstellar, WHOOOOO my goodness. One of my biggest passions is hopefully falling in love and having a family. Imagining myself in the scenario where I may be as old as my child??? I can't even. Yeah, those movies are masterpieces in emotion and causing emotion. I think that if anything, the difficulty with Nolan's films is that they only emotionally resonate with narrow slices of people.
Michael Caine was looking quite old in Tenet and it scares me. The man’s a treasure.
Totally agree. But honestly, he was born in 1933. He IS old.
I wonder what’s the nature of their relationship. Why is Caine in every Nolan movie
There's even the line "Goodbye Sir Michael" If he dies before he has the chance to make an appearance in another Nolan film then that line will definitely hold some relevance.
True but at least he's left an impressive filmography and a transcendent legacy.
Same.
Christopher Nolan always had fascinating films in my book .
@Slipstreamz tenet is blew average its an incoherent shallow mess of a movie quite ambitious but terrible in execution
@@shayan357 it's quite good
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I really liked the fact that Chris Nolan cast David Bowie to play Nikola Tesla in The Prestige.
How can people say his movies are emotionless, they have a lot of emotion and gives the audience emotions, for example when i first watched the dark knight, i genuinely had a hopeless feeling, like how can one man save a city this corrupt, against a person who is hell bent on destroying the city with nothing to lose, it felt hopeless to me, and then when Harvey died, i felt desperation, but then when batman sacrifices his name and more importantly his symbol that he wanted to be just to save the city he loves, was truly emotional, like a light of hope in the darkness, no i would never call a Nolan's movie emotionless.
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Sorry, who criticizes the look of Inception? I've never heard that before. The cinematography is great. This "lack of colour" complaint about cinematography is such a telltale sign that the person has no idea what they're talking about.
A lot of critics are pompous tw@s who don't know what they're talking about.
The cinematography of Inception is some of the best I've ever seen in an original live-action movie
A new Captain Midnight video gets released: I’ll watch it when I’ve got some time to spare...
It specifically highlights my favorite director’s career: SCREW THIS, I’M MAKING TIME!
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I’ve often wanted more big budget original stories, and I’m so glad there is a director such as Nolan doing that. Most of the time to me, a lot of big films seem like a cash grab or try to capitalize on the nostalgia of already established franchises. I hope we get more directors that can get a big budget and still make a very interesting original story
Agreed. It's a real shame he's one of very few. The problem isn't a lack of talented, ambitious directors. The problem is studios are not willing to take financial risks on new ambitious ideas, especially since the 2008 recession. I hate to say it, but if Nolan hadn't landed the batmam gig, I doubt studios would've given him the budget for stuff like Inception and interstellar. But boy am I glad they did. Hopefully the industry changes.
I'm not sure if it's actually that big of a deal because there are still quite a few directors making worthwhile films, certainly more worthwhile than anything Nolan has made. Perhaps you should stop paying at Hollywood, and start looking at the rest of the world, especially if what you're looking for is original filmmaking.
@@cometcourse381 I think the person meant in regards to big budgets, for example $100m upwards, to compete against things like Comic book movies, Fast franchise, Transformers etc. I don't think they mean there aren't directors making original content more like they want more of those type of directors to be trusted by studios outside of non-original IP.
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The Prestige is a masterpiece and my favorite Nolan film. It combines Nolan’s gift for utilizing time as a major story element along with the best characters in his entire filmography.
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My favorite is Inception but I love Prestige, it's fantastic.
I agree, definitely his best movie, tightest plot and the dialogue that has so many levels of subtext and foreshadowing, it's crazy.
I think the Joker is his best character in Nolan's filmography
You nailed it on the head, "His films feel like exciting events to me". Yes. This is how I feel I saw Tenet two nights in a row because of this.
First Hitop Films and now Captain Midnight? Two positive Christopher Nolan reviews in one day? Awesome!
Like there will be negative ones
N B well the new film isn’t necessarily being widely praised
OH MY GOD THAT WAS 100% ME IN MY SUBSCRIPTION FEED
@@jaxontee3201 and rightfully so in my opinion. The weakest movie of his career (followed by dark knight rises).
3. Full fat videos did one on tenet
The Prestige is some of the * chefs kiss * best foreshadowing in film if you watch it more than once
Exactly, every line of dialogue is ripe with subtext and foreshadowing 'where did this guy come from?' 'where did you come from?'. Just... so many. 'Do you think I want to live like this?' and, of course, 'abra cadabra'.
It's interesting to use the word "Misunderstood" for a normally well received director, but in the case of what you are arguing I agree.
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We live in a twilight world
And there are no friends at dusk
You've been made. The siege is a plan for them to vanish you.
But I established contact
No friends at dusk yeah?
@@Lyricator123 you actually made out the dialogue??? I'm jealous lol
I was like “of all the people, why a video about Nolan”
But then I remembered Tenet and it all made sense.
What R u on.
Nolan is one of the best in the world at what he does, He is one of a kind
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I pray Nolan continues with this good work and hopefully doesn't get onto the Hollywood bandwagon of remakes and reboots.... He is the only director that makes me excited about watching Hollywood nowadays
He's a great director but I think he reaches for concepts he can't grasp sometimes.
I think he'd be great for mini series where he'd have more time to flesh out his larger concepts.
You're right. But what I do hate is that people automatically start trashing his intelligence and calling him fake smart. There are so many people that simply think him expressing his concepts in a different way to their understanding is dumb
Alex Crivellone dude people were trashing the tenet character for not having a name. How petty can they be
I don't think he'd ever make one. He's a firm proponent of the cinema.
Agreed. He has ideas and ambitions that often couldn't be reached through blockbuster movies.
He did fine
To be honest, the Dark Knight Rises is a terrific sequel, but it had to follow the Dark Knight which is one of the best comic book movies of all Time.
I personally think Batman Begins is the best of the Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy as it's a fresh telling of his origin story and has a psychological twist to Bruce Wayne's character.
I think his personal best is The Prestige, its well written, well shot and the twists are amazing (better than all of M Night Twists combine). Though my personal Favourite is Interstellar, it's one his most flawed movie to me but at worst it's still good and at best it is his best. Cinematography, special effect, acting and soundtrack are all some of his best til this date.
TENET was awesome and had a very emotional moment that I feel like gets overlooked. The interesting thing about that movie though, is you don’t really understand the emotional weight of what’s happening in the plot until you start to think about everything that happened. Also, Robert Pattinson has an amazing performance in TENET. Go watch it.
I had the good fortune of being in Berlin while Dunkirk was still in theaters and I saw it in IMAX at the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz, and I get goosebumps even thinking about it. I've heard it closed down a the end of 2019... :(
captainmidnight Should talk about the dc animated Universe or young justice or how the clone wars improved the prequels
Slipstreamz They’ll reboot it in a decade or two. Just give it some time
Aleck Castro I hope so to be honest
@@aleckbo I think they're already in the process of rebooting it, or at least a soft reboot.
Exactly
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I love the feeling I get from a Christopher Nolan movie. You feel separated or detached from the story but not in an inaccessible way and in a way it makes me appreciate the characters even more.
The Dark knight will always be my favorite Nolan Movie! Nolan's my favorite director. IMHO I think he does a great job of balancing art house with blockbuster.
Also aren't most art house films manly about their concepts more than their characters. Like Good time, I love Good Time, but I don't like the "Protagonist" very much. It's the acting and the atmosphere that makes me love it.
That's my two cents, hope everyone has a pleasant day!
You've got that a bit backward, actually. Mostly all "art house" and mostly all foreign films (because other countries still treat films as art) focus entirely on characters and just people in general, the human condition, really. Hollywood focuses on concepts (story) more than anything, which results in worthless, meaningless films.
@@cometcourse381 Well what's so wrong with doing concepts? Not all movie should do them I agree, but I do love character development as much as the spectacle. I like variations of different films
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I generally agree with you. I'm usually not easily drawn to the adoration of Nolan's more popular movies, but his ambitions and his pure passion in filmmaking is highly admirable. He may not always reach his potentials and I may not be a fan, but I'll always look forward to his next project.
nolan is the reason i love movies. inception is my favorite film. there is so much i could say about what makes his films important to me, but then i'd have to make a video essay about it.
Interstellar was incredible. I became a father after I saw it in 2014. I recently watched it again and was brought to tears. Brilliant
I have yet to hear anyone else say that INTERSTELLAR was their favorite Nolan film. It's about time. I love this film, and I think it is up there with Dark Knight as an amazing Nolan film. Way underrated.
interstellar is my favourite film by far.
My biggest gripe with Tenet is, that he again failed with the soundmixing, you often find it hard to understand the people, which leads to you being distracted from the story and maybe not understanding some little story beats. Still an awesome movie!
I’m not the biggest movie geek but I find Nolan to be one of the most if not the most thought-provoking directors. Even Batman makes you want to dig deep in either its plots or the techniques used.
Last time I was this early inception horns were still rare to see.
BRRRRRAAAANNNNGGG!
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Im simple. I see Christopher Nolan and I click.
same
Conor Hall lolll u dont love his movies? And before u say I’m a bandwagon I never used to pay attention to directors. One day I realized that memento, inception, and the Batman movies which I lovedddddd were all his movies. After that I went back to watch some of his other stuff and I love it
I remember almost teared up towards the end of Interstellar when Cooper reconnected with his daughter. Idk it struck a chord with me seeing someone's daughter dying of old age and wishing throughout her whole life to reconnect with her father once more, and the only opportunity to do so is when she's on her deathbed.
How to make a great Batman movie (unless you're Nolan):
Step 1: Acquire the script to Year One
Step 2: Cast good actors for the roles
Step 3: Shoot the script, basically panel for panel
Done.
Emotionless Nolan? Interstellar has one of the most heartbreaking scenes in recent movie history (the video messages from Earth scene), and I actually liked Tenet. Nolan is one of the best film directors alive now
When hitop and Captain Midnight relese Nolan related videos at the same night
One area I feel Nolan doesn't get enough credit for too is how well he writes villains, like even in his first film following, for all its flaws I found the villain really compelling and entertaining, he was charismatic but still menacing, I even remember looking up "Cobb" in the DVD extras and I was disappointed to see the guy doesn't act anymore. A lot of that shone through in TDK, don't get me wrong Ledgers performance was one of the greatest of all time but, Nolan was still the one who wrote and directed him, it always irks me how people (typically DC-haters) heap all the credit for the films success on Ledger, as if Nolan just got lucky and had nothing to do with it
After my dad, who’d suffered a stroke, asked me, “Are you taking me to the hospital to see your mum?” and I had to remind him, yet again, that his wife died the previous year, the look on his face, trying to mask his pain and act like it had just slipped his mind, when I could see the shock and confusion, etched under the mask, stayed with me. So, that line in Memento, when the protagonist burns the effects of his wife and says, “I can’t remember to forget you,” was a gut punch for me. But it supplies the emotional drive for the character, and the audience too.
I thought that was a really insightful, clever and honest assessment of Nolan’s career. I didn’t agree with absolutely everything you said, but pretty close. The idea of, “love, conquering humanity’s flaws,” as such, is of course schmaltzy, but the cinema has a tradition of such fair. Where else could such ideas be mixed into high concept sci fi, but in a grandiose movie like Interstellar? But, with his track record, that strikes me more now like a ham fisted attempt at tacking an emotional core to a movie that would otherwise be devoid of it. The question I ask myself is, would the movie have suffered if Anne Hathaway’s character was absent? Not sure?
Nolan’s basic problem is, as you said, that he often fails to develop his characters’ emotionally enough. Which is why the high point (for me) in his career so far, has to be Memento. Because we have the complexity of a truly original idea, mixed in with, “unreliable narrator,” stuff, but with a strong emotional core. And because of the moving difficulty he suffers, which is central to the plot. We experience the world as he does, which I thought was a genius idea, never before attempted.
You’re right about the character of Batman, which his love interest, Rachel, literally states out loud at the end of the first (arguably best?) movie. She tells him that Bruce Wayne is the real mask, and that is the core of his story, as you nailed so rightly there. Batman has a soul, drive and a perfectly rounded, if damaged, personality, balanced by his morality and the fact that he won’t kill people. His towering intellect, planning and thinking on his feet make him able to pull this off, and to be a great detective. But, Bruce Wayne is empty, lost and just waiting for an excuse to don the cowl again. Nolan captures that brilliantly.
The stoicism of the heroic characters in Dunkirk works very much to Nolan’s advantage in this respect. I’d like to see him get that balance right, between the big ideas of his movies and the characters and their motivations within them. The Prestige was a respectable attempt at this, which does work on many levels. Yet, even here I’m not 100% drawn in by their dilemmas so much as I’m intrigued by the, “prestige,” itself, if you get me?
I think, if and when Nolan cracks that puzzle, giving us a character as sympathetic as Cobb in Inception, balanced against a villain or counter protagonist as compelling as that protagonist, in a movie with the same scope as Inception or Interstellar, he’ll quite possibly give us the movie of the century! Would you agree?
The Prestige is my favorite Nolan movie. I still remember my friend bringing his dvd over and watching it after school. I was blown away and still am.
Imterstellar is also my favorite Nolan film, hell yeah!
In Vietnam, we're showing Tenet in theatre. Watched it twice already. It's really good 10/10. Hope you'll be able to watch it soon!
I forgot that he did dunkirk. That film shouldve gotten acadamy awards in every category.
My family lived through that time and the stories theyve told me my entire life are exactly what he put on screen. Pure humanity. When i watched dunkirk, in theatre, i felt i was watching my ancestord
Even Nolan's movie is considered "meh" or "worst", it's still the best
you rank his movies from good to masterpiece
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Bro you described what I couldn't put into words about Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins: emotionally repressed! He played it so well and does give an amazing, soulful performance! He's just not good at expressing it around others which is so human, especially for someone with his psyche. Thank you!!!
Christopher Nolan is a goddamn genius. An auteur director making films of immense scope and scale.
First Hi-Top posts a Batman Begins video and now you post one on Nolan in general, this is a dream come true
I think that the 'Dark Knight trilogy' deserves it's own video on this channel
Christopher Nolan made Inception and got the "You can make anything you want" filmmaker card. However, unlike some other directors that got this, he's made so many fucking masterpieces that are their own story and as mentioned in the vid, not attached to an existing IP. HOW HARD IS THAT HOLLYWOOD?!?!?
Thanks for this. I was inspired by Nolan. Also you should've mention Practical effects for Tenet. New films may have same tastes or may be better. But Nolan outdid his perfection through practical effects. Since it's not green screen, it's pure immersion.
I saw Dunkirk on the Prague IMAX twice. It was 70 mm and i have never experienced such quality of picture on a movie theater before. The stuka scenes were literally deafening and i had to cover my ears on the first screening (which was avant premiere).
Funny thing, the lady next to me left the theater after 30 minutes and never came back.
I didn't like Dark Knight Rises when it came out, but after seeing the Snyderverse, it started looking better and better.
I don’t care what anybody says, I LOVE The Dark Knight Rises
I would like to see Nolan try to do a more low budget movie again in the future, the prestige is actually one of my favorite movies from him.
I love everything he has done. Interstellar is by far my fave. The dark knight is a triumph and inception & TENET were stunning too. he is such a great film maker.
Inception is still one of the best movies ever.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nolan is our generation’s Kubrick. Not in style, but in the sheer scope and influence of their respective cinematic masterpieces, and how ridiculously pedantic/borderline obsessive they are (were, in Kubrick’s case) in their craft.
Both mastered technical perfection in filmmaking; both are the true stars of their own films.
John Motta Nolan is not our generation’s Kubrick. Nolan is closer to Michael Bay, he cares more for looking cool with big action set pieces. I wouldn’t say Nolan is obsessive either, the sheer amount of continuity errors in his work is jaw dropping and the complete lack of attention to detail in Dunkirk would certainly say otherwise, Kubrick would have none of that. Also, Kubrick’s movies actually say stuff, actually has meaning, now I’m not saying this is a necessity for all films but this isn’t he case for Nolan if we’re comparing to Kubrick, what does Nolan’s movies say about anything? Nothing at all, all flash (which is fine but not Kubrick). I’m not hating on the guy but he’s no Kubrick.
LeJam 0 The Shining alone is rife with continuity errors (the infamous moving chair), and no amount of Room 237 convincing is gonna make me believe that he did that deliberately lol. As far as saying something, did you not see the video? Nolan’s biggest and best works (setting his commercial TDK shit aside) have always revolved around a central message, like the corny but meaningful “love is the answer” ending to Interstellar, or the “dangers of obsession” theme he loves (Inception, Memento, Following). I don’t think he’s all spectacle as you say, at least, I certainly wouldn’t utter his name in the same breath as Michael Bay. He’s corny. And I don’t think Nolan-like Kubrick-won’t be truly recognized for his achievements until he’s dead.
Inception is my personal favorite Christopher Nolan film but I think Dunkirk is his best. It has really good editing and visuals and doesn't feel too short nor too long. Dunkirk is honestly perfect in my eyes.
Your point about Bane being a guy who just wants to nuke Gotham is exactly the problem I have with Killmonger in Wakanda. The cop out ending feels more like a strawman of their ideology and as a result they don't feel like characters who are their own people, they behave in a very understandable way until they suddenly ramp up their methods to the extreme which justifies taking them down, so all can be well again in wonderland.
Man this was great I have to watch Dunkirk now, I hope my videos are as good as yours one day lol
Tenet is incredible. I saw it 4 times in theaters loved it after the first viewing snd it got better and better each time
I didn’t know how I felt about it the first time but it got better each time I watched it
Yes! I’m just so relieved to finally have someone agree about Bale’s Bat/Bruce, THE BEST
I saw Tenet last week, It definitely has some weaknesses, but It’s something I never have seen before, once I understood the story after an hour, It was really amazing and I forgave it every weakness almost completely.
Literally it’s so good and people over looked it
Dark knight rises I’d say is my favourite one of them but I get the bane criticism.
EDIT: I have no problem with bane himself he’s a great mirror to batman of what he could become if he continued on this path I meant the twist rlly.
I will never understand the bad opinions about this one
@@MsTriangle I agree
Christopher Nolan has become one of my favorite film directors along with people like Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Sam Raimi, and Steven Spielberg. He’s one of my idols and has such a great resume and style that is great to look at.
The Prestige is my favorite Nolan film.
Having said that Tenet is also about obsession, and love I think. Why else would the Protagonist risk everything for that woman other than he loves her? He even rewrites the mission just to save her life.
Alfred Hitchcock: Remember that british director who made all those silly thrillers in Hollywood and critics didn't get him?
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
I always tell friends what you see is what you get when watching a Christopher Nolan.
You can say that about any fucking movie
What is that even supposed to mean?
"...sure, it's absolutely front-loaded with exposition, which can get pretty dull on rewatches." Weird. Inception's first 45-minutes or so became far more of what I was interested in. My first rewatch was to watch it with the "token" theory where people theorized that Cobb's token is actually his wedding band since Mol's was the top. In reality: Cobb doesn't wear the band anymore because she's dead. In dream, he wears it because duh.
But then other re-watches I found myself just preferring the starting chunks and exposition of the movie when I realized it was the process of getting a movie production started. They hire the actors, the producers, they work on the screenplay, explain how to build sets in ways that will trick the eye, explain how exposition and world building works from a screenwriting and editing perspective, and of course discuss how you get inception to work in the first place. Then the dream heist onwards is the shooting of the film.
Your audio levels in your videos are perfect
I would argue that Dark Knight Rises is one of the most important works of Nolan, because without it, we could not have gotten Pete Holme's best skit...
I'm a huge Nolan fan, I do genuinely believe he tries his best to put every penny of large scale budget movies onto the screen, to really make viewing his films on the biggest screen possible a worthwhile outing.
However, once they leave theatres I find myself going back to them very infrequently. He also has a large collection of sycophants and fanboys that act like intellectuals who slam people when they criticise his films as "dumb" or say they "they're too stupid to get it", which why he gets the overcorrection of being called over-hyped.
Truth is, there are only a handful of directors like Nolan, Tarantino, Spielberg etc who are able to command big budgets for non-franchise movies. We need more of that.
In my lifetime (born '89) I've seen 6 Batmen, 3 spider-men and 3 hulks, I think we need to celebrate those filmmakers willing to fight for creative freedom on a large scale even when you don't enjoy every single movie they make.
Long live Nolan, looking forward to Oppenheimer.
Going to see Tenet tonight. Interstellar and Inception were good, mind bending movies but probably not among my favorites.
Did you like it?
"ok what am i doing? oh im following this guy. No he is following me"
Michael Caine’s performances are always immaculate
I really enjoyed tenet and I think that I’ll enjoy it more the second time I watch it because of how non-linear the story is and how many hints are made throughout the story. I’d recommend watching it for yourself instead of just seeing reviews for it
Something I think that was often not mentioned is that in his early movies, Nolan tries to translate feelings in his films. In Memento, he tries to communicate the feeling of memory disorder and confusion to the audience. In Insomnia, he tries to communicate the actual feeling of insomnia through the movie. In Batman Begins, he tries to communicate the feeling of fear.
One misunderstood movie is one thing but a whole misunderstood career is a much bigger thing, especially with Cristopher Nolans Movies wich are amazing
You are extremely right about HAND TO HAND FIGHT SCENES handling.
I don't get the mixed reviews for Tenet, the movie was absolutely incredible in my opinion. One of my favorite Nolan films
Can't agree with that. It really felt uselessly convoluted, in addition to other issues (pacing, sound, etc.). There's good stuff in it, but low-tier Nolan imo. The soundtrack is absolutely killer thought!!
@@thisisfyne doesnt matter if you agree. Its his opinion.
@@morrisoniice I know, but from the stand point that he "doesn't get the mixed reviews", I was pointing out imo what the negative ones are about.
Spoiler warning for some of the clips from The Prestige around the 10 minute mark.
Am I the only one that loved Tenet? Just watched it with my wife and we both loved it (I’m a Nolan fan, she’s new to his work)
I love how unique Nolan films are. They aren't tied to any pre-existing IP and they stand on their own without needing to spawn a franchise (barring the Dark Knight trilogy of course). I wish more directors were able to take as many creative risks as Nolan. Many of the recent Tenet reviews are disheartening to me, yes the sound mixing is weird and the first 30 minutes are oddly paced and mostly unneccesary, but its so increadibly unique in this landscape of utter repitition. The spectacle of the inversion is increadible and rewatching previous setpieces from the other perspective was so well done.
Did you know that almost all of the actual good directors films aren't tied to anything and stand on their own lol and also do you only watch big blockbusters and therefore think cinema has become this landscape of utter repetition ? lol Nolan is good director but he isn't unique or innovative unless you call convoluted messy story telling and bland characters inovative
@@shayan357 I have to strongly disagree with that assessment. To clarify what I meant regarding my repitition comment, while there's a lot of great unique films from talented directors coming out all the time, very few of them get any kind of a high budget because creativity is risky. Most of the high budget projects go to the films guaranteed to make their money back. And of course there's nothing wrong with studios doing that, they have to maintain their bottom line after all, it is unfortunate for us consumers. Nolan has proved his movies to be able to make bank on his name alone so he's free to make whatever he chooses and get a fairly large budget for it.
As for the second part of your statement again I have to disagree, particularly in the case of Tenet. With this movie Nolan managed to bring an entirely new spin on a trope as done to death as time travel, and he did it in a way that actually makes theoretical sense. The spectacle if the inversion scenes is increadible. Messy would be the exact opposite word I'd use to describe his works, as the narratives of his films tend to be some of the tightest there is, always firing his chekhov's guns. Inception and Interstellar also fall into this category with having exceptionally inspired concepts and exploring them to their fullest.
You're probably only looking at popular, Hollywood films, right? There are plenty of great filmmakers, doing worthwhile work now. And of course, throughout history the greatest ever have been making original films that aren't tied to any pre-existing IP's.
@@cometcourse381 Oh of course, as I said in my reply to the comment above yours there are so many increadible and unique films coming out all of the time. However, very few of them get massive budgets that is sometimes neccesary to pull off a filmmaker's idea. All of the high budgets go to the safest films that take the least risks possible. And that's understandable, studios have to maintain their bottom line, however it's unfortunate for us consumers. Nolan is a rare example though of a ditector capable of selling a film on his name alone. Thus he's been able to secure massive budgets to do whatever he wants with, and they pay off because his films are brilliant spectacles.
Your analysis in this is sheer fatuous!!!
I love the career summaries it's an endless possibility. Some suggestions i have for the next are Robert Downey Jr, Keaunu Reaves, Jenifer Aniston, Jerry Seinfield, and Bill Murray
Tenet is really detached when it comes to it's character's, but it's still a unique and original film (with a convoluted plot as well).
Heartless? Robot?
"Because my dad promise me so..." As a single dad just fuckin' remembering that line delivered brings me to 😭😭😭
Dark knight rises has best character work and emotion if anyone says nolan doesn't get emotions should check their eyes and mind
That was the only film of the trilogy that got emotions from me, the bit where Gordon realises who batman is lol. All of his films are great but Dark Knight Rises stood out for me!
This video made me realize just how many of my favorite movies are Nolan movies
I'm so glad I started following his work almost from the very beginning with Memento. The idea itself was very interesting and it didn't hurt that Guy Pearce was the lead with intetesting performances from a couple of Matrix alum and Stephen Tobolowsky. His films always had really interesting ideas behind them. I think it helped make his films more accessible to mainstream audiences early on by the casting of the aforementioned actors in Memento and Robin Williams playing very against type in Insomnia. He always had command of the visual language of film. He's also capable of bringing out amazing performances right from the start. Given the way Memento is told it would've fallen apart if the actors didn't nail their performances and that does not happen without a great director who can work with actors. Give them the emotion, the motivation. Even the best actors can't give their best without a director who knows how to work with them.
The Prestige is one of my top 3 favorite films. I could watch it every week.
I don’t think two face ending is tacted on at all. It totally fits in with the theme in the movie being about humanity and how someone as good natured as Harvey dent can show a side of him that gives in to selfishness, greed, and evil. This shows how vulnerable, easy to manipulate, and downright horrible humans beings can be.
Chris Nolan is an introvert. Emotion in his movies are presented in a introvert way. His characters are not gonna whine and cry in a melodramatic way to show emotion. One of the most two emotional scenes I know from Hollywood movies is from The prestige (the scene where sarah and borden argues. sarah asks borden if he loves her and he replies not today. another is from what's eating gilbert grape where gilbert hurts arnie). he has got a lot of "wanna be cool" haters and these people make superficial comments just to feel intellectuals.