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[+] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Memetic cognito hazard below that will fuck with your ability to watch Nolan movies.

    spoilerSomeone pointed out to me how all Nolan movies do the "walk and talk" exposition dump as seen in other hacky media like The Westwing and now I can't unsee it. He basically handholds the audience through the entire movie, explaining everything while characters move from scene to scene, set to set. Since he has a ginormous Hollywood budget for special effects, it makes it seem like there's more substance to his films than there actually is. He tricks you into thinking good visuals means good dialog, plot, and acting, but he's actually giving a PowerPoint presentation.

    It allows him to make movies that are excessively long, but since they constantly have new visuals to look at, it feels shorter than it is.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    I dunno man in one of the Batmans he extrajudicially extradites a Chinese national using a rope tied to a plane in flight and that was dope as fuck. Or that shit where he made a bigass rotating hallway to put a fight scene in. I think he got tricked by a physicist into paying for supercomputers to calculate what black holes actually look like.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah that was the problem with the ending of Interstellar, mcconaughey‘s character just straight up tells the audience what they’re looking at, rather than letting the audience figure it out via visual clues.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It was pretty good tbh. Just saw it in theater yesterday with my friend

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You recommend it? I'm gonna see it anyway lol, but it looks like it's got that typical Nolan sheen to it of being gray and bleak, Agamemnon's armor looked like a ancient Greek batman larp, plus apparently skips over the cyclops/nobody moment? I wish he knew how to have some fun with things, but he's effectively Tim Burton'd himself into a kind of, now dated, sterile style

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    It's a cool idea to make Agamemnon such an imposing presence, but literally every time he appears he looks like some goofy plastic mannequin. The cyclops is also a cool visual since they made him far bigger than you'd assume, but the fact he looks like Mr frog's dad kinda ruined it.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My other conspiracy is that Jonathan Nolan is secretly the heart in Christopher Nolan's films and the better rounded writer and artist. Without his brother I think Christopher gets lost in the technical sauce and lacks a deeper sense of humanity.

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