it used to be more controversial because Nolan put out better movies. He hasn’t really put out anything of particular quality since The Prestige or The Dark Knight
it’s definitely so early in his career he had not yet flanderized, so it feels fresh. Similar flanderizations happened to Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Tarantino
He’s a technical obsessive who is much more interested in playing with the complex mechanisms of film production and display than he ever has been with more grounded narrative or character.
The only movies he’s made with satisfying, interesting, memorable plots and characters - or really any heart at all - are those he co-wrote with his brother. Frankly, my hot take is that Jonathan is the more well rounded and talented creative of the two, despite his work usually recieving less accolades.
Tom Shone wrote a book about Christopher Nolan that called him the “greatest living filmmaker or the Victorian era” in reference to his firmly old school establishment upbringing and existence, as well as some of his anxieties. There was a brilliant analysis of it and Nolan’s work in the LA Review of Books that lends a more critical eye to the Victorian cultural influences and imperialist traditions that underpin much of his work, which I think is spot on.
Idk if this is a hot take but Christopher Nolan simply does not make good movies
On hexbear its a common take, in the broad public its lukewarm (3-4 years ago it was probably hot) among certain types it’s burning
it used to be more controversial because Nolan put out better movies. He hasn’t really put out anything of particular quality since The Prestige or The Dark Knight
Prestige/Memento were good but everything else sucks
You know what, Memento is so good that I always forget it’s a Nolan movie lol
it’s definitely so early in his career he had not yet flanderized, so it feels fresh. Similar flanderizations happened to Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Tarantino
He’s a technical obsessive who is much more interested in playing with the complex mechanisms of film production and display than he ever has been with more grounded narrative or character.
The only movies he’s made with satisfying, interesting, memorable plots and characters - or really any heart at all - are those he co-wrote with his brother. Frankly, my hot take is that Jonathan is the more well rounded and talented creative of the two, despite his work usually recieving less accolades.
Tom Shone wrote a book about Christopher Nolan that called him the “greatest living filmmaker or the Victorian era” in reference to his firmly old school establishment upbringing and existence, as well as some of his anxieties. There was a brilliant analysis of it and Nolan’s work in the LA Review of Books that lends a more critical eye to the Victorian cultural influences and imperialist traditions that underpin much of his work, which I think is spot on.