Never mind that Insomnia was a winner...

NC, though he did put a bookcase in a black hole. His work is often pretentious, but so is that of many more lauded. I’ve written before that his weird love of mid-era Bond action sequences is incomprehensible, the last third of “heMeh” tipping from enjoyable balderdash to an ugly mess of men dying backwards in ski masks.

sparky wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:10 am he did put a bookcase in a black hole.

It's less jarring when you know it is coming, but that first time, hmm.

...his weird love of mid-era Bond action sequences is incomprehensible, the last third of “heMeh” tipping from enjoyable balderdash to an ugly mess of men dying backwards in ski masks.

His stated aim was OHMSS, but he hit For Your Eyes Only.

pldms wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:44 am His stated aim was OHMSS, but he hit For Your Eyes Only.

Precisely! This perfect line brought a chuckle here.

losthighway wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 2:33 pm I always enjoy watching a film that is a grand gesture and doesn't totally nail it (see Darren Aronofsky).

The bigger the budget the worse his sci-fi films are.

Total Crap

Sort of a high class M. Night Shyamalan. I enjoy portions of most of the movies he makes, but in the end come away feeling annoyed and dissatisfied. The Batman movies are mostly terrible, The parts with the Joker were fun, but the rest of that film was just shitty. I don't really remember much at all about the 3rd one, which says a lot.
Interstellar was a mess. The one where they were all dream heisting, although visually fun, a total wreck of a film. The more I reflect back on things he made, the more I dislike them. Crap.

pldms wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:55 pm Makes more-than competent blockbuster movies that don't treat me as a complete idiot, and aren't a mess of CGI.

possibly the best summary of this guy I've read. Enjoy yourselves folks.

NC

pldms wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 4:55 pm Makes more-than competent blockbuster movies that don't treat me as a complete idiot, and aren't a mess of CGI. Even the ones that don't work for me have rewarded a repeat viewing.

There seems to be a strand of criticism that he has pretensions to high art, but is a failure. It seems unlikely when you consider he happily made three films about a man who fights crime dressed as a bat,

Seems to genuinely love cinema. I'm glad he's getting a chunk of the money that would otherwise go to Michael Bay and Zac Schneider.

All of this. I like his movies, but I'm not a screaming obsessive fanboy about them.

The Prestige is still his best, but I think Tenet is kind of underrated at this point.

*bump*

Fucking excited about Oppenheimer.