We get it. You don't like Nolan.
We get it. You don't like Nolan.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
No offense, but it's pretty harsh to snipe at a guy who (a) is merely contributing to an existing exchange about the director, in which others are also being negative, and (b) his last post in this thread was three months ago.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
I wasn't sniping. Do I really need to start using emojis?Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
If I ever become lord of Match-Cut, my first act will be to ban any and all discussion of Christopher Nolan.
I believe The Dark Knight match/cut thread is still the longest discussion thread for any single movie in match/cut history. Summer of 2008 was peak match/cut.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Two days after seeing it, I still feel like Christopher Nolan broke into my apartment, skull-fucked me for two and a half hours and left me to bathe in confusion, ignorance and shame. Was that a physics lesson in the form of a blockbuster? Whatever it was, it sounded and looked great, and the actors were great even if they're playing characters with little or no personality. I fear once the mystery behind this conundrum of a movie is solved, there won't be anything of thematic resonance or compelling arcs to warrant any further viewings, but that's for viewers to decide, I guess.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
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I slept so bad last night that I dreamt I was watching this again. I think I understand it a bit better now. :/
"Unfun James Bond" just about sums it up. I believe Nolan has always had problems with basing all of the appeal of his movies on the structure and having bland characters... but he went full Nolan here. He seems to think the exciting thing about 007 is that he drives boats.
This was not good.
So many parts are great (that opening is fantastic, a couple of cool action scenes, John David Washington plays a very good...uhh...protagonist).
But it is just such a damned mess.
It completely fails on its onboarding for the concept and narrative. Where Inception took a convoluted idea and made it very easy to digest, this throws the ideas at the audience in 2 or 3 expository conversations that don't actually explain it at all.
Weakest Nolan. By a huge margin.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I think Jen's succinct review is perfect.
"This is the movie where Nolan went all the way up his own ass."
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
hahaha
Yeah, Inception is pretty easy to understand, all things considered. I still don't really understand the Tenet world and how people moving forward can interact with those moving backward, while having a forward-moving conversation, and actually be moving forward.
Agreed. The entire climactic battle makes no sense.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
The red team and blue team arrive at the same time. The red team is moving forward through time and the blue time backward. And they complete the mission at the same time.
Wut?
I think Nolan mixed up "moving backwards through time" with "moonwalking through life."
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I started to watch this the other day and all I saw was ACTION ACTION ACTION - so I watched something else. I also couldn't get through more than 30 minutes of my Inception rewatch. No idea how I gave that a 9/10.
Never understood how helicopters could be shown to fly backwards when they hadn't been through a turnstile. But I had a blast nonetheless. It's OK if I never fully grasp this. Or if it doesn't make sense.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
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- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
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- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."