Seeing interstellar in imax was worth the 45m wait in line and sitting in sardine can seats for 3 hours For me the issues with Nolan’s movies usually stem from too much ambition, particularly in story but I at least respect someone who’s willing to go the extra mile in attempting to create a superior theater-going experience.
I know a lot of people though Dunkirk was on the meh side but I loved it. I’m sure I have but off the top of my head I can’t remember a film that pulled off it’s tone and level of tension with such a minimalist approach to dialogue. Ofc it’s treat for the eyes but from beginning to end I found it really enjoyable. It’s in tier 1 of his films for me. Tier 1: The Prestige The Dark Knight Batman Begins Dunkirk Tier 2: Inception Interstellar TDKR Memento Insomnia Haven’t seen The Following. Love everything he’s made.
Hans Zimmer is the element that puts these movies so high for me: -Opening scene in TDK -Ending if TDK, including credits -Snow Fortress in Inception -Entire ending of Inception(Time) -Miller’s Planet in Interstellar(learned this week that the clicks you hear are days passing on earth, which is awesome) -Docking scene in Interstellar(same music as above) -Slingshotting off Gargantua in Interstellar -Cooper leaving his family/leavin earth(same music as above) -Ending of Dunkirk
Let me rephrase: I didn’t like The Prestige in comparison to Nolan’s catalogue of films. The Prestige is a far superior film if you’re arguing it against a movie like Gigli, Indiana Jones 4, or the newest Transformers movie.
Insomnia is among his lesser movies but even it is really well made and has some great cinematography. Its maybe my favorite of Robin Williams' "creepy" roles Following is like a try hard art movie by an indie guy who didnt know his style yet.
Which is why Dunkirk was incredible to watch. The scale necessary was incredible and they did most of it without CGI. It’s also what I loved about First Man.
For some reason I can’t target a sample of your post to bold, but the clicking thing is blowing my mind I had no clue
One of my favorites scenes in a movie. There were gasps throughout the theatre when they returned to their station and Romilly was 20+ years older.
People who know dick about relativity thought that was ridiculous. There’s some shit to make fun of the movie for but some of it is just people who know about astrophysics.
I’d say he currently has but a few peers. Unrivaled is a stretch obviously. He’s one of a handful of directors whose movie I’d pay to see in the the theatres no matter what the subject is.
That's fair. I probably went a little overboard but give me some names though. Don't just bloviate. Kubrick/Cameron come to mind but he's obviously in an elite category. Again I'm not talking about the narrative or emotion conveyed just strictly the technical skill and effort put in to deliver the kind of complex action sequences he has done. ie using a centrifuge and physically reconstructing a rotating hotel hallway to film that scene Building a multidimensional room to film the tesseract scene
so I assume they are extrapolating the measurement of every 1.25secs out to the time they are on the planet bc there are parts where the ticking doesn't occur and even at a 5min scene that would still only be less than 1 year also parts of the song have double ticks so im not sure how they are handling that this seems fuzzy at best
The math checks out. Cooper says at the begning of the scene that it's approximately 7 years per hour. ≈ 42.5 days per minute ≈ 1.4 seconds per day. They probably just timed the clicks to what their calculations were.
It’s still amazing that Nolan used real interviews from the Ken Burns documentary “The Dust Bowl” as testimonials for “the blight.”
Cuaron, Woo, and Yimou are three that come to mind that are still active. But yeah, Kubrick is the unrivaled one. Kurosawa and Tarkovsky did some pretty insane stuff
My point is that the clicks change though. The first 60secs is single clicks every 1.25secs but then later there are double clicks which are a click every .5secs or so and there are also parts that have no clicks. So they are selectively choosing clicks to fit the math.
The Children of Men tracking sequences blew my mind when I first saw the movie (that’s not even the best one). Cary Joji Fukunagas in the shootout in Beaumont in True Detective is the best in TV history and is just as good (coincidentally featuring McConaughey).
So in the Woo scene I posted, they don’t even go to a different floor in the elevator; the same floor is re-set in real-time (whole scene is one take). That shit is absurd. Haven’t seen True Detective; is the scene easy to find? The Bridge has some of the best camerawork I’ve seen for television.
Not a big Woo fan but I loved the tracking. Not only should you watch the True Detective scene, watch the whole first season. I’ll argue it’s the best single season of TV ever. Fukunagas directing of Pizzolattos script is Kevin Durant joining the Warriors.
I’m not sure if there’s a better vid online but I’m p sure this vid is missing a valuable party twords the end where an overhead shot catches all the chaos soulfly. It was an absolute treat to watch during that season run.
I don’t give a shit about Woo either. I’ll scope it out. I’ve only watched a season of it, but The Bridge is pretty damn awesome. It’s a Scandinavian production so it has subtitles though. Please contain your shock It’s on Prime but not free, unfortunately.
I met Fukunaga at a Q&A he did for a rerelease of his first movie Sin Nombre in nyc. He said before he filmed the movie he actually took the same journey the immigrants did in the movie himself, on top of the trains through mexico, just to get a feel for the struggle they had to endure. Also had to get MS13 approval to shoot in certain areas. Dude's brilliant.
He will win multiple Best Director Academy Awards. I said it after watching TD1 and Beasts of No Name he’s playing chess while the industry is playing checkers
The industry isn’t even playing checkers right now. That’s the sad part about where filmmaking is currently at. We’re in the dark fucking ages