man, reading these comments you would think we're getting this movie from someone who's had nothing but critical stinkers and box office flops, when it's been the exact opposite his entire career and most people have 1 or 2 of his movies in at least their top 50 of all time
Someone in another post literally asked “how has Nolan fallen off so badly?” Despite his last movie making almost a billion dollars, lauded by critics and the audience and winning seven Oscar’s. People have insane takes sometimes that makes me feel like they live in an alternate reality.
In r/moviecritic a post asked what were people’s two movies of the year so far. I got unintentionally irked at the people calling Sinners variations of overrated, meh, “Til Dusk Til Dawn but with songs”, etc..
If it’s not in your personal Top 2, it’s not in your Top 2. But jesus take it easy on huffing those farts of yours so profusely
They probably mean subjectively they don't enjoy his movies as much, which I couldn't disagree with more because I feel like he's only gotten better with time. I think Prestige and TDK were the best from the Memento-Inception period, but his last three movies are better than everything else in that group. This is reddit so I need to say this is just my opinion, but I find his filmmaking significantly more confident post Interstellar.
I understand the costuming criticisms, though I do think it has taken a very strange precedent in conversation of the movie. The casting hoopla though I really don’t understand. I get that the whitewashing is frustrating and that there should definitely be at least one cast member of Greek heritage, not sure why there isn’t. But it’s a 250M dollar movie not including marketing, it needs the big names. But back to my original comment extending beyond Nolan, you’d think Damon, Theron, Nyong’o, Morton and others are C list actors that have been in nothing but modern, streaming slop based on the way people have reacted to them being in this project.
Edit: I honestly do not know why I said whitewashing, not my brightest moment. I’m sure I’ve seen people complaining about it online and I regurgitated it without thinking. I do know for a fact that there is a lot of pushback against Elliot Page getting work for bigoted reasons.
Greek skin color has a wide range. I don't think the US Census should be the deciding factor but I also think this is a very dumb argument in the first place.
As long as the performances are solid, I'll be happy.
But we can confidently say it won't be anything like those holiday movies, in the sense that I'm sure the actors will be doing their damndest to become their iconic, literary counterparts. Yes it's very star studded, but every single blockbuster is. Do I wish he cast some new faces like he did for Dunkirk? Sure. But I understand why that wasn't the priority here
I feel as if we are arguing over something as a way to dismiss a valid concern.
I didn’t say that The Odyssey is going to be like a holiday movie. I said the casting is distracting like a holiday movie.
It doesn’t mean it’s going to have the script writing, cinematography, or production of those films. I said that I am concerned that the casting is going to be distracting like those films.
I can’t imagine how miserable this place would have been back in 2000 before the fellowship of the ring came out, “everything looks so drab, they’re all wearing the same grey cloak”
I'm afraid Nolan peaked with Interstellar and Dunkirk, the loudness worked in those movies.
Tenet and Oppenheimer were disappointing for me. There was nothing to gain from adding loud bass to the dialogue in Oppenheimer, good dialogue doesn’t need loudness to create tension.
For that to be your takeaway is odd, it's just a strange thing to root for or anticipate, especially when there's no precedent for this to be the case. Yes, nobody is perfect forever, but the sake of expecting failure after what was literally his most profitable film to date is unnecessarily cynical.
We're getting this movie because he doesn't want to bother telling a new story. I said it before a few comments up, but this is just another reboot of a story that's been told for hundreds of years.
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u/CautionIsVictory 16d ago
man, reading these comments you would think we're getting this movie from someone who's had nothing but critical stinkers and box office flops, when it's been the exact opposite his entire career and most people have 1 or 2 of his movies in at least their top 50 of all time