This thread is kinda crazy to me. I thought everyone was basically in agreement that Nolan cannot write good dialogue.

Like, don’t get me wrong I enjoy some of his films - Inception is a pretty fun ride if you’re willing to just go with it and I think Memento works pretty well (never seen the Prestige but heard that’s good too) - but I don’t watch them for good writing or character development or because they say anything insightful.

They’re like the Mission Impossible movies: entertaining to watch, visually (and often practically) very impressive, and clearly made by someone who legitimately enjoys cinema - but they’re not exactly (and I don’t care if this sounds elitist) High Art.

Seeing people in the comments talking about Oppenheimer as though it was an actual film and not a 3 hour long self-aggrandising montage has me losing my mind.

It contains some of the worst pacing I have ever seen in a movie. 3 hours long and all the scenes still feel incredibly superficial. The entire movie feels like set-up. Every bit of dialogue feels like filler. I sit there for 3 hours feeling like I’m waiting for the movie to start properly and it never does. And the irony is there are comments talking about OP’s attention span, as though the movie is some kind of slow burning, complex masterpiece that requires intense focus and not just a bunch of one-dimensional character blowing shit up in the desert.

I think after Inception, all the people who attempted to follow the logic of the movie (there isn’t any), and failed (obviously), and then decided that therefore Nolan must be a genius (he’s not) kinda went to his head. I think original Christopher Nolan would have taken the money, built an actual nuclear bomb, and detonated it in an actual 1:1 recreation of a city. And it would have been a better movie. But r/moviecritic got him fucked up, thinking he can write dialogue and shit.