Nolan is a hack who doesn't know how to direct. His shot composition is garbage and all his dialog scenes are boring shot-reverse-shots and walk-and-talks.
Nolan is a hack who doesn't know how to direct...
his dialog scenes are boring shot-reverse-shots and walk-and-talks
Aside from shooting the characters still at a distance, how else can you shoot these scenes?
Two-shot. Have you never seen old hollywood films? The films of John Ford and John Huston and Sidney Lumet? Modern filmmakers overrely on shot-reverse-shot because they think audiences are too ADHD to focus on more than one actor at a time.
Watch a Kurosawa film and educate yourself about staging and framing for fucks sake.
there are such things as mirrors that invert the image
Soience brainfart.
From nolan perspective, his film is like a puzzle and his audience a group of retarded /caca/ who were supposed to figure out the puzzle within 90-120 minutes screentime but he still giving the answer/solve the puzzle at the end of his slop anyway; From intellectual perspective, watching this guy is like watching a damn magic show, you just have to pretend to be dumb and being dumbfounded whenever he pulls a trick in front of you because you realize that if you're not doing that then you'll be wasting two hours of your life watching pretentious yawnbait slop
Nolan acts like he’s David Lynch but then films the most un David Lynch type movies
That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard
makes a movie about dreams
constructs the most rigid rules about the passage of time within the dreamscape
It's like Nolan has never had a dream in his life and has only been told what dreams feel like by other people.
He’s a double Oscar winner whose films have a combined $7b box office and you post garbage opinion on a chud internet circle jerk forum.
He wins, you lose.
Your movies suck, Chris
muh oscar
only reason he won an oscar because oppenheimer was a biopic about a jew.
muh money
kek, you're probably a jew yourself if you think money is everything.
And yet he can't sound mix, his shit is inaudible
"But mu 7.1" no, I can hear every dialogue when I watch a 80 years old movies, it's not my problem if this retard think we all have some super sound system at home
why is he so gay for cillian murphy
Him of all people acting like he doesn’t make rigid movies is hilarious. I remember Goyer taking about making Batman Begins, Nolan didn’t want Batman to use a grappling hook or The Scarecrow to even wear a mask. Basically all comic book elements he wanted stripped out for muh realism
there are a billion muslims on the planet.
popular doesn't mean good.
or The Scarecrow to even wear a mask
scarecrow's mask in BB was one of the best parts of that whole film, the batman parts were honestly super stiff, watching him walk around in the suit looked so bad.
the dialogue wasn't all that great, even the acting wasn't the quality you'd expect from that cast.
MANDATORY
I hated Begins. Batman works with less is more. I didn’t need to know literally how he got the shit to make his suit. I don’t care. I don’t kneed realistic explanation on why Crane puts a potato sack in his head and calls himself Scarecrow
fuck you scarecrow was kino
Begins was not terrible but nowhere near as kino as Dark Knight, but still not as dogshit as Dark Knight Rises, what a true pile of shit that was.
If you stand on a mirror then up and down are reversed though
if you turn around the right and left are no longer reversed
bland shot composition
Who cares? it's serviceable. People don't watch Nolan for that shit
is this a joke.
No fucking way you think like this. You can block a dialogue scene and convey new information while still making the scene engaging.
Aside from shooting the characters still at a distance, how else can you shoot these scenes?
t. some faggot who's never seen any of the Monogatari Series
2+2=5 for large enough values of 2
Watch Kurosawa to figure out how to shoot dialogue
They don't even speak english in his films ? retard
actually this is a good dialogue scene because they're sitting in a car and we focus on mirrors in the car
So good dialogue is recording in halls of mirrors? Conan has the best dialogue recording ever.
numbers aren't real, therefore math isn't real, therefore the basis of science that explains why reflections aren't reversed vertically isn't real.
What a dumb fuck.
recordings
2+2=6 if you really wanna push it and do a little rounding
you don't need to listen to dialog to see actor blocking.
His shot composition is garbage
That's average American and British direction, they're mostly interested in speech and technology, generally not people or the aesthetics of cinema. Spielberg is definitely an anomaly in Hollywood, it might sound superfluous but he's much closer to being a Baroque painter.
He's commercially successful in ways that Lynch never even came close to being. I love Lynch but I respect Nolan if only because he brings new ideas to the table now and then and he champions film, practical effects, and the theater experience. Anyone who avoids CGI as much as possible and lobbies (no pun intended) for theater distribution while making big budget movies I prefer over shit like Michael Bay and Fast and Furious can have my moviegoing dollar.
Not a one of you really thinks the world would be better off without Nolan movies. Even if I didn't like his work I'd still appreciate his appreciation. He does talks with directors he respects and he loves the history of film and he's involved it preservation. We're lucky to have him I think.
The Prestige is the only time I ever felt compelled to immediately rewatch a movie to enjoy it in a new way.
I always think it's funny to see threads calling him a hack when there are far more terrible directors working who haven't given us anything great.
jews jews jews
lol, you guys are schizos. That's your answer to everything.
By "muh" do you mean "my"? He's saying "my realism"? And this makes him "sound" retarded or something? Is that what you're going for?
After that you can explain "le" to me. For I find your silly ways of communicating immature.
Michael Bay has a better sense of conveying movement and action than Nolan. It's the directors who try to imitate Bay that you should be having a problem with.
Lol, out of all that you chose to pick the Michael Bay comment and defend him. Okay.
I don't need 4,000 cuts in a chase scene and to better convey movement. I don't want every shot to have a sweeping camera involved, even for dialogue scenes.
Even if you could convince me that on some technical level Bay is superior to Nolan at anything at all (which you won't), I still wouldn't like his movies. And I do like Nolan's movies.
I saw some video where a guy spent an hour picking apart the underground bazooka chase from Dark Knight and how the camera is facing the wrong way or the car should be on the other side of the other car.... no. If there were really a problem with the scene you wouldn't need to make a video essay explaining how it "didn't work". I remember the night I saw it for the first time. It was exhilarating. I remember the ONE Michael Bay movie I went to see in a theater too (Armageddon); it was disorienting. It was a little insulting. How anyone could argue for Bay over Nolan with a straight face defies logic for me. I usually wouldn't compare directors but Nolan is in the big leagues and not everyone there makes good movies. Bay is the first who comes to mind. Best work he ever did was acting in Mystery Men.
not my problem if you dont have subtitles on, enjoy not undertanding the movie grandpa
go watch pain &gain
I still wouldn't like his movies
Get checked for test levels asap. Bay movies are remarkable even if you cannot appreciate the technical wizardry.
remarkable
le adjective is... le bad?
No, but it's for me to poop on. Can you leave that "le" stuff on the cringe website please?
i'm starting to question most people. are they just genuinely retarded?
le meme is... le cringe?
I guess you don't think so. You must be very young or just really retarded.
I'm not sure he understands what paradox means.
You're the one who cannot comprehend a simple word like "remarkable" kek.
I comprehend it. I think it's funny that you attribute it to Michael Bay movies, which are notoriously vapid and retardo for lowest-common-denominator audiences who like Transformer fights and cartoon turtles and now apparently singing toilets! LOL, still overreacting to my fucking Insult Comic Dog reaction pic. Your tortured artiste Michael Bay has been smeared! To the rescue!
hahahahaha
Uh oh melty. Get your test levels checked asap, like previously mentioned.
Shalom
pleb director
faggot OP
match made in heaven
Testing, testing, testing the levels. Low appreciation of Michael Bay suggests high brain activity but low macho-man energy.
lol, you're arguing for Michael Bay. I hope you aren't seriously suggesting he's talented. Or more than Chris Nolan. You're objectively wrong. Now go enjoy The Island like the 'testy' homosexual that you happen to be.
these niggas get laid
>Testing, testing, testing the levels. Low appreciation of Michael Bay suggests... low macho-man energy.
This but unironically
lol, you're on a film board about the art of movies and you think you can also be macho? Are you in fucking middle school? You're dumb. You're low class. You like Michael Bay, FFS. That's a losing argument. Keep doubling down in this anonymous forum that I'm not as masculine as someone with mediocre taste in audience pleasing, critic infuriating slop. I'm SO embarrassed by a teenager who has generically bad taste! Oh no!
compensating by pretending to be highbrow
Low test all but confirmed.