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Is Christopher Nolan a top 10 director of all time? Top 20?
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:32 PM Author: primrose address Definitely not IMO. Discuss. I'd even have him below Villeneueve, who has his own flaws (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051653) |
Date: August 7th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: Blue stock car voyeur no. has he ever had a legitimately good movie? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051655) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:35 PM Author: sticky doobsian stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051664) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:37 PM Author: primrose address I loved memento as a kid although its really gimmicky in hindsight and I loved inception, I saw it in college with a azn girl. The batman movies were gay and he has yet to make a film that conveys any human emotion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051667) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: Blue stock car voyeur all his movies are gimmicky. i actually enjoyed interstellar but all the space-sorcery and magic was ridiculous and having people claim the "science" checked out and made it insufferable. i agree the batman movies were gay. the prestige was kind of enjoyable because of the acting but at the end just more magic and sorcery. all of his movies have stupid deus ex machina shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051677) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:42 PM Author: primrose address Interstellar was my emperor is a clothmo moment. Thought it reeked and I was a big Nolan fan before. He was "my guy" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051694) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:42 PM Author: soul-stirring lilac corner interstellar suffered from an hour in the middle of sentimental bull shit.
One of the few films isat through even though I rolled my eyes and checked my phone every 2 minutes |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:46 PM Author: bright costumed elastic band parlor Someone here pointed out the other day that ever since he became a big deal, his movies have really suffered from bloat and shitty writing because nobody is able to tell him "this needs another 20 drafts" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051714) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: primrose address One of those batman movies (2nd one I think) had like 4 different endings, it went on forever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051741) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:54 PM Author: Blue stock car voyeur cr they invested all that time into "two face" the lawyer and tom cruise's ex wife and it went nowhere. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051751) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 3:05 PM Author: adventurous striped hyena No, katie holmes (8.5/10) was the prosecutrix love interest in Batman Begins, and nolan tried to ludicrously replace her with maggie gyllenhaal (5.5/10) in The Dark Knight and say nothing as if no one would notice.
This should have been an early indicator that nolan views female characters as totally modular / "I have been told the Academy wants at least 2 women; here is my completed script with zero women; jon please go through and insert 2 girl characters." |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: soul-stirring lilac corner The rumor is that Tom Cruise wouldn't allow her to do a second (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052223) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 6:59 PM Author: adventurous striped hyena Pulling a bait-and-switch on a multi-film franchise that relied on you is never a good career move. She could be a nolan regular instead of us having to look at anne hathaway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50054123) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: bright costumed elastic band parlor 3rd movie (by far the absolute dogshittiest) ended with Batman saving Gotham by getting the nuclear bomb a few hundred yards away from the city so it detonated over the water. This was a 4 MEGATON device (= ~250+ Hiroshima bombs) ... It would have instantly vaporized everything within a couple miles and killed everyone in the city. That's aside from the absolutely atrocious Occupy Wall Street references throughout. And the fact that Bane's BIG REVEAL was a crumpled piece of paper showing two face was bad. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 3:01 PM Author: Blue stock car voyeur it was a really awkward, disjointed combination of nuclear bombs, navy seals, and fistfights. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051928) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:29 PM Author: Tan curious lodge Much like ur typical xo meet up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052549) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:46 PM Author: sticky doobsian stage Interstellar was produced by the same woman who made Contact, which is a superior film imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051712) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:34 PM Author: snowy menage gunner Between like 10 and 15 imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051661) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:35 PM Author: primrose address Tempted to do a Deep Dive on this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051663) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:37 PM Author: snowy menage gunner You should imo before cowgod jumps in and derails it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051669) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: primrose address I feel like ill have to highly rate Ingmar Bergman and Kurosawa and Fellini even though I haven't watched much of their films its just what people seem to do online (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051680) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:36 PM Author: sticky doobsian stage The guy sucks ass and has nothing to say. He hides his mediocrity behind endless time cuts back and forth and extremely loud blaring music to confuse the audience, and shitty monochrome dark cinematography
Guy sucks and so does anyone who likes him
This is also why Jews like him and promote him and why he’s successful - because he has nothing to say |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: primrose address This is a really fair assessment im coming around to. Although I love the blaring music for some reason it really satisfies my goy brain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051671) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: sticky doobsian stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051676) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: snowy menage gunner The sound in Odyssey IMAX was too loud for me it was sensory overload and made me physiologically uncomfortable that's probably because I have autism though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051710) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: primrose address I find that kinda music very autistic its a lot of nordics and germans making it. I think nolan has the tism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051737) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: Multi-colored dingle berry nibblets He’s good but he’s no Michael Bay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051675) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Blue stock car voyeur michael bay made the rock and armageddon that alone puts him above nolan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051682) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:42 PM Author: sticky doobsian stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051700) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: primrose address You know who is underrated? Tony Gilroy
Michael Clayton is a masterpiece |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: soul-stirring lilac corner Michael Clayton is 180
Spielberg apparently passed on the script because he was too stupid to understand the chronology |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:48 PM Author: primrose address He's a super nice dude from what I hear and is actually the reason a family member got a start in the business, and one of my neighbors worked with him too (but he's a liberal) but he hasn't made a good film in like 25 years? And his latest was one of the worst I have ever seen in my life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051726) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 1:43 PM Author: soul-stirring lilac corner Dunkirk matters imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051704) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 6:00 PM Author: orange base Dunkirk was debunked antisemitic trope imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052191) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Floppy Disgusting Library I see him as the contemporary equivalent of Spielberg - technically competent crowd pleaser. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051833) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: grizzly razzle mediation gas station He is way below villeneuve (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051834) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 3:00 PM Author: Hairraiser naked sanctuary I watched The Lost Boys the other day and realized it is far better than anything Nolan has ever done. and schumacher is far from a top 20 talent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50051923) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 5:59 PM Author: orange base Good question, because he’s most like Spielberg. One of the greatest filmmaker/storytellers of all time and even an auteur in his own way. But I would really struggle to say he’s anywhere near Kurosawa or Kubrick.
He’s kind of like De Palma but less gritty. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 6:04 PM Author: Shaky indian lodge ape IMO:
1. Rajkumar Hirani 2. Neeraj Pandey 3. Shoojit Sircar 4. Sanjay Leela Bhansali 5. Yash Chopra 6. Anurag Kashyap 7. Vishal Bhardwaj 8. Nagesh Kukunoor 9. Sriram Raghavan 10. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Nolan is maybe in the top 15 but you still have guys like Ashutosh Gowariker, Nitesh Tiwari and Dibakara Banerjee in the mix so hard to say. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 6:40 PM Author: primrose address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052222) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: Mind-boggling pink corn cake Do you value a director that makes well made movies that people like? If so, he's probably top 5 all time at this point.
Do you value art for the sake of being art, where you go "Actually The Godfather sucks have you seen this mob movie by this Peruvian director about a lesbian clown - that's real mobster story telling."
There's no director since Spielberg who has his resume. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:23 PM Author: primrose address No I like movies that are beautiful and kino and tell a good story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052396) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:19 PM Author: amber comical messiness Nolan is maybe Top 40. Very good at constructing sealed epistemological systems. Less good when a Human enters one. He mistakes epistemology for metaphysics sometimes imo. He can’t crack T20 if duration, negative space, montage, phenomenology, or transcendence are allowed in the room.
My T20 imho:
Bresson Dreyer Ozu Mizoguchi Kurosawa Tarkovsky Kiarostami Hou Hsiao-hsien Tsai Ming-liang Chantal Akerman Raúl Ruiz Lars von Trier Fassbinder Buñuel Godard Sergio Leone Tony Scott Kubrick Welles Hideo Kojima |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:53 PM Author: Floppy Disgusting Library How do you attack me for being Liberal yet include Lars van Trier in the Pantheon. You’re all over the place you weeb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052728) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:58 PM Author: amber comical messiness I've been Breaking the Waves threading since before you were NW7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052733) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:59 PM Author: amber comical messiness http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4771211&mc=6&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052736) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 9:22 AM Author: a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts How many dicks are in your ass right now? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50060395) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:31 PM Author: Know-it-all Big Pocket Flask Stage he's not, and his best film is in fact tenet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052405) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: amber comical messiness (MCU fan) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052410) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:40 PM Author: Know-it-all Big Pocket Flask Stage no, but explain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052698) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 11:00 PM Author: amber comical messiness eschewing the dark knight idk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052740) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:01 PM Author: snowy menage gunner Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052471) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:12 PM Author: Magenta shrine rigpig No (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50052508) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 9:32 AM Author: shitlaw boss vibecoding productivity tracker (🧐) definitely not top 10 even for a non-filmmo maybe top 20
neckbeard xo pushback against his movies is also retarded. he made some good fun movies that were great to watch in theaters. and at this point he's pretty much the last man standing of the spielberg tradition like others have pointed out. you can smell the fedoras ITT |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 9:42 AM Author: hex (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890406&forum_id=2~#50060418) |
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Date: August 11th, 2026 9:45 AM Author: lfo Scorsese Hitchcock Coppola Kubrick Lang Wilder Bergman Ford Lumet Kiarostami That's 10, and he's not cracking it. I'm open to Wong Kar-Wai, John Huston, Orson Welles He's in tier with Spielberg, Woody Allen, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood, so maybe top 20. |