Christopher Nolan: Worst to Best

[@thecozykinoshow]

let us pray to the FILMBRO GODS that this video stays up this time. apologies for The Dark Knight edits but Warner Bros were just NOT having it.

[@Alexandxer_14]

Christopher Nolan is the director I've grown up with, the man who made me fall in love with cinema. He IS my favorite director ever.

[@QhallyshNotExist]

The Cozy Kino Show PRESENTS: Christopher Nolan (Worst to Best) ----------------------------- INTRODUCTION & RANKED 0:00 Intro 4:08 Number 12 7:13 Number 11 16:23 Number 10 26:32 Number 9 40:37 Number 8 44:06 Number 7 52:29 Number 6 59:02 Number 5 1:04:11 Number 4 1:13:52 Number 3 1:22:00 Number 2 1:34:57 Number 1 1:41:19 Conclusion

[@JoJoJoker]

The Prestige is my #1. Every time I’ve watched it is a different experience. For example: the real “reveal” is Lord Caldlow, not the twins! Hugh Jackman’s character tricks the audience for the entire movie with his fake American accent. Angier is not Borden’s rival…it’s Caldlow v. Borden. Even you failed to mention this very important detail:-) This video even revealed a detail I’ve missed: Caldlow scratched out the name of the cloning machine in his diary. Which is written in beautiful maroon ink, something unavailable to a poor like Borden.

[@EJD339]

I just got a letterboxd account and for fun I’ve been rating all the movies I’ve seen and I was kind of surprised how prestige ended up on my #1 and I don’t think it’s even close. I always respect what Christopher Nolan does but to me a lot of his movies lose some of their appeal after rewatches but the prestige has only gotten better to me.

[@ds1671]

I think Nolan films are the physical embodiment of: Dudes will see this and be like “hell yeah”

[@DavidTheVlogger]

I'm not gonna try to convince you that The Prestige is an endlessly rewatchable film, but rather how I personally find it to be. I've seen the movie about five times now, and each and every time I found at least one (if not more) clue/hint to the final reveal that I somehow didn't notice before and that seems painfully obvious on rewatch. It's also one of my favorite films to watch with other people, because the twist seems obvious to me, but they're always oblivious to it. It's crazy how in your face the reveal is, and yet you still don't notice it. It's a movie that every time I rewatch it, I'm constantly reminded how masterful it truly is.

[@JBrown_Trivium]

Interstellar, to me, is perfection

[@moomoo1200]

the prestige is his best for me, entertaining throughout, interstellar is a slog

[@EJD339]

I love 70 percent of things about interstellar but the other 30 I just can’t get behind at all. Some of the writing is just bad to me but I will never take away someone loving a movie. I love as Astra more and people hate that movie lol

[@sbraker]

bro I legit went wide eyed and jaw dropped when I saw 12. "The Dark Knight" XD

[@useful7379]

The reality is that the Dark Knight Rises is not the original movie Nolan had in mind. After Heath died, the whole idea of the film got reimagined.

[@anvaryusupov8245]

I find both Nolan fans and haters to be exhausting. The fans deny and overlook Nolan’s flaws and proclaim him as God of cinema. Haters like to show off their elite taste in cinema by showing disregard to his strong sides

[@kenwatanabe2864]

This. He has an annoying fans/haters problem. This is sorely my opinion and not yours. For me Nolan is the director that gave us Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar, DUNKIRK, etc. I was willing to look over his flaws and forgo the displeasure after watching Tenet because again, this is Chris Nolan after all. I can see what he was trying to achieve so it's hard to trash the film just because it wasn't for me. Then I go online and find these obnoxious fans who are unwilling to listen to any criticisms of the film and tell me "you don't understand the meaning" and basically treats him as "the greatest director ever." Why is it so difficult for some people to say "(the greatest director) for me/in my opinion"? smh

[@michaelcraven353]

"How do ya like them apples, Matt Damon" made me cry 😂

[@Maybeabandaid9]

"Scarecrow gives him a bad acid trip and sets him on fire." "I tell you what...I've been there." Me: "Questions. Questions that need answering."

[@MrLiamdude5]

I fully respect your list but it greatly differs from mine. 12. Following 11. Insomnia 10. The Dark Knight Rises 9. Oppenheimer 8. Memento 7. Dunkirk 6. The Prestige 5. Batman Begins 4. Interstellar 3. Tenet 2. Inception 1. The Dark Knight

[@dr.downvote]

Listen, the timeline that he followed to direct movies go to the top of the hairpin model. Your order of preference of his films is the bottom of the hairpin model. Now a true Nolan fan would take one from above, one from below until he reaches the U of the hairpin model.

[@hawkeyefigure]

This is similar to my list

[@Hartwig870]

Yeah he's completely wrong, I don't respect people who are wrong. He's also young and british, two more strikes.

[@yunggolem4687]

Much better order. TDK is one of the few Nolan films that's actually rewatchable more than once or twice because the point of it isn't "plot complexity gimmick + grand setpieces". OFC much of this is attributable to Heath. All of Nolan's movies have that "grounded" Nolan feel which is what people were really craving when he came along, but his focus on that has diminished over time & most of the other stuff that seems to entertain Nolan (plot complexity, ooo-wow setpieces) doesn't have much value beyond the 2nd watch, while a well executed character, confidently vibey cinematography, & the setting/plot context to let them shine without distraction has almost infinite rewatch value and that's what TDK gives you. I'd move Memento up & Tenet down several slots, but everything else is about where I'd put it.

[@syncr4tic184]

Great Video. Nice editing and voice over, good analysis. This must have taken a lot of work and it shows. Liked and subscribed , I'm sure this video and your channel will blow up soon.

[@treytison1444]

Inception is already a perfect movie, I am not sure what you'd add.

[@EntertainingRunner-vd3bn]

You have to give Nolan credit for being the Boat you take out to sea to arrive at the tip of the Iceberg...

[@trev9168]

Oppenheimer is my personal favorite films of his. Interstellar comes very close if not rivaling it. I can’t just watch a clip of that movie. I watch even a minute and I gotta watch it again

[@BarryLambson]

I really enjoy your thoughtful and "non-edgy" take on these, and in your other essays. Your tone is inviting and open, and fosters a spirit of discourse. I really do wish Interstellar hit harder in the third act too, but it is still in my top 10 Sci-Fi of all time. Cheers! or whatever y'all say over there :)

[@thevgdynamic559]

For Tenet...don't they hammer away at the fact she has a son because her son IS Neil?

[@SinSefia]

12:55 Top 10 Movies With Vibes Over Plot video, please.

[@tobennanzenwa369]

Can you rank fincher’s movies next ?

[@spitz_495]

I get what you mean by his 3rd act syndrome in some of his lesser films. He can get convoluted and carried away at times. But all of his best films (except for Interstellar) don't have that problem in my opinion. Inception, Oppenheimer, Prestige, Tenet, Dunkirk, Dark Knight. None of them have those issues for me. Interstellar does have those issues, but for me the best parts of that film are still so fucking good that the positives still massively outweigh the negatives in my eyes.

[@master_macchiato3222]

He has made one of the best I have seen in the last decade (interstellar) - to two I could not finish (tenet, Oppenheimer) and I have only not finished seeing 4 movies in 40 yrs - and he has 2 of them

[@DenverJohn]

My list: 12. Following 11. The Dark Knight Rises 10. Insomnia 9. Oppenheimer (Def Nolan's best film, but not my cup of tea) 8. Dunkirk 7. Interstellar 6. Tenet 5. Memento 4. Batman Begins 3. The Prestige 2. Inception 1. The Dark Knight

[@シャローム]

I really enjoyd this video and i hope that you do this ranking to the Spilberg and scorsece movies and now now i will give my ranking: 12. Dunkirk 11. Insomnia 10. The following 9. Tennet 8. The dark night rises 7. Batman begins 6. Ophenhimer 5. The prestige 4. Memento 3. Inception 2. The dark night 1. Interstellar

[@YVZSTUDIOS]

S: The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins A: Interstellar (hated it the 1st time seeing it, liked it on the 2nd watch), Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight Rises B: TENET (same as Interstellar, but I didn't rewatch) F: Dunkirk (idk, it was extremely boring to me, no driving action, no stakes, nothing)

[@harryclarke8867]

You doing a Sean Baker one?

[@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214]

My List: 12: Following 11: Dunkirk 10: Tenet 9: Insomnia 8: Batman Begins 7: The Prestige 6: The Dark Knight Rises (fight me) 5: Interstellar 4: Oppenheimer 3: Memento 2: Inception 1: The Dark Knight

[@Kolket1389]

Best director of all time.

[@nolanscripture]

12. The Dark Knight Rises 11. Tenet 10. Following 9. Dunkirk 8. The Dark Knight 7. Oppenheimer 6. Insomnia 5. Batman Begins 4. Inception 3. The Prestige 2. Interstellar 1. Memento

[@danielbarrero2815]

Great vid!

[@hichrisperry]

Nailed it

[@Kolket1389]

I never understood these pretentious movie critics like yourselves. You think you are smarter than everyone. It annoys me when you with such confidence, as if were a fact, explain to me why I scene I like is actually bad😂 For example, it had never, ever occurred to me that Noland cannot write good female characters…I liked the video up until you started randomly inserting your opinions as facts as to why Tenet is bad. Sure, it’s a 7/10 movie at best, but not for the reasons you mentioned

[@Benjamin-ns8ct]

Great video - only 6.7k views!!? It feels like a 250k+ video.

[@thesmellofadventure5370]

12. Following (1998)(Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Tristan Martin) 11. Insomnia (2002)(Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hillary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt, Paul Dooley, Crystal Lowe, Larry Holden) 10. Dunkirk (2017)(Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Lowden, Michael Caine) 9. Oppenheimer (2023)(Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, Josh Peck, David Krumholtz, Josh Hartnett, Jack Quaid, Casey Affleck, David Dasmalchian, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh) 8. Memento (2000)(Guy Pearce, Carrie Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky, Mark Boone Junior, Jorja Fox, Callum Keith Rennie) 7. Batman Begins (2005)(Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson, Linus Roache, Sara Stewart, Mark Boone Junior, Jack Gleeson, Tim Booth, Rutger Hauer, Richard Brake) 6. Tenet (2020)(John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Clemence Poesy, Himesh Patel) 5. Interstellar (2014)(Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Timothee Chalamet, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, David Gyasi) 4. Inception (2010)(Leonardo DiCaprio, Elliot Page, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Lukas Haas) 3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)(Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Ben Mendelssohn, Matthew Modine, Burn Gorman, Tom Conti, Nestor Carbonelle, Juno Temple) 2. The Prestige (2006)(Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Rebecca Hall, David Bowie, Andy Serkis, Piper Perabo, Samantha Mahurin, Roger Rees) 1. The Dark Knight (2008)(Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Nestor Carbonelle, Eric Roberts, Chin Han, Cillian Murphy, David Dasmalchian, Ritchie Coster, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Joshua Harto)

[@rileylallier429]

1. The Dark Knight 5/5 2. Inception 5/5 3. Oppenheimer 5/5 4. Insomnia 4.5/5 5. The Prestige 4.5/5 6. The Dark Knight Rises 4.5/5 7. Batman Begins 4.5/5 8. Interstellar 4/5 9. Dunkirk 3.5/5 10. Tenet 3/5 11. Memento 2.5/5 12. Following 2.5/5

[@gibranlopez636]

Take a hit every time they say “spectacle”

[@abdul8973]

Please do a david fincher ranked

[@rickyparrish2570]

I loved Tenet

[@Kaijuzilla-wf3re]

Even though I do feel a slight aggravation in me when someone tries to talk about the weaknesses of Christopher Nolan, I completely understand their argument and where they are coming from. I love all of his film, some of them I consider to be flawless, but of course I know there are problems with his repetition. This is actually why I have actually grown to being bitter with Martin Scorsese’s films. Because that guy makes great films, but a good amount of them have the same plot. So idk. Tell me how and why I’m wrong if you’re so inclined.

[@jneigh727]

1:18:35 this is such an unfair and bad criticism what lmaooo

[@kameronbelcher]

Why did you oddly seem to pretend to invent the concept of "suspension of disbelief" in this video around the 20 minute mark?? I thought it was a joke but then it wasn't brought up again?

[@1234O-u6i]

Unpopular opinion: Nolan hasn't bad films, and for me swap Interstellar and Dark Knight (2nd and 3rd places) and it will be nice

[@cactusman5603]

It is a pain when a video gets immediately flagged for copyright, but really after weeks?

[@thecozykinoshow]

yeah cactusman, I've never had it before. very strange.

[@austinnorton4682]

While I appreciate your efforts (heck, I'm putting five minutes into this comment, while you probably spent a week on this video), here's how I see it: 1. The Prestige - love 2. Batman Begins - love 3. Memento - like 4. Interstellar - like 5. The Dark Knight - like for the first hour and a half 6. The Dark Knight Rises - indifferent 7. Inception - dislike 8. Dunkirk - forgot 9. Insomnia - forgot 10. Tenet - hate 11. Oppenheimer - hate with the passion of a thousand burning suns

[@Oak_Knight]

The Dark Knight Rises suffers from two main issues in my opinion, but does have some nice moments. The issues are that firstly, it feels like there needs to be a missing third film after The Dark Knight that shows this improvement in Gotham thanks to Batman's sacrifice and one in which Batman becomes the nightmare for criminals and then increasingly realises that he is no longer needed - possibly also incorporating the injury he is sporting in The Dark Knight Rises (an initial encounter with Bane?) That could then be used to progress neatly into the events in the final film. Secondly, the plot is garbage. It needed a serious rewrite to explain how the city descends into chaos that doesn't involve the entire police department being trapped underground for months and then later reappearing completely unchanged. It should also have left Bane as the central protagonist. The film really films like a contractual obligation rather than a passion project for him.

[@Zed-fq3lj]

Very interesting video, I enjoyed your remarks on Nolan (he is a little bit overrated, but nevertheless a magnificent director with 3-4 game changing, marvelous movies). Btw 'Dunkirk' is a meaningless unwatchable crap🙄 : Best Christopher Nolan Movies imo 1.Prestige - 2006 2.Interstellar - 2014 3.The Dark Knight - 2008 4.Insomnia - 2002 5.Memento - 2000 6.Batman Begins - 2005 7.Oppenheimer - 2023 8.Inception - 2010 9.The Dark Knight Rises - 2012

[@ejoshcoron]

There’s no u after the c. It’s nuclear, not nucular

[@gargleblasta]

Exposition for tennet would have been useful if only you could hear what the actor was saying

[@useful7379]

It’s actually part of the story telling. The story is about entropy. The difficulty in hearing is to force you to feel what is happening as oppose to just hearing the words. I didn’t fully understand this until about the 5 th or 6th watch.

[@gargleblasta]

@@useful7379 unfortunately... the movie is not interesting enough to me to view multiple times :S

[@K1181-r4o]

I love Oppenheimer but there is no way in hell it's better than The Dark Knight

[@sugargd399]

really good

[@deepaknambisan3251]

I genuinely believe that Nolan is a genius of sorts. However, much like olives, I can’t help but consume any movie of his whilst not particularly enjoying the experience.

[@useful7379]

It’s why I love his movies. He makes movies as like he was playing 4 d chess while most people watching thinks of them as challenging checkers.

[@EJD339]

I have a lot of respect for Nolan and he can make very entertaining and amazing movies but his films can be extremely flawed and it becomes more obvious on rewatches.

[@JosePerez-mz7pg]

Please do David fincher next!!!

[@useful7379]

Clearly this guy doesn’t understand Tenet at all. What he calls “exposition” is actual information about the emotional center of the movie. Nevermind that he completely missed the fact that Neal is her son from the future moving backwards against entropy. He should probably just admit he doesn’t have Nolan’s intelligence.

[@thecozykinoshow]

@@useful7379 I don’t have Nolan’s intelligence

[@aresgalamatis7022]

@1:00:00 Since? 2002's Irreversible from Gaspar Noe. @1:20:15 Lack of a "corny" soul and "pretentious" humanity is what makes Kubrick's take a 5/5 while Nolan's barely a 3/5 for me. Not just the third act is too stupid, throughout the film all its strong points are destroyed by Cameron-level tear-jerking scenes, that makes most rational people think about what morons are all these characters, waiting for the slasher film's supernatural killer to extract Darwinian nemesis for the audience's catharsis 😂TLDR; Interstellar is a very stupid film, that 2/3rds in looks good and has some scientifically passable visualisations.

[@wistfulgraph]

My list: 12. Tenet 11. The Dark Knight Rises 10. Following 9. Batman Begins 8. Insomnia 7. Inception 6. Interstellar 5. Oppenheimer 4. The Prestige 3. Memento 2. Dunkirk 1. The Dark Knight

[@thatRyzzle]

Honestly, I might put Dunkirk dead-last, having not seen Following. I absolutely don't understand the hype surrounding Dunkirk. Out of all of Nolan's non-characters, Dunkirk is the one with the most non-characters. Plus, it has that bloke from One Direction in it. Which, fair enough, is actually an okay performance, given he's playing a non-character.

[@victorvick1076]

I've always had a problem with interstellars ending kinda meh. But the problem with interstellar is why would you need data from a world with mile high waves. No point, obviously no one is going there. Maybe interesting for data but not necessary.

[@useful7379]

They didn’t know it had mile high waves. Also they didn’t take into account the communication they were receiving was being effected by the time dilation. By the time they understood what was happening on the water planet, years in our time had passed.

[@bradyanderson7675]

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[@thecozykinoshow]

.erus

[@crookedtool]

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[@mikespearwood3914]

The Translate to English option for your comment reduces it to just a full stop.

[@Jiminellie]

i was so amazed with this list... until number one popped up and i laughed so hard reading the name. you still an edgy teen dude, not refined

[@SiccazHD]

Excact same as my list

[@hankworden3850]

The Dork Knight blows chunks.

[@mikespearwood3914]

Batman Begins was the only good one out of that trilogy for mine.

[@calebcaleb800]

1. Oppenheimer 2. Tenet( "We get up to some stuff") 3. Memento The rest don't matter.

[@Hartwig870]

Wow. I didn't think people could have objectively wrong opinions, yet here we are. Your takes are bad and you should feel bad.

[@Sven_E07]

No1: James Woods would be an Oscar winner right now. He was cancelled by the inclusive Hollywood for supporting Donald Trump and had to be a silent producer on this movie. And that is part of the explanation why it has so much class and sincerity and a little patriotism. It was a great experience watching it in cinema.

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Even the worst stills bettwr than any marvel movie

[@Dolavin]

into the spider verse

[@careerdevelopment1822]

Agreed! Tenet sucks

[@useful7379]

I have found anyone who thinks Tenet sucks simply doesn’t understand it at all. It is incredibly complex but if you know how to follow it is insanely interesting.

[@DrKrapulax]

The problem with Memento is that while the structure is amazingly built the story itself is nihilistic trash. Call me old-fashioned but I can't quite enjoy a story where a mentally damaged person falls into ever greater depths of insanity. The movie is like a finely polished turd.

[@underrated4499]

Completely agree, it felt like I was waiting for something that never came

[@jneigh727]

Then you can’t enjoy a good story 😭😭

[@DrKrapulax]

@@jneigh727 You and I have different metrics for what makes a story good.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Yes! The Dark Knight Rises was a god damn mess.

[@samuelurbaniak9908]

Here's the deal. Spielberg has proven himself. If he makes a drama, I will see it. If he makes an action, war, comedy, Science Fiction movie I will watch it. There's a guarantee it's going to be good. You know he can do a great job with it. But... Tarantino is my favorite director, and my favorite writer. I don't want to see him do a superhero movie, and I don't want to see him do a science-fiction movie. You have a certain stylistic expectation that comes with him and you don't want him to break it. I know he likes comics and will stay true to them... but I don't want to see him make a film that will break the style I want from him. I would feel robbed. Nolan is Bay for people who think they are too smart for Bay. And I love some Bay movies and I love some Nolan movies.... neither of them should make anything that really needs you to think about it. Neither of them should do dialogue. Neither of them can really do a stylistic world that you appreciate. They aren't versatile like Spielberg, they don't have a defined stye like Tarantino. They are pretty limited in what they can do well and not limited because you want something specific from them, they are limited because they can't be versatile.

[@comealsolito804]

Strongly disagree, Nolan is pretty versatile. The Prestige is completely different from The Dark Night which is completely different from Inception or Interstellar or Durkirk. Honestly Nolan has brilliant ideas and his stories are undeniably engaging to follow so you can’t tell me that he should just makes us shut our brain or do no dialogue. The problem with his movies is the execution of some plot resolution and maybe the blandness of some characters, but his movies are overall so unique that people always rewatch them many times. IMO Nolan should hire someone really good with dialogue and characterization, maybe someone more grounded who could balance his complicated and convoluted ideas, but not for one second he should stop making this kind of movies cause he clearly knows what he’s doing, all flaws considered.

[@useful7379]

Nolan is Bay if Bay had a brain and the ability to develop a story and emotion.

[@samuelurbaniak9908]

@@useful7379 Sometimes Nolan can. Bane was a vapid stereotype at best and was more appropriate for Batman & Robin if it were self aware enough to be bad and pretentious. Dunkirk he absolutely failed to deliver anything deeper than a teaspoon. It looked good but it didn't say anything and never found enough footing to really develop a character enough to care about them. He keeps to Sci-Fi, he's not bad. Bay keeps to mindless action, he's not bad. But I wouldn't say either of them do well outside of their genres.

[@samuelurbaniak9908]

@@comealsolito804 Well there you go, Dunkirk. It looked pretty, but it was too all over the place to really develop any characters, and because of that the audience can't really get invested in it, the story doesn't really develop past the most base level. But, hey, it's Nolan, so you have to pretend it's good, just like people did with The Dark Knight Rises.

[@comealsolito804]

@@samuelurbaniak9908 Ok but you're talking about Durkirk and The Dark Night Rises which both recieved mixed critics, especially the latter. Hell, I didn't even watched it and even I know that that movie is a mess. So actually no, people don't pretend it's good when it's not just because he's Nolan. That being said, his best works are definitely levels above Durkirk and TDKR, even though pretty much any of his movie contains major flaws, and I'll give you that the avarage viewer is not too much able to detect them, but that has nothing to do with Nolan, it's just the way the majority of people consumes media. Look how everybody glazing that season 2 of Arcane even though it's literally narrative abortion

[@harisankar2688]

My god! The dark knight is good but it's extremely overrated just like the joker character. That movie and character is the one reason why batman's other competent rivals are never explored in depth

[@comealsolito804]

mmhh no!? It's just that the Joker is on another level dude. Even if you just consider Nolan's work, Scarecrow is a really nice villain and Cillian Murphy is astounding, but he got just overshadow by Heat Ledger's Joker. He's just that good. Not everybody cares about Batman's lore, but Nolan's Joker is universally recognized as one of the greatest villain in cinema history, to the extent that he completly trascended the comics genre. Truly a light-in-a-bottle character. Also, why you're blaming the Dark Night? If you're a competent and passionate director, you can explore other Batman's villain making them interesting and iconic, as Nolan did with Scarecrow and The Joker.

[@useful7379]

????? Arguably the best comic movie ever made.

[@lestatlaughs]

The most overrated contemporary director. Time people see it! Cheers.

[@mikespearwood3914]

He needs to go back to "smaller" character films like The Prestige & Memento: my two favourite Nolan films. His big "blockbuster" movies are just silly and pretentious.

[@EntertainingRunner-vd3bn]

Hans Zimmer really carries alot of the films.

[@SiccazHD]

I think so until Oppenheimer which is one of the greatest movies ive seen

[@killert_7759]

False

[@comealsolito804]

He’s not flawless but he’s absolutely not overrated. Honestly Nolan has brilliant ideas and his stories are undeniably engaging to follow, the problem with his movies is the execution of some plot resolution and maybe the blandness of some characters, but I would say that Nolan is actually over-hated. Other directors like Ridley Scott, Cameroon etc. released twice the stinkers that Nolan released, but yet he still recieve twice the hate.

[@michaels.chupka9411]

"more smaller moments"? have they stopped teaching English grammar? quite acceptable and preferable to just say "smaller moments". quite a while ago, we were taught to use more or most to modify an adjective to a comparative or superlative form only when the adjective was polysyllabic. if the adjective was monosyllabic, we were taught to employ -er or -est. lazy writing/lazy thinking. and it's j. Robert Oppenheimer.

[@mcbeaty3971]

The statement is proper, quite unlike not capitalizing the first word of your sentences; which would be improper.

[@thesmellofadventure5370]

@@mcbeaty3971this got me😂

[@deepaknambisan3251]

Michael S. Chupka ‘eats, shoots and leaves’, but only after gracing us mere mortals with his extraordinarily poor understanding of the simplest rules of punctuation. Must do better, Mikey!

[@comealsolito804]

My man, your pretentious ass couldn't even realize that "more" refers to the quantity of moments he was talking, as in: "more moments that are smaller".

[@hankworden3850]

They're all crap.