The Dark Knight Rises The Christopher Nolan Thread

Will you be excited about Nolan's Non-Batman films in the future?

  • Yes! He's a great director.

  • No! I like Nolan because of Batman.

  • Ehh, it depends on the movie.

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The Prestige is still my favorite Nolan film. :awesome:
 
Rocketman said:
I'm still shocked over how underrated it is. It's truly a mindbender of a movie.
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Absolutely. Heck, I'll even go as far as to say that it should've gotten some awards recognition. I think if it came out after TDK or Inception then the movie would've fared better commercially and critically. That movie is just perfection. :hrt:
 
The crazy thing is that it's literally structured as a flashback inside a diary narration inside another flashback. I don't think any of it actually occurs in real time aside from the end, does it?
 
kvz5 said:
Absolutely. Heck, I'll even go as far as to say that it should've gotten some awards recognition. I think if it came out after TDK or Inception then the movie would've fared better commercially and critically. That movie is just perfection. :hrt:
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I thought it was better than 2006 Best Picture winner The Departed, which I felt was a really good movie as well.
 
Rocketman said:
The crazy thing is that it's literally structured as a flashback inside a diary narration inside another flashback. I don't think any of it actually occurs in real time aside from the end, does it?
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Yeah, the book is just the diaries I believe, they structured it so amazingly you dont even notice. One more reason not to doubt the missing eight years...
 
I think Nolan's greatest talent is making the complex easily digestible. If you look at The Prestige, or Inception, it's a small miracle that those movies are even comprehensible, let alone riveting. The amount of layers going on at once...I'm still baffled as to how Inception didn't even warrant a Best Editing nomination. Having four/five layers of reality/dream/limbo all going at once and my mom wasn't confused for a second! :funny:

Nolan's ambitious, but he doesn't have his head so far up his butt that he forgets he has an audience to entertain. He's juuust right.
 
All of Nolan's films have something going for them.

Inception is my favourite non Batman Nolan film.
 
Inception is a great film. My only gripe with it is the snow / alps dream level feels like it goes on way too long. Also, everyone is dressed the same making it hard to distinguish the characters, as we can't see their faces. I love the first two dream levels and the encounter with Mal in the Limbo level but the snow level I find tedious.
 
I will always be a Nolan fan - there are too many things that a director of his caliber likes that I, as a viewer, am also interested in. Was watching The Prestige the other day and it's no question that he is one of the best directors of our time.
 
Nolan has done a very curious thing with the Batman mythos... both similar and, in terms of cinematic genre, very original.

Most associate Batman Begins as the "reboot" that gave Hollywood an addiction to reboot other franchises, it was also your "origin movie" that has so many echoes elsewhere.

The Dark Knight progressed on that by deconstructing the very ideas established in Begins, and sort of become the model for "grim & gritty" remakes.

And if things are going the way the promotions are leading up to, The Dark Knight Rises is ostensibly a Batman movie that is beyond a Batman-movie. It's the dystopian epic, the Oedipus at Colonus of Superhero Films, so to speak.

Strangely (but not that surprisingly), it mirrors Frank Miller's "alpha and omega" of Batman, but of course, he's yet to deliver the middle. The "Batman tale" that is exemplified by both the mainstream comics of any era, as well as The Dark Knight in his cinematic incarnation.

Does that make sense?
 
Nave 'Torment' said:
Nolan has done a very curious thing with the Batman mythos... both similar and, in terms of cinematic genre, very original.

Most associate Batman Begins as the "reboot" that gave Hollywood an addiction to reboot other franchises, it was also your "origin movie" that has so many echoes elsewhere.

The Dark Knight progressed on that by deconstructing the very ideas established in Begins, and sort of become the model for "grim & gritty" remakes.

And if things are going the way the promotions are leading up to, The Dark Knight Rises is ostensibly a Batman movie that is beyond a Batman-movie. It's the dystopian epic, the Oedipus at Colonus of Superhero Films, so to speak.

Strangely (but not that surprisingly), it mirrors Frank Miller's "alpha and omega" of Batman, but of course, he's yet to deliver the middle. The "Batman tale" that is exemplified by both the mainstream comics of any era, as well as The Dark Knight in his cinematic incarnation.

Does that make sense?
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Nolan is amazing. The Prestige is still my fav and you just made me anticipate this film even more. Thanks. :dry:
 
As a massive fan of film these days it goes without saying that I'm a fan of Nolan, regardless of his connection to the Batman franchise.
 
Darkhunt said:
As a massive fan of film these days it goes without saying that I'm a fan of Nolan, regardless of his connection to the Batman franchise.
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Same. I will admit though the first Nolan movie I ever watched was Batman Begins. I was a batman fan before I was a Nolan fan. How lucky we are to have him direct these movies.
 
Batville said:
Same. I will admit though the first Nolan movie I ever watched was Batman Begins. I was a batman fan before I was a Nolan fan. How lucky we are to have him direct these movies.
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Aye, that's exactly the same for me. Without Batman Begins I wouldn't have discovered Nolan.
 
Batville said:
Nolan is amazing. The Prestige is still my fav and you just made me anticipate this film even more. Thanks. :dry:
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Haha, you're welcome :)

Batville said:
Same. I will admit though the first Nolan movie I ever watched was Batman Begins. I was a batman fan before I was a Nolan fan. How lucky we are to have him direct these movies.
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I guess we all are to an extent - batfans before Nolan fans. I did watch Memento before Batman Begins, but only because the director was about to helm Batman Begins, heh. Guilty.
 
I didn't know who Nolan was before Begins. It wasn't until after that I saw Memento and The Prestige and realized that what I saw in his Batman films was not a fluke.
 
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Memento was my first Nolan movie. I watched it without any idea on what it was about and how the storytelling will be and I walked out of the theater pretty much blown away.
 
Darkhunt said:
Aye, that's exactly the same for me. Without Batman Begins I wouldn't have discovered Nolan.
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Yeah and he usually is just one and done. Does anyone else think this is his heart. Like " this is the trick they'll remember me for?" -Bordon on the prestige.
What I mean is does anyone else think since this is his only trilogy so far that he's putting his legacy into this? And I know he puts his heart in every film. But all the cast and even he himself keep using the word epic. And oldman said he's "outdone himself from tdk". He wouldn't just say that. Idk maybe I'm too excited..
 
You know, the one thing that I've always wondering is trying to figure as to why Nolan has gone on the record of saying during the times before he made TDK and TDKR, that while he was making the previous batman film (BB before TDK and TDK before TDKR) that he wasn't supposedly thinking about future installments past what he was currently making, and yet both BB and TDKR left with such cliffhangers or introductions that would directly lead into another chapter of his franchise.
 
Memento was also my first Nolan movie back in the day. I thought it was brilliant. Then again TDK was brilliant and so was The Prestige.

I saw Inception last year. Once. Thought it was good but not as good as I first felt. Then I saw it again this year and damn, if it's not brilliant it's damn good entertainment.

I like to think Nolan is a living proof that you can be make great entertainment without falling into the average Hollywood crap.



herolee10 said:
He must.......

*Cue insert image of Joel and Tim Burton looking on with a menacing look at the fans.
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Haha. I don't think Joey wants any more Batman, and Burton was adamant to direct BR.
 
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