Why Nolan??

[Super_Ludacris]

Contemporary film making with a mature and character driven style is always refreshing in a time of hammy and oversignatured directors dominating, sometimes spoiling the films they are appointed to direct. That's why I can dig Nolan's work.

 

[JackBauer]

I much prefer his way of invisible directing (kinda like Cameron Crowe) instead of the way the likes of Burton and Bay keep bashing your over the head with their so called "styles", which is usually a way to disguise their lack of talent when it comes to telling a story.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

I much prefer his way of invisible directing (kinda like Cameron Crowe) instead of the way the likes of Burton and Bay keep bashing your over the head with their so called "styles", which is usually a way to disguise their lack of talent when it comes to telling a story.

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[Jackasscoley15]

I much prefer his way of invisible directing (kinda like Cameron Crowe) instead of the way the likes of Burton and Bay keep bashing your over the head with their so called "styles", which is usually a way to disguise their lack of talent when it comes to telling a story.

Agreed on all accounts. As much as I love some directors styles of choice, it becomes overkill when they feel that they have to keep building on that same style in their following films.

 

[cryptic name]

Exactly he has NO style. anyone, ANYONE could make his films. To Nolan camera work, use of music, and editing don't matter.

that's a pretty ridiculous statement.

 

[turtlefocker]

Thanks for the input everyone. You guys are good sports.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The Prestige was awsome IMHO and Momento was very good. I liked Insomina well enough but it could've been better. As for Batman Begins I happen to think that it is disappointing because he was the director. IMO is just wasn't good enough for reasons that I've already got into many times before.He's a good director but he doesn't know how to film action.

 

[Steve Rogers]

So is this one of those "*insert name* is popular, so I must BASH HIM/HER/IT!" threads?

No, this is on of those *insert name* is popular and I can't see why as I am intelligent enough to form my own opinion threads.

 

[dark_b]

Wow, if Nolan has no style, then I wonder just how many directors out there you think have any style.

welll burtons style is to have washed out dark movies.
raimis style is to have cheesy camera work plus overreacting acting.

poor nolan.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

The Prestige was awsome IMHO and so Momento was very good. I liked Insomina well enough but it could've been better. As for Batman Begins I happen to think that it is disappointing because he was the director. IMO is just wasn't good enough for reasons that I've already got into many times before.He's a good director but he doesn't know how to film action.

It was his first action film for goodness sake. When you consider it being his first take at an action/adventure film it was a damn good job.

The Tumbler Chase, Batman/Scarecrow's first encounter, the Monorail sequence, and the destruction of Wayne Manor were very realistic moments and great simple action.

I fully expect him to grow as a director and get better when it comes to action.

 

[BatMatt]

The Following
Memento
Insomnia
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight so far...

That's why I like Nolan, who is quickly becoming one of my favorites

 

[dark_b]

i think nolan made a better big budget action movie then some directors who already made more then 2.

 

[블라스]

No, this is on of those *insert name* is popular and I can't see why as I am intelligent enough to form my own opinion threads.

Those threads suck

 

[Steve Rogers]

Those threads suck

So why post in it?

 

[블라스]

It's fun?

 

[Steve Rogers]

Are you asking me or telling me?

 

[블라스]

Telling you?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It was his first action film for goodness sake. When you consider it being his first take at an action/adventure film it was a damn good job.

The Tumbler Chase, Batman/Scarecrow's first encounter, the Monorail sequence, and the destruction of Wayne Manor were very realistic moments and great simple action.

I fully expect him to grow as a director and get better when it comes to action.

Well I obviously didn't. Why are you on me about my observation about his skill at directing action. Shouldn't you pick on somebody who actually said that they didn't like him as a director? Not that you should be picking on anyone but it just seems that I can't win with some people! I said I liked his movies and get angry post's about that...I give up, what the hell should I say? Once again I make one post and it is picked apart by people who hate the Spider-Man movies because they made money. I didn't even bring up Spider-Man and whenever I post people bring it up like a talked about it when I in fact didn't. Can we just talk about Nolan/Batman and leave peoples hate for the Spidey flicks out of this?

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

ISS, you need to realize directors are going to be compared, especially on a comic book forum. Just get over it.

As far as Nolan, he's one of the most intelligent comic book directors working today. BB was a great movie, the second best comic book movie after Superman 78 IMO. Raimi is ok at the action, but he fails at a lot of the other aspects, such as subtlety, emotion, and characterization. This is where directors like Nolan, Donner, and Singer excel.

The complaint about the action in BB being disappointing is unsubstantiated. I only assume these people are referring to the fighting, which was done ON PURPOSE as has been stated only a million times. All of the other action sequences are great.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

ISS, you need to realize directors are going to be compared, especially on a comic book forum. Just get over it.

As far as Nolan, he's one of the most intelligent comic book directors working today. BB was a great movie, the second best comic book movie after Superman 78 IMO. Raimi is ok at the action, but he fails at a lot of the other aspects, such as subtlety, emotion, and characterization. This is where directors like Nolan, Donner, and Singer excel.

The complaint about the action in BB being disappointing is unsubstantiated. I only assume these people are referring to the fighting, which was done ON PURPOSE as has been stated only a million times. All of the other action sequences are great.

You are completely useless person who can't except the fact that I don't like Singer as a director and I like Nolan but found the action in BB to be horrible. I don't have to explain myself to you or anyother bastard like you who can't except that people have different opinions. How about this, I disagree with 99.9percent of your post and you can't be right because it's all subjective. Donner's silly campy Superman movie has aged horribly IMHO and I laugh when people like you pretend that it is against the law to think such a thing. I don't agree with you and I don't like you or anyother people of your ilk. Only a ridiculous self centered jackass would write a post like the one you wrote. You effectly wrote that my opinion is wrong and tell me that my claims are unsubstantiated. How so? Oh wait I don't give a f**k what you think. This is my last post to you, goodbye jackass.

 

[chamber-music]

Thanks to turtlefocker for starting another never ending thread now which is gonna turn into 'Who's Better Donner, Singer, Raimi or Nolan'.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

He didn't start a thread like the jackasses have turned it into that.

 

[WorthyStevens]

welll burtons style is to have washed out dark movies.
raimis style is to have cheesy camera work plus overreacting acting.

poor nolan.

Oh noes.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

You are completely useless person who can't except the fact that I don't like Singer as a director and I like Nolan but found the action in BB to be horrible. I don't have to explain myself to you or anyother bastard like you who can't except that people have different opinions. How about this, I disagree with 99.9percent of your post and you can't be right because it's all subjective. Donner's silly campy Superman movie has aged horribly IMHO and I laugh when people like you pretend that it is against the law to think such a thing. I don't agree with you and I don't like you or anyother people of your ilk. Only a ridiculous self centered jackass would write a post like the one you wrote. You effectly wrote that my opinion is wrong and tell me that my claims are unsubstantiated. How so? Oh wait I don't give a f**k what you think. This is my last post to you, goodbye jackass.

Wow, are you one angry person.

 

[DACrowe]

Memento is one of the best movies of the last 10 years. That should be reaosn enough.

But he is a competent director who may not be trying to make the movie of a generation or say something intricately complex and wise about our generation/culture/media/world which many great directors have....

but he knows how to make a great movie that entertains without taking himself so serioiusly he gets lost in his own hype (a la Shamylan). Insomnia was a typical thriller but he manages to always get great actors to give great performances that lent the movie some life and the way he has his films edited and juxtaposed keeps things lively, entertaining, and the audience involved enough to not see how the mechanics work.

The Presitge very much was a film about his style. All of his non-Memento films are arguably completely consumatory after a single viewing (albeit I still enjoy watching The Prestige and BB to a lesser extent), but for that viewing he keeps the audiences enamored enough to completely manipulate them so they don't see what's coming from up his sleeve, which is just a sleight of hand. He visually makesh is films interesting. The Prestige did not look like your typical stogey film set in the Victorian era. Besides when the greats like Coppola or Scorcesse set a movie in that era, it is almost always in the Merchant Ivory vein of water-color painting styled and stately (aka boring) camera work that merely follows the audience around (you could argue Branaugh broke this with Hamlet, but he was too enamored with himself to let the story feow past his spinning tracking shots).

There is a life and vitality to The Prestige that makes it all feel in the moment and present (even if it is during the turn of the century) and the atmosphere of what the chnological revolution was in that age.

And yes he can do the same with Batman Begins, because BB makes a superhero feel somewhat realistic. He balances the cliches of the genre, the studio mandated **** (bad lines and needless action scenes) and puts in car chases and train chases and an overabundance of explosions and a beat-by-beat storyline.

But it works to marvelous affect beccause Nolan uses the tricks of the trade adn the mise en scene to give it enough versimilitude that audiences believe in the material and give a damn about what is happening but still sits comfortably asn an etertaining action movie meant for disposable fun (despite what fanboys say) but with enough depth to be worth revisiting. And again he has an amazing cast that take some pretty thin characters (because outside of Batman and Alfred, no one is that terribly developed in this film) and makes them feel real, breath easy and makes the audience feel them through their small bits and impacting performances to care. It doesn't go through the motions like most action movies but takes the contrivances of the genre and under nolan's style makes them work as well as a Paul Haggis movie, which due to "politicallly and socially important messages are brilliant."


Yes fanboys overpraise him because of BB and thinks he should direct every movie with a geek interest....ever. He has not reached the same plateau as ay Alfred Hitchcock or other populist directors (Steven Speilberg being another exaple), but snobs are too dismissing ofh is work, simply because he is a populist. But hey in his heyday Hitchcock had no respect and people still claim that Speilberg is low-brow and uses puppets in the face of movies like Schindler's List, Munich, Empire of the Sun and Saving Private Ryan.

Now Nolan as of yet hasn't reached that level of quality or prestige (no pun intended) but wh try and argue with elitists who today kiss the asses of Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and other AMAZING DIRECTORS THAT DEFINED THE ARTFORM, but under the same pretenses can be dismissed as genre filmmakers who "don't make anything of substance."

Right....