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Christopher Nolan

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Film director who praised contemporary young actors like Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy as combining new Hollywood realism with old Hollywood showmanship.

Mentions (23)
"Me: 'Oh ok…what are some directors you like' Him: 'Hmmm that's hard, I mean…Christopher Nolan for sure' >Kill me"
"She did the same thing for Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan. Loved Kill Bill, not a fan of The Prestige."
I love my wife · u/WtfThisIsntWii · ↑452 · 2023-08-27
"Nolan has such a low view of the audience that he feels compelled to frame this character as some sort of hero, or at least a victim (Nolan's low view of the audience is the same reason he feels the need to blast a cacophonous action movie score in a movie about people having conversations in rooms)"
Oppenheimer wasn't good · u/SpareSilver · ↑379 · 2024-03-11
"In a similar vein I don't know what to call it but it's wildly easy to dupe them into eating up pseudo-intellectual films so long as you use decent visuals, have occasional pauses and/or drop random unsubtle references, ala Nolan or Villeneuve. Not that they make *bad* movies, but the worship does m"
Which popular Reddit/normie film opinions drive you crazy? · u/ChemicalTutor · ↑238 · 2024-06-19
"This is going to be a really grounded movie you know I was thinking about how the gods didn't really exist you know lightning and earthquakes people didn't understand back then in those times I didn't really bother to study history of literature coin flip if I even read the actual poem but I assume "
"Unlike previous Nolan films, this was a movie about characters. There were even convincing sex scenes. I think that's a first for Nolan. It also seems like Nolan has taken complaints about his sound and editing to heart."
Oppenheimer is Nolan's best film by far · PhilosophicalNShit · ↑192 · 2023-07-25
"Some extremely weird artistic choices made by Nolan. The throwing marbles into a jar for far too long scene, RDJ's bizarre performance, the fact you can't understand what anyone is saying half the time, the superhero esque suiting up scene with the pipe and hat, the hour of POV communist grilling sc"
"Especially not the gritty and self-serious Nolan/Villeneuve brand of sci fi/fantasy - the genre now seems fundamentally trivial to a point that I'd rather it just be fun and campy than dark and 'adult'."
"Christopher Nolan hate always felt forced to me. If you can't enjoy The Dark Knight you're a joyless filmcel"
Christopher Nolan hate always felt forced to me · u/petraamul · ↑163 · 2025-07-15
"Who is lining up in 2027 to see a Ringo Starr biopic that is shot like a Christopher Nolan film"
What an idiotic idea · u/IErsatzHawkChad · ↑122 · 2024-02-21
"No idea why people like the guy. He makes movies for guys who listen to video game soundtracks"
Nolan is actually so awful · u/putalittlepooponit · ↑94 · 2026-02-02
"Nolan name checked Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy as one example. He also said they both would have been successful in the silent era, and also in the 70s. He says most actors of either era could not have survived in the other."
"Christopher Nolan was credited for 'editorial assistance', being a friend of the two brothers who filmed it."
"Why is there a completely nonsensical culture-war being created between a Barbie movie and a Christopher Nolan movie?"
Why are people talking about movies like they're sports teams? · u/assaulted_peanut97 · ↑65 · 2023-07-21
"Matthew Nolan who is Christopher's elder brother, is allegedly an assassin who was hired to retrieve the money. In the incident that took place in 2010, Matthew allegedly killed his victim."
Christopher Nolan's Brother, a true Hunter Biden of the family · u/No_Locksmith_8768 · ↑55 · 2023-07-25
"i watched cillian murphy, who i thought was insanely hot on peaky blinders like a decade ago, fuck florence pugh - and i felt practically nothing. granted, he looked like a ghoul, and i've never looked to christopher nolan for a normal human understanding of women nor romance - but it still kinda su"
when did eroticism in media die? · u/chesapeake_ripperz · ↑54 · 2024-12-12
"After seeing knives out 2 i will never complain about Nolan's exposition again"
I hate Rian Johnson · u/ohjackiepantomime · ↑45 · 2022-12-26
"Twitter film morons tend to want to redeem films from acclaimed directors like this Damien Chazelle and Christopher Nolan, with Tenet, cause they think 'oh, well I finally see something that we missed the first time.' No you didn't!"
Finally saw Babylon. · u/TheBigIdiotSalami · ↑40 · 2024-06-10
"George Lucas levels of dialogue with timid attempts at cinematography. Nolan tried to make Batman but with nerds, and failed terribly."
Oppenheimer sucked · u/lowiqdog · ↑34 · 2023-07-22
"Every female character he features in his films are more or less the same- brusk, shrewish, cold, ect…"
Why are all of Nolan's women miserable? · u/Sonny_Joon_wuz_here · ↑30 · 2024-01-12
"Matthew Nolan who is Christopher's elder brother, is allegedly an assassin who was hired to retrieve the money."
Christopher Nolan's Brother, a true Hunter Biden of the family · u/No_Locksmith_8768 · ↑55 · 2023-07-25
"I'll also be uploading Christopher Nolan's DVD commentaries from the Memento DVD."
"Every female character he features in his films are more or less the same- brusk, shrewish, cold, ect…"
Why are all of Nolan's women miserable? · u/Sonny_Joon_wuz_here · ↑30 · 2024-01-12
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