Re: Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER (2023)
Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 8:11 pm
not looking forward to seeing how nolan once again completely ruined the opportunity to convey a compelling story in a too-cute-by-half way.
I was already sold, but now I am really excited to see how this comes out.Stickman wrote:
Dunkirk is actually quite emotional and captivating. I haven't seen Tenet.BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
But Interstellar was about love.BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
I was gonna say his attempts to inject emotion into his movies have been disastrous. Just be the sterile, distant guy. It's fine. Sort of. I guess.E.H. Ruddock wrote:But Interstellar was about love.BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
He's really good at conveying tension and anxiety, and I can't think of a more appropriate subject than the friggin' nuke. This ain't exactly a love story.BurtReynolds wrote:I was gonna say his attempts to inject emotion into his movies have been disastrous. Just be the sterile, distant guy. It's fine. Sort of. I guess.E.H. Ruddock wrote:But Interstellar was about love.BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
dude have you seen dunkirk lately? I teared up at least twice from the human emotion it conveyed on screen. And it avoided anything cliche or easy. It's a smart yet emotional movie.tragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen
Someone wasn't paying attention to the end of Intersellartragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
In my rankings, The Dark Knight, then Interstellartragabigzanda wrote:It’s the only Nolan movie I haven’t seenStickman wrote:Someone wasn't paying attention to the end of Intersellartragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen