Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, July 21, 2023) Movie • Page 43

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

 

Idk

 

all that needs to be said

 

It’s TDK, not IDK.

 

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

 

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

The score for Interstellar is why it’s at #4. Only 2 I’d swap would be TDKR and Dunkirk.

 

The prestige that low is criminal

 

My top 3 is

1. Oppenheimer
2. Inception
3. Tenet

and beyond that, I don’t have strong enough ranking opinions for it to matter.

 

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

Never seen Insomnia or Following.

 

Tenet at 3 is criminal.

 

Nothing against the quality of the film itself, I just have zero interest in magicians or Victoria-era London.

 

They’re illusions Michael.

 

Still haven’t seen Oppenheimer sadly but my Nolan rankings sit —

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

 

ELITE: tdk, oppie, prestige
INCREDIBLE: dunkirk, memento
GREAT: begins, inception
GOOD: tenet, tdkr, insomnia
SURE: following, interstellar

 

Interstellar at least looks incredible. Tenet has an incoherent story and the action set pieces are so lame and boring.

 

a lot of interstellar is hogwash but several scenes that made me feel something more than 90% of nolan stuff, though i did end up seeing it right after my mom got sick lol

 

is it good grimace

 

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

haven’t seen the bottom two and I still really love all 3 batman’s.

 

TDKR feels like it was made to give a conclusion but not to actually say anything itself, as if Nolan was just doing a service for others so he could move on. The editing is poor, the choreography is blatantly lazy, and the actors seem disinterested.

 

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

I guess.

 

Nolan's "I love my family so much" stuff really hits but after a rewatch earlier this year, i'm sorry I still cannot get on board with that silly third act. I feel like i'd be such a mark for that sort of thing but it does not work for me. I like Interstellar but I don't love it.

 

I think I personally would have enjoyed some variation of the much less uplifting ending that Jonathan Nolan described originally writing for the movie. Maybe not the completely bleak one where humanity is wiped out, but I think a version where humanity is ultimately saved but McCaunaughey dies when he tries to fly into the black hole would have struck the right balance of hard sci-fi and fantasy a little better for me.

 

Interstellar is probably the best one because of the imagery, even if it does get laughably silly later. The rising tidal wave on that first planet is probably the best thing he has done.

 

Interstellar is right there with Sunshine for me in that for a large percentage of it's runtime it is one of my absolute favorite science fiction movies ever made but then it goes off the rails hard by the time the movie is over.

In both cases I completely understand why the filmmakers did what they did, but neither work for me as completely satisfying films by the end. Both flawed masterpieces.