8/20/23 on a plane
For all of that plot, no story. Gimmick premise, noisy plot, no characters. SparkNotes sci-fi.
I hardly tried to follow. It felt senseless.
Zero charisma from protagonist, or any characters? Physics even cheesier than normal.
My Nolan preferences:
- Interstellar
- The Dark Knight
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Oppenheimer
- Tenet
I haven't seen Memento, Inception, or The Prestige in many years.
A few years ago, high on Interstellar, with positive Batman memories, friends raving of Memento, figuring Inception deserved another chance, I thought highly of Nolan. But recently everything in the above enumeration disappointed except Interstellar.
SparkNotes Sci-fi is a nice phrase. Yeah, JD Wash is an NPC. If I was gay it probably would have worked for me. I found the moving-in-reverse thing distracting. I would try to determine if it was correct (would moving-in-reverse actually be like that) or if Nolan cut some corners. Maybe I'd have enjoyed it more if I could remove that constantly running mental process.
ReplyDeleteInterstellar still holds up. Haven't seen Dunkirk since 2017 but I assume that one does as well. There are some good podcasts where QT raves about it. I tried watching Inception a couple months ago and it was rough. The Nolan thing just doesn't work as well on me anymore. I probably would have loved Oppenheimer if I'd seen it ~2015