Other filmmakers on Christopher Nolan

[Vader182]

Memento is the most coherent movie in the last 15 years, if not even 20 probably. You can't call it incoherent simply because there is stuff that was left unclear for you. I've seen it 20 times and still can't put the whole thing together, maybe because the movie's purpose is to do exactly that. To shatter your perception of time and let you live in the perpetual present (something that's been said about patience with anterograde amnesia, them living in something of a perpetual present, not knowing exactly what comes after what).

It's amazing how the laws of causality have not been touched in the slightest with this movie while everything else, although following a strict formula, feels scrambled when the movie ends. I mean it doesn't matter if you learn the formula and are able to tell someone what it actually is. After the movie finishes you're still not able to order it in your head. You remember moments but not their place. Most of all you remember some of the beginnings of some segments. The ends and the beginnings are usually quite memorable (which ironically is exactly the moment where and when Leonard forgets) but you remember the beginnings (nevermind that each beginning is another segment's end) because they make a stronger impression.

After more than 20 viewings I still take time to (when asked) figure out if Lenny had sex with Natalie in the middle of the movie, or the third quarter or fourth or second. Also ironically I seem to remember the colored segments (the one that are backwards) better. They have more action and the BnW ones are manily narration anyway.

The whole movie is a subjective experiment with the viewer and that's its exact purpose so 'confusing' yes, 'incoheren't no.

I want to kiss you.

-Vader

[oracle86]

Memento is the most coherent movie in the last 15 years, if not even 20 probably. You can't call it incoherent simply because there is stuff that was left unclear for you. I've seen it 20 times and still can't put the whole thing together, maybe because the movie's purpose is to do exactly that. To shatter your perception of time and let you live in the perpetual present (something that's been said about patience with anterograde amnesia, them living in something of a perpetual present, not knowing exactly what comes after what).

It's amazing how the laws of causality have not been touched in the slightest with this movie while everything else, although following a strict formula, feels scrambled when the movie ends. I mean it doesn't matter if you learn the formula and are able to tell someone what it actually is. After the movie finishes you're still not able to order it in your head. You remember moments but not their place. Most of all you remember some of the beginnings of some segments. The ends and the beginnings are usually quite memorable (which ironically is exactly the moment where and when Leonard forgets) but you remember the beginnings (nevermind that each beginning is another segment's end) because they make a stronger impression.

After more than 20 viewings I still take time to (when asked) figure out if Lenny had sex with Natalie in the middle of the movie, or the third quarter or fourth or second. Also ironically I seem to remember the colored segments (the one that are backwards) better. They have more action and the BnW ones are manily narration anyway.

The whole movie is a subjective experiment with the viewer and that's its exact purpose so 'confusing' yes, 'incoheren't no.

It's because of guys like prince0gotham that we need a emoticon in NolanFans.

And seriously, this thread has veered off totally. Perhaps, the mods should consider splicing everything from where Toormie started posting and make it a thread in Memento, so that we can continue here with this thread's original purpose.

[Skyab23]

Memento is the most coherent movie in the last 15 years, if not even 20 probably. You can't call it incoherent simply because there is stuff that was left unclear for you. I've seen it 20 times and still can't put the whole thing together, maybe because the movie's purpose is to do exactly that. To shatter your perception of time and let you live in the perpetual present (something that's been said about patience with anterograde amnesia, them living in something of a perpetual present, not knowing exactly what comes after what).

It's amazing how the laws of causality have not been touched in the slightest with this movie while everything else, although following a strict formula, feels scrambled when the movie ends. I mean it doesn't matter if you learn the formula and are able to tell someone what it actually is. After the movie finishes you're still not able to order it in your head. You remember moments but not their place. Most of all you remember some of the beginnings of some segments. The ends and the beginnings are usually quite memorable (which ironically is exactly the moment where and when Leonard forgets) but you remember the beginnings (nevermind that each beginning is another segment's end) because they make a stronger impression.

After more than 20 viewings I still take time to (when asked) figure out if Lenny had sex with Natalie in the middle of the movie, or the third quarter or fourth or second. Also ironically I seem to remember the colored segments (the one that are backwards) better. They have more action and the BnW ones are manily narration anyway.

The whole movie is a subjective experiment with the viewer and that's its exact purpose so 'confusing' yes, 'incoheren't no.

It's because of guys like prince0gotham that we need a emoticon in NolanFans.

And seriously, this thread has veered off totally. Perhaps, the mods should consider splicing everything from where Toormie started posting and make it a thread in Memento, so that we can continue here with this thread's original purpose.

ditto, that's why on the previous page I reiterated the same thing when I said: yes, this thread has gotten way off topic from its original purpose...back to the regularly scheduled programming of reporting other filmmakers' opinion of Nolan, please

[Based4Life]

NOLAN IS BASED AS FUCK. HE FUCKS BITCHES AND GETS CASH ALMOST AS HARD AS ME YOUR BASEDGOD. KEEP DOING YA THANG PLAYBOY BRRRRMMMMMM TASTY! - LIL B

[dafox]

NOLAN IS BASED AS FUCK. HE FUCKS BITCHES AND GETS CASH ALMOST AS HARD AS ME YOUR BASEDGOD. KEEP DOING YA THANG PLAYBOY BRRRRMMMMMM TASTY! - LIL B

I was reading this while in class and I lolled. it was pretty awkward

[Based4Life]

NOLAN IS BASED AS FUCK. HE FUCKS BITCHES AND GETS CASH ALMOST AS HARD AS ME YOUR BASEDGOD. KEEP DOING YA THANG PLAYBOY BRRRRMMMMMM TASTY! - LIL B

I was reading this while in class and I lolled. it was pretty awkward

I'm glad I made you laugh.

[Insomniac]

Francis Ford Coppola:

"There are a lot of very talented guys here. David O. Russell has made four remarkable films in a row. Christopher Nolan, with films like Memento, is dazzling in the things he is willing to do."

More from Coppola regarding The Dark Knight:

"A wonderful picture, young people loved it, audiences loved it, it was very successful and made by a very, very talented filmmaker, but I couldn't believe how sadistic that movie was and how it reveled in people being put in terrible situations"

Kind of strange hearing this from the director of Apocalypse Now and The Godfather-movies, but I guess he's getting soft in his old age. Interesting nonetheless. Although, I don't know why he calls it wonderful when he clearly doesn't seem to like it all that much.

[Robin]

Sam Mendes;

"Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it’s increments, tiny little pieces. To me, the challenge is to create parallel action so you’re never locked into a linear chase, which I think is something that Chris Nolan, for example, does very, very well. It’s never just A following B, there’s something else going on simultaneously and you’re following these things and often they overlap."

"there’s a reason why the most interesting, to my mind, franchises now are The Dark Knight and Bourne because there are characters at the center who are, to some degree, in conflict about what they do and are pushed right to the edge. That is one of the wonderful things about what’s happened to these movies recently is that audiences have embraced movies that go darker and more personal."

Adam Shankman

"I'm older than he is, but I want to be Christopher Nolan when I grow up."

[BlairCo]

Adam Shankman

"I'm older than he is, but I want to be Christopher Nolan when I grow up."

[Robin]

Kevin Feige (Marvel boss):
[…] Chris Nolan’s Batman is the greatest thing that happened because it bolstered everything. Imagine the one-two punch in 2008 of ’Iron Man’ and ‘Dark Knight’? It was great. Six years earlier I was having conversations with studio execs where they’d say, ‘Why don’t you come work for us? These comic book movies can’t last forever. It’s probably towards the tail end.’ And I, being with big bright-eyed naiveté would go, ‘I don’t know, I think we can do more. I think there’s more fun to be had.’”

Tim Burton:
“I always get told that my material is dark, but nowadays my version of ‘Batman’ looks like a lighthearted romp in comparison to Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’.”