Nolan Fans

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So yeah, I'm gonna try and take a look at a bunch of movies I should've already seen by now.

Babel

i'm really not a fan of pre-Birdman Inarritu

sorry

@Bacon

In line with what Vader was saying, personally what I did was look at a few lists and try and go through them - my main list at first was the IMDb top 250

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Which has a few "adventurous" picks on there but is mostly fairly accessible, and you will see you've probably already seen quite a few.

What I've been working on for a few years since completing that is the TSPDT top 1,000

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000 ... _table.php

Which is nifty. And much more diverse. But a bit more advanced.

The Hitcher

I was captivated throughout. Rutger Hauer at his best. Also, the cinematography was beautiful.

I see a lot of similarities between Nolan's Joker and Hauer's character. It's quite striking actually.

Trolljegeren

This was pretty meh

also new thread yay

Four Lions

Holy hell, this has to be the funniest movie I've seen in years. Going to rewatch it as many times as I can

Michaelf2225 wrote:Babel

i'm really not a fan of pre-Birdman Inarritu

sorry

Sorry, but more on this because I'm so peeved about it.

I LOVE both Birdman and The Revenant which is why I'm so mad I wasted two and a half hours on this boring, pseudo-intellectual, piece of depression porn. It's got this cool concept of the interweaving narratives featuring a stellar cast of people who sometimes never even meet (in the film or otherwise) each other. The acting is good across the board, the editing is really good, and I always appreciate well done handheld camera work. But, none of the stories ever go anywhere. You've essentially got two and a half hours of these characters going through horrible situations, and (in my opinion) a totally unnecessary story of a suicidal, sex addicted, deaf-mute girl who has almost no relation to the rest of the overarching story with Brad Pitt's character - and the worst part is, there's absolutely no payoff. It never goes anywhere - I felt completely robbed by this pretentious piece of shit.

In Birdman and The Revenant, we have characters that suffer, and we see them actually grow. Michael Keaton goes from a depressed, suicidal, washed up actor, to a man, who at the end, literally (or figuratively) flies away, into the sky. DiCaprio achieves his goal. We see him go on this journey of horrific suffering, to finally getting what he needed for self-fulfillment. He learns that "revenge is in God's hands."

Babel has none of that. It's a well made turd that thinks it's some high art but is realistically just a pretentious snoozefest.

4N Legend wrote:Four Lions

Holy hell, this has to be the funniest movie I've seen in years. Going to rewatch it as many times as I can

welcome

ArmandFancypants wrote:

4N Legend wrote:Four Lions

Holy hell, this has to be the funniest movie I've seen in years. Going to rewatch it as many times as I can

welcome

So glad I found this film. Any similar recommendations?

4N Legend wrote:

ArmandFancypants wrote:

4N Legend wrote:Four Lions

Holy hell, this has to be the funniest movie I've seen in years. Going to rewatch it as many times as I can

welcome

So glad I found this film. Any similar recommendations?

In the Loop is a very close cousin, since Iannucci and Morris both got their start together.

Most of the other material to delve into is on TV - Alan Partridge and The Day Today of course, and The Thick of It.