I don’t find it annoying but I understand your point. I believe sometimes it may have to do with people’s preference. Some people like smaller films better so when there is a large scale one, to them it might feel more spectacle centered than about being focused on storytelling’s depth I would guess. Each to their own.A Borges man wrote: ↑August 30th, 2020, 5:29 amI find it really quite annoying when people talk about Nolan's filmography, usually saying that Memento is his best; or the Prestige, which has become the favorite Nolan film of film twitter. His Blockbusters have so much to offer, and he has evolved way past his early work into a different filmmaker, and I think a more confident, better one.
I agree with you in that his big and wider projects have much to offer as well. He tries to make those ambitious films feel personal which I think deserves praise because in real life we are surrounded by this vastness (in many ways) yet each of us are going through it with a very personal and subjective perspective. Nolan, like any other director, isn’t perfect but he makes good quality movies at the very least even when they are big in scope. But he can’t please everyone and that’s just how it is.