/lit/ - Literature

>>11485250
Doesn't he love Borges?

Stephen King.

Paulaniuk or Ellis

Dan Brown

>>11485287
Unfair. Nolan is middlebrow, not airport trash

Making Dunning-Kruger blockbusters for normies to feel smart that inevitably fall apart in the third act? That's a bit too specific anon

Dare I say Dickens?

>>11485295
Which of his movies do this, and how?

>>11485250
Delillo

>>11485334

Dark Knight, Inception and Interstellar are the most obvious offenders. For whatever reason Nolan can't figure out how to tie up arcs and a have a proper lead up to the ending, so his third acts always start missing their own climax beats, and the movie just keeps going for an additional 30 to 40 minutes.

>>11485356
Are you referring to the Dark Knight trilogy to the Dark Knight itself? Because the latter had an exceptional ending

>auteur who made some pretty good non commercialized shit when he started out but devolved into making popcorn-flick tier work

Ummm... Pynchon?

>>11485371
>devolved
Dunkirk is his best film by far. Maybe his only good film.

>>11485360

Whatever you say my dude. Nolan is essentialy is a clever editor that just happens to film the material he edits. His strength isn't his direction, it's editing, but you cant fix your narrative impotence in editing.

Third acts of Interstellar and TDKR in particular are just outright laughable in how poorly laid out they are.

>>11485387
bit harsh innit

>>11485379
Havent watched it but I get the impression that it's oscar bait pulling at heart strings, like Saving Private Ryan but more cliche. I might be wrong though, will check it out.

>>11485379
TDK

>>11485371
Pynchon didn't devolve

>>11485250
PTA >>>>> nolan

>>11485392

It's like you forgot that Christopher Nolan is responsible for one of the most nonsensical and unintentionally comedic scenes in the history of contemporary cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arty9MuqEg0

>>11485436
Best scene of all time imo

>>11485446

For you and me too

>>11485434
And chocolate is better than shit. Of course, what's your point

>>11485399
It's not. It was inspired by Eisenstein apparently. It was basically a silent film where they attached IMAX cameras to WWII spitfires. It got critical acclaim but normies hated it for having little plot and for the characterization occurring almost exclusively through action rather than dialogue (dialogue is Nolan's weak point, which he's starting to get). Here's a good indication of what the movie's like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOyEfbQO3Ho

he's the anonymous guy that you get halfway through his entire book before you realize its fanfiction

you're impressed by what a high quality imposter he is, so much so that you don't even feel particularly embarrassed

>>11485387
He has good taste aesthetically, and rhythm isn't just the job of the editor but of the director as well. It's terms of middlebrow Hollywood directors I can't think of one with a better visual sense than he has. Maybe Iñárritu?

>>11485434
Phantom Thread was incredible. Best movie of last year

>>11485436
You can really see Michael Bay's influence on the impressionable Nolan. Incredible.

>>11485492
The shot where the camera is above the fuselage as it drops is legitimately kino. Unironically and sincerely.

>>11485474

For me personally Nolan's greatest weakness is his also greatest strength - imitating Stanley Kubrick. He almost gets it, better than anyone else, but still just never arrives there completely.

>>11485516
Other than Interstellar how does he imitate Kubrick? They don't seem interested in the same aesthetic or themes at all.

>>11485250
FRANZEN
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Nolan

>>11485709
well they both made movies for starters...

>>11485739
no, Franzen is a hack.

>>11485749
egzaktlee

>>11485709
>>11485744

Nolan constantly apes his blocking and framing for starters, fuck man, he even put the fucking Sterling Hayden clown mask from The Killing on the Joker in TDK to signal to everyone that KUBRICK WAS HERE.

>A person isn't imitating another person unless he made something 100% similar

It's not even some fucking obscure criticism of Nolan, he was chided for autistically trying to imitate Kubrick for years before Interstellar. Are you really so autistic that you can take things at face value?

>>11485291
21st century Blockbusters can not be "middlebrow," even if Nolan's are slightly less stupid than the average flick

>>11485436
I honestly can't tell if this scene is actually bad or if I just can't take it seriously because of /tv/ shitters

>>11485779
you need to be autistic to do that?

>>11485797
yes

>>11485779
that still doesn't change the fact that the content of their movies and artistic purport is not even in the same solar system

>>11485779

*can only

>>11485436
hothead pls go

>>11485399
>it's oscar bait pulling at heart strings, like Saving Private Ryan but more cliche.
Not at all. There's very little dialogue and only the very end of the film tugs at the heart strings and that tugging is understated compared to Saving Private Ryan and most other Hollywood war films. I recommend checking it out but watch it on the biggest screen you have and pump up the volume.