Armageddon made us listen to that dreadful Aerosmith song for years. Interstellar is not guilty of that.
To be clear, I haven’t seen any of his other movies except The Prestige (which I liked) and BB + TDK (a long time ago). But I have a hard time believing with the critical reception they’ve mostly gotten that they could be as bad as this. Me and my friends got drunk on election night and Netflix party watched 6 Underground, the most recent Bay movie, and it was awful. This movie provided mostly the same sensation
Give me organ music all day do not give me "surviving falling into a black hole because you love your daughter and become a ghost that haunts her"
"How is Nolan any different than Michael Bay" is truly a multiverse-brained point of no return for the Entertainment Forum lol
That’s not what I said. I asked how this movie is any different than a Michael Bay movie, which is how it felt to me.
i mean, “michael bay movies are more exciting than this snoozer” isn’t even a take worth posting. of course they are. the entirety of michael bay’s career has been based on excitement with little substance that doesn’t mean his movies are better. almost all of them are worse. but i do agree that nolan movies feel like Bay movies at their absolute peak potential, and he should lean into that more instead of hindering it with gobbledygook nonsense
The biggest problem with Michael Bay movies are their explicit jingoism more than their technical shortcomings. Nolan's films are considerably more politically confused; does Nolan think that Occupy Wall Street is equivalent to Bane? Is it okay to warrantlessly wiretap an entire city if you blow it all up at the end?
aaaannyyywaaaayyyyy... i saw this expected a lot worse from what others were saying. besides being a satisfying blockbuster, it was easier to follow than i feared. the cast is no less than memorable, and the action scenes are the best in any nolan movie this side of the first one shown in TDK. pacing was better than expected too, the first half nearly cruised for me. some issues were mentioned already i think. subtitles helped more than they should've, and i'm not fan of debicki's character being more or less a damsel in distress at all. especially for a 2020 blockbuster but it's good. certainly a step down from how incredible dunkirk was. i probably need to watch it again to see how sold i am on it or if more things need digesting. can't help but assume i'd enjoy this more if i/everyone could see this on the big screen, but most of us will never know that i guess
now for the *appropriate* ranking dark knight prestige memento batman begins dunkirk inception tenet dark knight rises insomnia following interstellar
Only one I haven't watched recently is Following. The Prestige moves up every time I rewatch it. Interstellar Inception The Dark Knight Dunkirk The Prestige The Dark Knight Rises Tenet Batman Begins Memento Insomnia Following