• Carl@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The fact that Nolan puts in the effort to try to elevate his films above being popcorn slop is often what makes them stand out even if they sometimes fall short in other ways. If every director just painted by numbers then every movie would be a Marvel movie.

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      2 days ago

      Nolan is like a try hard who can quite reach the level of artist he strives for even with a half a billion dollar budget. Even with all his resources he’ll never come close to being a Sergio Leone or a Scorcese

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        23 hours ago

        I don’t understand why you seem to think that this is a bad thing. Scorcese is a top ten of all time in his field - if every director who wasn’t as good as he is just gave up then we wouldn’t have any directors.