There is a level of objectivity within the realm of taste. I will continue to warn people not to eat pea gravel even if it has a great mouthfeel. The plot is less complex than it appears at face value, because at face value most people are lacking the dialogue that despite Nolan’s protestations has a lot of valuable information within it. Is it great art because he makes you suffer for it? Is The Prestige worse because it’s enjoyable to rewatch?
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excitingburp@lemmy.world 3 months agoYou didn’t understand my ridiculous plot?
Why is it such a sin to cater to a different audience to you? If you don’t enjoy his movies then don’t watch them. He’s one of a handful of screenwriters who does complex stuff, there’s an absolute deluge of lighter stuff for the rest of you.
What would you say to a person who continues to eat fish, even though they hate it and spit it out each time? “Stop eating fish, that’s your fault.”
Jtotheb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
excitingburp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t consider The Prestige to be one of his better works. I like to be left thinking. The Prestige has closure and explanations built in. It’s like the age-old books vs. movies argument: people nearly always say the books are better because books offer the reader agency. It’s not merely because they enjoy looking down their noses at us movie goer mortals - they enjoyed the books more because their preferred interpretation of the words were layered above the literal text.
I didn’t suffer through Tenet, I was completely immersed - which almost never happens for me.
And if you hated it and suffered through it, that’s fine too. I don’t get why you have a problem with me enjoying it.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Christopher Nolan movies are good, they just drag on.
Oppenheimer was exactly 3 hours and 18 seconds.
CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To offer a different perspective, I feel like that argument works more for something you knew you didn’t like from the beginning, but less so for something you used to like. I don’t listen to bands I don’t like but when an artist puts out a string of albums I think suck, it’s hard not to give each one a shot thinking “maybe this one will be better.”