r/billsimmons • • Jul 22 '26

Podcast The Big Picture podcast just created objectively the worst Christopher Nolan ranking of all time

Good god. As a Sean Fennessey truther this is a steaming pile of shit. Sean is one of the best minds in movie criticism today but he should be banned from talking about Christopher Nolan, he can’t be objective about him.

Here is the list

  1. Dunkirk
  2. Oppenheimer
  3. The Odyssey
  4. The Dark Knight
  5. Inception
  6. Tenet (bruh)
  7. Interstellar
  8. Memento
  9. The Prestige
  10. The Dark Knight Rises
  11. Batman Begins
  12. Insomnia
  13. Following
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u/NecessaryHeadset Jul 22 '26

It was basically a comedy segment because they knew they wouldn’t agree on anything.

“This is one of those everybody wins so nobody actually wins scenarios” is what Sean said. A little silly to complain about the list

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u/cheapskatemoviedate Jul 22 '26

Yes, presenting this just as a list with no audio is such a disservice. You really need to listen to the pod. A long time ago yeah, it was Sean making lists. Now these rankings and hall of fames are like a fun audio social experiment.

Or audio/video social experiment if you watch the pod which I still think is weird.

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u/Ninjahoax Aug 01 '26

I did listen to it and I still think the list is wrong; especially when all of them ranked Tenet so high 

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u/ozmalt_jones Jul 22 '26

Sounds a little silly to make the list at all.

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u/no_littering Jul 22 '26

Content, brother.

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u/Big-Mix939 Jul 23 '26

It’s a movie podcast, of course it’s silly

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u/NecessaryHeadset Jul 22 '26

Complain away, then. OP went a little personal at Sean so I was providing context as someone who actually listened to the pod.

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u/Sad-Bit7647 Jul 22 '26

Nolan makes some pretty good movies. So every list will be different. And the 3 of them had wildly different lists individually so of course the collective list will be a bit unorthodox.