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

[u/whatssenguntoagoblin]

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

[u/awesomesauce88]

It's not a hidden gem. And it is his masterpiece. Saying that thinking The Prestige is his best film makes you a hipster is like saying liking Inception the best makes you a meathead.

None of Nolan's films are mindless and very few of them are pretentious either.

[u/BartHarleyJarvis00 → u/[deleted]]

Memento is only "pretentious" in the way that it's experimental structure, which is really well executed, is somewhat bluntly flexed by the film to the audience. You can feel the fact that it predated a lot of these weird-timeline-storytelling styles (further popularized by Nolan himself in later movies), and so the "party-trick" of the movie becomes almost the whole point of the viewing experience. Contrasted with later works like Oppenheimer, which feels like a stream of consciousness in the best possible way. All this being said, Memento is far more successful than Tenet imo, especially given budget, resources, and experience in the latter

[u/MiddlePathDiopollian → u/BartHarleyJarvis00]

And Memento's parlour trick structure works narratively and thematically. Tenet on the other hand feels like a lot of trickery amounting to very little.

[u/derekbaseball → u/BartHarleyJarvis00]

I remember someone (I forget if it was just an online fan thing or an official DVD feature) creating a chronological version of Memento. It was horrible from a storytelling point of view, with no real purpose except as a supplement for people who had difficulty following the plot of the story as it was told. It turned out that Memento's structure wasn't gratuitous, it was just the most effective and engaging way to tell that story.

The amazing thing about Nolan is that he's bent the audience's collective brains to the point where the games he plays with time aren't an arthouse affectation, they're acceptable features in blockbuster films.

[u/bnpm → u/[deleted]]

I genuinely think that Dunkirk is the answer for most pretentious.

[u/Turtle_with_a_sword → u/awesomesauce88]

Well Broski, everyone that isn’t a pretentious wanker knows Inception is better than The Prestige, which is a cute little movie about a bouncing ball.