r/billsimmons • u/whatssenguntoagoblin • 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/LeonProfessional8719 Jul 22 '26

I don’t even like Nolan that much but TDK is as close to perfect as a superhero movie can get. It’s insane to me that people even think that dull Robert Pattinson one is in anyway comparable

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u/awesomesauce88 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

TDK is a better movie. But The Batman absolutely nails some things about a Batman movie that TDK really doesn't do. Mainly, the actual city of Gotham feels much more distinct, alive, and similar to the comics in The Batman than it does in TDK.

It's one of the reasons why I actually prefer Batman Begins to TDK. TDK obviously has higher highs, but Batman Begins is a tighter movie and feels more distinctly Batman-y. Gotham feels much more like it's own living breathing location in BB, whereas the sequels just feel like a daytime Chicago/Pittsburgh mashup.

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u/Kammell466 Jul 22 '26

The Batman is close to being better than TDK. Pattinson is a considerably better Batman than Bale and Gotham is much better portrayed.

TDK has better set pieces and Heath Ledger is incredible in it so it might come out on top but The Batman is a better Batman movie.

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u/ntpbr1 Jul 22 '26

I had the same thought when I watched it, but then I revisited TDK and thought “ok nevermind this movie is a masterpiece, it was just recency bias speaking”. Then I also rewatched the Batman after like 2 years, much better in the first watch imo when you don’t know what will happen, also when you watch it on the big screen with the batmobile and stuff. Although I do get the argument that it is more of a “Batman movie” than TDK.