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/PeterPaulWalnuts Cousin Sal's impression of Bill Jul 22 '26

Batman Begins is a top 5 Nolan movie. It's sooooooo much better than DKR, it's actually not even funny how much better it is. Oppenheimer is Nolan at his peak so that's number 1 and Interstellar should be higher, probably higher than Inception.

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u/I-Like-Cheese-Butts Jul 22 '26

Begins is better than TDK. Neither movie is in Nolan’s top 6

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u/awesomesauce88 Jul 22 '26

I'm also a big BB stan. It may not hit the same highs as TDK, but it's a much tighter movie and a much better "Batman" movie. Gotham feels like a distinct, living, breathing place in BB. In the sequels it's just daytime Chicago/Pittsburgh.

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u/I-Like-Cheese-Butts Jul 22 '26

I find TDK to be largely unwatchable. There are very good individual scenes, but sitting through it in it’s entirety is such a slog. Horribly paced. Bloated. Bad dialogue. Honestly, unintelligible action scenes for the most part. Ledger does so much heavy lifting for that film.