Finally saw Tenet (and Nolan films ranked)

[TiQuinn]

Uh, did everyone forget about Oppenheimer? Why isn't that showing up on the lists?

I thought it was a fantastic movie. Probably top three for me. And I’m looking forward to The Odyssey.

 

[Rabulias]

Original thread started in 2021.

D'oh! I missed that. Damn necromancers! Thanks!

 

[Retros_x]

Uh, did everyone forget about Oppenheimer? Why isn't that showing up on the lists?

haha thanks for the reminder - I actually really liked that one, don't know how I could forget

 

[Swanosaurus]

I love the Prestige. I really like Inception. I kind of found Memento okay.

Beyond this, the only Nolan movies I have seen are his Batman movies, and I regret watching each and every one of them. Batman Begins was just uninteresting, but The Dark Knight was soulless and preachy and didn't deserve the elevation granted by Heath Ledger; and The Dark Knight Rises was just that, but worse, more on-the-nose and without Heath Ledger. (I love Tom Hardy, but what chance did he have to salvage this? None. I'd watch him again in Star Trek: Nemesis over this, at least, they'll throw in Ron Perlman as well).

 

[Pale Violet Light]

The Dark Knight was soulless and preachy and didn't deserve the elevation granted by Heath Ledger…

I really liked The Dark Knight the first time through. But on a rewatch found I was riveted every time Ledger was on screen, and was just waiting for him to come back whenever he wasn’t: he’s absolutely magnetic. The rest of it is solid, for a superhero film anyhow, but he’s the only thing that makes it special.

 

[Jahydin]

Absolutely love that everyone's lists are so different.

I love all of Nolan's movies and as someone who's spent a lot of time and money on a good sound setup I have to tell you... they're all still pretty hard to hear at times.

 

[Gradine]

Yeah, as someone with an auditory processing disorder, I do really hate that about Nolan's later movies. Tenet and Dark Knight Rises were especially egregious. I haven't seen Oppenheimer yet... I can't imagine it would be that bad but who knows, Nolan loves making actors barely manage to shout over helicopter blades

 

[briggart]

In regards to Love, it is not just love of each other, but love of a father for his child and children. In a Christian light...yes...that would be the most powerful force in the universe and the only way for a Christian to be "saved" as it were. What could work even more so is that this Father may not be seen or able to talk to his children regularly directly, but has ways to communicate via other means, and it is their greatest desire to aid their children.

I haven't watched the movie carefully enough to comment on the overall Christian themes, but the statement that love transcends space and time, etc. was made by Anne Hathaway's character when they needed to pick which planet to visit, and she was pushing for the one her lover had been sent to. So it's definitely referring to romantic love between partners. To me it didn't feel like an attempt at highlighting love as a redeeming force, rather something that should have started with "duuuude..."