I AM THE PROTAGONIST
If you saw it in a big room with no lights and sticky chairs your opinion would be very different
Love 2 cover up the fact that the story sucks ass with a technical gimmick that involves shooting on an outdated medium with legions of simps
Before: Film is superior to digital, look at that amazing resolution (that no one can actually distinguish from 2K), lmao get real
Now: Actually, I LIKE the crappy look of film!
What's the fucking point anyways if you're just gonna transfer it to digital and do the editing and vfx there? The vast majority of the time the resolution of the output will be what, 4K? Everyone and their grandmother knows that 4K video has been a thing for years now, so the resolution argument is bunk. Even if you avoided a digital intermediate and worked entirely on film, do you really think anyone will tell the difference between that and 4K?
Movies made on those budgets usually have audiences that don't care about film quality, they're there for spectacle.
The resolution argument isn't entirely bunk, as anything shot and mastered entirely in 4k is only ever going to be 4k. Whereas even 35mm is easily remastered in 6k or higher, and 70mm is much much larger than that.
Digital is the norm now for a reason, but film still has its uses.
Well the editing and vfx is done digitally, and then printed back onto film, usually at a resolution of 4K, so the only thing with super high resolution is going to be the original camera negative. I think transferring back to film in 8K is possible now, but that still doesn't compare to the resolution that 70mm is capable of. 8K digital projection is also possible now, but this begs the question: does it matter at this point? Your average theater screen is nowhere near large enough for any meaningful difference to become apparent to the audience. Even with the super-super large screens the difference between 4K and 8K is difficult to spot, if you can tell at all.
The only thing that really "matters" over the film v digital argument is the look, and most of the "look" of film is now easily reproduced with digital. You're right. I'm just saying that with film future remasters are possible without having to rely on software upscaling.
Most people won't notice the difference. Especially people who worship Nolan. But it has its uses and properties that are good enough to keep it around as another tool in the cinema belt.
Nolan is probably the most overrated filmmaker right now in my opinion. He is regarded as a genius, but his storytelling is incredibly dumb.
The Prestige - dumb but kinda fun. Interstellar - dumb and boring. Inception - dumb but really fun.
Tenet - don't plan on watching it, but people I trust say it's pretty dumb
Batman was good (mainly the 2nd one), but still pretty dumb when you consider how "realistic" he tried to make it.
Oh, and he did Dunkirk, right? Didn't watch it, does the power of friendship help win WW2 or something?
He's a brilliant director, that's true, but he's absolutely a shit writer and storyteller.
Dunkirk had good visuals (I saw it on a very big screen) and very little story, kinda boring.
I don't even think he's a good director. He would be a much better producer, honestly. All of the good acting in his movies comes from raw talent, and the performances really suffer when they need to be "pulled out", like from Pat Robbinson. And I absolutely adore his devotion to shooting on film and using practical effects whenever possible (or damn near impossible, even).
Dunkirk was fucking stupid and incomprehensible. It had a needlessly convoluted timeline for the stories that just left you confused, with absolutely zero payoff.
but it was gorgeous to look at. kinda like michael bay in a way. he's got a couple of key things he does and he sticks to it
I liked it, but mostly because of the music. It was also pretty funny how they just didn't give a fuck if you understood it or not.
Like there is a literal line in the movie "don't try to understand it, just feel it"
Honestly, this was the least offensive part of this dumb fucking movie.
I pirated it last night since my vpn was still connected and watched it after 2 hours of sorta boring cyberpunk gameplay. Fell asleep. I was sorta interested in it.
The best part is I wanted to tell Christopher Nolan to suck it as I watched it very close to my giant tv I got for free. It honestly appeared bigger than a theater, and more comfy too.
Its about 6ish feet away, not insanely close. But its a 60 inch tv so it easily fills up your field of view and you get immersed.
I actually think the payoff scene at 90 minutes, with the reverse plane-crash heist bit was damn cool. The action was all fairly interesting. Spending 90 minutes of stupid as fuck, completely nonsense expository dialogue to set that up? Shit.
I enjoyed it despite the fact the more I thought about it the more it fell apart. But there were some imagery I had never seen before, let alone comprehended (someone please explain to me the building that blew up twice) I love most of his films, with Dunkirk being my least fav, but
Nolan is a psycho for two reasons-
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releasing a cinema only film during COVID in America and
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His sound mix being genuinely awful. Worst he's done. A bit of Bane in TDKR, all of Dunkirk and now this.
So, I actually saw the first 6 minutes of TDKR in Imax as a "preview" about 4 or 5 months before the movie came out and the audio was fine then. A big part of Bane's issue was that they changed the mix after a bunch of stupid assholes watched a fucking cam rip of the Imax preview and couldn't understand any of it. They fucked it up when they changed it. But you're right, his audio mix is dumb as fuck as a rule.
But NOT! ever as dumb as his editing, holy fucking christ, he needs to shoot his editor.
I also saw the preview- I disagree, I thought that sound edit was incomprehensible. The film was much more bearable, but not perfect.
Disagree with the editor as well- on top of the fact the editor is probably railroaded by Nolan himself, I actually think his films editing is terrific
The sound is also probably theater dependent. Even a lot of "real" IMAX theaters are in disarray these days, with shit not being replaced or tuned correctly.
His editor I'm willing to give a pass, as its probably more due to Nolan's trash coverage than the editing itself.
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Interstellar is boring "we are gods" nonsense. Really grew to dislike the ending
I'm half way through and I love it but I'm so glad I piratebayed it because I'm never going to understand this movie without cheat codes.
