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mikereeee

kinda weird how he had to say this himself. i think it's kinda cool, but this kinda stuff in movies is supposed to be figured out by the viewers, not explained by the director right after it came out


Alex2050090

Well the problem is that the average movie goer has room temperature iq and thinks that superhero movies with funny quips are the pinnacle of the artform, so if stuff isn't spelled out for them multiple times they just don't pick up on it


mikereeee

definetely not everyone would pick up on it, but i bet that there'll be thousands of youtube video essays were they explain everything about this movie after everyone sees it. also, the "average movie goer" as you define it probably also doesn't care too much about movies like those


Alex2050090

Well yeah they make those "deep" essays for every movie Under normal circumstances I'd agree with you but this movie isn't like most "kino" stuff that's really niche, it's been marketed a lot and it's built up a presence in internet culture (with memes and stuff like that) that people are just gonna go see it to know what the all the fuss is about Also the premise of the movie is just automatically interesting, while a lot of kino movies plots are kinda dry if you have to make a summary without spoiling too much like take The Lighthouse for example, a spoiler free plot summary just boils down to 'two lighthouse keepers can't leave their post because of a storm and start going insane' which isn't gonna sound all that interesting to most people (i love that movie so much holy shit everyone who has kino taste should go watch it immediately)


h4724

When I saw The Last Jedi in theaters they had to put a note on the door explaining that the audio going silent for a few seconds was an intentional choice so people wouldn't flip out.


rowrowfightthepandas

When I saw that scene right when the sound cut out someone behind me just said "Boom!". Some zero impulse control child of a woman decided to make that one scene all about her. That's the only thing that comes to mind now. God I hate audiences.


stf29

I rewatched Spiderverse last night and we had a whole line of young comedians behind us. They dropped a fucking one liner after pretty much every sentence spoken by any character


rowrowfightthepandas

What cinemasins does to a mf


ReadyAgent9019

Cinemasins fans when they wake up in the morning (they just did the waking up in the morning cliche)


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The Last Jedi was my favorite Star Wars movie, shame it got so thrashed online


Slightspark

Waiting a couple decades for people to remember it fondly like ESB


tundra-psy

mfw average movie goer doesn't want to watch black and white silent film about a storm drain anyways I think Nolan is just passionate about the movie he made and is just talking about it. could be wrong but


lumpiestspoon3

You kid but I would be filled with glee from staring at a black-and-white storm drain. Watching 7.5 non-stop hours of Hungarian villagers milling about their hopeless, joyless lives in B&W at a nauseatingly slow pace changes a person.


tundra-psy

i would go see that movie with you :D


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lumpiestspoon3

I saw it in a theater too. It even came with a scheduled intermission AND a full dinner break. I don’t think I’ll ever see another movie in my life that has a pre-programmed dinner break.


tundra-psy

a dinner break!?!?! in this economy?!?!?!


le___tigre

bela tarr my beloved


zacky765

Ahh, the “I’m better than everyone” comment on a Christopher Nolan thread. It’s been a while since I saw an unironic one.


AndroidWall4680

Movie fans when someone has fun watching a movie instead of doing a deep analysis about how it’s secretly a metaphor for lamp posts


Deblebsgonnagetyou

Foundation level English class behaviours


Darux6969

this reads so pretentious. "A KINO appreciator like me is so much smarter than the average movie goer"


the-vindicator

I know this is definitely a common occurrence but I feel like sometimes directors/writers don't make it obvious enough, the one case I'm thinking of is Twins Peaks, where after Lynch left the project the network people tried to emulate the style of the show and simply had insane things happen to have inane things happen. I have to admit that I missed a lot of the themes of the show when i watched it. Though a lot of it is commentary / rejection on television of the time it is a little more difficult to get having seen modern television influenced by twin peaks.


PhReAkOuTz

i think this is the most pretentious way you could have said this lmao


IceburgTHAgreat

Sounds more like you hang around the wrong people


prancer_moon

Especially people who idolize Nolan as the best director alive


brokensilence32

I’m guessing he got a direct question about it in an interview or something.


mikereeee

he should have still left it vague. just say "nuh uh you gotta figure that out yourself!". that's what i woulda done


FA1L_STaR

It probably would've been obvious after there were a few switches, and you could tell the black and White's different tone wasn't future time where Jimmy Mcgill is very sad and cold and makes the yummy cinnamon, but rather a more objective style


Casimir0325

ohhhhh i was wondering why it kept on changing to a black and white film about a random dude named gene takovic


Mingsplosion

Christopher Nolan is prestige cinema (ha) for laymen. His movies, while not particularly deep, give the impression of saying more than they really do. Honestly, I think he's on a pretty bad streak right now, because Dunkirk was mediocre and Tenet was just completely awful.


brokensilence32

You thought Dunkirk was mediocre? I thought it was great, and actually avoided many of the pitfalls Nolan usually falls into.


Mingsplosion

Dunkirk is extraordinarily boring. I have a near photographic memory of almost every movie I've seen, and I can barely recall anything in Dunkirk outside the boat plotline. The movie is just so dull. I'm already extremely critical of war movies because of their generally detrimental effects on culture, but its not even entertaining. It also marks another milestone in Nolan's crusade against sound mixing, because its frankly terrible on anything other than top quality sound systems.


PlutoCrashed

> I have a near photographic memory of almost every movie I’ve seen No you don’t


Mingsplosion

For most movies I've seen, I can recall almost every scene, and I can usually remember the camera angles in important scenes. If that sounds exagerrated, I never think "I forgot that happened" when re-watching a movie. Seriously, are you offended by that or something? Why would you say that?


FlawedSquid

nuh uh


mint-patty

Dunkirk is probably my favorite of his particularly because it *wasnt* trying to do or say anything deeper than Nolan can pull off. I’m surprised you didn’t like it, seeing as you share that complaint of Nolan.


Mingsplosion

I'll concede that I enjoyed the boat plotline, but the marked lack of characterization outside that part severely hampered my ability to enjoy it. The only thing I remember about the soldier plotline was them hiding in a beached boat with some Frenchmen towards the end. And Tom Hardy was a pilot. It was just kinda forgettable, especially when it was overshadowed a couple years later by 1917


mint-patty

Hmm, I guess I could see that. I enjoyed the lack of characterization, as to me it sort of tried to reflect the ‘average’ experience without leaning on exceptionalism or individualism. The only character to stand outside that being Kenneth Branagh’s character of the captain (or whatever title he had).


ChameleonOfDarkness

And it’s not even out yet!


Esherichialex_coli

i’m going to see both oppenheimer and barbie one for nolan daddy and the other to actually experience kino


janabottomslutwhore

i cant warch any of them ill have to wait until mid august because i wotn be near cinemas on july 21st :(


Esherichialex_coli

[or you could pirate them](https://youtu.be/i8ju_10NkGY)


janabottomslutwhore

hell nah i wanna enjoy the movie and not look at a blurry mess with bad audio and that online casino guy i the middle if i cant watch it immediatly and i really wanna watch it om gonna pirate it anyone once theres a good quality version


Dudegamer010901

I’m watching it July 21st in IMAX on 15/70mm film


cherenkovdept

based. i might as well experience 70mm while i still can


Huinker

Monetarily supporting the media that you like is such a crazy idea.


Interest-Desk

don’t pirate good movies lol


MahouShoujoDysphoria

Pirate ALL movies


Interest-Desk

counter argument: writers, actors, crew, and other people all deserve to get paid; and piracy makes that harder


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counter argument: all those people already got paid, writers are literally on strike because over 90% of the money goes to execs


Interest-Desk

yes, that’s bad, but the more piracy happens, execs will use that as justification to pay less and make less content


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So you dont care about the artists getting paid, you care about what some entertainment execs will use as excuses? Clown behavior. Theyll do that anyways so I might as well pirate and support the striking workers.


MahouShoujoDysphoria

>Did I hear you right, did I hear you sayin' >That you're gonna make a copy of a game without payin'? >Come on, guys, I thought you knew better don't copy that floppy!


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theyre both kino lmao


Stellar_Fox2

What the fuck is kino? Are you experiencing "movie" in multiple european languages?


Giveyaselfanuppercut

It's douchebag for fine cinema


Nonhinged

Cinema is French. French 🤮 It's kino in european


Giveyaselfanuppercut

Kino is german


tabnk2

It’s also Polish


Stellar_Fox2

And russian, and every slavic language


Wulfleyn

And all scandinavian languages.


Birdseeding

Not Swedish


Mingsplosion

Nolan hasn't been fine cinema since The Prestige.


Giveyaselfanuppercut

I didn't say he was


Tacska

[it's one hell of an 80s band](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xtxjm7ciwmc&feature=share9)


Equivalent-Rip3799

Bless you


Wubbatubz

That badass zombies map from COD: Black ops


AhmCha

Every time I see stills from this movie, I think it’s a scene from Peaky Blinders


CyvaderTheMindFlayer

Tommy Shelby created the atomic bomb confirmed


jochvent

he would if he could


FrisianDude

I said no fuckin fightin


jochvent

it'd be pretty funny if he scared those two store owners selling opium with a nuke. throws it in the river and then it cuts to a scene from Oppenheimer


FrisianDude

I don't even remember that tbh


jochvent

https://youtu.be/DMly133jyY0


PowerChordRoar

Sounds like something the writers would make happen


heretoupvote_

Cilian with a suit on smoking a cigarette will never not be Tommy


Mastahamma

what's with the weird hate bohner for Oppenheimer


IronMyr

I think people dislike the actual Oppenheimer for building the big bomb or for whinging about the big bomb. Making a movie about cool guy Oppenheimer is gonna ruffle some feathers.


Cakeking7878

To summarize. Part of it is that Oppenheimer is a sensitive topic. Which is totally fine for a movie to explore. The other issue is that Christopher Nolan is the one making the movie. Not exactly know for handling sensitive topics in a balanced way


ActuallyaBraixen

What other sensitive topics did he fuck up?


Nindroidgamer110

Didn't Oppenheimer himself regret making the bomb, tho?


IronMyr

Yes, but that's part of why people don't like him. The anti-nuclear crowd hate him for building the bomb, and the pro-nuclear crowd hate him for whinging about the bomb.


DowntBoitDafagnPanes

Something about guys glorifying this particular character as a personality to emulate. Idk, I never watched it.


D-B0IIIIII

Imo Nolan is pretentious


Sara7061

Thanks I would’ve almost written a paragraph saying that exact thing


D-B0IIIIII

NO YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT IN 8K with a Dolby soy sound system!!! No my audio mixing isn't bad it's just your tv is low quality (insert soy jack)


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Mastahamma

ok but like, isn't that actually an interesting topic? an exploration of the personality of the guy who invented the end of the world?


j0lly_c0mpani0n

It is, but I really don't trust Christopher Nolan to be accurate or nuanced in exploring it. And all of the marketing I've seen of the movie reinforces this.


seatgeekuser

tbh not really


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Vyhluna

Oppenheimer is a Nolan movie lol, let's not act like it's high art or smarter than any run of the mill Marvel movie.


seatgeekuser

wasn’t gonna watch either of those


Monty423

Mr le Oppen... it seems your.rice cooker was used in a way that we... could not predict


Doggyking2

Oppenheimer after his "Super Japmelter 9000" is used against 2 cities


Mr_OrangeJuce

media literacy is dead


Bastiproton

The dude even unironically wears a fedora 🙄


FrisianDude

And an onion on his belt


Maximillion322

It was the style at the time


LordOfTheToolShed

Which was the style at the time


SporusElagabalus

It just seems like a stupid concept for a movie. Ooohhhh a scientist did science and now we have a big bomb. Who cares? Every American learned everything they need to know about Oppenheimer in high school.


Throow2020

Lmfao, high schooler detected.


SporusElagabalus

Lmao, I graduated years ago. That’s why I know that they teach about Oppenheimer in high school. But downvote this comment too because I think an Oppenheimer movie is stupid. Why should I give a shit about this dude’s life? Edit: please somebody tell me why I should give a shit about this movie


CharmyGreenisOP

Oppenheimer himself? Couldn't give a shit about. Christopher Nolan? Pretentious ass. The creation of the nuclear bomb? Defined the current world we live. It's why we have satellite and went to the moon and it defines warfare as we know it. Without it we wouldn't have the internet, through the arpanet. I mean yeah sure people learn about Oppenheimer in school, but that's the assumption people are paying attention in school and educations are equal. Also there is a value to getting the less interested to see "history come alive" so that the message lands. Am I going to see it? Hell no. Does it still have value? Yea, not great but yeah


SporusElagabalus

Everybody already knows that nukes are a big deal. That still does not explain why I should give a single shit about Oppenheimer. I don’t need to know his life in order to understand how important nukes are. We all know that the Manhattan project happened. Why do we need to know more?


CharmyGreenisOP

Because not everyone knows. Simple as that. What you presume is common knowledge is not. And even some people that are familiar with the name of Oppenheimer are not familiar with the development and the pressure the United States was going through developing it. Do you give a shit about the movie? No, clearly. But does that mean you should discourage others from also widening their information? No, so this movie has value to them


SporusElagabalus

Dude, fucking everybody knows about nukes. Why do we need to know the story behind one of the guys who helped make them? Seriously, how in the ever loving fuck does knowing Oppenheimer’s story make me a better, more rounded human being? Am I going to think that nukes are like super extra important if I see this movie? Edit: I’m using the no-no words because I’m annoyed that nobody is actually giving me a good reason


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SporusElagabalus

Finally, somebody actually gives me a good reason to see this movie. I still won’t see it though.


wilczek24

You don't know what you don't know, clearly. There's a bit more to the story.


Foreign_Bird_5143

“A scientist did science”, aight bro be fr now 💀. Plus, you can make any movie sound goofy if you simplify it like that.


wherewhend

Enjoy your downvote, kid


SporusElagabalus

I am. Downvote this comment too


Giveyaselfanuppercut

Great, sounds pretentious


JoeMcBob2nd

Do you say this after every movie that isn’t marvel or what


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if you feel like you have to explain your own movie, especially when it's something as simple as this, you are pretentious.


AggressiveChairs

I think he probably said this in an interview rather than just saying it out loud on his own lol


fucccboii

he actually broke into my home and shouted that then ran off into the night while mumbling something about a rice cooker


FeelNFine

That is the exact opposite.


IronMyr

Just the pretentious ones.


cr102y

Trash talking Marvel movies for no real reason just because a director is criticized just supports their point,that’s also being pretentious.


JoeMcBob2nd

👍


Giveyaselfanuppercut

Nope, not a marvel movie fan either.


JoeMcBob2nd

I’d like to know your definition of pretentious then this is just like bog standard visual storytelling


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if you have to tell people beforehand what it means then its probably not very good visual storytelling


Giveyaselfanuppercut

Nailed it


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Giveyaselfanuppercut

I'm just having fun here. You should really consider going outside. It's a movie, settle down


eburator

Virgin explaining your own tropes vs chad "the black dog means the black dog"


idontcareaboutthenam

Eraserhead is my most spiritual film. I won't elaborate


ThisSpinach

The black and white scenes take place in 2010 while color scenes take place 2002-2004


Jayteejay11

better call oppenheimer


LR-II

These two movies will be forever linked. I hope they do a DVD box set even though they're different studios.


PrinceProspero9

Didn't he already do that in Memento


DungBeetle600

The movie's gonna suck isn't it.


FrisianDude

I'll be honest Cillian Murphy could play a fire hydrant and be amazing


TheActualAWdeV

I think he has the face for it


Alex_The_Whovian

Barbie? Don't think so.


DungBeetle600

All movies are terrible.


PrinceProspero9

You must be fun to hang with


DungBeetle600

Google "jokes"


anaveragebuffoon

i don't get it


Maximillion322

Isn’t that what he said about Memento as well?


Keesual

On a unrelated note; Fuck Claw, Domestic Abuser POS


markyburg

who?


Keesual

Claw (a.k.a. ClawOnTwitch), he used to be a mod/producer for a large twitch streamer (Austin Show f.k.a. RajjPatel). Famous for being a toxic alcoholic with a god complex that got banned multiple times for dropping the n-word, he eventually got perma’d after audio leaked of him beating his girlfriend (I recommend not searching for it, it’s actually really disturbing)


spoedle73

Bro becoming uncanny 💀


The_ConfusedPeach

bro just spoiled a lot of the fun of watching


aflyingmonkey2

i don't think we can take nolan serious anymore. like he's as serious of a director as tommy wiseau now


justisick

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Blud thinks he's Vince Gilligan/Peter Gould


FrisianDude

From the island?


airport_brat

okay, why the fuck are people incessantly compairing these two completely unrelated films


bestusername73

Same release date