The new Star Trek show is being called competency porn, which kind of fits this description. Although that's been Star Trek for a long time. I think folks are upset they're targeting youth with the last couple series... which, the average ST fan now being 92 years old, doesn't exactly shock me.
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Like everything Christopher Nolan makes.
Like Tenet
I mean, fun idea on paper.
But as a movie i was whelmed. Great actors and shitty script
I liked Tenet, but I also made a conscious decision not to think about the plot too hard and just accept it's vision of it's own universe.
I feel like Nolan movies aren't really about the plot so much as the conceptual notions and visual spectacle. They are almost impressionistic, the plot is just a framing device for everything else.
I kinda think Nolan knows this and gives you a hint by burying the dialog in the mix, your really not supposed to care about the story that much.
I made the mistake to watch Interstellar with my brain switched on because people were hyping the super-accurate science so much. I left so angry because the movie is so fucking dumb. Sure, the black hole was fun. But the 5 seconds it's on screen is not enough to carry the rest of the stupid as fuck plot.
So, I like Interstellar for what it is, but I’ve also made a fun game of it.
I like to ask people if they can name Cooper’s son. Most people don’t even remember he was in the movie.
It’s kind of a reverse situation of Jake Sully being the only name I can remember from Avatar.
big agree: i can only really speak for Interstellar since that's kinda the only movie of his i've properly seen, but the description that comes to mind for that is 'the distillation of movies as "art" '.
It's not there for the logical part of your brain, it's there for the feeling part.
Like a really moody landscape painting, there's no point in logically examining the brush strokes of a random tree. What you're invited to think about is the atmosphere of it, how it makes you feel.
Spoiler for Interstellar
Take that bookshelf scene inside the black hole in Interstellar, it very very obviously makes no sense whatsoever but the visuals and concept makes you think and feel.
I didn't understand Tenet.
As in, i couldn't hear/make out what they where whispering to each other the whole time.
That's because according to Christopher Nolan, the audio system in your home cinema setup or local cinema setup isn't worthy. He took audiophile snobbery to the next level. I love most of his films, but he needs to allow the sound engineers to master the audio so that it works for everyone.
I should rewatch Tenet. I think I liked it, and I see criticism all over the internet recently.
Tenet didn't make any sense on paper. It made less sense on screen.
Sure, Oppenheimer blew me away, but Tenet soured me so much, I'm not excited for The Odyssey
Only after batman and inception, his movies are overrated and annoying now.
Try The Prestige
Hey, the Batman movies were good.
That Bane one was one of the most poorly-structured, plot-hole-filled messes I've ever seen. Nolan is awful but you're supposed to like his movies because they're 'good' (if you like things that look very nice but with no characters and terrible dialogue).
No? Most of his stuff are terrible movies.
But, I am watching them for fucking around with cool ideas and crazy visual scenes. Couldn't care less about plot, characters, sometimes logic, etc.
Nolan is literally telling the audience that the story doesn't matter by deliberately burying the dialog under the music and sound effects.
I... understand this. Hearing this made the whole idea make sense to me. Christopher Nolan's films are fantastic, everyone knows that... but when you get down to it, they're... alright.
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