The Bore Debates 2020: Is Christopher Nolan Good?

[Great Rumbler]

Reviewer: This movie is a 7/10.

Me: Cool, guess I should go check it out then.

Reviewer: This game is a 7/10.

Me: lol sounds like garbage, hard pass

[naff]

Alien is an all timer. Blade Runner fucking sucks but looks great. Gladiator is absolute schlock.

Fuck yeah, Gladiator is the undefeated king of 2000s schlock. That decade really started with a bang. Were you not entertained?

[Nintex]

Gladiator 



Did it start the trend of 'Heroes Journey' character movies as hollywood blockbusters? 

[Mandark]

Gladiator

Did it start the trend of 'Heroes Journey' character movies? 

how are you dumber outside of the politics threads

how is that possible

[ToxicAdam]

Yea, everyone knows that Matrix started it all.

[Mandark]

The trend of hero's journey movies will start next year when The Batman comes out.

[naff]

If anything it was a truly brilliant resurrection of the swords-and-sandals genre.

Calling it schlock in jest isn't being very true to myself. It's incredibly well made and a titan in the pantheon of Hollywood entertainment. Corny and sentimental sure, but that's part of the charm. Pour one out for Maximus' fam 

[Human Snorenado]

2049 really leans into how important the visuals were to the first film;  love both myself.. but 2049 takes it for me.

2049 is definitely prettier to look at if you're not grading on a curve but trying to compare the two narrative wise is laughable. 2049 is cosplay and the OG is, well, the OG.

[Nintex]

You misunderstand, at some point there was a shift in mainstream Hollywood blockbusters from movies like Die Hard, which was just good cop shoots bad guys and adaptations of Tom Clancy books to movies like Gladiator with original epic soundtracks and an attempt at 'deep' dialogue and more 'serious' themes.

Sure, you had movies like Rocky and such which also focus on the Heroes Journey but not with the same, shall we call it pretentiousness as Gladiator.
Which sort of presented itself as a work of high art. There are elements in the film that certainly inspired other films.

[Mandark]

You misunderstand, at some point there was a shift in mainstream Hollywood blockbusters from movies like Die Hard, which was just good cop shoots bad guys

HE'S TRYING TO RECONCILE WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE ON CHRISTMAS YOU FUCK

[Human Snorenado]

Forget it, Mandark. It's Nintex-town.

[Nintex]

You misunderstand, at some point there was a shift in mainstream Hollywood blockbusters from movies like Die Hard, which was just good cop shoots bad guys

HE'S TRYING TO RECONCILE WITH HIS ESTRANGED WIFE ON CHRISTMAS YOU FUCK

But that's now how the movie is presented to the general public

It's the same with Red October, all Jack Ryan wanted was to get back home with a new Teddy Bear for his daughter

[Mandark]

Inception is good because it is nature's noblest and most majestic creature: a heist movie.

In 2020 we off White Guy Crime movies. We need to sanction Martin Scorcese and then push for a full embargo of any of his movies

I feel the same way about Scorcese that TA does about Nolan and Ron Howard: just never connected with any of his movies despite the obvious technical chops.

Just don't get invested in the rise and fall, Behind the Music sort of plot arc a lot of his films share. Gimme a tight plot in a small time frame, with like 20 minutes of getting a team together in the beginning.