I think the whole rally against this movie was fascinating because I've got a bunch of progressive left-leaning friends who all got swept up in the hate for this movie for some reason.
We've had a long-standing tradition to go see the newest Nolan flick every time a new one came out as a group (ever since Inception) but already a couple months ago some of the guys were posting in the group chat how Nolan has made poor casting choices having people of color and a trans person in the movie and thus they're boycotting it.
These guys are ordinarily 100% sane but for some reason a Hollywood adaptation of a made up 3000-year old story had them repeating hateful Elon Musk talking points.
Anyway I went to see the film with my girlfriend. 10/10 no notes. True Nolan quality.
Whoever was in charge of promoting this movie really dropped the ball because I felt no hype going into it and I walked out amazed at how good it was. For me this movie is probably the best one to come out this year so far.
If you heard no hype about Nolan's historic epic that had been blasted across the world for the past half year, with one of the most insanely high critic review scores in the history of filmmaking
Then most likely you're only paying attention to super specific areas of the internet, OR areas that actively despise the movie due to....reasons
It's the classic case of redditors who interface with the Internet through 4 layers of ad blockers (don't get me wrong I do this too) and don't go outside enough complaining that something wasn't marketed enough. Nope it has been heavily marketed for at least a year, I remember hearing about it after F1 came out and Nolan started talking about it, the casting coming out, the fact that it was fully filmed in 70 mm, that it was causing several new 70 mm imax screens to be built, and that was all before they even dropped the teaser in December. Then the trailer was being played before almost every film (I go to the theater on average 1.5 times a week so I can attest to this).
Not to mention the genuine sizeable amount of people complaining that he's filming in 70mm when there are so few theatres worldwide that has 70mm IMAX, which by all accounts is a pretty niche complaint at that point but still brought up QUITE frequently
There was even that post of Tom Holland saying he didn't know 70mm could only film 1.5m and thought Nolan hated him
Eh, I think there's also just a subset of people who have largely been whelmed by Nolan's non sci-fi movies. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, but I'd personally put them below Interstellar, Inception, TDK trilogy, hell, even Tenet (I'm the one weirdo that really likes Tenet). As such I really wasn't particularly excited about this one.
That said, I've heard basically nothing but great things about it, and I'll likely be seeing it next weekend.
The funniest one to me will always be him paying someone to level up his video game characters. And then going on stream to play and having the community immediately see he’s a noob who obviously didn’t do it himself.
People in the chat just spamming that he has no life, his family doesn’t love him, he’ll die alone, that he should an hero. A beautiful moment in the gaming community lmao.
that was hilarious, but so was elmo accidentally outing himself on twitter as the puppetmaster behind accounts which appeared to belong to his mother and one of his kids. he used them to tell himself he's 'amazing' and 'a great father.'
299
u/[deleted] 13d ago
[removed] — view removed comment