Interstellar is just too overrated IMO. I get the concept of suspending disbelief, which I am happy to do to a great extent. But asking me to believe that a living thing could get anywhere near a blackhole, or the accretion disk of a blackhole (much less travel through the event horizon) and not be a crispy de-atomized smudge is asking too much.

The Dark Knight
Inception
The Prestige
Memento
Interstellar
Batman Begins
Dunkirk
The Dark Knight Rises
Tenet

Oppenheimer (have not seen)
Insomnia (have not seen)
Following (have not seen)

Tough list to put together and a lot in the middle are interchangeable but here it goes:

Dunkirk
TDK
Batman Begins
Oppenheimer
Memento
Prestige
Interstellar (need to rewatch…ending pushed it lower)
TDKR
Inception (has moved down over the years)
Insomnia
Following
Tenet (need to rewatch…have it on 4K but haven't seen since theaters)

Own them all on 4K or blu ray (own all 4ks on the market and the rest are blu rays) so needless to say I'm a Nolan fan. In the process of watching the entire filmography over again (no particular order) so will revisit the ones I haven't seen in a few years

I watched Following the other night because of this thread. I'd never heard of it. It's short - like 1:15. It's definitely a low budget indy style deal, but excellent for the mileage the get out it. Psycho/thriller twist ending sort of film. Its free on Tubi.

Good movie but his filmography is so strong top to bottom, which is why I had it 10th.

Agree about the mileage he got out of it. Made with friends and family on a $6k budget. Crazy. One of the better "no budget" movies I've seen.

Criterion special features interview with him talks about how it took so long to complete because they were doing all the post work themselves on weekends and he actually had memento written by the time Following hit the festival circuit and that was a blessing in hindsight because when people expressed interest and asked what was next he had an answer.

Watching Darkest Hour for the first time. Would be a great double feature with Dunkirk.

Agreed. Throw in Oppenheimer for a hell of a triple feature.

Good call. Half way through the Last Podcast of the Lefts 6 part Manhattan Project series and it sparked the conversation with a buddy. He said you love Dunkirk any particular reason you haven't seen Darkest Hour?

No reason in particular other than finding time to watch them all lol.

I go through phases of particular genres like Giallo or Film Noir or a certain director and it's hard to see everything.

Saw something one time that said if you are in the top 1% of moviegoers/watchers you still have only seen 1% of all films. So true.

Thoroughly enjoyed it though. Sorry, I know it's not a Nolan film but fits in well with Oppenheimer and Dunkirk.

TENET is slept on

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Watching Darkest Hour for the first time. Would be a great double feature with Dunkirk.

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You have to watch Dunkirk in the middle of Darkest Hour.

If there's one take away from this thread it's that The Dark Knight was and continues to be a wildly overrated movie and Heath Ledger's Joker continues to be a wildly overrated portrayal. It's not a bad movie, but Batman Begins is a better Batman movie and it's not really close. That and Heath Ledger may have played a good villain, but he did not play a good Joker.

This is one of the most egregiously bad stunts to ever make it into a movie in a sequences that is widely lauded as one of the best. I don't know how you can have this at the end and think "that passes muster":

That dude thinks Ledger's Joker is the best movie villain of all time. He's a conformist like the rest of you. Afraid to call it what it is, because Ledger died before the film's release. Mythically because he was so consumed by the role rather than the reality that he just liked using drugs.

Ledger's joker may be a good villain, but it's not a good Joker.

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That dude thinks Ledger's Joker is the best movie villain of all time. He's a conformist like the rest of you. Afraid to call it what it is, because Ledger died before the film's release. Mythically because he was so consumed by the role rather than the reality that he just liked using drugs.

Ledger's joker may be a good villain, but it's not a good Joker.

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I wouldn't call him the best movie villain of all time (I'll give Darth Vader the nod on that one), but I will say Ledger's Joker was the best we've seen. Better than Jack Nicholson. Better than whoever portrayed the character in the Harley Quinn/Zach Synder iteration. Better than Cesar Romero. Not commenting on voice actors like Mark Hamill since I haven't watched any of the animated versions.

Somewhat picking nits but I have slightly different order at the very top for Nolan films dependent on how we're watching.

Interstellar and Dunkirk were both incredible on the big screen but I think Interstellar lost less a bit less of the wow factor than Dunkirk in viewing at home. For Dunkirk I specifically drove to the largest format theater in the area which was the Bob Bullock IMAX in Austin (incidentally I also saw Interstellar here...). I went home and pre-bought it the same night and would see it again in the theater. It was just incredible. My family didn't see it until the home release and it just wasn't the same experience at all. If that were my only experience I'm not sure I would love Dunkirk like I do now.

01 (theater) Dunkirk
01 (at home) Interstellar
03 The Dark Knight
04 Inception
05 Batman Begins

<hair splitting here>
06 The Dark Knight Rises
07 The Prestige
08 Memento
09 Tenet

I really wanted to love Tenet and probably more YT on that film both before and after viewing than any other. It was just a little too far over the edge but after repeated viewings and explanations it is a damn good film.

Plan to see Oppenheimer this weekend.

Surprised by the lack of love for The Dark Knight. My all-time favorite movie. And I'm a harsh critic

1. The Dark Knight
2. Inception
3. Memento
4. The Prestige
5. Batman Begins
6. Interstellar
7. Dunkirk
8. Dark Knight Rises
9. Insomnia
10. Tenet (Didn't See)

I have always thought Interstellar was one of the more overrated movies. Very slow at first. Still a good movie, but not an all-time great like many buffoons like to claim.

What do you mean lack of love for The Dark Knight? It's in the top 2 on almost every list.

Maybe not lack of love. But I always assumed it was universally accepted that it was his number one (1) or two (2) film. There are plenty of lists on this thread that have it outside of that, some even towards the bottom. That's all I was saying.

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I have always thought Interstellar was one of the more overrated movies. Very slow at first. Still a good movie, but not an all-time great like many buffoons like to claim.

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You know that people are entitled to their opinions? I rank Interstellar as one of the best movies I have seen, so I guess that makes me a buffoon. Good to know, I guess.

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Paraphrasing a quote my father once coined, "Opinions are like buttcracks. Everyone's got one and Cinco Ranch Aggie's stinks the worst." He is a very wise man.

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I have always thought Interstellar was one of the more overrated movies. Very slow at first. Still a good movie, but not an all-time great like many buffoons like to claim.

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You know that people are entitled to their opinions? I rank Interstellar as one of the best movies I have seen, so I guess that makes me a buffoon. Good to know, I guess.

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Paraphrasing a quote my father once coined, "Opinions are like buttcracks. Everyone's got one and Cinco Ranch Aggie's stinks the worst." He is a very wise man.

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No, it would appear that your dad is just as wrongly judgmental as you are.

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I have always thought Interstellar was one of the more overrated movies. Very slow at first. Still a good movie, but not an all-time great like many buffoons like to claim.

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You know that people are entitled to their opinions? I rank Interstellar as one of the best movies I have seen, so I guess that makes me a buffoon. Good to know, I guess.

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Paraphrasing a quote my father once coined, "Opinions are like buttcracks. Everyone's got one and Cinco Ranch Aggie's stinks the worst." He is a very wise man.

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No, it would appear that your dad is just as wrongly judgmental as you are.

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My father is a lot of things (a drinker and a fiend for starters), but he is NOT wrongly judgmental. That was an awfully judgmental thing for you to say about someone you've never met. Take the plank out of your eye.

Why is the dark knight rises so low for some of y'all?

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Why is the dark knight rises so low for some of y'all?

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I love Nolan movies, and I'm butt in seat for everyone of them, but……. If I may be allowed one gripe. He tends to not stick the third act sometimes.

For example:

Prestige… Best ending to a Nolan film IMO
Dunkirk…. Perfect ending that tied the three timelines well
Oppenheimer… Solid ending (won't go into details for this one)

Dark Knight… the ending was bloated and the whole digital vision thing didn't do it for me
Interstellar… Hated the Tesseract
Tenet… I'm still not even sure I understand the backwards war part
Inception…. Again got a little bloated around the snow scenes and the scenes after that back with Mal

I could not disagree anymore lol

I watched The Prestige last night for the first time. It was good, good story line, good acting and misdirection. Not sure about the whole human replicator at the end but entertaining. Still not on the same level as inception