Oscar nominations are out

This needs to find its way on to a movie poster.

 

I mean, I give Dunkirk credit for its relentlessness. It's like Mad Max: Fury Road in that way. Just an action movie. The characters and the dialogue don't really matter. And there are some incredible shots, like the opening scene in the village with the pamphlets falling out of the sky. But Tom Hardy, who I like, is hard enough to fucking understand without putting a mask over his face. It was like Bane was flying that goddamn plane.

 

I don't think I have liked a Christopher Nolan movie since "Memento."

 

There's a joke about legal briefs to be made here.

 

"This movie was short enough so that I was able to arrive home, plow my wife and fall asleep in post-coital pleasure by midnight."

 

When conversing with a Canadian, it's more polite to speak Canadian: plough.

 

You didn't like The Prestige? The Dark Knight? Inception?

He's made some pretty great movies.

 

I haven't seen "The Prestige." I definitely hated "Inception," more than I've hated almost any movie made this century. "The Dark Knight" is OK. "Dark Knight Rises" is a horrible mess. "Interstellar" needed a good editor, as they say. I forgot about "Insomnia." That was good. I wish he still made smaller movies.

 

Rank Christopher Nolan movies by ability to get home and plough the wife before Fallon's monologue.

 

Definitely see The Prestige.

 

Adapted screenplay was the big one I had in mind, along with art direction and costume design. Makeup is a good one, too.

 

Re: Nolan, keep in mind that I'm not much of an action movie fan. Plot, plot, plot, exposition, plot, plot, plot, exposition, more exposition ...

His blockbusters can be incredibly tedious, IMHO.