Ignoring fart sniffers and just looking at it from the perspective of the normalgay masses? Yeah, he's the no-brainer pick. His Batman flicks were extremely influential and he managed to make a fricking biopic about some science nerd one of the top grossing films of its year.
Really? Remove all the films it influenced within its actual genre? That's an idiotic restriction. Even then you still have directors of Bond and Sherlock Holmes citing Batman Begins/TDK as an influence.
Literally every action movie that has come out since. Particularly anything that has used IMAX cameras extensively and practical effects. TDK was the first giga blockbuster to heavily feature IMAX widescreen action sequences shot practically and in some ways it still hasn't been topped.
Denis Villeneuve and David Cameron both come to mind. Scorsese as well, though he hasn't made any good movies in the past few years.
Same with David Fincher.
assuming we're having the actual discussion that's taking place (it's not who is the best director, it's who is the most notable/impactful director of big budget movies in the past quarter-century) then i would say we have a handful of names in contention (in no particular order): >fincher >scorcese >paul thomas anderson >villenueve >spielberg (assuming you're granting him saving private ryan in 1998, without it then he doesn't have the quintessential big movie to be considered for this and the rest of his 25-year catalogue is just a few decent movies)
box office wise, i'm sure nolan is topping the list and doing so comfortably. he makes solid movies, he deserves the success.
comparing and contrasting cultural impact along with sprinkling in actual directorial chops, there's no way you can flat-out claim that nolan is king. personally, i don't think nolan's artistry has longevity while others i've listed above have works (limited to just the past 25 years as well, going beyond and nolan is a farcry) that can persist.
To me it's always telling that the "Nolan is overrated bro" crowd always presents Villeneuve as the superior filmmaker. Completey undermines the credibility of anything they have to say.
he's better without a doubt but he's new to the scene compared to nolan. he'll be the best director until he dies though or some new director comes along.
The 10 Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Century
1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Wong Kar-wai
2. MULHOLLAND DR. David Lynch
3. YI YI Edward Yang
4. SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki
5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Paul Thomas Anderson
6. TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma
8. THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick
9. MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins
10. THE GLEANERS & I Agnès Varda
mulholand drive isnt even lynch's best film why do people regard it so highly jesus christ, its so schizophrenic and feels like the failed tv show it was meant to be
PTA is on a whole other level. Nolan has what? Dark Knight? Inception? PTA has There Will Be Blood (one of the best movies of the century), The Master, Phantom Thread, Punch-Drunk Love, Licorice Pizza. Masterpiece after masterpiece basically. I also liked Inherent Vice, but I know people consider it his minor work.
His 1990s movies are also very good - Boogie Nights and Magnolia are both masterpieces.
You couldn't pay me sit through Licorice Pizza again. Horrendous film. PTA has only 3 good films TWBB, Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love. Rest is unbearable to watch.
Literally no one I know has ever watched a PTA movie or could name 3 if you pulled a gun to their temple.
Because PTA makes films for critics and film students(and I don't mean this as a compliment).
Contrarians have a deep hatred for PTA purely because everyone knows he's by far the best american/hollywood director currently working.
And plebs can't into his films for obvious reasons.
So he's basically barred from ever receiving the actual praise he deserves
>The way his filmmaking has matured is really fascinating.
That's a roundabout way of saying he crawled up his own ass. I'm happy Coen Bros overshadowed him when his released his most acclaimed oscar bait movie.
US Nolanchads just keep winning. >b-but his movies don't make se- >h-he can't write wome- >b-but muh(insert indie director no one has heard of) is bette-
Then why is he incapable of sound mixing properly? Having blaring orchestral music nonstop during dialogue sequences is moronic. Memento, Inception and Dark Knight are the only things he made that can hold up to some scrutiny.
which planet should we goto? >trust in love
what can get us through a black hole? >trust in love
how can I communicate across time.and space with my young daughter? >trust in love
>TRAINING IS NOTHING
Bravo Nolan.
Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best. I'm pretty sure that falls in line with what all the experts say
>Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best. I'm pretty sure that falls in line with what all the experts say
Remember folks, the views of a character are endorsed by the film, even though the character is a fricking villain whose ideology is denounced in the end.
>the fundamental training that teaches Batman to be Batman, and underpins a super successful covert league of assassins, isn't actually supposed to be thought of as good training
wew lad
One of the most important plot points in BB was Bruce rejecting the league's morality and approach to solving crime. That homosexual is beyond moronic.
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>nolangay calling other people moronic
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> moron too dumb to get a basic plot point from a straightforward superhero movies posturing about intelligence.
>Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best.
based and 9/11-stopping-pilled
Completely true. What other director has the pull to attract large audiences solely because he/she is directing it? Nolan can make a move with no actor star power, and minimal plot details exposed before airing and still get draw huge crowds. The last director to have that type of influence is Stanley Kubrick.
best director in the world? lol no
best anglophone director? no
best Hollywood director? not if we consider arthouse auteurs like PTA or the Coen Brothers.
best Hollywood director in the blockbuster genre? he's probably in the Top 3
it's absolutely an Asian director if we account for the Western bias, they're still making dramatic and engaging films that will remain relevant in the next 25 years.
he's the spielberg for millenoids. he's totally shit but somehow managed to meme himself into a household name due to batman and leo. he's made 2 good films: insomnia and prestige. he's also a sly anglo israeli demon
Ignoring fart sniffers and just looking at it from the perspective of the normalgay masses? Yeah, he's the no-brainer pick. His Batman flicks were extremely influential and he managed to make a fricking biopic about some science nerd one of the top grossing films of its year.
>His Batman flicks were extremely influential
Name three movies influenced by Nolan's Batman movies. Hard mode: no capeshit.
Name all the movies that werent.
Army Dog
Problem Child 2
L'Ascension Du Chevalier Noir
Drive
Joker
witness the instrument of your liberation
Really? Remove all the films it influenced within its actual genre? That's an idiotic restriction. Even then you still have directors of Bond and Sherlock Holmes citing Batman Begins/TDK as an influence.
Literally every action movie that has come out since. Particularly anything that has used IMAX cameras extensively and practical effects. TDK was the first giga blockbuster to heavily feature IMAX widescreen action sequences shot practically and in some ways it still hasn't been topped.
jesus h christ
Name one better then, homosexual
uve boll
Peter Jackson
David Fincher
>loves Nolan
>says other guy is homosexual
Chris Stuckmann
Martin Scorsese is still the best working director in Hollywood and he'll be fricking 81 in a few months.
Martin McDonagh
Denis Villeneuve and David Cameron both come to mind. Scorsese as well, though he hasn't made any good movies in the past few years.
Same with David Fincher.
>David Cameron
What?
He played Tony Blair in that movie The Queen.
Frick, I meant James Cameron
Tarantino
James Cameron
have a nice day Black person
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
sean baker
The only good one from the last 40 years.
Robert Eggers and you can see yourself out now.
>last 25 years
not much of a competition.
Greta Gerwig
I haven't seen Barbie, but her first two movies were painfully boring.
they're not wrong
this is why you can't trust RT audience scores.
Who do you think is better
assuming we're having the actual discussion that's taking place (it's not who is the best director, it's who is the most notable/impactful director of big budget movies in the past quarter-century) then i would say we have a handful of names in contention (in no particular order):
>fincher
>scorcese
>paul thomas anderson
>villenueve
>spielberg (assuming you're granting him saving private ryan in 1998, without it then he doesn't have the quintessential big movie to be considered for this and the rest of his 25-year catalogue is just a few decent movies)
box office wise, i'm sure nolan is topping the list and doing so comfortably. he makes solid movies, he deserves the success.
comparing and contrasting cultural impact along with sprinkling in actual directorial chops, there's no way you can flat-out claim that nolan is king. personally, i don't think nolan's artistry has longevity while others i've listed above have works (limited to just the past 25 years as well, going beyond and nolan is a farcry) that can persist.
Fincher's last good movie was The Social Network. Villeneuve has never made a movie with "cultural impact" unless you're counting Blade Runner memes.
>Villeneuve has never made a movie with "cultural impact"
Villenueve is better
Wew lad
>They hated him because he told the truth
Not really. Enemy and BR2049 are great. Everything else is somewhere around good to mid. He's not nearly as prolific or consistent as Nolan.
To me it's always telling that the "Nolan is overrated bro" crowd always presents Villeneuve as the superior filmmaker. Completey undermines the credibility of anything they have to say.
he's better without a doubt but he's new to the scene compared to nolan. he'll be the best director until he dies though or some new director comes along.
by new i mean big hollywood type movies. which was around 2010. his earlier shit is weak af anyways if you were to count those
He's dull.
>el christopher nolan del cine
bump
I mean you're right but they're both shit
He's hardly David Lean, but the last 25 years, for sure.
The 10 Most Acclaimed Films of the 21st Century
1. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE Wong Kar-wai
2. MULHOLLAND DR. David Lynch
3. YI YI Edward Yang
4. SPIRITED AWAY Hayao Miyazaki
5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Paul Thomas Anderson
6. TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline Sciamma
8. THE TREE OF LIFE Terrence Malick
9. MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins
10. THE GLEANERS & I Agnès Varda
I don't see Nolan here.
Of the last 25 years, fricking moron
All of these movies are from the last 25 years.
But the directors or 25 years old or older
U dumb frick homie
>most acclaimed
By your mom?
By the critics.
>6. TROPICAL MALADY Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Who?
A gay guy from Thailand.
Oh its a fricking homosexual movie of course.
I think thats the fella who serves me kebab at the corner market
nope, I wont watch movies about homosexuals
>spirited away
Frick off with your jap troon toons.
Literally the one good movie on the list, though.
Ok forget the list then. They all go to the block.
Anime invalidates the whole list
>IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
>RELEASED 8 NOVEMEBER 2000
>21ST CENTURT
CRITICS = moronS
CRITICS = moronS
CRITICS = moronS
CRITICS = moronS
CRITICS = moronS
CRITICS = moronS
Way to out yourself as a moron
But my heckin Dark Knight!!! HEATH LEDGER!!!!
mulholand drive isnt even lynch's best film why do people regard it so highly jesus christ, its so schizophrenic and feels like the failed tv show it was meant to be
Anyone else would be a hard sell. He's ludicrously good at putting out blockbusters. TDK, Inception and Interstellar were all massive hits.
As is proof was needed that rottentomatoes was fundamentally moronic
Who else would it be? He makes the biggest mass appeal blockbusters around
It's probably Paul Thomas Anderson. His films consistently show up on every best of the decade/21st century/year lists.
Literally no one I know has ever watched a PTA movie or could name 3 if you pulled a gun to their temple.
PTA is on a whole other level. Nolan has what? Dark Knight? Inception? PTA has There Will Be Blood (one of the best movies of the century), The Master, Phantom Thread, Punch-Drunk Love, Licorice Pizza. Masterpiece after masterpiece basically. I also liked Inherent Vice, but I know people consider it his minor work.
His 1990s movies are also very good - Boogie Nights and Magnolia are both masterpieces.
I wouldn't call any Nolan movie a masterpiece.
You couldn't pay me sit through Licorice Pizza again. Horrendous film. PTA has only 3 good films TWBB, Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love. Rest is unbearable to watch.
Because PTA makes films for critics and film students(and I don't mean this as a compliment).
Contrarians have a deep hatred for PTA purely because everyone knows he's by far the best american/hollywood director currently working.
And plebs can't into his films for obvious reasons.
So he's basically barred from ever receiving the actual praise he deserves
This. Also I'd like to call out how he has grown and changed as a filmmaker. The way his filmmaking has matured is really fascinating.
>The way his filmmaking has matured is really fascinating.
That's a roundabout way of saying he crawled up his own ass. I'm happy Coen Bros overshadowed him when his released his most acclaimed oscar bait movie.
Calm down ESL-kun.
The guy who wrote the plane crash scene?
SUCK IT, LOSERS
>not Michael Bay
Zzzzzzz seriously the Batman guy over the People's Director?
He’s a big guy
US Nolanchads just keep winning.
>b-but his movies don't make se-
>h-he can't write wome-
>b-but muh(insert indie director no one has heard of) is bette-
Blow it out your ass!
sneder bros?
Nolan is not even close to being a good director, Nolan is a hack.
Alright then well watch your little film when that comes out, sick of you
Then why is he incapable of sound mixing properly? Having blaring orchestral music nonstop during dialogue sequences is moronic. Memento, Inception and Dark Knight are the only things he made that can hold up to some scrutiny.
which planet should we goto?
>trust in love
what can get us through a black hole?
>trust in love
how can I communicate across time.and space with my young daughter?
>trust in love
Nolan's only good movie is Batman Begins.
>TRAINING IS NOTHING
Bravo Nolan.
Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best. I'm pretty sure that falls in line with what all the experts say
>Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best. I'm pretty sure that falls in line with what all the experts say
Remember folks, the views of a character are endorsed by the film, even though the character is a fricking villain whose ideology is denounced in the end.
>the fundamental training that teaches Batman to be Batman, and underpins a super successful covert league of assassins, isn't actually supposed to be thought of as good training
wew lad
yes anon, he takes the martial training and applies his own morality
One of the most important plot points in BB was Bruce rejecting the league's morality and approach to solving crime. That homosexual is beyond moronic.
>nolangay calling other people moronic
> moron too dumb to get a basic plot point from a straightforward superhero movies posturing about intelligence.
>Remember kids, if you see a guy with a gun/knife and you're unarmed and untrained, just blindly attack and hope for the best.
based and 9/11-stopping-pilled
Autism is a struggle
Reddit director
Completely true. What other director has the pull to attract large audiences solely because he/she is directing it? Nolan can make a move with no actor star power, and minimal plot details exposed before airing and still get draw huge crowds. The last director to have that type of influence is Stanley Kubrick.
That doesn’t mean he’s the best. By that metric, McDonald’s is the best restaurant in the world.
so you must believe capeshit is the ultimate expression of art then, right?
the last director to have that influence is james cameron but unfortunately he would rather go diving that make movies
Thin red line, tree of life, and new world all came out in the last 25 years. Objectively this makes him the correct answer.
TDK is the only movie he's made that was mediocre. Everything else is great.
Tenet and inception are bad movies. Not average or mediocre, but actually bad. The rest are just average. He doesn’t have a great film.
best director in the world? lol no
best anglophone director? no
best Hollywood director? not if we consider arthouse auteurs like PTA or the Coen Brothers.
best Hollywood director in the blockbuster genre? he's probably in the Top 3
>rotten tomatoes
>Top 8 films aren't even 100%
Boring films
it's absolutely an Asian director if we account for the Western bias, they're still making dramatic and engaging films that will remain relevant in the next 25 years.
>2023.. I am forgotten
It's strictly directors who debuted since 1998.
he's the spielberg for millenoids. he's totally shit but somehow managed to meme himself into a household name due to batman and leo. he's made 2 good films: insomnia and prestige. he's also a sly anglo israeli demon
i read it clowned instead of crowned
i know it should say clowned
I only trust one movie reviewer and that is Doug Walker.
Nolan is the Walmart Fincher.