Is there a more overrated director than Christopher Nolan?

[AntSucks]

Kathryn Bigelow is also overrated. Her movies are fine, nothing special. Compare K-19 to Hunt for Red October and it's not even close. She's no John Mctiernan

 

[FatPatsBaps]

I hate "cinema".

 

[TheRevAlJolson]

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This guy sucks. Even Get Out was shit, but no one will shut up about that dumb movie when his name comes up.

 

[guest]

Y'all sleepin' on Spike Lee.

 

[CuntFucker .]

Stanley Kubrick

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

I agree in the sense that people act like his shit doesn’t stink. Nolan’s shit is hit or miss for me. I liked Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. I absolutely hated Interstellar and the other two Batman movies he did. I thought Inception was very average. I hate Leo DiCaprio as an actor and the amount of times they said “waiting for the kick” or some variation of that in Inception made me want to bludgeon Nolan with a slab of concrete. Most of his movies look too clean to me also. I can’t really explain why. A lot of people in suits, a lot of bright lights, a lot of bokeh.

I love a lot of Scorcese movies. King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, and Shutter Island are all great imo. Wasn’t a fan of The Departed or Wolf of Wall Street though. I didn’t even bother with The Irishman, I assumed it’d be embarrassing.

Spielberg I think is a good mention. He has done some enjoyable big budget films no doubt, but some of his more serious works are fucking shit. Schindler’s List is very overrated to me, besides Ralph Fiennes performance and not because of the “haha Nazi” angle. I fucking hate ET with every fibre of my being. It’s such a depressing piece of shit movie. Hook stunk. I can’t hate Jaws, Goonies, Poltergeist, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Jurassic Park or Saving Private Ryan though. He has a ton of overrated stuff though and he really hasn’t done good shit in a while. He directed a great episode of Columbo also, Murder By The Book.

I might say Tim Burton although he is kind of a niche guy anyway. But I don’t think I particularly like anything he has done since maybe Ed Wood in 1994.

Guillermo del Toro’s films are overrated to me. I’m just not a big fan of his style and people jerk him off all the time. I don’t think he sucks at all though.

Realistically it has to be Jordan Peele. He makes horror films. They are maybe the only genre taken less seriously than comedy. It’s not a hard genre to do, and it’s even easier to do when you rely on gimmicky “current year” sociopolitical commentary and braindead twists. Try to create an unsettling, suspenseful tone and maintain it for 2 hours like a Kubrick or even a modern guy like Ari Aster whose films blow Peele’s away. He really is mediocrity personified.

 

[johnnynoname]

I'll take the bump for this one but Scorcese has been living off the legacy off a couple amazing movies for decades now.

 

[guest]

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you have to be 'rated' to be 'overrated'.

 

[guest]

Stanley Kubrick

bro, i'd say "directing is overrated" but kubrick is to it like lebron to basketball (which is overrated).

 

[Monk]

This fan edit that combines Dunkirk and Darkest Hour into a single two-hour movie is really well done.

 

[Cancerfuck]

I seriously don't understand all the praise for Memento, outside of the acting. It's a plot that relies too much on convenience for the sake of the narrative (ex. An amnesiac just happens to meet a complete cunt that he semi-falls for and then he just so happens to forget at the moment where he realises that she fucked him over)

 

[LingerLonger]

I seriously don't understand all the praise for Memento, outside of the acting. It's a plot that relies too much on convenience for the sake of the narrative (ex. An amnesiac just happens to meet a complete cunt that he semi-falls for and then he just so happens to forget at the moment where he realises that she fucked him over)

The fans of the movie will just excuse all of that. "Like oh maybe he misremembers". Or "it has an unreliable narrator". Like any plot hole or odd character choices can just be chalked up to the main character's amnesia.

But this is a problem with practically all amnesia based movies. That the characters remember things at the perfect time for the plot. And the audience is kept in the dark about things that would be obvious to the actual characters. Memento does things to an extreme where the story is told out of order.

A good movie about amnesia is Dark City. The explanations for why characters cannot remember anything is literally perfect and works in universe. Angel Heart is another, where a private detective takes on a case from a new client, but during his investigations he has extreme blackouts. And the ending explains the blackout episodes for the main character (and the viewers). Mulholland Drive and Pandorum use amnesia as well and they have insane protagonists.

 

[Feltch My Ass]

Spike Lee