You can compare our taste in music. You like stuff that involves the players getting emotionally into the music and conveying this to the listener. I like classical music, that is much more analytical and cerebral.
Similarly Nolan often comes up with headfuck moments, rather than emotional connection. Cobb’s time in limbo, his wife’s suicide due to the thought he had placed there, the guy who spent 14 years on a space ship while they spent ten minutes on a planet, the 5d tesseract, the multi level temporal pincer movement…
It’s what he does, and he does it better than anyone. You may not like it, but you’re allowed to be wrong.
Yes that’s very true, I can appreciate some intellectual aspects of art but typically prefer it when there is some emotional connection/ movement whether its film, music, artwork etc.
It’s just opinion and preference. As a result I find his work limited for my tastes where you laud him for being the best at that particular skill. That’s part of the subjective joy of arts and entertainment.
I think its more subtle than that. I know opinions will differ because well, they’re opinions, but for example the original Blade Runner is a great example of a thoughtful film in the sci fi genre (yes based on the book) which draws you in and makes you invested in the characters and what happens to them, whereas (massive IMO clause here) although BR 2049 had many interesting concepts I really couldn’t care less what happened to any of them, and so is the less accomplished of the two films (IMO).
Cue unnecessary backlash from ardent fans of BR 2049 (I like it but don’t love it in summary).
I thought 2049 was great at the cinema. When I watched it at home I enjoyed it even more. I thought that it got to the heart of sentient non-human issues much better than the original
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