Damn that's right, hadn't thought of that.

meh diff writers and director.
not optimistic.

ffs doug ellin (creator n writer of enterouge) is co writing the screenplay.

oh that's bad, no Terry Zwigoff.

51 here

Following is worth a watch ; it has a similar plot/conceptual interest as Memento.

Whether you would put Nolan or not in your top 50 (I certainly would), blockbuster movies need more Christopher Nolan and less Michael Bay. It is a simple equation.

Finally got to watch Steve Jobs yesterday ; I am thoroughly impressed with the structure of the movie. Much like in 127 Hours, Boyle takes a story lacking action and while instilling dreamlike imagery in the former, the dialogues and the character development focused around 3 Apple product launches in Jobs, is magnificently effective. Boyle keeps on surprising me.

It's still there, just ran a search.

Interstellar looked beautiful but it was a 90 minute story stretched into 180 minutes.

Raid 2 is phenomenal. Didn't expect such a great story to go along with the best action set pieces around. Don't know how the oscars work with foreign films, but this film not being at least nominated for editing is a sin. Getting Scorsese to remake it, with the same director doing just the action set pieces gives you The Departed on crack and it wins all the awards

Cavalry A man in confession threatens a priest in a small Irish town for his earlier rape by other priests while he was a child. The movie follows the priest and his interactions with various people in the town as the countdown to the day the man threatened to kill him looms.

I thought the basic premise was interesting as were some of his interactions with the town folks. But I felt like the writer just tossed in a bunch of off-the-wall characters without coherently connecting everything and everyone. I never felt like the movie came together as a whole.

This gets some pretty high ratings and I didn't hate it but it sort of fell flat for me.

Totally agree^^^

I got 38 in that picture.

I watched Coherence yesterday. I thought it was great. Most of the movie is just dialogue in a room, but it really kept the intensity. I thought the performances were quite good. I love this kind of movie, no I'm grateful someone in the thread recommended it.

40 for me. Have no clue on some of them.

has anyone seen that comedy vampire movie from new zealand? a friend rec'd it and it has great reviews. title is something about the dark. i could probably look it up on google in less time than it takes to type this, but it's friday and i'm about to have a good weekend so whatever

What we do in the shadows

that was way fun, I love this type of stuff. got 53/65 and raging at the few I couldn't figure out

Not calling Nolan a top 50 active director is just trying way too hard to make a hot take. If you're not into blockbuster or product, sure, I get that. But Nolan is head and shoulders above guys like Abrams who do nothing but that. If Nolan comes up short in some films, I am willing to look past it given he is way more creative than most others.

Speaking of Nolan, his next one is tentatively titled Dunkirk. WW2 flick.

45/65

I snap pick Abrams over Nolan.

Nolan has more interesting concepts but I don't think he's a better director, especially when it comes to action. The Dark Knight is the only movie of Nolan's I might rather watch than MI: III or Star Trek, and even then it's 90%+ because of Ledger.

Abrams is also much better at humor.

Abrams directing Nolan's ideas actually sounds like a slam dunk.

JJ Abrams has directed a couple Star Treks, a Star Wars and Super 8 and is he really in the conversation for best director? Or do you just not like Nolan?

I don't think either is anywhere near the conversation for best director, but if you're going to compare the two, as gbebe just did, I'm going to point out that Abrams pile-drives Nolan when it comes to action sequences, and just because Nolan deals in headier concepts that doesn't mean he's a better director (maybe just more ambitious).

I had to look up what Nolan even did. Inception, Memento and The Prestige were very good. The first and 3rd Batmans sucked balls but the Ledger one was good. Intersteller was boring and forgettable. I wouldn't watch (or avoid) anything because of this guy. He just doesn't register with me.

Could be. Can't say as I care that much for action sequences. Just to compare a bit of what I've seen, like maybe the action is faster and more furious in Star Trek and maybe it's a little cool when Spock goes berserker, but the action never gets away from the characters for more than a couple minutes even in the Batman movies. I much prefer that over extended action sequences no matter how spectacular. To each his own though, I seriously disliked the recent Mad Max movie for similar reasons and it was pretty widely revered around here.