the films of Christopher Nolan (ranked)

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  • @ManCarryingThing
    @ManCarryingThing Рік тому +1691

    wow. this guy has good opinions. subscribed.

  • @erebus015
    @erebus015 Рік тому +334

    Interstellar is my guilty pleasure movie. I know it has some flaws, but when I watch it I just get lost in that world and story. It's sci fi with an emotional punch, and I don't mind getting invested in its spectacle when I watch it. Plus the music score is exceptional.

    • @bubiwaan5857
      @bubiwaan5857 Рік тому +12

      Zimmer is just a genius... especially in Interstellar and Dune

    • @jacobkirk1846
      @jacobkirk1846 Рік тому +62

      Why do you feel guilty for loving a movie that most people also love?

    • @emiliodelbozo3155
      @emiliodelbozo3155 Рік тому +6

      I'm the exact same way with Tenet

    • @alexwinter3752
      @alexwinter3752 Рік тому +1

      @@jacobkirk1846because he doesn’t care what ppl think

    • @TheTenaciousDog
      @TheTenaciousDog Рік тому +2

      Interstellar was the last Nolan movie I truly 100% enjoyed. Dunking and Tenet just don’t hit that spot for me.

  • @Alexandxer_14
    @Alexandxer_14 Рік тому +17

    Interstellar is my favorite Nolan movie. It’s not his best work but I love it so much, though I fear Oppenheimer might top it.

  • @hablemosde1950
    @hablemosde1950 Рік тому +2

    Interstellar is a masterpiece. Changd my mind

  • @ThatSpeedrunnerGuy
    @ThatSpeedrunnerGuy Рік тому +1

    My ranking of the ones ive seen would be:
    1. The Prestige
    2. Inception
    3. Memento
    4. The Dark Knight
    5. Tenet
    6. Interstellar
    7. The Dark Knight Rises
    8. Batman Begins
    9. Dunkirk

  • @JoshBurcham104
    @JoshBurcham104 Рік тому +2

    Insomnia is really entertaining, id definitely recommend checking it out

  • @barkley8285
    @barkley8285 Рік тому

    9. Tenet
    8. Dark knight rises
    7. Batman begins
    6. The prestige
    5. Interstellar
    4. Memento
    3. Dunkirk
    2. Inception
    1. Dark knight

  • @andersongrillo5902
    @andersongrillo5902 Рік тому

    I was just rewatching Dark knight, perfect timing

  • @diamonddogez4270
    @diamonddogez4270 Рік тому +577

    You are right about the Prestige. It's underrated and arguably right up there with his best work.

    • @thedanliest
      @thedanliest Рік тому +9

      It's my favorite movie of all time! I still have a lot of other Nolan films to catch up on though.

    • @JoshBurcham104
      @JoshBurcham104 Рік тому +4

      Its magical

    • @bencarlson4300
      @bencarlson4300 Рік тому +12

      Yeah, the Prestige is the only Nolan movie that I would say is “perfect” in my opinion (not that any movie is perfect). Everything falls into place exactly how it should, and there’s nothing I would change about it. I can’t say that for the rest of his movies (which I also love).

    • @alexwr
      @alexwr Рік тому +3

      And there's me who's watched The Prestige tons of times and I still don't understand why people like it...
      Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie by any means, but I just couldn't get invested in any of the characters despite spending so much time with them, and I don't think the twists are that interesting either...

    • @judahbudah0
      @judahbudah0 Рік тому +3

      its not at all underrated, have you seen the ratings?

  • @dual_laner
    @dual_laner Рік тому +263

    Batman Begins always had to be a safe film because it was the first time Nolan was given that kind of budget and IP

    • @TheJadedJames
      @TheJadedJames Рік тому +31

      When Batman Begins came out, it felt refreshing to see a superhero movie take on that kind of tone, and I was immediately curious as to how the rest of the Batman world could be interpreted through that lens. In 2023 the “gritty reboot” is a played out trope … and Casino Royale might be the only other example of someone doing that concept well

    • @thegreatpiginthesky3904
      @thegreatpiginthesky3904 Рік тому +20

      Not only that but batman was seen as a joke at the time. The last time we seen him was with Clooney. He HAD to play it safe

    • @derekhatake
      @derekhatake Рік тому

      is this guy nakeyjakey?

    • @thegreatpiginthesky3904
      @thegreatpiginthesky3904 Рік тому

      @@derekhatake np he's Jaquen The Jequel

    • @Tyler_W
      @Tyler_W 2 місяці тому

      Not to mention it was the studio's attempt to rehabilitate the Batman name on film.

  • @lavendermatt
    @lavendermatt Рік тому +13

    I am disappointed with the lack of exposition and subtext in this ranking video, with the evidently disgusting and gross absence of non-linear narrative. unsubscribed.

  • @giovannibuscaglia1891
    @giovannibuscaglia1891 Рік тому +19

    No woman and nobody carries nobody. Channel rate 1/10.

  • @UaskIanswer
    @UaskIanswer Рік тому +388

    I will never understand people who rank Interstellar low. I try to be open minded about people’s opinions but it is such a huge achievement. Maybe it’s me being tired of the recent sequel/superhero era of film we’ve been dealing with, but Interstellar felt like the last blockbuster that impressed and moved me at the same time. I loved everything about it and I’m glad most people do. It deserves the love.

    • @rampantrambling
      @rampantrambling Рік тому +33

      I feel that interstellar is too predictable, over explained, and kinda derivative of 2001. All the twists in the movie like plan A being a lie and Matt Damon betraying the crew are extremely obvious from a mile off. The ending of the movie when Mathew had to explain to the robot while in the 5d room "don't you see what's happening blah blah blah" is just over explaining it, imagine if in Space Odyssey Dave just explained what was happening in the final act of the movie, removes any mystery possible. The movie is extremely similar to space Odyssey especially with the betrayal & the cerebral ending

    • @ZodsSnappedNeck
      @ZodsSnappedNeck Рік тому +35

      Interstellar is a damn near technical masterpiece, but there’s a lot of elements that just don’t work well. Cutting back to the cornfield every 10 minutes in third act is still jarring to this day. And the monologues in the film have never felt natural.

    • @peanutgallery4
      @peanutgallery4 Рік тому +25

      I loved the first two thirds of the movie but it really lost me around "love and gravity are the only forces which can transcend time"

    • @Pearlem
      @Pearlem Рік тому +14

      The storyline is trying so hard to be emotional that it ends up being corny. It’s a technical masterpiece but the script is barely average

    • @bekari305
      @bekari305 Рік тому +4

      its good but lets not act like its the best movie ever

  • @MrMultiPat
    @MrMultiPat Рік тому +96

    I'm really glad that you enjoyed The Prestige as much as I did. It's in my top three of his films as well. It's like a movie that's almost custom made for me, I love the setting of 1800s Britain, I love stage magicians and magic shows, and I'm a bit fan of the two lead actors.

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 Рік тому +3

      I could see why you enjoyed it this much given what your described about yourself, but the problem I have with Prestige is that there is never too much at stake in the movie, nor is the world-building particularly remarkable. The writing is certainly very clever, and watching the movie is no doubt an entertaining and enthralling experience, but that's pretty much all there is to it - it isn't much more than a sequence of progressively more interesting plot twists glued together. It greatly reminds of the Invisible Guest in that respect. Sure, both movies are excellent, but they don't quite compare to the likes of Interstellar, which literally takes you on an inter-galactic and even inter-dimensional adventure (that truly feels like an inter-galactic and inter-dimensional adventure all throughout the movie in the most convincing way possible). I take OP's point about the forced sentimentality (especially the cringey dialogue about the force of love), but that was, like, 10% of the movie (for reference, see Ad Astra, which is almost 100% forced sentimentality). I would also mention that the greatly overused and logically nonsensical meeting-your-past-self-but-doing-the-exact-same-thing-as-you-remember-because-"predestination" arc was even more distracting and temporarily broke my suspension of disbelief, but the rest of the movie was an incredibly immersive experience.
      That's why I just can't put Prestige above the likes of Interstellar, Inception, the Dark Knight, and even Memento (where increased immersion is attained by putting the viewer right into the brain of the main character). It couldn't be as great as these movies by design.

    • @Exel3nce
      @Exel3nce Рік тому +2

      ​@@maxkho00you lay it out as a Problem but it isnt. Not every movie needs that....hell, a lot more should be like that. In a small bubble, not life threatening and grandious

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 Рік тому

      @@Exel3nce I mean, it depends on your taste. For somebody who values immersion above all else, movies like Prestige are doomed to be incomparable to immersive experiences from the start. But if you value something like relatability over immersion, I could see the appeal of less grandiose settings.

  • @padenbang7375
    @padenbang7375 Рік тому +95

    I'd be very interested in your thoughts on how utterly confusing Tenet is.

    • @reesjohnson
      @reesjohnson Рік тому +7

      I went into it knowing the general gist of it, so I wasn’t too confused like most people were. But yeah, it takes a minute to really figure out what the heck is happening at any given moment lol

    • @bencarlson4300
      @bencarlson4300 Рік тому +4

      It’s the hardest one to really get into and understand. I’ve seen it at least 5 times, and I get closer to loving it every time, I was disappointed coming out of the theater, but now it’s ranked somewhere in the middle for me.

    • @jacklinton4885
      @jacklinton4885 Рік тому +1

      It demands a rewatch. That's controversial, and I can see why people dislike it on that point alone - I definitely don't want all movies to require multiple viewings to really grok them. But if you put that aside and just accept that it needs a second or even a third viewing, I think it's up there with his best movies, it's probably my personal favourite but I know I'm biased towards anything that plays with time mechanically. Somehow I haven't seen Memento or Interstellar yet though.

    • @SonGoku-tp8gb
      @SonGoku-tp8gb Рік тому

      It's definitely hard to follow, but if there is an actual flow I would not consider that a negative thing. Tennet had other problems.

  • @6Rock6God6
    @6Rock6God6 Рік тому +141

    It's funny to describe Batman Begins as 'safe' when it is only safe because it literally set the standard for what a safe superhero movie should be.

    • @wolfe5471
      @wolfe5471 Рік тому +12

      Yeah, there is no world where rises should be ranked above begins

  • @reesjohnson
    @reesjohnson Рік тому +80

    I really respect your opinions on Interstellar, but I gotta disagree with your placement. It blew my mind when I first saw it and essentially spearheaded my desire to make movies. It’s beautifully shot, the performances are all incredible (the scene you mentioned when he’s watching the videos is so, so good), and it’s got a lot of emotion, at least for me. It’ll always be one of his best for me.

    • @nochannelmusician769
      @nochannelmusician769 Рік тому +5

      It seems like a lot of people appreciate the emotional scenes but don’t understand how it ties in with the theme of the movie

    • @Pearlem
      @Pearlem Рік тому +5

      @@nochannelmusician769everyone understands how it it ties into the movie. It’s one of the least subtle movies ever and that’s why some of us don’t like it

    • @Exel3nce
      @Exel3nce Рік тому +2

      ​​@@Pearlemont need to be subtle if you dont try to have Something complex. Its not a bad thing

  • @bencarlson4300
    @bencarlson4300 Рік тому +36

    Not only do I think The Prestige is one of Nolan’s best, I think it’s his best hands down. There are emotional beats or performances or writing decisions that don’t 100% work for me in every Nolan movie… except The Prestige. Every technical element is still there, but he (and Jonathan) also adapt the book to perfection and got some of the best performances out of several excellent actors. It’s his masterpiece.

  • @beyonder9553
    @beyonder9553 Рік тому +12

    After watching your videos on other chennal.
    I don't know how to take you seriously😂😂

    • @matiaspickett938
      @matiaspickett938 Рік тому +2

      Yeah, its so hard to not feel like he's beeing sarcastic after watching so much of the other channel

  • @Quakifresh
    @Quakifresh Рік тому +32

    Love the video :3 Your reviews/rankings always make my day hehe, thank u!
    Also, as an idea: maybe a Fincher ranking could be fun. I‘d definitely be interested to hear your thoughts.

    • @abhayxv76
      @abhayxv76 Рік тому

      Yes this! Hope we get it

  • @richardanderson8107
    @richardanderson8107 Рік тому +17

    If I told you Interstellar’s protagonist’s initials are JC (yes, Jesus Christ) and the bad guy’s name is literally Hugh Mann would it convince you to raise its ranking?

    • @pauliec4784
      @pauliec4784 Рік тому

      Had to go fact check this. That ruined a lot of the movie for me

    • @richardanderson8107
      @richardanderson8107 Рік тому +2

      ​@@pauliec4784 I still really like Interstellar but the names are pretty funny

    • @Exel3nce
      @Exel3nce Рік тому

      ​@@pauliec4784nah it didnt

    • @Classicalmusicscores1984
      @Classicalmusicscores1984 Рік тому

      You are just overthinking

  • @LogDod
    @LogDod Рік тому +70

    The emotion in Interstellar is something that has ALWAYS worked for me and I cry multiple times each time I see it. I feel a little sorry for the many people who weren't able to connect to it like I did.

    • @notaspeck6104
      @notaspeck6104 Рік тому +6

      Honestly same, I'm just gonna copy another of my comments. I know Interstellar is really messy but I think to play devils advocate people often miss the point of it. For reference I think Nolan has said in the past that you shouldn't try too hard to understand things but rather to feel them and that's where I think a lot of people go wrong. At its heart interstellar is about the connection and love between a father and his child. It's actually a really beautiful story and idea, the idea that love can span space and time and lifetimes is just incredible and the church organ in the score adds to that almost spiritual concept. By focusing so hard on the 'intellectual' side of black holes and complex movie logic I feel like people are missing out on a flawed but really beautiful story. People seem to think Nolan films are overly pretentious or convoluted but to me he's always had his movies grounded in some sort of simple humanity. It works better sometimes and is less apparent other times but these ideas are so blatantly overlooked by his critics it honestly astonishes me. In my opinion while Nolan loves to explore complex ideas, and while they sometimes feel a little messy or clunky, what he really strives to do isn't create an elitist convoluted movie. He creates movies that have interesting ideas but are grounded in humanity and always shot to perfection using his innate talent for filmmaking. For example like you said Interstellar to me was never about these grand ideas, it was about the love a father has for his child and the hope we have for our children and our species. Like when Murph says she knew he'd come back and he asks why and she just says 'because my dad promised me'... I legit sobbed and I don't cry that much at movies. Everyone connects to different things but it kind of annoys me that people seem miss such an obvious central theme and solely focus on pedantics. I'm not saying that we should pretend like messy plots are okay but I really think that if you watch interstellar with the knowledge that it's about a dad and his daughter it really changes the whole thing.

    • @crazycatches1140
      @crazycatches1140 8 місяців тому

      i think we all agree that the emotional core of interstellar hits so hard, and the film makes everyone cry

  • @amorvincittomnia
    @amorvincittomnia Рік тому +22

    I literally JUST watched the Prestige tonight for the first time... Got done with the movie, opened my UA-cam app, and saw this video 😂 MAN what a movie that was.

    • @thedanliest
      @thedanliest Рік тому +2

      Watch it again, it's like a whole new movie the second time! You notice so many new things that make the various plot twists feel so obvious in retrospect. It's brilliant.

  • @gelbsucht_ielordofthelibra6425
    @gelbsucht_ielordofthelibra6425 Рік тому +11

    Oh, man carrying movie content. Nice.

  • @antonioabreu5736
    @antonioabreu5736 Рік тому +52

    What bugs me about some of Nolan's movies is that sometimes it feels like he focus too much on the rigid structure of the science he established and not enough on everything else, like characters and plot. I feel this specially in Tenet and Incepction (mostly at the end, when they just keep going into deeper layers of dreams), it gets a bit boring for me.
    My other grudge is that he seems to be really bad at writing women and relationships. They never seem believable to me.

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 Рік тому +3

      I think that's just called convincing world-building, and many people (like myself) value you that much more than characters and plot.
      My bigger problem with Nolan is his utter disregard for immersion-breaking plot-wide inconsistencies. This was taken to an extreme in Tenet, which is literally one giant plothole, but even his all-time classics Interstellar and Inception are based on premises that don't hold up to even the most rudimentary and casual logical scrutiny. This is very unfortunate; Tenet could have been one of the all-time classics if more care was given to the in-universe consistency, and Interstellar and Inception could have both been my undisputed #1 and #2 favourite movies of all time.

    • @TheJadedJames
      @TheJadedJames Рік тому +16

      I would argue that Nolan isn't "bad" at writing women insofar as that he's never made a movie with a female protagonist, so men are doing nearly all the things. Nolan doesn't care about characterization. He's all about structure and themes. He has no idea how his characters would interact or relate to each other outside of whatever puzzle he has them solving. And perhaps Nolan cannot imagine that a woman might get really obsessed with a cool puzzle, so he can't fit them into the one way he knows how to write a lead character. Seriously, I think the main instances of "good" characterization in Nolan films are stuff like The Prestige/Inception where the obsessive desire to solve the plot in and of itself can serve as characterization. In the The Dark Knight, the Joker can be entertaining by simply chaotically rambling off the themes of the story. But a movie like Tenet (which I enjoyed) has almost no rapport between its lead characters even though it understands that in a normal movie, this might the moment where Character A takes a risk to save Character B to pay off the relationship they built throughout the film

    • @judahbudah0
      @judahbudah0 Рік тому +3

      i totally agree with tenet, it was so technical it wasnt an enjoyable movie, but inception had a good balance between it all imo

    • @TheJadedJames
      @TheJadedJames Рік тому +1

      @@judahbudah0 A the big thing with Tenet vs Inception is that Inception has a second act which explains how a dream heist works before the characters do a complicated dream heist. Tenet just completely glosses over how time travel works, and then has an ending dependent on people using time travel in complicated ways. Inception can have good characterization in ways Tenet can't because the story can very naturally be about characters getting obsessed with solving puzzles. Tenet is ultimately a James Bond where instead of the bad guys have a time machine, and there is no way it could pull off the character work you'd see in something like Casino Royale, because Nolan doesn't write like that.

    • @Exel3nce
      @Exel3nce Рік тому

      ​@@maxkho00they still can. Not everything needs to be logical, otherwise it would be Impossible to have a no.1 movie

  • @brennanshetler977
    @brennanshetler977 Рік тому +19

    Interestingly, Interstellar was written by Jonathan Nolan for Spielberg originally.

  • @radonaccount4454
    @radonaccount4454 Рік тому +19

    Dark Knight will always be my personal favorite, but I seriously think Memento might be his best film. One of the most underrated movies I’ve seen that blew my mind first time I watched it. The way the story is structured and how you piece everything together is so unique

  • @tadpowers7650
    @tadpowers7650 Рік тому +51

    As much as there are objectively flawed parts in interstellar, i absolutely adore it and won't get tired of watching it

  • @myownspace9666
    @myownspace9666 Рік тому +5

    Mostly I agree, I really disagree with the interstellar placement. As someone who is very much into the engineering of spaceflight, interstellar was an amazing movie visually, but also I really connected with the way it showed emotions on top of of the rigidity of “science”. For us STEM people, it hit hard. The whole movie is an argument between objective truth and emotion, and what that means across generations. Yea it has it’s flaws but I loved it.

  • @tseposhata944
    @tseposhata944 Рік тому +9

    Interstellar is my favourite Nolan movie, followed closely by Dunkirk. The rest switch places depending on what mood I watched or rewatched them.

  • @tristenmoles7933
    @tristenmoles7933 Рік тому +12

    The Prestige is legit my Favorite Nolan film! 🙌🏻 Thank you for highlighting it.

  • @tanprints34
    @tanprints34 Рік тому +2

    Why didn’t you watch the other two movies before making the video

  • @Robbity
    @Robbity Рік тому +3

    Please do David Fincher. He’s like the other side of the Christopher Nolan film bro coin.

  • @sadponyguerrillagirl_-
    @sadponyguerrillagirl_- Рік тому +3

    My ranking based off the ones I’ve seen:
    1) The Dark Knight
    2) Interstellar
    3) Memento
    4) Inception
    5) Dunkirk
    6) Batman Begins
    7) The Dark Knight Rises

  • @MaddenedMan
    @MaddenedMan Рік тому +8

    "Best scene was where that one guy cried" - Man Carrying Thing, twice.

  • @jacobkirk1846
    @jacobkirk1846 Рік тому +4

    When I saw Interstellar and Batman Begins so low I died.

  • @TLBainter
    @TLBainter Рік тому +7

    "I like it when the city goes into anarchy, I wish there was more of that." --me IRL 24/7.

  • @dukeofmars4847
    @dukeofmars4847 Рік тому +7

    My favourite kind of videos from you.

  • @Wyatt19961212
    @Wyatt19961212 Рік тому +18

    Interstellar is one of my top 5 movies all time. Cant understand why people don’t rate it.

    • @Exel3nce
      @Exel3nce Рік тому

      Cause of small things that dont ruin anything while other movies are perfect and not that big as his classic interstellar

    • @SamuelMills-ez4jo
      @SamuelMills-ez4jo 8 місяців тому

      Interstellar is all time great

  • @oliverthrush7642
    @oliverthrush7642 Рік тому +6

    Interstellar, the dark knight, and inception to me are Christopher Nolan’s best films. The prestige is also really good.

  • @curtis25920
    @curtis25920 Рік тому +12

    I knew this guy was a Nolan fanboy, I could practically smell it on him.

  • @pahl8098
    @pahl8098 Рік тому +2

    Having watched all Nolan movies at least twice (many of them more often) I'll try my ranking, but it is not easy to decide. And it is quite subjective. For example, I understand the argument about too much exposition in Interstellar, but it just did not really disturb the experience for me that much.
    1.Interstellar
    2.Inception
    3.Memento
    4. Tenet
    5.The Dark Knight
    6. Prestige
    7. Insomnia
    8. Dunkirk
    9. Following
    10. Batman Begins
    11. The Dark Knight rises

    • @joeyk107
      @joeyk107 Рік тому

      How is Memento better than the Prestige AND The Dark Knight???

  • @shulminsama3820
    @shulminsama3820 Рік тому +3

    naw man. interstellar was so emotional. ive watched it 3 times now and cried every single time

  • @aftermath4096
    @aftermath4096 Рік тому +3

    2:40 : "the heart of this movie is missing"
    yet, it's inarguably the most heartfelt movie he has done, every single one of his other movies has less heart in it than Interstellar, it's just a fact

  • @kamuiextends623
    @kamuiextends623 Рік тому +6

    Glad the Prestige getting some love.

  • @SidPhoenix2211
    @SidPhoenix2211 Рік тому +19

    kinda surprised to see dunkirk up so high. i remember seeing it and liking it a fair bit, but for some reason the movie felt... impactless? idk. it absolutely has some amazing sequences. i really liked the structure, that final shot of Hardy is gorgeous.
    But i think in the early moments, when I saw the soldiers dying and instead of blood just a puff of white smoke shot out of their bodies... it kinda took me out. I feel like if you're a war movie... don't do that lol. now, i don't need it to be hyper-grotesque or overdone a la hacksaw ridge. but i think if you're making a war movie, you can't just remove blood like that.
    tbf, i was like... 17 at the time. maybe I oughta rewatch it and see how I feel about it now.
    Also, DEF watch Tenet. WITH subtitles lol

    • @rubensjunior8586
      @rubensjunior8586 Рік тому

      Dunkirk must have been incredible in the cinema. I wacthed at home the first time, and I was really disapointed, a pale film.
      My fear towards Openheimer it's preciselly this, if it will be incredible out of the theaters.

    • @Enzophanis1892
      @Enzophanis1892 Рік тому +5

      ​@@rubensjunior8586Dunkirk opening day in IMAX was one of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had

    • @beestings22
      @beestings22 Рік тому +3

      It was really great in theaters for the experience, but I’d also say that the feeling you’re describing was 100% intentional. With this movie he didn’t set out to sensationalize war, but to portray it. War is ultimately shallow and impactless and thousands of people die for nothing. He didn’t want you to get to know the characters because war kills indiscriminately. War is not satisfyingly written like a novel it simply happens and some people die and some people survive. The movie definitely wasn’t for everyone but he’s talked about the fact that it was intended to be this way.

    • @beestings22
      @beestings22 Рік тому +5

      Also the way people died in this movie was way more realistic, huge blood splatters you see in most movies just don’t happen in real life, though movies make us think they did. Blood does come out but usually in a way where it soaks into clothes slowly. The movie went for realism at the cost of sensationalism.

  • @Something29292
    @Something29292 Рік тому +1

    My ranking from least favourite to favourite
    9. Tenet (Couldve been higher if it didnt get so confusing, still a solid 7/10 though despite being the lowest)
    8. Dark Knight Rises (I feel like the groundedness was dropped which really made it feel less special)
    7. Dark Knight (Sorry its great and Joker is one of the best characters in cinema period but I felt like it dropped too much of what I loved in Begins)
    6. Oppenheimer (Will probably like more on my rewatch with subs and the option to rewind because I felt like the movie flew over my head a bit)
    5. Following (I dont know why I just absolutley love this movie, it was very simple and the twists were good)
    4. Interstellar (Its what got me into watching better movies and not super hero or kids movies)
    3. Batman Begins (I really like the origin story and the fact it felt more grounded than the others. I liked how it was Batman vs the city and not just a set villain, really made the movie spark in my eyes)
    2. Inception (My favourite action movie, awesome concept that they used really well without getting to confusing, also the action was awesome)
    1. Memento (Not just m favourite Chris Nolan movie but my favourite movie of all time, I like how it goes backwards to make you feel like the guy with amnesia. It has some of the best twists in all of media that truly just leave you there shocked. Truly a masterpiece)

  • @larryrodriguez9238
    @larryrodriguez9238 Рік тому +2

    I clicked off as soon as he said he didn’t like interstellar boo hoo !

  • @vb2388
    @vb2388 Рік тому +1

    My ranking..
    1. TDK
    2. Interstellar
    3. Memento
    4. Inception
    5. Prestige
    6. TeneT
    7. TDKR
    8. BB
    9. Insomnia
    10. Dunkirk
    11. Following

  • @thewhofandom6711
    @thewhofandom6711 Рік тому +1

    I haven’t seen Interstellar, Dunkirk, Insomnia and the prestige.
    My ranking
    7. The Dark Knight Rises
    6. Tenet
    5. Following
    4. Batman Begins
    3. The Dark Knight
    2. Memento
    1. Inception

  • @RafidW9
    @RafidW9 Рік тому +1

    No way this man put Dunkirk at #2 lmfao
    Interstellar has been one of the most influential Sci-fi movies of all time after Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'll not allow any slander of this masterpiece.

  • @futurefox635
    @futurefox635 Рік тому +1

    Its wild that you put TDKR over The Following. I would re-watch The Following 100/100 times over TDKR which was nearly unwatchable in the first viewing

  • @toniohumes3082
    @toniohumes3082 Рік тому +1

    Memento Is one of his best the acting the storylines of the characters how nolan turn this story into Non chronoligical order.
    Insomnia Is Second Cause it's very psychological but memento is better cause it's has more psychological scenes telling the story of how the character wakes up and doesnt know what has happened and even though he doesnt remember the evidence he pictured and write it with a pen.
    The Dark Knight Tells The Story About The Joker Showing The People Of Gotham that they are just the same as him cause gotham became a dirty place

  • @prashil3k594
    @prashil3k594 Рік тому +1

    I couldn't care much about Dunkirk for some reason. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
    Also I'd probably put Prestige at number 1.

  • @vol94
    @vol94 Рік тому +1

    Tenet is the only dud in his resume. It's an experimental piece and not something trying to appeal to...any audience that I'm aware of really. There's just zero character and the plot is too goddamn haphazard and confusing to make sense on a first watch. He doesn't even put effort into organizing the scenes so that they have enough coherence to make the audience able to track what is going on. And I know he fully intended it to be this way but...why?

  • @jameswhee
    @jameswhee Рік тому +1

    I'm glad someone else agrees about Interstellar. It was a fucking awesome, scientifically based space movie until it disappears up its own proverbial black hole at the end.

  • @nasanoir310
    @nasanoir310 Рік тому +1

    Respectfully, you are 100 percent wrong about Interstellar. Good opinions otherwise, though

  • @ItsThePrincipleMovieReviews
    @ItsThePrincipleMovieReviews Рік тому +1

    Tenet and Dunkirk are not at the bottom. 🤔. This is going to be a looong video lol. I'm not seeing how Interstellar is at the bottom. I love that you put Dark Knight at #1.

  • @coleslogic
    @coleslogic Рік тому +3

    Interstellar is my favorite of his films so far and my favorite film.

  • @BrushWayne47
    @BrushWayne47 Рік тому +1

    Denis Villeneuve is BETTER than Nolan. Before I knew him, Nolan is everything lol.

  • @dankdudet1127
    @dankdudet1127 Рік тому +1

    Inception might have a cooler plot, but all of the characters are really bland and cobbs emotional conflict was really not emotional. Interstellar on the other hand has a kinda wacky plot but the characters are all so good and pack emotional weight

  • @feuerrm
    @feuerrm Рік тому +4

    My favorite director of all time!! Interstellar, Inception, and The Prestige will always be my favorites of his

  • @rubensjunior8586
    @rubensjunior8586 Рік тому +2

    5:36 Ah, dreams..do you enjoy Lynch? I want to see you ranking David Lynch's films, series and shorts if possible, would be really neat

  • @owenmefford4755
    @owenmefford4755 Рік тому +3

    1. Memento
    2. The Dark Knight
    2. Interstellar
    3. The Prestige
    4. Batman Begins
    5. Inception
    6. Tenet
    7. Dark Knight Rises
    Regretfully have not seen Dunkirk nor his earliest works yet. Memento is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I generally can get behind the logic in your rankings. Personally I was super let down watching Inception after most the rest of these, hyping myself up for it to be his ultimate movie and then not really loving it, but I definitely need to give it another chance. Glad to see some love for Prestige!!

  • @matthewleonmartin
    @matthewleonmartin Рік тому +2

    Bottom to top for me:
    11. Following
    10. Tenet
    9. Dark Knight Rises
    8. Insomnia
    7. Batman Begins
    6. Dunkirk
    5. Memento
    4. Interstellar
    3. The Dark Knight
    2. Inception
    1. Prestige

    • @joeyk107
      @joeyk107 Рік тому

      Dark Knight Rises???
      Edit: I left this comment here because the original guy didn't include it

    • @matthewleonmartin
      @matthewleonmartin Рік тому

      @joeykessler2391 oh yeah lol. It's not highly ranked. Very messy movie. Too many plot contrivances to get past

    • @halocraze9839
      @halocraze9839 Рік тому

      ​@@joeyk107it's bad

  • @charlesthompson5645
    @charlesthompson5645 Рік тому +1

    Interstellar is weird cuz it’s way better first watch but it’s also really replayable like earth documentary

  • @mikecantreed
    @mikecantreed Рік тому +3

    I just saw Insomnia for the first time this year. Excellent movie. You should definitely watch it. Incredible performances by Pacino and Robin Williams.
    Edit: keeping it real putting DK at the #1 spot. Every Nolan nerd pretends like Memento or Dunkirk is #1 but really they’re rewatching Dark knight more than any of them.

  • @amarcellus1714
    @amarcellus1714 Рік тому +2

    Probably an unpopular opinion but Batman's suit in Begins is my 2nd favorite after the Batman Returns suit. Also Bale's voice in Begins is my favorite out of the trilogy.

  • @ashleycornwell67
    @ashleycornwell67 Рік тому +2

    Good takes. The Prestige may have my favorite opening/close combo of any film.

  • @jefnyssen1937
    @jefnyssen1937 Рік тому +2

    I am constantly waiting for the punchline

  • @SGC90-t5y
    @SGC90-t5y Рік тому +4

    Currently reading American Prometheus in preparation for Oppenheimer.
    A truly incredible biography of a deeply complex character.
    It will be interesting to see what Nolan does with such dense and detailed subject matter.
    A lot of dramatic, cerebral, espionage elements in there that could translate well to cinema. and that is just Nolan's style.

  • @erelde_
    @erelde_ Рік тому +2

    9:20 it couldn't be kinetic, it's the most explosive of all

  • @Alchemist1330
    @Alchemist1330 Рік тому +1

    Batman Begins I would put above rises, but that is just me.

  • @SidPhoenix2211
    @SidPhoenix2211 Рік тому +3

    i can't believe you made a video about nolan without a michael caine cameo! he could've played some british guy who simply reads the titles of the movies as they come up or something.

  • @samwouters686
    @samwouters686 Рік тому +1

    How do you put interstellar so low and the boring ass dunkirk so high haha

  • @finlaywelburn
    @finlaywelburn Рік тому +1

    The films of Greta gerwig ranked (in honour of barbie)

  • @paulcourtemanche3549
    @paulcourtemanche3549 Рік тому +3

    Insomnia is very good. It’s buoyed by great performances from the three leads. Not Nolan’s best but still very good.

  • @thelordofthememes8702
    @thelordofthememes8702 Рік тому +1

    when he said he likes it when Christopher Nolan doesn't care if the audience likes the movie i tought "yeah Tenet's great" then he said he didn't watch it my eyes got bigger

  • @wynstonreeves7945
    @wynstonreeves7945 Рік тому +1

    Clicked off moment you said you don’t like interstellar

  • @jens2049
    @jens2049 Рік тому +1

    Interstellar lower than Inception is just not understandable

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD Рік тому

    Why not upload this to the other channel?

  • @shortfusegaming3342
    @shortfusegaming3342 Рік тому +1

    Brooooooo
    Intersteller is the best movie ever! (My opinion)

  • @MM-jc7uv
    @MM-jc7uv Рік тому +3

    Interstellar was the movie that helped me to realize my passion for film. I will always love the movie even though the final act has some flaws

  • @dougperry691
    @dougperry691 Рік тому +3

    Spoilers***
    I love The Prestige for all the ways you can interpret it. For me though the brilliance is that the twist at the end is that there is no twist and as the final lines of the movie narrates, you have been shown all the elements of the trick but you still want to be fooled. And that’s exactly what the audience does, still wanting to believe in the sci fi elements making it a more grander production when it is just two normal people driven through obsession and competition leading to murder. As we see with the notebooks telling the story, many events depicted are fabrication. Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.

    • @ampadicr5366
      @ampadicr5366 Рік тому

      “Believing in the sci elements “ ? 😐 That movie had a man replicating machine , which to me is sci fi

    • @dougperry691
      @dougperry691 Рік тому

      That’s my point there was no man replicating machine. That was just a fake story from the journal still that the audience is falling for again even after we have been show direct proof that many of the scenes given to us are fake. He just did it with his double again

  • @interesting3251
    @interesting3251 Рік тому +1

    When he placed interstellar last second, done stopped watching the vid!!!..it's a proof his cinema mind is not that good!!

  • @roneteus
    @roneteus Рік тому +1

    You should do one for Fincher when his new movie comes out

  • @SaberRexZealot
    @SaberRexZealot Рік тому +2

    The Prestige, Interstellar and Dunkirk are my favorite non-Batman films of his.

  • @samd2013
    @samd2013 Рік тому +1

    Good ranking, I do enjoy all his movies but I rank them as follows:
    1. The Dark Knight
    2. Inception
    3. The Prestige
    4. Memento
    5. Batman Begins
    6. Interstellar
    7. Dunkirk
    8. The Dark Knight Rises
    9. Tenet
    10. Insomnia
    11. Following

    • @joeyk107
      @joeyk107 Рік тому +1

      Tenet and Insomnia are 2 of Nolan's most underrated movies

    • @samd2013
      @samd2013 Рік тому

      @@joeyk107 oh I agree, I do like all his movies. Tenet especially is very underrated, a lot of people write that one off and I think it’s his most twisty movie yet. One of my favorite aspects of Nolan films is trying to piece it together the more you watch them and Tenet requires this the most.

  • @JidionisthebiggestMenace
    @JidionisthebiggestMenace Рік тому +1

    Great video bro. I loved Following.

  • @vol94
    @vol94 Рік тому +2

    For the longest time dark knight was my all time fav nolan movie and in my top 5 films of all time...then I watched prestige. Best nolan movie easily

  • @HieronymusLudo
    @HieronymusLudo Рік тому +3

    I love all of his stuff, but my favorite is probably still Insomnia. It is much smaller than most of his others, it's a straight up story, no time jumping, the location is a character that looms over everything, and to watch Pacino's decline is completely expected and heartwrenching at the same time. I think his eye for framing and camera movement is already fully formed in Insomnia, making the most of the landscape that changes the people in it.

    • @joeyk107
      @joeyk107 Рік тому

      I wouldn't say it's the #1 best, but it's definitely way better than people give it credit for

  • @spacejump_
    @spacejump_ Рік тому +2

    Sad you didn't watch Insomnia, I watched it myself not too long ago. It's a really awesome film! Definitely his most underrated movie but still absolutely amazing. Would recommend.

  • @paulkingMotion
    @paulkingMotion Рік тому +2

    Yeah, pretty similar and I agree on the Prestige, it's a great and very underrated film. My only difference is Interstellar. I love that film and I know it has flaws. I think it's a Father Daughter story disguised into a Space Opera.

  • @kianskiputz92
    @kianskiputz92 Рік тому +3

    Starts out by saying he hasn’t even seen all of his movies… hard to take this video seriously

  • @jens2049
    @jens2049 Рік тому +1

    Bro how can you not like Interstellar

  • @phil4986
    @phil4986 Рік тому

    The message of Interstellar is that without the unseen connection between us, we die. Without that caring need to be with each other, we die. And that this need is a genuine feature and force in our entire existence and indeed responsible for continuing our existence here. Through the many universes, the only force that survives and thrives is love.
    A presence and connection that guides us to do great things and preserves who we are for the foreseeable and unforeseeable future. It is the movie version of a Bible verse. Taken in pieces often senseless, taken in totality, the meaning is perfectly clear.
    Of all of Nolan's other movies except Inception, this movie stands out. Inception touches on what is reality. A very heavy subject but chooses to make that movies end statement that humans will always choose comfort over reality every time, if they have a choice.
    I agree about all the superhero movies. They are uneven at best.
    I was laughing when you said the way the one containing Bane was made was as though Batman disappeared. That was a perfect statement of why that movie simply didn't work well. You can write a villain so well that every sin he creates no matter how vile is justified.
    Nolan always gets great performances out of his actors. He is clearly an actor motivator with his directing style.
    Oppenheimer comes with an established story as you said. We already know about Oppenheimer being the science arm of the US Army.
    General Groves real character is an astonishingly powerful character in Oppenheimer's story all through the development, explosions, deployment and then attack on Oppenheimer's life after the fact.
    The Soviet threat and the threat of Communism after World War Two will likely be minimized in this Nolan adaptation and I fear it will devolve into a feel sorry for Oppenheimer film.
    Oppenheimer reveled in the search for the bomb. He was all in for it. He loved the power of the process and after the fact, sought to excise himself from his connection to it but life never works like that. Oppenheimer should have realized; his best move was to say nothing after bringing the American military the power to destroy the world.
    This is the truest statement of all political parties.
    "Either you are for us, or you are our enemy."
    This is a defining edict of all political parties that have ever existed, no matter how innocent the veil they chose to cloak their lies in.
    I wonder why Nolan chose to involve long-time on-screen nudity in the movie. I would guess he will be trying to attach the passions of mindless, passion filled lovemaking to the passions of chasing a creation that can end mankind. That there was a madness to the atomic bomb making process that overwhelmed all the people in the project exactly the same way mindless lovemaking blinds those in the middle of doing the act does.
    That will be a very hard sell to the movie going public.
    The core reason the atomic bomb exists is that it was always going to exist.
    Whether America made it. the Nazi's made it, the Japanese made it, or the Soviets or the Chinese made it - that atomic bomb was coming our way.
    It took the passions of those not wanting to see the wrong political dynasty get it first, that made America the nation that bred and refined the bomb.
    But political dynasties change.
    Today's political dynasty is not yesterdays.
    That bomb still stands ready to kill as many people as it always was, regardless of those who hold the levers of power.
    Oppenheimer's borrowed statement for all time about "Now, I am become death. Destroyer of worlds" is the true end statement to the entire affair.
    Those who don't believe that statement and don't take seriously what it means, must be prevented from ever holding political power.
    Sadly, we may be too late.

  • @sebj3917
    @sebj3917 Рік тому +5

    Speaking of his action movies, I feel like this guy desperatly wants to make james bond stuff but has to overcomplicate things everytime just by fear of "looking dumb".

  • @Zardichard
    @Zardichard Рік тому +1

    "I like it when the city goes into anarchy, I wish there was more of that" - Man carrying thing, 2023

  • @ThaddeusMcMonster
    @ThaddeusMcMonster 26 днів тому

    (ignoring the films I haven't seen):
    8. Insomnia
    7. Interstellar
    6. The Dark Knight
    5. Dunkirk
    4. Oppenheimer
    3. Memento
    2. Inception
    1. The Prestige.

  • @SonGoku-tp8gb
    @SonGoku-tp8gb Рік тому +1

    As you mentioned, you probably don't share most people's opinion on Interstellar. I personally loved and believe that emotionally, everything landed beautifully. It pushed all the right buttons for me. But it's really hard to approach this conversation objectively, if at all possible lol