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I think Christopher Nolan is the best all-around modern director. His movies are huge critical hits: most of them are in the IMDb Top 250 (most directors would
by gallerdude 9y ago
I think Christopher Nolan is the best all-around modern director. His movies are huge critical hits: most of them are in the IMDb Top 250 (most directors would be happy to have one film up there). His films are also huge box-office hits, which means that the audience, not just movie nerds, like his movies.
I think the distribution for films is bimodal, one huge peak for box-office/mass-appeal hits, and another smaller peak for critical hits/film-nerd-appeal hits.
Nolan would be right in the center between these two distributions: he pushes cinema forward while keeping it accessible to all.
- tootie 9y agoPeople keep saying Hollywood is dead and they don't make movies like they used to and I think the exact opposite is true. The median level of quality of Hollywood films is absolutely better than ever and the number of masterpieces per year seems to keep increasing to the point that I can't keep up.
- unfamiliar 9y agoWhat were the "masterpieces" this year (2017)?
- gallerdude 9y ago* Dunkirk * Baby Driver * Lady Bird * Blade Runner 2049 * Logan * The Disaster Artist * The Beguiled * ...
- icebraining 9y agoIMDB isn't really a good meter of critical opinion, its score is based on the opinion of its users. Rotten Tomatoes is the one that aggregates opinions of the critics. That said, his movies usually get 80%+, which is pretty good.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoRotten tomatoes just aggregates how likeable a movie is. A more accurate aggregate scoring system will be like metacritic.
- icebraining 9y agoRT has both the "tomato score" and an actual average. I was talking about the latter.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoOh wow, this doesn't show up at all on their mobile website. I can't remember the last time I checked RT on desktop.
- nasredin 9y agoRT has some questionable ratings. On some new movies the rating is very high, but it goes down sharply. IIRC one of the Fast and the Furious "movies" had a stupidly high rating, which is now more sane. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/the_fast_and_the_furious/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/the_fast_and_the_fu... IMDB seems to suffer from this less. The only useful thing on RT is their one line blurb.
- icebraining 9y agoAre you seeing the main rating (the Tomatometer) or the average? The Tomatometer is just the ratio of ratings over 50%, not an average of the ratings. If you see Furious 7, for example, it has a Tomatometer rating of 80%, but the average is just 6.6/10. (Note: you have to open the movie page to see the average rating)