I think showing how war is a matter of huge numbers of people rather than a few select heroic protagonists was a bit of a tricky feat that Nolan pulled off well (contrast with 1917, which fits one of the wars least amenable to traditional heroic storytelling into that mold). And it’s unlike Nolan’s usual fare of one…

Insomnia doesn’t have the same timeline shenanigans, but it’s also not that good.

I admittedly haven’t seen Tenet, but I think Nolan has quite a ways to go before he reaches nearly the depths of Burton.

But times have changed, people want and expect different things from their movies now.

Nolan has a good batting average, but he’s not perfect. His “Insomnia” is inferior to the original.

Mulholland Drive was supposed to be the pilot for a tv show. Revealing it all to be just a dream is indeed rather out-of-nowhere because it was originally written to continue following the story we’d been watching for most of the runtime.

That’s because you didn’t pick up on the depressing subtext within the Straight Story.

I think Insomnia might be his most straightforward film. It is, after all, a remake. The original is better.

The preference seems to be more toward having a lost woman as backstory. Poe once explained his composition of The Raven by saying that’s the most poetic subject. Admittedly, most of Poe’s works feature the death of a woman later on rather than just being backstory. In Ligeia he managed to re-use the setup as the…

No, they get to go home to a Britain that loves them even if they don’t feel like they deserve it. France is what’s falling to the Germans.

Other reviews I read indicated that Debicki was mostly wasted in a damsel-in-distress role. Maybe the way to reconcile disparate reviews is that she’s the most humanized character in a film which doesn’t care about humanization. I still want to see it, though perhaps not right now.

Waitaminute, “Net” as in “internet” and “flix” as in flickering images of moving pictures? But how can they substitute for the advice of a video-store clerk?

A British aristocrat hiring an American nanny? But she won’t even know how to say “guv’nor” properly!

It would also be a tough challenge to come up with a worse work inspired by Turn of the Screw than The Nightcomers. The only good part of that is when a tied-up Flora complains about how boring the story they’re imitating is, then asks when they get to have tea.

I like Flanagan’s films, but I’d prefer if he stuck to films.

So can male & female scientists collaborate to understand both males & females, or is each doomed to understand only themselves (if that)?

My idea of taking writing seriously involves analyzing even individual sentences (we don’t do the same to, say, the babbling of an infant because we don’t respect them as speakers). And I hope that people do the same when they read what I write. Elsewhere in this thread merchantfan has applied that sort of scrutiny to…

I did click the link, which was just to a search result page, with his twitter profile near the top. All this time later and you still don’t have anything specific.

Plausible. Although for a species that more closely resembles Louis C. K’s joke about a woman dating a bear, there are praying mantises & black widows which are often eaten after mating.

I think a lot of what you said is accurate. It still seems relevant to me that something like 50 Shades can be adapted into feature films without NC-17 ratings and those can be commercially viable without the actual porn. The same thing couldn’t really happen with the pizza delivery scenario.