The Dark Knight "influence" from Metal Gear Solid is shameful

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

What has Nolan contributed to cinema?  I'll give him kudos for Memento, but he's either a one trick pony or he made it into the Hollywood elite and got lazy and turned into an asshole.  It's not really hard to get a good performance out of Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, or David Bowie.  Heath Ledger came up with his own idea for the Joker, so he can take 100% of the credit for that performance to the grave.  The greatest thing Nolan's done was to convince a studio to let a young hotshot nobody make a Batman movie.  But let's see him make An Apocalypse Now or A Clockwork Orange, or anything that remains culturally relevant ever.  We'll wait and see if we have a new generation of directors saying they're influenced by Nolan instead of oh say... Terry Gilliam (take that onyx).  Hollywood died when Coppola's career gave way to Lucas and Spielberg.  There's an artistic vacuum in America right now, and Nolan isn't filling it with Batman movies and remakes.  Our greatest work now is coming out of foreigners like Takeshi Kitano, Peter Jackson, and Alfonso Cuarón, or domestic wackos like David Lynch, who is ten times the director Nolan will ever be.

 

That's the usual elitist mumbo jumbo I hear from critics who actually have the gaul to say stuff like, "It's just a comic book movie." You do realize that everyone hates and or disagrees with your opinions except a small backroom of niche filmgoers?

Now, I wouldn't go out of my way to flame Gilliam, just because you did to flame my guy, but what are you, Gilliam himself? I've never seen someone blow the balls of a director so much in my life. Yeah, Fear and Loathing is under-rated. This guys been making movies forever. Nolan is relatively new, and everything he's mad has been at least good. Not to mention that everyone who's anyone agrees with me about Nolan. Also, for the record, The Prestige is also fan'f'n tastic.

Where the hell do you get off saying Momento deserves props and then calling him a lazy asshole, and he's on his, what, 5th or 6th highly rated feature film. I bet Gilliam had a track record like that. Again, I won't detract from a director because I'm in an argument, Gilliam is great, but so is Nolan, and when you flame him, you make yourself look ignorant to a lot of people, my friend. Even if you don't compare him to the greats, you must at least admit that he is better than 99 percent of the shit directors out there, and he's still very early in his career.

Also, where the hell do you come up with the crap that "It's easy to make a good movie with good actors." That's one of the most ignorant and unknowledgable things I've ever heard. It's easy to make a good movie with Al Pacino and DeNiro? Have you seen their movies lately? They're crap.

Then you go on to call him a OTP, after you touted his movies as great. I have no problem with you disrespecting me because you think your underground subculture pwns everything well liked and mainsteam, but ffs, don't flame a damn good director for your exentricities. Get right, sir.

Now, Chan-wook Park is a better modern director than Gilliam or Nolan. That's a simple undeniable truth. You don't see me busting up in Dark Knight topics to flame people because they don't know about him, do you?

When I say "director of our time" I don't necessarily mean "best director" I mean "director of our time." Gilliam isn't the director of anyone's time, but if he were, it would be the time of 10 years ago. Nolan is superpopular, and the most consistant, and most anticipated director out there(He's also highly critically reviewed), for the vast hardly-core movie-centric underground crowd of which I am proudly a member. Few directors ever are more consistant. Next time, take your elitist "just a comic-book" type comments and stick them up your craw, sir. Go debate with someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.