Thought I'd revive this in the wake of TDKR conversation:
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Originally Posted by morris
Could it be that we tend to ask or expect more from Nolan than other comic book film directors?
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Originally Posted by fortunesfool
His dialogue is awful too - really ponderous and on the nose. I lost count of the amount of times the film ground to a halt so someone could deliver a monologue.
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So, I don't want to rail on Nolan too much since he's still a great director and has some cool ideas. But I was watching Inception for the second time a while back, and I noticed that roughly 95% of the dialogue is exposition. Literally. If anyone owns it, have a look and see. Even the character development is delivered in exposition. Something that infuriates me about Inception are the fans who say its really 'complex' and 'difficult' and 'weird' as though it's Mulholland bloody Drive. It's not - it's all explained, every step of the way. If you have ears, you can follow it with no trouble.
So what I'm beginning to think is - is he more of an 'ideas man' than a great filmmaker? Not to disparage Memento, Insomnia or TDK but it's starting to seem to me (and I'm sure some others as well) that he's becoming too wrapped up in his own concepts and musings and is beginning to let his storytelling and character development slide. It's gotten to the point where in TDKR he actually invokes the term 'structure' in the post-modern philosophical sense, without any attempt to eke out such a theme. And, worse, (for me at least) he actually seems to miss the point of the term.
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Originally Posted by MrSilly
When Cobb is teaching Ariadne (daft name)
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Ariadne is the woman who leads Perseus out of the minotaur's labyrinth in Greek legend. So you can see why he chose it... It's a pretty clumsy allusion, I mean he could've called her Adrienne or some more modern update and it would've still worked... I think it kind of speaks to what I've said above.
Any thoughts?