@Odusei He's got good reason to be. Barbie will negatively impact Oppenheimer's opening weekend, not to mention Mission : Impossible won't be doing Nolan any favors either.
Really? I feel like Barbenheimer is going to help it. Having a heavy drama around the Manhattan project just doesn’t feel like the Midsummer success Nolan believes. Drop that when the weather cools off.
@Timn I think what Nolan doesn't understand is how adult moviegoers have changed. Prestige highbrow films by Auteurs are on TV now. The movies dominating the cineplexes are cinematic carnival rides overloaded with CGI, fifteen minute fight sequences and explosions.
I love Pitch Black, but I was a lot less impressed with the two follow-on Riddick movies. Part of that is the inappropriately accurate names (Crematoria, Furia) that feel like they should be in a YA fantasy novel. Part is the lack of three-dimensional characters, lack of character development, and lack of meaningful relationships. For me, Riddick was a fascinating character in Pitch Black because of the complexity of his motivations and his character development. In the later two movies he became a generic, infallible, superhero without any real personality, growth, or meaningful connections to anyone else.
Pitch Black is such a different movie than the 2 that follow. I separate the first from the rest as “stories set in a different universe using the same characters“.
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