Most Overrated Christopher Nolan Movie
 

Results thus far as voted by the members:

Most Overrated Martin Scorsese movie - The Departed

Most Overrated Pixar Movie - Cars

Most Overrated Stanley Kubrick Movie - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Most Overrated Steven Spielberg Movie - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Most Overrated Quentin Tarantino Movie - Jackie Brown

Most Overrated Peter Jackson Movie - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Now it's Christopher Nolan. Do you love all of his critically acclaimed films, or is one of them overrated?

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Never understood the love for Memento upon first viewing. I'm willing to give it another chance at some point, but for now that gets my vote.

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"Other"? Why not just add Following and Insomnia?
That's all he's done so far...

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I voted for The Prestige. Decent flick, but nowhere near as great as some folks make it out to be. 3 stars out of 4. Nothing more.

I haven't seen Insomnia or Following, but I don't recall either being highly praised.

Memento, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight each deserve the kudos they've received. And screw the Academy for ignoring them!

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Batman Begins has some good sequences, but overall it's just dull, dull, dull.

Plus, Katie Holmes is horrendously awful in it.

And both of the villains are kinda lame.

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None. Those are all great.

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I've never seen "The Following"... but every other Nolan film I've either really liked or loved. I wouldn't call a single one of them 'overrated.' Not even close.

In fact, I would call "Insomnia" and "The Prestige" two highly *under*-rated films.

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:up: My vote as well. It's still enjoyable, but definitely not worth all the praise. BTW, you forgot to mention the barely watchable fight scenes.

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Christopher Nolan = Not Overrated!

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I'm not as enamored with The Prestige as the rest of the world is.

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Fixed.

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It seems that several posters are, once again, confusing "most overrated" with "worst". In terms of Nolan, it's got to be The Dark Knight -- the flick simply is not as good as the over-enthusiastic fanboys claim.

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Voted for Memento, but it's close between that and TDK.

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If by fixed you mean "changed to the wrong answer," then yes, fixed :)

Love the Prestige.

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Memento is the most overrated IMO... I think it's a very good movie, but a lot of people creamed themselves over it.

I didn't really like Insomnia at all, but it's not held in high esteem.

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I will say Insomnia as I preferred the Norwegian version.

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The sample size simply isn't large enough to show a completely "over-rated" Nolan film. Even among movie junkies, I rarely hear anyone talk about any of his work except the Batman films...and those are Batman, not Nolan, films to the general public.

Really, the only one I can even think of that people went crazy over was The Dark Knight, and as much as I want to say it's over-hyped...I'll be damned if I can find anything particularly wrong with it. If anything, I think a case could be made that while everyone was going ga-ga over Heath Ledger, they completely ignored Aaron Eckhart's brilliant performance.

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I don't think any are overrated. Probably the worst one out of the bunch is "The Prestige," but I don't remember it getting exceptional praise when it was released.

Edit: 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. That seems a bit too high for me, I didn't care for it that much.

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I disliked "The Prestige" (wouldn't even recommend it to others), so that got my vote. I figured out the "big reveal" about halfway into the movie, so when the ending came, I was more disappointed than surprised. I do think it's a well-acted/well-shot movie, but I hated the storyline.

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The Dark Knight. It's fine but overrated.

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TDK by FAR. It was an enjoyable and solid follow up to BB, but it fell well (and i mean well) short of expectation.

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Either "Insomnia" or "Following"..

I don't know if anyone even rates Following though, let alone overrates it, so I'm left with Insomnia. That's my final answer. It's kind of the odd man out of his filmography.

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I voted The Dark Knight.

In my defense let me say that I think it's an awesome movie and probably my favorite Nolan film so far (and I like all that I've seen). However the fanboy praise for this makes it overrated. Fantastic flick? Yes. Best Picture worthy? eh, not really.

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Other = None