Cinematography was great and the story is hard to mess up but man the script and the acting and the actors and editing don’t meld at all The entire story is told through a fucking flashback so you don’t have to worry about pacing or editing together something that feels like a story. There’s so many heavy moments in the movie that Nolan keeps cutting away from prematurely, or focus pulls halfway through their fucking sentence so I’m blinking through half of their dialogue. I understand the desire to do modern English but NOLAN ISN’T THE ONE. Nolan is a cold rock. We’re doing modern vernacular non elevated dialogue written by a technical autist and the movie suffers because of it. I could go on. Visually, sound effects, monster design, it’s all really cool stuff, but the story felt like a YouTube recap and for that the movie just falls to a B or even a C
>>221870288I didn't notice accents at all. People have been conditioned over the years that the British accent properly encapsulates anything Roman or Greek, but there's no logical reason for it. Even Middle English didn't sound like that.I get the part about the cutting away mid sentence. Sometimes the dialogue was muffled as well. When I watch this at home, I'll definitely have the subtitles turned on.It seemed to me that Nolan wanted the whole movie to feel like a dreary dreamscape. I respect that artistic choice and loved it.
There was no need for this movie to be 3 hours long. The pacing was pretty shit.
