After doing full career retrospectives on Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino last year, it didn’t take long to figure out whose directorial career the Aftertaste was going to tackle next. An influencer, and someone whose films can be dissected to death, Christopher Nolan is someone who has a firm grasp on what kind of vision he wants to display. From Batman to focused World War II stories, Nolan has certainly run the gamut of what kind of stories he has to tell. But with the only Nolan related things covered in this podcast being his Dark Knight Trilogy, as well as him having a film called Tenet scheduled to come out this summer, we felt it was time to tackle the rest of his career. So join myself, Jack, and Matt as we look at what his career outside of the cowl has consisted of, while leading up to a review of Tenet.
With his passion project Inception behind him and a massive success, Christopher Nolan was now at the tail end of his 'one for them' deal with Warner Brothers. But following up Inception would have been bad enough. Now, Nolan was given the task to follow the then biggest comic book film of all time, The Dark Knight, with a conclusion to the trilogy. But with Heath Ledger's Oscar winning performance still on everybody's minds, would Nolan make a villain just as memorable, and would The Dark Knight Rises come even close to being the critical and financial success of its two predecessors?
Listen in as Matt, Jack, and myself get into that very question, as well as wonder if Nolan did indeed follow up on the promise he established before, and maybe if he should have finished his trilogy at all.
Note: Bear with the first 13 minutes or so of this podcast because we had to endure Matt apparently going through a tunnel for that time as his sound quality isn't exactly the best. But he gets through it, and then emerges with his angry opinions still intact.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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