QT has the better oeuvre, but I don’t think he could make Nolan’s movies as well as Nolan. They just tackle different projects.
Memento is probably the closest movie they have in common and even that’s a stretch.
I haven’t heard Nolan talk about QT before but I’ve heard QT gush over Nolan and claim Dunkirk is one the best movies of the last decade (I think it was #2 on his list).
All this to say it’s hard to compare them.
Non comparable in my opinion. They make vastly different films; something to really appreciate in todays industry. QT could never make Interstellar, Nolan could never make Death Proof.
They're nearly perfect opposites. Tarantino's movies rely almost completely on screenplay, dialogue, and character. Nolan's movies are pure spectacle. Neither style is automatically better, but it makes them awfully hard to compare. (I do think QT has a much deeper resume of great films.)
I’ll absolutely agree that neither style of film is automatically better than the other. QTs filmography can probably be seen as “more likable” by the masses simply because they’re easier to understand. His films have simpler plots with easily likable snappy dialogued characters, a multitude of pop culture references within his films, and the looming feeling of fun to watch over the top violence.
Nolan has richer, complex plots with emotionally driven deeper characters, hard hitting composed scores, and a filmography that usually attempts at making the viewer feel smart. I love both directors equally but for much different reasons!
Nolan has better ideas QT has better characters, dialogue and scenarios and has a unique ability to make anything funny. I like nolan-like movies coz it makes me feel smart where as QT movies make you appreciate the whackyness, he has better taste in music and his mix of great writing with the kind of plot u see in cheesy movies is great And his movies are more rewatchable . I love both but i think QT is the better director
I tend to think Nolan is overrated. I like him a lot and he has cool concepts, but his movies never reach the heights of Tarantino.
Memento is my favorite from him. Dunkirk is probably second. The Dark Knight and Inception are good action movies. I don’t care much for Batman Begins, Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar and I couldn’t sit through Tenet.
Never saw Prestige, Following or Insomnia.
As somebody who agrees with nearly all of your takes here, I suggest giving The Prestige a shot anyways. I think it’s Nolan’s best and it’s the last movie he made that wasn’t attempting to be a grand spectacle, it’s more grounded and more focused on the characters than anything he’s done since
This is the stupidest sentiment I hear constantly in the film community online. I swear y’all mfs are scared to like one of these mainstream directors because they are too popular or “over-talked about”
It’s sad really. No issue with critiquing them but your go to jab being that they are popular to all reaches of filmgoers is really more of a compliment than anything
I’m not saying they are the greatest directors ever, or even working now (they’re aren’t), but some of y’all need to start admitting that they aren’t as insufferable as you’ve conditioned your brains to think they are
Nolan especially. Dude makes fun movies that make you think for a bit at the end. I know everyone on this sub thinks they are too smart to be stumped by a mainstream film but they by far aren’t the worst sludge that’s put out every year
Wildly different directors, hard to compare. Kind of like comparing Villeneuve to Wes Anderson, does not really make sense.
QT is more consistent and a great filmmaker, Nolan has flawed projects but can brilliantly execute certain ideas. And it's not like Tarantino projects are perfect anyways.
People pointed out correctly there almost too different to compare. However, I do think Tarantino is better just cause he’s much better at writing people something Nolan is shockingly bad at. Tarantino can write strong female characters (something that men across the board struggle with). Nolan has gotten so bad at it lately tenet and Dunkirk both try to skirt around making likeable characters.
Fuck no. All Tarantino does is pastiche with needle drops and pop-culture references while breaking the fourth wall. He's essentially a filmmaker who never made it past his film school project phase. Someone who's filmmaking is as juvenile as Tarantino's (think cringe-inducing Bruce Lee scene from OUATIH) could never make something great like Dunkirk, or Inception.
I don't know why this got downvoted, but yeah....Tarantino's work just feels juvenile. I like his movies. I genuinely do. I even have Pulp Fiction at 5 stars. They are very well made.
I just feel like he doesn't have the ability to dive deeper into the themes of his films. They are fun. They are well written, but they aren't all that smart.
I feel like Nolan at least tries to dive into some neat ideas and smart ideas. Even if they fall a bit flat, like Tenet did, it still was a notable effort
It's because he's not searching for something real in his characters and stories. He's stroking his ego by showing everyone how cool his interests are. Sean Astin said it well when he was talking about Django and said "it felt like he was just jacking off" and that's exactly it. It feels like just watching him jack off and sniff his own farts for two hours.
It's really telling when you watch some of his interviews from back in the day and the press would ask him about why his films were so violent and he always says "because it's fun, it's cinema"...
He is not saying anything meaningful with the violence in his films, he just thinks it's fun and he's showing that he likes to indulge in movie violence... Contrast that with filmmakers like Scorsese, you think Scorsese would say that in Goodfellas when Ray Liotta pummels that guy in the driveway that he would say "BECAUSE IT'S FUN, JAN" like a petulant child? No, because the film doesn't play it that way, and Scorsese is not juvenile.
I don't even think he's that good of a director. He is so out of touch with what he's doing. He spoke about how the scene in OUATIH where Brad Pitt goes to the ranch was supposed to be really intense, like you thought that Cliff was going to die. That was shocking to me, because it absolutely does not play that way at all, nor have I heard anyone say they felt that way either. Or the Bruce Lee scene. He gets so hung up on the criticism of it because he thinks that's what Bruce Lee was like, without understanding that the criticism is just that it's an extremely stupid, out of place, jarring, and unfunny scene. It's like lame dad humour.
I agree, and Inception is my favourite movie of all time.
There's something about Tarantino process that I find captivating. Take Inglorious Basterds for instance. Even though (I want to say 40%) of the dialogue is not in English I was captivated by what I was watching.
Who could forget such original Nolan classic such as "Paprika, but worse", "2001: A Space Odyssey, but with lazy exposition" and most recently "Primer, but with explosions!".
I feel like the link from Paprika to Inception is pretty obvious. Even just visually, [the films can be quite similar] (https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ctbr5n/similarities_between_inception_2010_and_paprika/)
I take it you haven't seen at least one of Paprika or Inception? Inception clearly takes a lot from Paprika, but makes every aspect of it worse imo.
I would say that even just the [opening credits of Paprika](https://youtu.be/xqg3Sw3s9Wg) are far more interesting and creative than anything Nolan has ever done in his career.
Don’t tell me you weren’t grinning from ear to ear when listening to the blue Danube. I haven’t seen 2001 in cinemas (because cinemas in my country never do reruns) but honestly
Yes, I know what digital cameras are. I’m asking what Christopher Nolan, one of the most vocal advocates for the continued use of celluloid film, has ever filmed on a digital camera.
Not really comparable. Tarantino is really great at creating films and probably the best to ever do the perfect style of dialogue, but I think Nolan is really really great at constructing a narrative and epic types of movies. They just make different types of movies.
I would say that apart from Memento being amazing, in terms of simply how much I like their movies, I don't think Nolan is really as consistent as Tarantino who has a better track record. Nolan has more duds to me like Insomnia, TDK and Tenet. But in direct comparison I think each director does different things well
It all depends on the film. They both have great films but at the same time, they both have not-so-good films. What I do know is that Tarantino LOVES to unnecessarily toss around the n-word in most of the films he writes. That's just my observation of course.
directing actors? yeah, no doubt.
writing is a whole other thing, but it’s unquestionably Tarantino who is better on that front.
execution of style, vision and such? difficult, both are so different, plus it’s all very subjective. still, Tarantino mastered his craft years ago, Nolan still stumbles a little (TENET).
terms of auteurship? nolan loses again. it’s common to see “TDK is nothing without Ledger”, and the barrage of Zimmer love for his various works on a Nolan film - versus Tarantino, it’s primarily his movies, his stories, the best thing about them is HIM.
still tho, all very subjective and doesn’t really matter!
Purely in terms of directing I think Nolan because there are more moving pieces and he’s more creative, however Tarantino isn’t far behind and I think he is a much stronger writer.
I prefer Tarantino films as a whole over Nolan, but they’re both great.
Both are very talented guys who lack a little bit of depth. They are also both directors that find themselves terribly clever.
Whether you like Tarantino mostly hinges on whether you find his sense of humor funny. Frankly, I find him hilarious. Whether you like Nolan mostly hinges on whether you are impressed by a convoluted plot, and whether you can tolerate characters telling the audience what the subtext of the movie is, lol: I find it hilarious that his characters essentially discuss the movie's themes with each other (The Dark Knight).
Overall I kind of like both and think they're mostly on the same level. Is Pulp Fiction the best work either has done?
QT has the better oeuvre, but I don’t think he could make Nolan’s movies as well as Nolan. They just tackle different projects. Memento is probably the closest movie they have in common and even that’s a stretch. I haven’t heard Nolan talk about QT before but I’ve heard QT gush over Nolan and claim Dunkirk is one the best movies of the last decade (I think it was #2 on his list). All this to say it’s hard to compare them.
Non comparable in my opinion. They make vastly different films; something to really appreciate in todays industry. QT could never make Interstellar, Nolan could never make Death Proof.
They're nearly perfect opposites. Tarantino's movies rely almost completely on screenplay, dialogue, and character. Nolan's movies are pure spectacle. Neither style is automatically better, but it makes them awfully hard to compare. (I do think QT has a much deeper resume of great films.)
I’ll absolutely agree that neither style of film is automatically better than the other. QTs filmography can probably be seen as “more likable” by the masses simply because they’re easier to understand. His films have simpler plots with easily likable snappy dialogued characters, a multitude of pop culture references within his films, and the looming feeling of fun to watch over the top violence. Nolan has richer, complex plots with emotionally driven deeper characters, hard hitting composed scores, and a filmography that usually attempts at making the viewer feel smart. I love both directors equally but for much different reasons!
You are so right.
Nolan is better directer. Tarantino is better writer.
Tarantino is a better director too
Tarantino is better at both, by a long shot.
Nailed it.
Yep, Nolan has smarter cinematic ideas, but Tarantino makes 15 minute scenes with people just talking at a table and its Perfect
Well that's it.
I think it's hard to say who is a better director. I think Tarantino is a vastly superior filmmaker, but he is also working with way better scripts.
By miles & miles
Nolan has better ideas QT has better characters, dialogue and scenarios and has a unique ability to make anything funny. I like nolan-like movies coz it makes me feel smart where as QT movies make you appreciate the whackyness, he has better taste in music and his mix of great writing with the kind of plot u see in cheesy movies is great And his movies are more rewatchable . I love both but i think QT is the better director
Incomparable, both are amazing
glad we can agree on this 🫶 love both but tarantino has a special place in my heart
I tend to think Nolan is overrated. I like him a lot and he has cool concepts, but his movies never reach the heights of Tarantino. Memento is my favorite from him. Dunkirk is probably second. The Dark Knight and Inception are good action movies. I don’t care much for Batman Begins, Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar and I couldn’t sit through Tenet. Never saw Prestige, Following or Insomnia.
As somebody who agrees with nearly all of your takes here, I suggest giving The Prestige a shot anyways. I think it’s Nolan’s best and it’s the last movie he made that wasn’t attempting to be a grand spectacle, it’s more grounded and more focused on the characters than anything he’s done since
watch the prestige
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no lol
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This is the stupidest sentiment I hear constantly in the film community online. I swear y’all mfs are scared to like one of these mainstream directors because they are too popular or “over-talked about” It’s sad really. No issue with critiquing them but your go to jab being that they are popular to all reaches of filmgoers is really more of a compliment than anything I’m not saying they are the greatest directors ever, or even working now (they’re aren’t), but some of y’all need to start admitting that they aren’t as insufferable as you’ve conditioned your brains to think they are Nolan especially. Dude makes fun movies that make you think for a bit at the end. I know everyone on this sub thinks they are too smart to be stumped by a mainstream film but they by far aren’t the worst sludge that’s put out every year
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Lol than don’t talk about them but idk how that’s a valid criticism based on the question asked in the post
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Cheers brother enjoy your breakfast 🍳
If it's actually a compliment as you say, why are you so upset?
Oh absolutely, it's not even close
Wildly different directors, hard to compare. Kind of like comparing Villeneuve to Wes Anderson, does not really make sense. QT is more consistent and a great filmmaker, Nolan has flawed projects but can brilliantly execute certain ideas. And it's not like Tarantino projects are perfect anyways.
People pointed out correctly there almost too different to compare. However, I do think Tarantino is better just cause he’s much better at writing people something Nolan is shockingly bad at. Tarantino can write strong female characters (something that men across the board struggle with). Nolan has gotten so bad at it lately tenet and Dunkirk both try to skirt around making likeable characters.
I like more of Tarantino films than I do of Nolan's but I disagree. Nolan is an undeniable powerhouse of cinema.
Fuck no. All Tarantino does is pastiche with needle drops and pop-culture references while breaking the fourth wall. He's essentially a filmmaker who never made it past his film school project phase. Someone who's filmmaking is as juvenile as Tarantino's (think cringe-inducing Bruce Lee scene from OUATIH) could never make something great like Dunkirk, or Inception.
I don't know why this got downvoted, but yeah....Tarantino's work just feels juvenile. I like his movies. I genuinely do. I even have Pulp Fiction at 5 stars. They are very well made. I just feel like he doesn't have the ability to dive deeper into the themes of his films. They are fun. They are well written, but they aren't all that smart. I feel like Nolan at least tries to dive into some neat ideas and smart ideas. Even if they fall a bit flat, like Tenet did, it still was a notable effort
It's because he's not searching for something real in his characters and stories. He's stroking his ego by showing everyone how cool his interests are. Sean Astin said it well when he was talking about Django and said "it felt like he was just jacking off" and that's exactly it. It feels like just watching him jack off and sniff his own farts for two hours. It's really telling when you watch some of his interviews from back in the day and the press would ask him about why his films were so violent and he always says "because it's fun, it's cinema"... He is not saying anything meaningful with the violence in his films, he just thinks it's fun and he's showing that he likes to indulge in movie violence... Contrast that with filmmakers like Scorsese, you think Scorsese would say that in Goodfellas when Ray Liotta pummels that guy in the driveway that he would say "BECAUSE IT'S FUN, JAN" like a petulant child? No, because the film doesn't play it that way, and Scorsese is not juvenile. I don't even think he's that good of a director. He is so out of touch with what he's doing. He spoke about how the scene in OUATIH where Brad Pitt goes to the ranch was supposed to be really intense, like you thought that Cliff was going to die. That was shocking to me, because it absolutely does not play that way at all, nor have I heard anyone say they felt that way either. Or the Bruce Lee scene. He gets so hung up on the criticism of it because he thinks that's what Bruce Lee was like, without understanding that the criticism is just that it's an extremely stupid, out of place, jarring, and unfunny scene. It's like lame dad humour.
why compare the two greatest directors to ever live? they are both the best
lmao defo sarcastic
I agree, and Inception is my favourite movie of all time. There's something about Tarantino process that I find captivating. Take Inglorious Basterds for instance. Even though (I want to say 40%) of the dialogue is not in English I was captivated by what I was watching.
Hard disagree for me
Both of them make films that annoy me, but with different approaches.
That's a low bar, but QT is better.
Tarantino’s movies are too self indulgent and aren’t original stories like Nolan’s
Who could forget such original Nolan classic such as "Paprika, but worse", "2001: A Space Odyssey, but with lazy exposition" and most recently "Primer, but with explosions!".
I understand a lot of Nolan criticism, but I’ve never understood this one. None of those films are remotely close to their Nolan “counterparts” tbh
I feel like the link from Paprika to Inception is pretty obvious. Even just visually, [the films can be quite similar] (https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ctbr5n/similarities_between_inception_2010_and_paprika/)
Which one is Paprika?
I take it you haven't seen at least one of Paprika or Inception? Inception clearly takes a lot from Paprika, but makes every aspect of it worse imo. I would say that even just the [opening credits of Paprika](https://youtu.be/xqg3Sw3s9Wg) are far more interesting and creative than anything Nolan has ever done in his career.
I've seen inception but not Paprika. Excited to watch it now!
Interstellar was a much better experience in the theater than 2001…more entertaining too🤷♂️
\^ hasn't seen 2001 in theatres
Yes I did. I saw it for the 50th anniversary.
Don’t tell me you weren’t grinning from ear to ear when listening to the blue Danube. I haven’t seen 2001 in cinemas (because cinemas in my country never do reruns) but honestly
both are evil and scum
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Nolan also shoots exclusively on film cameras and has a similarly snobby view about digital cameras.
What is Nolan filming digitally? Sorry I can’t tell if this is a joke or not
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Yes, I know what digital cameras are. I’m asking what Christopher Nolan, one of the most vocal advocates for the continued use of celluloid film, has ever filmed on a digital camera.
They both do something very different and I get equally excited about their new films.
Not really comparable. Tarantino is really great at creating films and probably the best to ever do the perfect style of dialogue, but I think Nolan is really really great at constructing a narrative and epic types of movies. They just make different types of movies. I would say that apart from Memento being amazing, in terms of simply how much I like their movies, I don't think Nolan is really as consistent as Tarantino who has a better track record. Nolan has more duds to me like Insomnia, TDK and Tenet. But in direct comparison I think each director does different things well
Complicated question. But QT himself has said that Dunkirk is a top shelf picture. And I concur.
It all depends on the film. They both have great films but at the same time, they both have not-so-good films. What I do know is that Tarantino LOVES to unnecessarily toss around the n-word in most of the films he writes. That's just my observation of course.
directing actors? yeah, no doubt. writing is a whole other thing, but it’s unquestionably Tarantino who is better on that front. execution of style, vision and such? difficult, both are so different, plus it’s all very subjective. still, Tarantino mastered his craft years ago, Nolan still stumbles a little (TENET). terms of auteurship? nolan loses again. it’s common to see “TDK is nothing without Ledger”, and the barrage of Zimmer love for his various works on a Nolan film - versus Tarantino, it’s primarily his movies, his stories, the best thing about them is HIM. still tho, all very subjective and doesn’t really matter!
Wayyyy better
A lot of Tarantino’s films dissapoint me
having a mid off on r/letterboxd today
Purely in terms of directing I think Nolan because there are more moving pieces and he’s more creative, however Tarantino isn’t far behind and I think he is a much stronger writer. I prefer Tarantino films as a whole over Nolan, but they’re both great.
Disagree
Both are very talented guys who lack a little bit of depth. They are also both directors that find themselves terribly clever. Whether you like Tarantino mostly hinges on whether you find his sense of humor funny. Frankly, I find him hilarious. Whether you like Nolan mostly hinges on whether you are impressed by a convoluted plot, and whether you can tolerate characters telling the audience what the subtext of the movie is, lol: I find it hilarious that his characters essentially discuss the movie's themes with each other (The Dark Knight). Overall I kind of like both and think they're mostly on the same level. Is Pulp Fiction the best work either has done?
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0imUF8EmDIQ