What is your favorite Christopher Nolan film?

Submitted by SteveTheEagle on December 29, 2025
What is your favorite film directed by Christopher Nolan?
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Level 54
Dec 29, 2025
Mine is memento
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Level 92
Dec 29, 2025
He's made some pretty good ones. But I'll have to go with Inception (to be fair to me I haven't seen The Dark Knight trilogy or Oppenheimer so don't get mad at me for not picking one of those).

What is everybody's thoughts on The Odyssey btw?

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Level 78
Dec 29, 2025
I guess I would've figured you had seen the Dark Knight trilogy given your username
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Level 92
Dec 30, 2025
lol nope :)
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Level 27
Dec 29, 2025
easily Inception for me
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Level 54
Dec 29, 2025
Ngl, i did not enjoy inception
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Level 78
Dec 29, 2025
My ranking of Nolan films would be:

1. The Dark Knight

2. Interstellar

3. Batman Begins

4. The Prestige

5. Inception

6. The Dark Knight Rises

7. Memento

8. Dunkirk

9. Oppenheimer

10. Tenet

(I haven't seen The Following or Insomnia)

I feel like his movies are becoming very clinical and long-winded. Like I don't think Oppenheimer is bad, but I think it's way too long, doesn't focus enough on the science, barely has any emotion, and the nuclear explosion doesn't even look at all like a nuclear explosion, even though it's what the first 2/3rds of the movie builds up to.

I still respect him for having more of a style and voice than most directors, but that doesn't mean everything he touches is gold. Fingers crossed for The Odyssey.

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Level 27
Dec 31, 2025
i like inception and dunkirk because they demonstrated how Nolan likes to use practical effects as much as he can. the rotating hallway fight in Inception uses an actual hallway they built to rotate sideways, and all the boats in Dunkirk were real and it was filmed in the channel and on the beach
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Level 72
Jan 5, 2026
Interstellar and Inception.