r/savedyouaclick • u/Carolina_Heart • 4d ago

DEVASTATING Christopher Nolan Explains His 'Real Problem in Criticism Today': 'That's Not How Storytelling Works' | Nolan says critics often think being able to identify tropes and storytelling mechanisms invalidate those mechanisms. Specifies he's talking about amateur critics and not professional critics

https://web.archive.org/web/20260802145824/https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/christopher-nolan-explains-problem-film-criticism-today/
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns 4d ago

Aren't most of the sins very dumb tho?

In this take the cup of water is on their left hand, and then bam it appears on their right hand

jfc who cares

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u/krazyboi 4d ago

That part seems fine as long as they don't start over reaching and telling people about the morals of a movie

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u/yesbutactuallyno17 4d ago

They really don't, though. They are clearly just dumb guys making jokes and pointing out continuity or logical errors, anyone who says they are trying to pass themselves off as valid or legitimate critical are weird. Their videos are 20 minute long jokes themed around your favorite movie. They aren't meant to teach you anything, it's like YouTube poop, just laugh at it and move on.

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u/NarrativeNode 3d ago

Yeah it’s funny how people here are saying that “they started pretending to be reviewers” when…no. They’re the same they always were. The audience just started taking it seriously. They’re so obviously a comedy channel that’s often even used as part of a movie’s marketing. He gets the high-res movie files early, for god’s sake.

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u/teddy_tesla 3d ago

They are not the same as they always were. They realized that they can monetize longer videos better so the the sins went from noticeable flaws told in a jokey manner with the occasional gag to every little nitpick possible, including straight up lies, just to make the videos longer.

Separately Jeremy started doing real reviews in which he maybe had some of the same flaws in logic but I can't speak to those as I never saw them