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Him and his brother are the most talented writer/director in the industry IMO
Also really looking forward to his latest film Interstellar (2014)
I'd love to see them create a HBO TV Series! |
Well, Jonathan Nolan did
Person Of Interest (not HBO and not really SF). I watched a few episodes but found it kinda boring. I'm not so much of a fan of theirs as other people though, so your mileage may vary, although I like The Prestige and Batman Begins.
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Originally Posted by Paul
It's very hard to get a very good science fiction movie these days 
We're lucky if we get one good one every year, I think the last one that I really enjoyed was District 9. Can't believe that was nearly 4 years ago! 
I'm hoping Wally Pfister's Debut Film Transcendence (2014) is gonna be good, for those who don't know he is Chrisopher Nolans long-term cinematographer. |
District 9 was great and benefited from being relatively low budget and having an original/different setting. Oh, does
Dredd count as science-fiction? I think it was also made in South Africa, and for a low budget, and very enjoyable. I haven't read the comics but the fact that Judge Dredd gave us
Robocop is reason enough for him to be my favorite comic-book character.
I thought
Oblivion looked promising, but while it looked nice and had some good aspects it was too monotonous, and lost its way I think when other characters, the "scavs" or whatever, showed up.
Prometheus had the potential to be a truly great movie, and it's ridiculous just how badly they blew it with such abysmal writing and 'plotting'.
Moon is rated insanely highly by apparently everyone, but I personally found it tedious and unimaginative (sounds like I think that about everything
), and the most absurdly over-rated movie ever, until
Drive, a movie that took monotony and tedium to previously unimaginable levels.