Not sure if the directors are Christopher Nolan fans, but I felt like Predestination had a strong Nolan feel to it. The directing style, the cinematography, the revelation of the twists, etc, all seemed heavily inspired by his style. Just the impression I got from it. What do you guys think?
shareYep, that's exactly how I describe it to my friends.
I tell them that it's very "Nolanesque".
Excellent analogy. Definitely NOLAN-esque. A very good flick.
shareI am pretty sure Nolan would have made this way better. The twist was too foreseeable, the characters' psychological torment and despair part was underplayed.
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Yeah, I respect that. I think Nolan could've done an even better job with this film, but I still really enjoyed it and liked what these filmmakers did with it. I didn't see the twist at the end coming at all, but I could see someone predicting it ahead of time. I don't usually see twists coming in films, though, because I like to be surprised, and I probably wouldn't figure them out anyways if I tried to. I thought Sara Snook and Ethan Hawke did a good job with their characters' psychological torment, but I agree that it was a bit underplayed and could've used some more time to develop. This is one of those films that, in my opinion, was a bit too short at just 90 minutes.
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The baby being the child of 2 versions of itself was foreseeable? Yeah right pal.
shareAnd i say it is extremely Twilight Zoneesque the way the story unfolded until its twist.
For the the Cinematography, same could also be said about plot twist, it has rather a Hitcock'ian feel to it
To OP. No no no. This was written by the sci fi writer Robert A. Heinlein in 1958 which is several years before your precious Nolan was even born.
Nolan this, nolan that. I think you Nolan bots seem to think that movie history started and ended with him since you've never seen or read anything else. Telling a story in a non-chronological way is nothing new.
Imposing your own fanboy bias on any film you happen to like is closer to the truth. You might as well say this was inspired by the Wachowski's and you'd be equally wrong.
You all sound the same.
What the hell is wrong with you?
shareOld school Nolan, as in Memento. I miss his smaller films. This is definitely one of the most unusual films i have ever seen. Obviously the subject matter is creepy and a head-scratcher. All involved did a good job.
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This is definitely one of the most unusual films i have ever seen. Obviously the subject matter is creepy and a head-scratcher. All involved did a good job.
Perhaps Nolan is Heinlein-esque.
I'd like to see Nolan's version of the Life & Times of Lazarus Long.
Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!
Nolan would have added more twists within twists
shareI'll repeat a point made already, but I'll do it like a sane, intelligent person who actually knows movies would.
It's absolutely Nolan-esque, but it's unclear that there's a direct influence, because the film is an extraordinarily faithful adaptation of one of the most famous science fiction short stories of all time, Robert A. Heinlein's "'-- All You Zombies --'". It's quite possibly that what you adroitly picked up was not Nolan's influence on the film, but the influence of the original story on Nolan. There are very good reasons why he makes smarter films than almost any other living director (second only to Shane Carruth), and one of them is very likely that he's reasonably well-read in classic sf. It sure seems that way to me.
(As an aside, the actual humorously pathetic thing you run into again and again on these boards is not the alleged "Nolan fanboys" but the Nolan haters -- not one of whom has ever articulated a cogent argument for why he's overrated. Most of them try to come across as film sophisticates while writing like middle-schoolers, and the rest are film snobs whose definition of what constitutes a good film is as narrow as their minds. Meanwhile, there are plenty of Nolan fans who simply write at length about why his films are brilliant. I find the contrast amusing.)
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I would say he's right in the middle between Christopher Nolan and Rian Johnson with Looper.
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