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Have most of the Nolanites now become Snyderites?


I have a theory most of the Nolanites have become Snyderites.

Back in the day, (early 2010s) you used to see Nolanites all over the internet hailing him as some kind of modern day visionary, acting like anything he said or did was infallible genius and his take on superheroes was the definitive version that all other filmmakers should strive to emulate.

What happened?

You never see people on the internet worship Nolan anymore, like they did when he was making his Batman trilogy. I ever talked to some hardcore former Nolanite saying my favorite Nolan film BY FAR was Interstellar because it was the ONE TIME it made sense for the film to be "grounded in reality" and stick with realism, due to the fact Nolan was making a film about space exploration INSTEAD of making a comic book movie. My former Nolan-lovin' friend dismissed the movie as "boring" and said he had no desire to see Interstellar ever again.

Nolan's film Tenet tanked at the box office and they all shrugged INSTEAD of defending it tooth-and-nail. Nolan recently bashed HBO Max as the "worst streaming service ever" just a few months ago, but that didn't deter ANY of the fanboys from rushing out to eagerly see "the Snyder cut" of Just-Us Fatigue on HBO Max. Remember when Nolan's fanboys all gloated that Heath Ledger was "ZOMG the bestest Joker evar!!!" and that nobody would ever top that? Well, they all changed their minds and now worship Joaquin Phoenix's Joker as some kind of masterpiece. Interesting their previous "definitive take" on the Joker didn't even last a decade before they threw it overboard for a shiny new toy. So much for "timeless".

So where did the Nolanites go? They disappeared around the SAME TIME Snyder fanboys started getting REALLY vocal on the internet (around the time Batman v. Superman was being filmed and hardcore Snyder fans went nuts ("How DARE you JUDGE it if you haven't SEEN it yet!!") if you CORRECTLY pointed out bad stuff he was doing, like casting Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor)

His former fanbase now worships EVERYTHING Hack Snyder says or does. Snyder can even insult his OWN fans (denouncing Geeks + Gamers and calling them bigots after they funded his crappy vanity project) and all is forgiven a week later. They just turn the other cheek and coming crawling back for more.

Since Nolan and Snyder worked together on Man of Steel, it made it easy for Nolanites to morph into Snyderites since the two filmmakers have some common ground in their movies ("dark & gritty" tone, somber atmosphere, lack of humor, etc.) But now Snyder fanboys seem him and his mediocre film career as some kind of God-like gift to cinema, in a way they didn't back when they worshiped Nolan (e.g. you didn't see people on the internet sharing memes about Legend of the Guardians or Sucker Punch and telling everyone they were brilliant cinematic masterpieces, they were busy worshiping the mediocre Dark Knight Rises at the time)

Give there's almost no overlap between Nolan worship and Snyder worship, I am convinced 90% of the Nolanites simple converted their own beliefs into the cult of Snyder instead. The switchover occurred around the time Man of Steel came out ("how DARE you bash MOS, Nolan produced it and therefore its awesome").

Prove me wrong.

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Since you're making the claim, the burden of proof lies with you.

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Dumb theory. If Nolan fans were so in love with the realism of Nolan's Batman films then why would they then champion Snyder's very stylized and comic booky Batman v Superman and Justice League films?

Nolan fans don't even behave like Snyder fans. Nolan fans left the bandwagon as soon as Nolan started making overtly crappy films like Interstellar (yes, it's a bad movie). Snyder fans have remained loyal to Snyder throughout his awful career. I'm sure SOME Nolan fans became Snyder fans after Man of Steel, but that would only be a small percentage of them

You're absolutely wrong, plain and simple

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>> If Nolan fans were so in love with the realism of Nolan's Batman films then why would they then champion Snyder's very stylized and comic booky Batman v Superman and Justice League films <<

My experience dealing with Nolanites during his Batman trilogy is they simply adjust their "principles" to champion WHATEVER his CURRENT project is:

They heaped praise on Batman Begins as the definitive Batman and sooooo much better than Tim Burton's Batman films BECAUSE it was "closer to the source material". When the film was out, they spent all their time harping on Burton's Batman for changing the storyline so Joker killed Batman's parents, and hailing Nolan for following the original comic book storyline where Joe Chill killed Batman's parents. The fact it followed the comic storyline closer made it "better" in their opinion.

Next, The Dark Knight came out. It departed from the comic book source material HEAVILY. Joker had a Glasgow smile cut into his face and his condition WASN'T the result of him falling into a vat of chemicals, etc., etc., the Burton Joker was clearly "closer to the comics". But they hailed The Dark Knight as a masterpiece. They simply changed the REASON. Now, Nolan's take on Batman was "better" because it was DARKER and MORE SERIOUS than the Burton version. Burton's version was silly and cartoony, they said.

Finally, the Dark Knight Rises came out. Now, remember the Nolanites just heaped praise on the previous movie because it was soooo much darker and edgier than Burton's version. So, then comes Nolan's "take" on Catwoman and it's not dark or scary AT ALL. Hathaway just portrayed some playful thief that didn't even OWN a cat! If she met Burton's psychotic whip-smacking skin tight latex-clad Catwoman in a dark alley, she'd run away crying. But did they prefer Burton's version? Nope!

If it weren't for double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

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Naw. I think Synder had a decent comeback with his JL cut but he came back to earth with that atrocious Army of the Dead movie. I do wish he had done a solo Batman movie.

Nolan has his fans that think he's the next Kubrick and he had a great run for a while, but I'd argue his best movie is The Dark Knight and hasn't come close to that since. Tenet was terrible. Dunkirk was bland. Interstellar was pretentious and insanely overrated. Just my opinion...

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You spammed multiple boards to post your absurd theory and ask ppl to prove you wrong.

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