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Disappointing special effects?


Most of the time all they did was reverse the film. Was expecting better.

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Can't agree. What I love about Nolan is that he tries to use green screens and CGI as little as possible.
Any other director would have CGI'd a 747 crashing into a building, but no, that's exactly what he did.
His films seem real, tangible, compared to most of the CGI dross coming out of Hollywood.

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Lol... stereotyped film snobs yo. Or also just Nolan snobs. And I like his work myself, but man have we’ve heard this tired boomer criticism for over a decade from you kewl CGI-hating snobs over and over. It’s boring.

And too bad (actually not bad at all) a number of proud CGI-fests in recent years turned out to be so much better and impactful than Nolan’s latest disjointed effort. Don’t tell that to said snobs, though. Whoops...

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Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but there's no need to be rude about expressing yours.
I disagree; doesn't make me a film snob or anything else.
What's wrong with disagreeing but remaining courteous?

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reverse the film when different groups of people are going forward or backward?

anyway, it felt organic and very real and believable...

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Generally I like what Nolan achieves in-camera, it adds to the realism, but the opera house explosion was weak. It needed some CGI.

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