Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

I believed the hype. It was shot in Imax THIS, it used a new film format created by Kodak THAT, it was shot on analog film WHATEVER.... give me a fucking break.

I like most of Nolan's films but the guy has a screw loose somewhere. It is way too long (3 hours), It takes zero advantage of the Imax format (no sweeping vistas or other beautiful scenes), and the guy has a serious problem with sound mixing. Here's what I noticed:

- The movie is way too fucking loud. I'm not talking about the A-bomb explosion. I'm talking about everything, even voices.

- There is once scene where a couple are talking. They are outside, and you hear some wind blowing, some leaves on trees swishing around, and music. Every single one of these audio tracks were turned up to 10. It as if he didn't know that wind and leaves should be a subtle background sound, and music should be used to convey an emotion. It was all just BLLLLAARRRGGGHHHH...

- There is another scene where people are stomping their feet in a small room. This sound is repeated several times during the movie. This was SO LOUD and SO BOOMY that it was louded than the Atomic Bomb explosion. Like, what the fuck?

I knew it was going to be a bio-pic movie and alot of it is good, but the sound design was completely distracting and just plain bad. If you saw his last movie Tenent, you may know what I mean.

Apperently Nolan does this on purpose as an artistic choice. Balls to that.