# Of Christoper Nolan's 11 films which do you believe is the best? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 12, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591 "2023-04-12T18:45:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/41 "2023-10-24T13:48:57Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > There are two Nolans, Christopher and Jonathan (aka Jonah). I’d say there are three Nolans involved. Christopher’s wife Emma has been the producer and script supervisor on most of her husband’s films. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/42 "2023-10-24T18:37:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Not the way you did. I did what now? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/43 "2023-10-24T20:20:10Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I did what now? You were not threadshitting by posting that you don’t like them because the way you posted was not in a jerk-like way, but rather an informed opinion way. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/44 "2023-10-24T20:23:41Z")
I misinterpreted your comment as snark. My aside was not self-referential. As an unabashed Nolan fan I certainly don’t think disliking Tenet makes my post a threadshit any more than informed criticism of Interstellar’s plot holes is one. There’s quite a few posts upthread that maybe would have been better had the commenter just not clicked reply on, that’s what I was alluding to. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/45 "2023-10-24T23:02:56Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > As an aside, is it threadshitting to come into a thread asking what your favorite Nolan movie is only to post that you don’t like Nolan movies? If this is to me, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/46 "2023-10-24T23:53:17Z")
The top three films voted best of his 11 all have gimmicks he had nothing to do with, but those are a strong 11 so he must bring some magic. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/47 "2023-10-25T00:19:44Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > If this is to me, I apologize. Honestly I was being glib. It wasn’t you and the offending posts were 6 months ago, it’s not like it cratered the thread. No biggie. Perhaps if anything it’s a meta-commentary on the board moderation, but that’s just me being a smart ass. Probably should have just bit my tongue. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591/48 "2023-10-27T08:07:29Z")
The Prestige is one of my favorite films. It gets better with every rewatch. It has two amazing performances, especially when you go back and realize that Christian Bale is playing two different characters trying to act like the same person. I liked the story it told about obsession and revenge. It has a lot of elegant hints and foreshadowing that you notice on the second (or later) viewing. There’s sort of a meta-elegance in that the structure of the plot sort of resembles the structure of a magic trick. One of his least viewed films but probably his best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-christoper-nolans-11-films-which-do-you-believe-is-the-best/982591.md?page=2)