After doing full career retrospectives on Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino last year, it didn’t take long to figure out whose directorial career the Aftertaste was going to tackle next. An influencer, and someone whose films can be dissected to death, Christopher Nolan is someone who has a firm grasp on what kind of vision he wants to display. From Batman to focused World War II stories, Nolan has certainly run the gamut of what kind of stories he has to tell. But with the only Nolan related things covered in this podcast being his Dark Knight Trilogy, as well as him having a film called Tenet scheduled to come out this summer, we felt it was time to tackle the rest of his career. So join myself, Jack, and Matt as we look at what his career outside of the cowl has consisted of, while leading up to a review of Tenet.
While Memento was a massive hit with critics and mini hit with audiences, Christopher Nolan still had a lot to prove. Enter Steve Soderbergh. After seeing and helping Memento get distribution, the fellow indie director saw a lot of potential in the British import. He ended up attaching him to Insomnia, a movie that was a remake of a 90s Norwegian thriller that he thought Nolan could do a lot of good things with. So with Soderbergh and George Clooney attached as producers and then doing an uncredited rewrite on the script himself, he was set to go with his first of many Warner Bros projects. Oh, not to mention the acting clout of Oscar winners Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank starring in huge roles in his first big studio project. So how’d he do?
Join myself, Matt, and Jack as we dissect the movie that launched Nolan’s relationship with big studio fare, and wonder if it is anything close to his best work.
Insomnia (2002) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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