Still, I think he gets so wrapped up in the technical aspects he forgets the emotional beats, which for The Odyssey is worrisome
-Interstellar emotionally broke me in several scenes. I shouldn’t even have to elaborate on this if one remembers the movie pretty well
-Regardless of what people might think of it, the final 10 minutes of Dark Knight Rises hit me hard, especially Batman and Gordon’s final conversation.
-Aaron Eckhart I feel often doesn’t get enough credit in The Dark Knight, yes Ledger as Joker is amazing, but the story is more focused on Harvey, and Eckhart handles the role very well IMHO, especially near the end. The lines of, “You think I want to escape from this? There is no escape from this…..you thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong.” While it’s not a tear jerker kind of emotion, I did feel chills seeing him become such a broken man, and likewise see Gordon desperately pleading for his family’s life while also trying to save what was left of Harvey Dent. People say the movie goes downhill after Joker is defeated, and I could not disagree more, Harvey was the true core element of his final plan, and the final scenes handle it perfectly IMHO.
-while I didn’t personally get emotional from Inception, I remember James from the Weekly Planet podcast giving this opinion (paraphrasing): “when I first saw Inception, I was annoyed that Cobb wouldn’t wait to see if his totem fell over or not. Like, he stressed the importance of it, why would he do something dumb like that? Then, I myself had kids later on, and revisiting the film, I now totally understand the character’s decision and furthermore the reason for the ambiguity of the ending. For Cobb, in that moment, doesn’t need to know if it’s real or not. All that matters are he sees his kids are there and so he can’t help but rush to them regardless of whether it’s true or not.”
-Dunkirk is not designed to be an emotional movie. While I did feel a bit sad at what happened on the civilian rescue boat the movie focuses on for those sections of the movie, the film was not designed to really focus on individual characters, rather the larger situation at hand and the importance of saving as many of the Allied forces as possible.
“Well done, lads. Well done.”
“All we did is survive.”
“That’s enough.”
-I’ll have to rewatch Oppenheimer as right now I can’t recall if certain scenes got me emotional or not
So no, personally I think he’s generally quite good at maintaining the emotional elements, and in the case of Dunkirk it wasn’t the point of the movie. Now, I have not seen Tenet yet, and it’s been a long time since I saw Memento and The Prestige, so I can’t comment on those three
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