Apex Mountain
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- Harry Styles is offered as a joke answer.
- This was Nolan's first Best Director nomination; it is an achievement movie, like Titanic for Cameron, and one answer is yes for all those reasons.
- An Apex heat check would be The Dark Knight or Inception, but Dunkirk showed how great he could be and put him with the greatest.
- A dissent: the next film is unseen, and Inception showed an original story could be as big as The Dark Knight.
- The reply calls Inception a marketed product; Inception is loved by one participant and lukewarm for another.
- The Dark Knight is called the most important movie of the century for resetting the industry, the academy and moviegoers.
- Granting the point, he asks whether that makes The Dark Knight Batman's apex and not Nolan's. — Quentin Tarantino
- Asked outside Apex, Dunkirk is called best and favorite Nolan film; another participant warmly regards Memento and ranks Dunkirk, Batman Begins, then The Dark Knight but enjoys The Prestige more; one participant says he is on "Inception Island" alone.
- The agreement is that it is Nolan's Apex Mountain for now, one participant defers; Dunkirk is his 2001 and he is Warner's Kubrick.