> half the size of a car that weighed 400lbs

Link please - saw nothing like that from a quick search

Nolan is irrelevant. He is the last of a dying breed. Once him and his ilk are gone, studios will go 100% into AI slop, Oscars be damned. No company is funneling 200 million into risky Oscar bait when they can make one hour Tiktok equivalents and get higher ROI. Movie theaters as a whole might go the Blockbuster route in a decade or two. The younger generations are not supporting the film industry with their eyeballs or dollars.

Someone else already replied to you politely explaining this from another angle, but for some reason you not to engage with him.

> Nolan is irrelevant

Irrelevant to whom? He's not irrelevant to me and many movie fans.

Also, you are lecturing someone who seems to actually work or has worked on the movie industry.

He is irrelevant to future trends, as should be clear from basic reading comprehension. And so what...? Tens of thousands of people, probably more, have worked in film. Each one of these is immune to criticism and an accurate futurist? My point remains, he engaged with every early comment except the polite one from xp84, which lays out the same general issue already.

How do you know Nolan is irrelevant to future trends? What's your expertise?

Your point most definitely does not remain. You're arguing with someone who knows his/her stuff, in real keyboard warrior style. Your claim, which comes from no experience, directly contradicts what someone who works in the industry is telling you how it actually works!

> Nolan could have shot it on anything he wanted, and he chose the less convenient way, because that is his process.

Kinda. There are also interesting technical reasons. From my lay person understanding:

  1. IMAX film is physically larger and creates a higher quality image
  2. Because of the size and machine noise close up dialog is normally redubbed.
  3. Nolan (and team?) came up with a method of sealing off the cameras' noise that made them even larger, so they had a system of mirrors that allowed the actors to interact in a more natural way and allowed close in capture by IMAX with integrated sound.

The system of mirrors reminds me of Errol Morris' Interrotron which allowed him to film an interviewee's face directly from the perspective of the interviewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrotron

I swear I watched a 1930s hollywood film where a guy died inside the box they built to soundproof the camera.

It was Babylon (2022), which takes place in 1930s Hollywood

Thats it yep.