Why Do People Hate Nolan?

No one in real life hates him. It's just people on the internet who think hating what everyone likes is cool and "badass".

Because he's successful.

Yeah definitely this. I see some of it as backlash over how much praise and adulation he and his films get from his fanboys despite not always warranting it. For example, you go on IMDB's top 250, and Dark Knight is at number 4, Inception is at number 14, Interstellar is at number 32, The Prestige is at number 47, and Memento at number 48. That's 5 in the top 50 from a director who only just established himself this century. I expect Dunkirk will be in there before long too. No way is he that good.

There's definitely some insidious positive feedback loops here. He seems to have fans who see in him the Second Coming - for some odd reason. Then there are detractors who view him as the Antichrist - for some odd reason. I suspect they're feeding off each other. What got this cycle started in the first place? That's the real mystery.

Its a generation thing. Todays audience all claim to be super smart and are too arrogant to admit they dont like getting fooled. Since most Nolans movies contain a twist, this makes Nolan haters want to "expose" him extra critically. So many times Ive seen comments like, "seen that ending a mile off" "figured out the films plot in the first 10 mins" "easily predictable ". They are so obsessed with trying to figure out his style so they can rave about their accomplishments on the internet that they forget to just enjoy his movies without attempting to be a school examiner.

i quite like him. i even forgive him for pranking me with the Dark Knight Rises.

The Dark Knight.  Fanatical Nolan/Batman fans managed to get TDK to #1 on the IMDb top 250 by encouraging people to vote TDK a 10 and all other films in the top 10 a 1, and it worked.  I know it happened, I was on the board for that film while it was in theaters and saw threads about the entire scheme. 

Personally, I don't care about that stuff.  I love TDK, but it's nowhere near the best film ever made in my opinion.  More to the point, I'm not overly concerned with where others rank particular films.  But obviously some people take it far too seriously.  Nolan and his fans receive backlash on the internet to this day because of it, and some of his fans decide to constantly rave about his work essentially just to troll people (my view, anyway). 

Again, I count myself as a fan of Nolan but I don't take part in fan wars.  He isn't perfect; hell TDKR was absolutely terrible if you ask me.  But so far as I can tell, TDK was the beginning of it all.     

I don't hate him at all, but while I think he's a very talented director, he's also vastly overrated.