Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

ok can't read you guys

if you read the Inception thread, it'll give more insight. there was of course nuance to many of the opinions expressed, but the overwhelming consensus of Nolan was "he should be killed"

Regardless, Kubrick and Nolan don't belong in the same conversation

unless he's overseeing a piss-yellow "unmastering" of 2001: A Space Odyssey of course

ringfencing kubrick is what gave us nolan sorry if this offends

(also snyder)

yeah but Snydolant didn't ever make The Killing, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon or Dr Strangelove!

kubrick made them iirc

all of them much closer to 9/10 rather than zero point zero recurring.... not saying he deserves deification, just that he was actually pretty bloody good at this old film-making game!

the way SK gets discussed has created a bad space for bad ppl to congregate and make bad films in

("bad" = "bad not good" obv but i wanted my claim on just one line)

Ok but that doesn't make Kubrick the equivalent of Nolan

sometimes you have to bend the stick

I guess the cult of nolan and the cult of Kubrick have a bit more equivalence

Bradshaw five-star the final nail in the coffin for this one

Bonzo Badshaw with his five-star Nolan reviews - what a wazzock!

good idea for a new Viz character, he follows Nolan about, heaping superlatives on everything he does.

I'm looking forward to watching this. Not going to a theater, though!

the review we've been waiting for

Big Movie. Big Screen. Loved it. pic.twitter.com/DrAY5tRg5P

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 25, 2020

always good to get the old thetan levels recharged and wandering about London in character!

I have this egg shaped orb that belonged to an ancient alien race that i throw at cinema screens when Nolan movies are playing, different strokes and all that.

the imdb plot synopsis of this movie sounds like an onion parody of a christopher nolan movie:

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

you're telling me - it's 150 minutes long!

lol!

I recommend skimming the wikipedia synopsis if you would like to remove any remaining curiosity you may have

i want to know The Protagonist's pronouns

According to a magazine ad I glimpsed on the bus that I assume was for this, it is like James Bond... on acid

ie extremely bad not good and goes on forever - checks out tbh

I wonder if, in America at least, WB is targeting conservatives with their advertising or are trying to, since it would seem to me they're more likely to "brave" a movie theater.

would watch this if everyone throughout the movie referred to the protagonist as such, like "your usual table, Mr. Protagonist?", "hey, it's that pesky protagonist - get him!", etc

makes it easy for him to identify the baddies if they're all named An Antagonist tbf

Worked for Neal Stephenson

Andy Anonymous

like how the bad guy in Inception was named Mal? how about Bane?

i've noticed that wiki articles love using the word "tritagonist" recently. was it on some word-a-day calendar?

or the villain in Interstellar being Mann all along

Saw it last night, it's the most Nolan-y of his movies yet. Ridiculous plot, huge spectacles, possibly even blander characters than Inception. The exposition comes fast and is buried in the sound mix but the story is pretty incomprehensible anyway. Loved Göransson's score, and I'm happy it's prioritized over dialogue. Enjoyed it overall. Nolan haters will really hate it, water is wet

remembering Inception, "the exposition comes fast and is buried in the sound mix" is not encouraging to me

which prestige actress is exposition girl in this one?

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is exposition girl this time

There was a lot of exposition in Inception but the movie slowed down to deliver it. In this, the exposition happens during action scenes or rapidly cut conversations to keep the energy high, almost as if even Nolan doesn't want you to think about it too much (probably not true)

Inception's "buried in the sound mix" completely overbearing soundtrack made me so angry. I don't want to experience that again

like how the bad guy in Inception was named Mal? how about Bane?

Bane comes from the febrile mind of Chuck Dixon, twenty years earlier tbf

(I just learnt yesterday that he was in one of the Schumacher Batflicks)

Wow, Jeep Swenson (the Schumacher Bane) died a couple months after B & R came out in the summer of '97.

saw this.

fucking sucked dick

keep in mind I liked Inception. this was like the worst parts of Interstellar for 2 and a half hours.

it's rapid fire exposition and little else.

possibly even blander characters than Inception

what characters?

(I also liked all of the NOlan Batmen and Dunkirk, so I'm not the usual Nolan hater the board is, either....)

the buried in the sound mix is infuriating. some of the dialogue wasn't even audible over the sound!

Surprised you found it that much worse than the others. I thought it was about as good as his last couple movies, not as good as The Prestige or Inception. The inaudible dialogue didn't bother me much, as the visuals were enough. If anything, I liked that there wasn't a lot of focus on dialogue this time around - he's not very good at writing it and the concept doesn't even make sense with all the explanation

eventually I stopped listening and realized I'd figured out what was happening anyway so I wondered why they just couldn't let it breathe for a moment.

that said, I liked the first half hour.

letting it breath seems to be the ultimate problem with his films

*not letting it breathe

yes letting them breathe was a mistake

Hard to disagree with most of the comments here but I did think Robert Pattinson was great and liked the fact that his time inverting international super spy character was simply called “Neil”. Also the wardrobe choices were A+++. I probably was just glad to be in a cinema eating popcorn again.

inaudible dialogue is absolutely infuriating to me, and movies have just been getting worse and worse with that; and too often it carries over to the digital/dvd/streaming versions as well. I have two fucking speakers on my TV. I don't have a 'home theater' and would rather not have one. Please let me hear what people are saying.